Episodes
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Episode 1: Introduction
November 28, 2008 07:38 PM
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Opaquelens introduces himself as new to the psychedelic
podcast world. Discusses a childhood fear induced by
War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne), which lead him to a
path of psychedelic shamanism in order to conquer it.
Having had an experience beyond anyone's ability to
understand he explains that he entered the realm of the
shaman. He also plugs his website
www.shamanicfreedom.com and urges listeners to help in
any way that they can.
He also does an impression of Terence McKenna.
Music by Ozric Tentacles, The Shamen with Terence
McKenna and The Orb, with excerpts of Jeff Wayne's War
of the Worlds. Background music by Aphex Twin.
Episode
2: Epping Forest
December 08, 2008 11:28 AM
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In this second installment of Shamanic Freedom Radio,
Opaquelens goes to Epping Forest to broadcast the first
part. He walks to the locations where he had previous
mushroom trips in the days before they were banned from
shops, and reminisces about his ‘stealth killer trap’
trip, his ‘standup dream’ trip and his ‘umbillical
shapeshifter’ trip. As this is within a day of being
hounded off the DMT Nexus forum (but not without a
positive response and a sale!), he spends a bit of time
ranting about people politics in forums, but praises
the Grow Report and the Dopefiend network, especially
Max Freakout, for being a friendlier and more civilised
forum. He then philosophises about people politics and
how we in the psychedelic community should be able to
trancend petty people politics, and being a sensitive
soul, he sounds a bit bitter! On the plus side, Opaque
then mentions a future in the planning stages with
James Arthur, who wrote Peopled Darkness about salvia,
before visiting the Bedford Oak, an ancient oak tree in
the forest to take a picture and use it as the
wallpaper for this podcast. During the walk in the
forest, Big Brother in the form of police helicopters
fly over twice!
In Part 2, which is recorded two days later at home in
South London, Opaque talks about how he may, if the
podcast lasts the distance, broadcast from Avebury
Stone Circle on Summer solstice. He then confirms that
there will be an interview with author James Arthur and
closes the book on his forum disaster at Nexus. He
makes the point that the psychedelic community should
trancend the ways of straight people by being less
‘conformist’ and less cliquey, stating that cliquey
people lack the social confidence to go it alone, and
that if the whole point of psychedelic culture is to
look within, not succumb to people politics. Before he
wraps up he theorises on how culture has changed since
the 1960’s, segwaying from playing Interstellar
Overdrive, and appeals for listeners to contribute in
whatever way they can, be it emails, trip reports or
books to list on the site.
Music by Steve Hillage, Pink Floyd and 4 Hero.
Episode
3: Interview with J.D. Arthur.
December 15, 2008 11:48 AM
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In
this episode of shamanicfreedomradio, Opaquelens
conducts his first podcast interview with J.D. Arthur,
author of Peopled Darkness - perceptual changes through
Salvia Divinorum (available at the bookshop section of
www.shamanicfreedom.com on page 9). In this informal
chinwag, J.D. discusses how the reality of Salvia took
him to deep levels where there appeared to be another
dimension of reality with real being in it, and from
his many ‘visits’ there, he believes that he’s visiting
the land of the dead, who react to him by being aware
that he is alive, and should not be there. In his early
stages of taking the herb he would see cheesy cartoon
imagery, but as time went on and his journey became
deeper he would go into a place in which he would
develop an amnesiac barrier, making him forget who he
was in this world. After a while there would appear to
be certain people who acted as his guides there, though
he would get a feeling that he was a burden to them
because he was alive - in one session, he was referred
to as Mr Meat!
As the interview turns into a tangental discusssion
many topics are talked about including the US and UK’s
drug laws, how Afghanistan produces more heroin post
the War on Terror, and how podheads and LSD users
became junkies and how unlikely it would be for that to
happen without prohibition or intervention. After the
interview, Opaquelens reads out some feedback he has
received from forums in response to his previous
podcasts before ending on a song - The Curragh of
Kildare by John Renbourn and Robin Williamson.
Episode
4: Interview with Rupert Sheldrake
December 22, 2008 08:40 AM
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In this fourth episode of ShamanicFreedomRadio,
Opaquelens interviews Rupert Sheldrake, biologist,
physicist, pioneer of the morphic resonance theory and
old friend of Terence McKenna. But he first decides to
be awkward and leave everyone waiting while he chats
away for the first few minutes!
When the interview finally
starts, they discuss a range of subjects starting with
the morphogenetic field, when Opaquelens mentioned that
a friend once said of a kitten, ‘How do they know how
to act like cats?’ whilst observing how the kitten had
all the character traits of a cat but was only weeks
old. This is answered very eloquently by Rupert, as
this concept is conducive to his theory. The
conversation goes onto topics such as trialogues,
spirituality, science, and the ‘theism vs atheism’
dogma problem of how atheists and religious zealots
seem to mirror each other in their fundamentalist
mentalities. Rupert mentions that he has a group of
sceptics and dissenters, and that Richard Dawkins once
interviewed him for his ‘Enemies of Reason’ project!
Rupert states that he doesn’t want to hand his
dissenters ‘a stick to beat him with’ by talking about
his own psychedelic adventures, but is happy to talk
about psychedelics generally, and in context with his
friendship with Terence. Opaque mentions that on Jan 20
2009 Rupert will be conducting a lecture in Goldsmiths
College, in New Cross, South East London, to which
Rupert says that he will be in the lion’s Den, because
students there are encouraged to think in the more
Richard Dawkins friendly materialistic way about
science.
As the interview approaches the end, Rupert plugs his
site (www.sheldrake.org) and asks for people to visit
and use the online telepathy tests there to help
further the research. As the show draws to a close,
Opaquelens thanks KMO of the C-Realm podcast for his
support, and thanks Ray from Spritplants Radio for
including this podcast on his schedule.
Music by the Incredible String Band and John Coltrane.
Episode
5: The Richard Dawkins Delusion
December 29, 2008 07:00 PM
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In this 5th installment
of ShamanicFreedomRadio, Opaquelens starts by
thanking KMO, Max Freakout, Rupert Sheldrake and
Sancho for their contribution to his new intro.
He segways from last week’s interview with Rupert
Sheldrake by discussing the ‘Theism Vs Atheism
problem’. He takes apart Richard Dawkins’s atheism by
reading out excerpts from an interview with him,
focussing on the flaws of his stance by exposing how it
is a form of fundamentalism which mirrors his religious
foes. After that he reads an email from listener Sharon
on the ‘what do we tell children?’ debate concerning
entheogens, and another email from DefenderAlex about
salvia.
As
the show approaches the end, Opaque reminds people of
Rupert Sheldrake’s upcoming lecture in Goldsmiths
College, New Cross, South London, and talks of what is
in store for the next few weeks on this podcast.
Music by Steve Hillage and Primal Scream.
Episode
6: Jon's peyote report
January 05, 2009 01:11 PM
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In this sixth
installment of ShamanicFreedomRadio, Opaquelens
takes the podcast on location to Hyde Park to
interview his friend Jon, who had taken part in a
peyote ceremony on Long Island in New York, in a
sweatlodge with a Navaho who was married to a
catholic white American. Jon Discusses his
experiences with Opaquelens, and as the two are old
friends, the banter does get rather silly,
especially as Jon decides to ‘swap identities’ with
Opaquelens, who comments on how he’s ‘milking it’
before the interview is over.
Prior to the walk, Opaque reads out an email he
received from S S Muldoon via the GrowReport forum
network, and after the walk he bangs the world to
rights in a righteous rant.
Music by the Sugarcubes and Gil Scott Heron
Episode
7: Interview with Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows
January 12, 2009 02:31 PM
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In episode 7, Opaquelens interviews Jacque Fresco and
Roxanne Meadows of the Venus Project, who listeners
will know from the film Zeitgeist Addendum. Discussed
in this podcast are technological and sociopolitical
solutions to problems of the world, and a change over
from a monetary based world to a resource based world,
with 4000 MPH MagLev trains, vertical take off planes,
and a world where people will not be restricted to only
what they can afford financially. Jacque Fresco argues
that money is the reason why people are restricted to
only owning houses and cars etc that they can afford,
not what they would like, that corruption and war are a
result of a financial system, and that politicians are
not geared to solve the problems of the world, but to
keep it the same as it is forever. Opaque suggests that
listeners visit www.zeitgeistmovie.com, and download
the torrent for the film Zeitgeist Addendum (unless you
already have!) so that you will be familiar with
today’s guests.
Music by the Doors.
Episode 8: ShamanicFreedomRadio 8: Under the carpet
January 19, 2009 02:00 PM
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In this weeks podcast Opaque lifts up the carpet of
taboo about a lot of subjects including a heated debate
cum domestic he had with his girlfriend over Israel and
Palestine. Her being Jewish on one side made it a
contentious issue, so he looks at many different
cultures, ideologies, religions and political movements
to analyse their foibles and problems. Also, he
mentions the expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport
which will result in the complete annihilation of a
village called Sipson in Middlesex, and plans to do a
future podcast on location in a pub there. He reads the
latest email from SFRadio fan Sharon, and elaborates on
his (and Sharon’s) ideas for a future that would not be
out of place in Jacque Fresco’s model of reality.
Music by Caravan and Ozric Tentacles.
Episode
9: Rupert Sheldrake at Goldsmiths Part 1
January 26, 2009 08:39 AM
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In episode 9, Opaquelens takes his microphone to
Goldsmiths College, SouthEast London to record a
lecture by Rupert Sheldrake, promoting the revised
edition of his book 'A New Science Of Life'. This is
part 1 of 2, and the second half will be broadcast in
episode 10.
During this lecture, Rupert Sheldrake brings
contraversial points to the forefront such as how
melting points of new compounds have changed over the
years, and that if it is difficult to crystalise a
compound the first time, it becomes easier once it's
been done, anywhere in the world. Also the effect on
morphic resonance to train animals to do certain tasks
and how it becomes easier for any of the same species
to learn once one set of animals has been trained.
After part one of the lecture, opaque talks about ideas
he has for future podcasts. Watch this space!
Rupert Sheldrake's book can be purchased here.
Music by Mozart.
Episode
10: Rupert Sheldrake at Goldsmiths Part 2
February 01, 2009 03:22 PM
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In episode 10, Opaque plays the concluding part of
Rupert Sheldrake’s lecture in Goldsmith’s College. At
the end you may recognise Opaque asking Rupert a
question during the question and answers session. Roger
Irrelevant, a regular poster on the Grow Report, was at
the lecture and also had the privilege of asking Rupert
a question too. This week Opaque is celebrating the
fact that he is now talking through a valve preamp,
making the vocals more OOMPHy! Also in the aftermath of
Rupert’s talk, Opaque records his closing speech whilst
it is snowing outside. He reads a few emails and
comments from Steve, Eris, and Seaside blue, and chats
about plans for the Beanfield podcast which he is
proposing for the summer, and announces that he is no
longer an ayahuasca virgin, and feels like he’s had a
firmware update!!
Rupert Sheldrake's book can be purchased here.
Music by Here And Now
