Live and Direct
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 16 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLive and Direct is a radio show featuring disruptive, provocative, and imperative issues. It airs Wednesday nights at 6PM EST. This is the blog and podcast.
The radio station is WRFR, a volunteer-driven, community-oriented, low power station broadcasting at 93.3FM out of Rockland, Maine, repeated on 99.3FM in Camden, Maine, and streaming live on the Internet at wrfr.org
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Episodes
LD20080820 - Barry Carter on ORMUS - Part 2
August 21, 2008 04:55Today's episode of Live and Direct is the second part of my interview with Barry Carter. We recap the first part, discuss his web site Subtle Energies, gardening with ORMUS, the effect it has upon the brain (coherence), ORMUS types and states, ORMUS vendors and their products, implications for power and authority structures, and, as last time, some broader spiritual and consciousness-related topics (including using ORMUS in group settings to bring about interpersonal coherence). Today's inte...
LD20080813 - Barry Carter on ORMUS - Part 1
August 14, 2008 14:12Today it gives me pleasure to present a live phone interview with Barry Carter of Subtle Energies fame. We discuss his personal background, his interest in ORMUS and science, some uses for ORMUS, methods of extracting it, and some broader spiritual and consciousness-related topics. Barry and I would like to continue the conversation, so stay tuned for more. If you enjoy the interview I encourage you to check out Barry's in-depth site, chock-full of descriptions, lectures, tutorials, pictur...
LD20080723 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 6
July 29, 2008 23:37Part six (6) of David Hudson's 1990s talk "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" is upon us. This episode finishes the science and new findings segment of the lecture, and starts the historical retrospective, having a bit more of a speculative feel than the former parts. Newcomers will want to listen to parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 before this one. Come get the mp3, 29.8MB in size and 52:57 in length. Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion to this series. Also in the pipeline is a p...
LD20080716 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 5
July 18, 2008 13:53This is number 5 in a series of parts of a lecture given by David Hudson in the 1990s entitled "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" If you missed the other four parts, you might wish to listen to them first: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. In this part Hudson presents, with sources, compelling evidence that the white powder of gold, also known as the philosopher's stone (and by many other names through the ages), is the common thread in all the old mystery religions, Egyptian spiri...
LD20080709 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 4
July 13, 2008 16:19This is part 4 in my multi-part David Hudson lecture "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" Parts 1, 2, and 3 may be desirable to hear before delving into this one if you are jumping in mid-series. In this part, Hudson addresses more spiritual concerns than in the prior three parts, which cover more hard science and published and peer-reviewed research. This episode of Live and Direct is 52:40 long and takes up 28.7MB. Please download, listen, and enjoy. As always, feel free to email ...
LD20080702 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 3
July 13, 2008 14:50This is part 3 of my coverage of David Hudson's lecture on ORMUS entitled "Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found?" If you are new to the scene, I highly encourage you to start at the beginning; check out parts one and two of this lecture before listening to this part. Furthermore, googling "David Hudson ORMUS" and perusing Barry Carter's Subtle Energies site will provide hours of reading material. You may listen and download the show, which will net you an mp3 that is 44:43 in length and ...
LD20080625 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 2
June 27, 2008 02:54This is a continuation of last week's lecture on ORMUS/white powder gold/m-state material. It has many names in the modern parlance, but perhaps the ancients were more succinct in calling it mzkft, which translates to "what is it?" In this week's segment David elucidates more chemistry and physics behind ORMUS. Again if you are interested in what you hear, please check out Barry Carter's Subtle Energies site. I have talked to Barry and in the near future I intend to feature him on Live an...
LD20080618 - David Hudson - Has the Philosopher's Stone Been Found - Part 1
June 20, 2008 13:12In this episode I introduce the concept of what we in the modern day call ORMUS or white powder gold (a bit of a misnomer since it includes not only gold but also other metal group elements), or m-state materials, what alchemists called the philosopher's stone, and what in ancient times was called the manna or mzkft ("what is it?"). In the 1990s a farmer living in the southwest US named David Hudson made a mysterious discovery in the tailings of his mining expeditions. This episode is the...
Tonight: Marko Rodin Live Interview (LD36)
October 17, 2007 11:22Tonight Live and Direct will feature Marko Rodin, discoverer of Rodin "vortex-based" mathematics, the Rodin Coil, and what has been touted as nothing less than the basis for a complete revolution in our understanding of the universe and physical, as well as numerical, phenomena. Tune in at 6pm to WRFR's stream, or catch the podcast here later.
LD11: Live and Direct Listens IV - Ruth MacKenzie - Kalevala
May 10, 2007 19:55 - 33.6 MBToday's episode of Live and Direct Listens features a musical interpretation of a Finnish epic poem. It's 33.6MB and 1:02:03 long. Ruth MacKenzie's album "Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden" is a mixture of Finnish and English folk song punctuated by a high pitched call named "kulning", which is actually a Finnish animal call. MacKenzie has said that in Kalevala she realized that beauty and ugliness are not too different and also that there is very little separating the earth, the animal...
LD10: Taxation without Legislation
April 26, 2007 11:58 - 21.9 MBThis week's Live and Direct, episode number 10, is about the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and the illegal and unconstitutional federal income tax. This podcast version is 1:00:47 long and the file size is 21.9MB. The podcast includes an extra 7 minute clip at the end about so-called tax criminals who were harassed and brutalized by the IRS, including a family whose small business and personal life was scrutinized mercilessly by the IRS, though they had done no wrong and had in fact paid t...
LD3 reloaded: Weather++
April 19, 2007 16:28 - 41.5 MBThis week I replayed my third show (Weather), and as an added bonus at the end I played a medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World by a young Canadian singer named Aselin Debison. It would be redundant to put up the episode again, so instead I'll just direct you to the original podcast episode of Weather (45:18, and 41.5MB) and to Aselin's song Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World (5:20, 7.3MB) from her 2002 debut Sweet is the Melody, recorded when she was 12 years ...
LD9: Live and Direct Listens III - NetPD CD 1 (Dub Area) - Massively Multiplayer Online Music
April 12, 2007 18:16 - 48.9 MBClick, download, listen! Live and Direct number 9 (Live and Direct Listens ep #3) has arrived. It's 48.9MB, and 56:10 long. In it, I featured an album composed in real time on the Internet by a group of musicians collaborating with some software called NetPD. NetPD in turn relies on PD, which is a graphical programming language particularly suited to music synthesis and composition, but also extensible to video and other forms of data, hence the name "Pure Data". The album is "dub" in st...
LD8: Stop the Fed!
April 05, 2007 14:34 - 50.8 MB= Live and Direct episode #8 has arrived. It features background and critical analysis concerning the Federal Reserve System, why it is illegal and unconstitutional, and why it must be abolished. This episode runs for 55:33, and is 50.9MB. For your convenience, the times listed below in parentheses indicate the start and end of each segment. The song I played is Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits (it's between 01:12 and 09:12). I then played the intro to Aaron Russo's documentary "Ame...
LD7: Hypothetical Real Genius Soundtrack
March 30, 2007 18:26 - 44.5 MBA scant week later, it's time for Live and Direct, episode #7. This week I've assembled a hypothetical soundtrack to the 80's comedy Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer. I say "hypothetical" because there was never an official soundtrack, however many fans have compiled their own lists of songs heard in the movie. This week's show is 44.5MB and runs for 50:36. The playlist for the show is below, along with the point in time at which each song starts (minutes:seconds). The only song played...
