Chocolate Church

The day after I reissued Part 1 of my 2019 interview with Roman McClay/Lyndon McLeod, he perpetrated mass murder in Denver. In this episode, I reflect.

In this vintage two-part conversation, I talk with Roman McClay, author of the epic novel SANCTION, about creating a mind virus, helping sigma males decode themselves, appreciating forest fires and bar fights, embracing the looming failure of the American experiment, and how to declutter the world.

In this episode, I talk with Ben Brownlow, of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, about our gross national poop product, why poop and water don’t mix (whereas poop and biochar definitely do), why using a flush toilet is like putting a turd in a Lamborghini, how humanure harvesting strengthens collective identity, why processing human poop used to be a profitable business (and how it could be again), and an unfortunate encounter between a drunk Rabbit and an outhouse.

In this two-part conversation, I talk with Verdant Nolan, former Zendik warrior and current President of The Organic Gardener, about how thoughts create results (hint: NOT through the Law of Attraction), what people get wrong about money and selling, the revolving door between outer and inner work, coaching versus criticizing, saving the world versus loving it, growing food in cities, the freedom you find when you allow for uncertainty, and the wonder of tripping on Spaceship Earth.

In this two-part conversation, I talk with Verdant Nolan, former Zendik warrior and current President of The Organic Gardener, about how thoughts create results (hint: NOT through the Law of Attraction), what people get wrong about money and selling, the revolving door between outer and inner work, coaching versus criticizing, saving the world versus loving it, growing food in cities, the freedom you find when you allow for uncertainty, and the wonder of tripping on Spaceship Earth.

In this episode, I talk with Gregg Zuman, founder and principal of NYC-based trike-services company Revolution Rickshaws, about his quest to wean urban logistics off fossil fuels. Like Evan Pritchard of the Center for Algonquin Culture (my guest on episode 9), he's heading back to the future. Listen up to find out why trikes have not yet taken over the world—and how they still might!

In this episode, I talk with Evan Pritchard, founder of the Center for Algonquin Culture and author of umpteen books, about “Backtrack to the Future: A Seven-Part Solution for the Great American Meltdown.” He reveals: the Native American origins of the Rainbow Gathering; how to meet outdoors even in harsh weather; how to eat—and sweat—for maximal health; how to commute, travel, and transport goods without fossil fuels; how to resist inflammatory rhetoric, using the Way of the Heron; and more!

In this two-part conversation, I talk with Stephen Kurczy, author of The Quiet Zone, about the fringe groups that have followed the Green Bank Observatory—and its restrictions on wireless communications—to Pocahontas County, West Virginia; Patch Adams’s illusory hospital; why the media pretends that the Quiet Zone is quieter than it is; Internet addiction; whether Zendik Farm was a sex cult; the tyranny of digital “connectivity”; how quiet can breed pathology; and the upside of going offline.

In this two-part conversation, I talk with Stephen Kurczy, author of The Quiet Zone, about the fringe groups that have followed the Green Bank Observatory—and its restrictions on wireless communications—to Pocahontas County, West Virginia; Patch Adams’s illusory hospital; why the media pretends that the Quiet Zone is quieter than it is; Internet addiction; whether Zendik Farm was a sex cult; the tyranny of digital “connectivity”; how quiet can breed pathology; and the upside of going offline.