Interview - A group discussion on a new documentary film, "From Shock to Awe," about veterans with PTSD and their healing journeys with ayahuasca, MDMA and cannabis.

Listen Now to discussion with a filmmaker, veteran, and researcher involved with “From Shock to Awe.”

After interviewing the folks involved with this topic, we feel this is an important film that needs to be made.  Initial results of MDMA research with PTSD, for example, suggest an improvement from an average of 23% to 84% successful treatment of processing serious war trauma over the current use of prescription drugs to vets.  

In this show, we speak with Janine Sagert, Ph.D., content producer for the documentary, Ryan LeCompte, a United States Marine Corps Infantry Veteran and founder of Veterans for Entheogenic Therapies (VETS), an organization whose mission is to spread awareness about alternative medicines for the treatment of PTSD. And also MDMA researher Saj Razvi, MA, LPC,  founder of the Love and Trauma Center in Denver, CO which educates clinicians nationally in the skills of trauma resolution. 

One of our best shows yet, we think you’ll appreciate the work these folks are doing and will continue to do as they evolve these dramatically succesful strategies for healing serious emotional trauma and related stressors via psychedelic therapies.   Click here for the Indie Go Go Campaign.

From Shock to Awe - How psychedelics bring relief to veterans suffering from PTSD.

Future News - Blood Moon, Tesla Range Increase, Black Holes Clash, Snowden's First Tweet, Panos VR Update, Taylor on Apple Watch, TV, and iPad Pro

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Did you see the last blood moon lunar eclipse this past Sunday?  Very special, and a little challenging for those in our bioregion.  Though we did finally see the last bit of it peaking out of mostly cloudy skies, we had a pristine perspective via NASA TV on our iPad..Very sweet!

Did you ever wonder what happens when two black holes collide?  Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a pair of supermassive black holes circling toward a collision so powerful it would send a burst of gravitational waves surging through the fabric of space-time itself. The smash-up is expected to happen in 100,000 years or so, a blink of the eye in cosmic time!

We have two live reports this week, the first from VR pioneer Greg Panos, who chaired a session on early VR at Siggraph 2015 and just attended an Occulus Rift convention.  in a nutshell, VR is coning on like a freight train, arriving in stores by this time next year.  Meanwhile, Apple’s shiny new products are out this fall and we have our Apple pundit Taylor Barcroft present his second segment on them, with a focus on Apple Watch, the new Apple TV and the new iPad Pro.  If you’ve been thinking about  these gadgets, you’ll appreciate what Taylor has to say.  Enjoy!

Interview - Sally Armstrong, Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and woman's rights activist.

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From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are the key to progress on ending poverty, violence, and conflict. Award-winning humanitarian and journalist Sally Armstrong tells us why empowering women and girls is the way forward, and in her new book, Uprising, she introduces us to the leading females who are making change happen, from Nobel Prize winners to little girls suing from justice.

In Uprising she documents the very real progress currently underway toward female empowerment in cultures where women must traditionally endure sexual violence, forced childhood marriage and rape, impoverishment from polygamy and related inheritance laws, plus lack of access to education or jobs. On our show we mix it up a little with questions from both Mrs. Future and I, as well as a host of KSCO callers.  A very dynamic show, and will trigger many neurons in your brain.

 Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater in conjunction with the Cameo Cinema, will be hosting a talk and book signing by author Sally Armstrong on Friday, September 25th, 2015. More details are here.

Future News - New Low Orbit Internet, Venter to offer low cost $250 Gene Analyses, 3D Printed Cars by Local Motors, MZ on KSCO TV!

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Oh boy, oh boy, not only will we soon have ubiquitous internet from space, brought to you by our favorite alien, Elon Musk, but also better personalized health care, and once we are really well, we can cruise around in the latest 3D printed electric car, thanks to Local Motors. 

And to top it all off, our fearless leader of KSCO, MZ, came to visit and gave a download on how KSCO is moving into television, an area we know a thing or two about!  Exciting show, enjoy!

Local Motors will sell their 3D printed electric car in 2016

Interview - Historian of the Future Charles Ostman on Telepathy and the Internet

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook recently said, ““One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology. You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too, if you’d like. This would be the ultimate communication technology,” he said

To evaluate this statement, we asked Charles Ostman, Historian of the Future, about the history of telepathy and communications technologies, especially the internet.  The history of this topic is surprisingly rich, from both academic and military research perspectives.  We think you’ll enjoy this engaging conversation.