LD6: Ending the Endless War
March 22, 2007 20:53 - 53 MBThis, the sixth episode of Live and Direct is now available for your consumption and critical analysis. It's me, interviewing protestors and activists who were at last Sunday's demonstration and who are involved with several local organizations whose causes include pro-impeachment, anti-war, and pro-peace groups. This episode is 53MB and features 57:56 of thoughtful, non-mainstream political discussion. What follows is an annotated timeline. I first interviewed Sue Ferra (at 1:33) and Geo...
LD5: Live and Direct Listens II - ESCM - BT
March 15, 2007 02:43 - 64.4 MBBehold, Live and Direct #5. This, the second episode of Live and Direct Listens, and the 5th episode of Live and Direct, is upon us. This too-long-for-the-air, uncompromising, special podcast version runs for one hour, ten minutes, and seventeen seconds, and will set you back 64.4 megabytes of disk space. Today's featured Listen is ESCM by BT (also known as Brian Transeau). This album was released in 1997 following his debut album Ima. The US version (featured in this podcast) included t...
LD4: Live and Direct Listens - Chill Out - The KLF
March 10, 2007 21:55 - 44.3 MBLive and Direct episode 4 is available for you to download and enjoy. It's 44.4MB in size, and 48 minutes and 24 seconds long. Live and Direct Listens is a new series on my show where I'll play cohesive albums in their entirety, as they were meant to be heard. This week's album is Chill Out, by the KLF. I prefer to listen to this album at night, because of the atmosphere and mood it evokes. It brings to mind a road trip through the Deep South, which was the artists' intent: I've never ...
LD3: Weather
March 01, 2007 02:15 - 41.5 MBHere is my third episode of Live and Direct. This one clocks in at 45:18 long, and 41.5MB big. This show is about weather, specifically of the man-made variety. Here's the playlist of songs: They Might Be Giants - The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb Here are some pictures demonstrating atmospheric phenomena that most people would agree are beyond the common understanding of meteorology: holes punched out of clouds:...
LD2: Auddities
February 08, 2007 06:18 - 62.5 MBHere is Live and Direct episode #2, "Auddities" in a slightly edited podcast (i added two songs; think of it as the Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition). It weighs in at 62.5MB and clocks in at 1:08:15. (I ran over due to excess blabbing... good thing the hosts of the show after mine couldn't make it :) "Auddities" = "audio" + "oddities". These run the gamut from odd sounds to unusual production techniques to strange content. I divided the show up into the following sections, each followed ...
was "Auddities", now "Technical Difficulties"
February 01, 2007 02:57Live and Direct #2 ("Auddities") did not quite go off without a hitch. LD2 in fact, did not go off at all, unless you want to count the first 5 minutes or so of introduction. The short story? Possibly a bad mixer, possibly user error and misconfiguration. It seemed to be an intermittent problem, which is always annoying as hell to diagnose. I know how to make sure it works now, and I'll give it another try next wednesday at 6. My apologies to anyone listening tonight.
i've got to pimp my show
January 26, 2007 03:20My Podcast Alley feed is under construction. {pca-474deac26e7c0b2a13f89ad873396f7c} <- (for their verification purposes only) the podcast is listed at feedburner. and, assuming they review my show, it might get listed on the iTunes podcast directory.
LD1 now available for your downloading pleasure
January 25, 2007 03:16 - 49.4 MBHere is my first show in mp3 format, minus the technical difficulties: Live and Direct #1 (49.4MB, 53:57). It features my introduction, a song by Enigma, and a speech by Terence McKenna entitled "Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends". It's dedicated to my daughter Abigail, with a little surprise from her at the end. As soon as I figure out how to do it, a podcast feed will be available. EDIT: I re-encoded it as a 22KHz MP3; I apologize if that's still too big for some people to downl...
First post!
January 24, 2007 20:48My first show will be tonight at 6pm, listen to me live on WRFR. I hope to have it recorded and uploaded in podcast form shortly thereafter. Feel free to email me at [email protected].
this is a test
January 16, 2007 00:23this is only a test. if this were an actual post there would be some content.