C-Realm

KMO and meditation instructor Heidi Smith of the Center for Soulful Living pick up the conversation started on Psychonautica examining the friction between proponents of pharmacologically assisted spirituality and zero-tolerance advocates of drug-free meditation. Peak-oil oriented feedback, clips from the Psychedelic Salon and admissions of chronic absent-mindedness.

I mentioned a Guardian article in the program that deals with the forces behind a looming global food crisis.

Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bit

Our tendency to identify ourselves with our acquired skills rather than our natural gifts is one of the less desirable habits of the ego. (...) Because the ego's identity is so heavily invested in these acquired skills, it does not want to acknowledge the natural, untrained, effortless gifts over which the ego has no ownership or control.

-Parker J. Palmer, author of The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring