Sandwiched between talks is a monologue by Mr Lens himself entitled 'England Riots, I Reflect' in relation to recent events. Other topics covered are Freeman's theory of the Obama family being clones of ancient Egyptians, and Charlie Veitch's conversion to the official story of 9/11.

Music by The Clash.

This is followed up by an interview with Graham Nicholls about out of body experiences. Graham has a new book out called Avenues of the Human Spirit which can be found here. What makesGraham's approach to OBE's unique is the combination of him coming from a rough working class environment rather than an academic background, and the fact that he errs towards the rational and scientific as opposed to the mystical and ineffable in his approach to what OBE's are about.

Music by Madness and David Sylvian/Robert Fripp.

This is followed by a chat with Jason (Aeolus Kephas) Horsley recorded in August 2010 in Hampstead, North London. The topics mostly revolve around SWEDA - an online group - based around, in a nutshell, going into one's deepest sub and unconscious to put right deeply ingrained and embedded habits, patterns of behaviour, and to make the subconscious conscious.

Music by De La Soul and The Wonder Stuff

One of the more profound statements during this talk is how limited Western man's understanding of prehistoric man is, because of the legal taboos concerning altering one's mind. This talk is met with a thunderous applause afterwards.

Music by Shpongle.

To begin with, Mr Lens talks about his recent victory against the system, Wikileaks, the royal wedding and the Osama Obama facade before playing a controversial anti royal wedding song which can be found here.

After that, Mr Lens plays a talk by Charlotte Walsh recorded on April 2 at the Breaking Convention conference in the University of Kent at Canterbury. Many topics are addressed, but the crux of the argument she puts across is freedom of religion, thought and cognitive liberty under Article 9 of the European Convention, and how it could be used to undermine the UK Misuse of Drugs act 1971, as well as other similar European legislation.

This is followed by Mr Lens's closing rant in which he talks of other gems from Breaking convention to come on future podcasts, and ends by playing a very emotional 10 minute talk by Charlie Veitch broadcast in the immediate aftermath of being detained for 24 hours for 'conspiracy to cause a nuisance' at the royal wedding.

Music - William and Kate (the anti royal wedding song) by 'englishwhiteboy'

Bruce plays more recordings of McKenna and Tolle, focussing on a similar topics concerning how we could end all wars, famine, desease etc if it was not for the imbalance of the ego and the lack of intellectual vision, but described in the two radically different styles.

Bruce concludes by mentioning that the modern technology is having a worrying collective brain reworking of people which is causing less empathy and more ADHD, and what the implications of an iPad is, as it is at the moment an unplanned experiment.

Then it goes to questions and answers. During which Bruce suggests to Mr Lens that he put a meter on the podcast so the listeners could rate his sociopathic behaviour level!

Music by Gong

On this the 10th anniversary of the passing of Terence McKenna, we can now look back at his Copernican explorations of the mind with some hindsight and ask many questions: what where his voyages into deeper conscious states all about? do the machine elves really exist? how do his warnings about the current state of Humanity play out today? But perhaps the most powerful insight gleaned from McKenna's many journeys might be related to the more recent work of Eckhart Tolle and others on the Ego.



McKenna and Tolle both describe mind states in which the Ego may be sensed briefly as a separate entity from oneself, providing momentary release and the sense of exquisite presence of the unencumbered self. For Tolle the recognition that the Ego is an inner actor with an agenda is the key to the transformation of the individual and of planetary civilization. McKenna clearly describes the Ego manifesting itself within elevated mental states, providing a possibly unique opportunity to understand and deal with it then and later in normal states of mind. If this is in fact a common experience, it could, in combination with regimens proposed by Tolle and others, give us a vital new tool to forge a New Earth.



Damer will bring into this mix the newly pressing issue of Humanity's increasingly intense exposure to technology, especially digital screens, and how that may be affecting a planetary change in mind state . Loading more of our selves into avatars, social networks, and endless update/interrupt streams may be dissolving or may be enhancing a species consciousness millions of years in the making. The future of us and our world is at stake in this giant unplanned experiment.



Bruce Damer is a visionary technologist and humanist who may be found farming with his partner Galen Brandt in the redwood forests in Northern California and occasionally trekking along back roads into adjacent Silicon Valley. His work for twenty five years has been in innovative human-computer interfaces: in the 1980s bringing graphical user interfaces to the PC platform, in the 90s pioneering work in virtual worlds inhabited by avatars, in the 2000s creating 3D mission visualizations and designs for NASA, and in the 2010s creating a simulation framework to study the origins of life on Earth. Bruce's 1999 project with Terence McKenna brought virtual worlds into Terence's reality and led to Bruce's interest in the inner virtual worlds and avatar-like inhabitants experienced by Terence himself:



More about Bruce's life and work at http://www.damer.com

Aeolus Kephas joins the chat, talking about how his view of the world was particularly apocalyptic leading up to 911, and that 911 was a positive day because it was a ‘tear in consensus reality’, but in the long term, consensus reality became more restricted. Aeolus also theorises that 911 may have been a ripple back in time from a more apocalyptic event in the future. Also mentioned it Neo’s (Thomas Anderson’s) passport in the matrix expiring on Sep 11 2001 (the film was released in 1999).

Check out Aeolus Kephas’s podcasts by clicking here. After the chat with Aeolus, Mr Lens goes into depth about how Cass Sunstein (one of Barack Obama’s ‘Czars’) wishes to make it illegal or taxable for people to harbour other opinions about such events as 911. Mr Lens points out that if there really is no conspiracy, then the apparent conspirators would not feel the need to stop people thinking there was, so are they confirming the conspiracy?

Other “guests” include George W Bush, Darth Vader, Obi Wan Kenobi and Barack Obama!!

Music by Gong.

This segways nicely into the guest on this show, Tony Wright, co author of the book ‘Left in the dark’. He has a theory that our brains have become neurodegenerative since we left the tropical rainforests approximately 200,000 years ago, and that we may be starved of certain foods - flavonoids, endocrine disrupters, MAO inhibitors, certain fruits and nuts etc - which may have been responsible for making our human brains grow to the size they are today. His argument is that as a result of us severing the connection with a set of plants we may have symbiotically co evolved with, our brains have failsafed into one side dominance causing right or left handedness, left brain dominance, delusion and dysfunction. He is currently promoting the controversial theory to academics, who assume the human brain is in perfect working order, that in fact the brain is not fully functional, and that everything which has happened in the age of civilisation has happened in an era of brain dysfunctionality.

The second part of this interview continues in the next episode. To find out more about Tony’s work and order a copy of the book, click here.

Music by Led Zeppelin

After this it’s over to Matthew Holbrook for his latest Spring Equinox poem, followed by a lot of drumming (and a digeridoo too) recorded on the eve of Equinox in West Kennet Longbarrow. Mr Lens uses the same venue for a bit of roam cast monologuing a few days later before it’s back to the studio.

Music by David Bowie

As the show draws to a close Mr Lens talks about a squat party he recently visited.

Music by The Damned and Julian Cope.

One of the themes of this podcast is Professor David Nutt. Mr Lens reads out an email from 10 Downing Street in response to an epetition to reinstate David Nutt. A bit later in the programme, Mr Lens plays a couple of interviews with Professor Nutt.

During his break, Mr Lens guested on Carlita’s Sailing Beyond Knowledge podcast, where he spoke about his ‘second matrix in crowd’ gripe. He elaborates on this now to point out that back in the day when he knew nothing about the contemporary psychedelic community, he was having direct gnosis when it was legal to buy mushrooms in Camden, and if anything, the present psychedelic ‘in-crowd’ seem to be repeating a few usual human patterns rather than transcending them.

Music by Harry Belafonte, The Levellers and Ozric Tentacles.

Mr Lens talks about Imbolc for a while, and what it means to him to feel the ‘pre spring’ hopefulness in the air. He wraps up by announcing that due to feeling a tad uninspired, the podcast will have a three week break, as he attempts to free himself from the ball and chain.

Music by Ozric Tentacles and Weather Report.

“Andy [Roberts]'s book, Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Marshall Cavendish, 2008) was born from a desire to chronicle the history of this intriguing drug. Andy's talk, illustrated by powerpoint and DVD takes you on a history picnic to sample everything from the drug's arrival on these shores in 1952, through the medical and military experiments, the counterculture, to the sad death of Albert Hofmann. It is probably the only talk on LSD in which you'll hear the words of the Reverend Ian Paisley.”

Mr Lens cannot resist an impression of Ian Paisley which causes distortion on the microphone. It’s worth hearing this podcast for that alone!

Music by Neil Young.  

Mr Lens also plugs a festival coming this summer. Phil Mainwaring, who was a guest on SFR episode 43 informed Mr Lens of the Workhouse Festival (click here), which takes place between July 9 & 11 later this year. All proceeds of this not for profit festival go to the Llanfyllin Workhouse Project (click here). Phil describes the festival as like the old school free festivals.

Music by Ozric Tentacles and Gong.

After a song interlude it’s over to a chat Mr Lens had with listener Chris. Originally Chris had emailed to mention a talk by Chris Street at the London College of Psychic studies, where he and Mr Lens first met last year. Topics range from synchronicity to the English social class system to ‘non duality’. All in all this is one of the most interesting chats to have been on the podcast in a while.

After that chat Mr Lens confirms that he is going to the Andy Roberts talk at the October Gallery in the hope that he will be able to record it for a future episode.

Music by Hawkwind (requested by Simon in Portugal) & Sad Lover And Giants (requested by Chris).

Amongst other things, elderberries, stinging nettles and doc leaves are spoken about. Susun even mentions that she a member of the 500 club - in other words she has taken LSD over 500 times, but avoids ayahuasca because she doesn’t want to experience vomiting and diarrhoea!

Before the interview starts Mr Lens plays a clip from a well known British comedy series involving a wisewoman.

Music by Eat Static.

This leads onto playing a 20 minute talk by a man known as the Anti Terrorist, who appears in his You Tube videos as a man in a balaclava and sunglasses with a disguised voice, whilst talking about how to deal with police and discussing very eloquently how we have become constitutional illiterates when knowing our rights with authority figures, and that if we did know our rights we would be able to rein in the tyranny we're facing these days.

After the talk Mr Lens mentions about how the criminal justice act was used to criminalise free festivals by making gatherings of people illegal a whole decade before the terrorism legislation came in, and how if we could all stand our ground in the future we may be able to hit 'the 20's' in a less tyrannical world.

Music by Ozric Tentacles and The Levellers.

It all starts in the morning of Dec 20 just before sun rise, Mr Lens decides to go for a walk to West Kennet via Silbury Hill. During this time he rants about capitalism, commercialism and politicians and how happy he is to be away from all of that cheese - especially during silly "Christmas™" season. After an interlude Mr Lens chats with Marcus who does the Avebury Moot - Click here to find out more - and Sam, who is one of the locals Mr Lens often bumps into at seasonal gatherings, who talks amongst other things about an art station called Radio Joy - Click here for that too.

Next day Mr Lens gets a recording of a celebration by the Sun Circle with a resonating gong and a circle of people in meditation. He finds an old veteran of the sixties called Ed, who couldn't be more appropriate for the podcast if he tried, and speaks about Leary and Ram Dass, and how they influenced the approach to LSD before pop culture turned it into recreational drug, and how the 60's was seen memetically as the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, and that maybe 2012 will be the sunrise!

Music by Rage Against The Machine and Tchaikovsky

Then it's over to the roamcast. Mr Lens walks to three peaks of South East London - Hilly Fields, Blythe Hill Fields and One Tree Hill. On the final stop he 'does a Dopefiend' by vaporizing in a nice forest setting on One Tree Hill, and during the walk, muses on ideas such as Neil Kramer's Field Uplink and Gates of Awakening models, advocating a walk on the hill - or a pilgrimage - as a field uplinking tool to clear out the negative and stressful stuff of modern Western living, hoping that his experience comes over as an analogue for the vibe rather than 'the self indulgent ravings of a space cadet'! Music by The Cure, David Bowie and Ozric Tentacles.

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