In a Perfect World – podcasts

• 59: Gordon Wasson: The Sacred and the Profane May 7, 2012
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam talks with independent researcher, author and lecturer Jan Irvin from Gnostic Media about his forthcoming documentary on Gordon Wasson, influential New York banker and the godfather of the modern psychedelic movement. According to the historical record Wasson, an amateur mycologist, first 'discovered' 'magic […]
  Rak Razam
• 58: DISCLOSURE: 9/11 AND THE AMERICAN PSYCHEDELIC DREAM April 20, 2012
  In this continuation of In a Perfect World 33, experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews author and academic Robert Forte about the origins of the Psychedelic Movement and manipulation by the power elites as a social engineering tool for control of the dominant paradigm. This far-ranging discussion covers Huxley, Wasson, Hofmann, Leary et.al and the socia […]
  Rak Razam
• 57: The Anthropology of the Dancefloor March 5, 2012
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam chats with "radical anthropologist" and global freakologist Graham St John about the evolution and current direction of Global Trance Culture. With origins in the 60s Acid Tests and the legendary Goa beach parties, the archaic revival of psychedelic trance and dance and group mind has blossomed into a cathartic Tem […]
  Rak Razam
• 56: Towards an Organic Singularity February 6, 2012
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam talks with Kilindi, an African-American warrior-teacher who works with psilocybin mushrooms as entheogenic guides in the mapping of the inner realms. Where Terence McKenna posited five dried grams as the 'heroic dose', Kilindi regularly takes 20-30 dried grams and goes deeper than most people have experienced, righ […]
  Rak Razam
• 55: 2012 – Entheogenic Awakening? December 28, 2011
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam hosts a panel discussion at Entheogenesis Australis on the 2012 date and the implications for entheogenic culture in the year ahead. Is there a 'strange attractor' at the End of Time that entheogens have been presaging? What do the plants and indigenous cultures say about this critical juncture in time? Can we #Occ […]
  Rak Razam
• 54: The NEXT STEP December 13, 2011
  A lecture given at the EntheoGenesis Australis Conference, Dec 3, 2011. At the height of the first wave of psychedelia Ken Kesey promoted the idea of the Next Step, which at the time he envisaged as "beyond acid". What if acid was merely the latest in a long line of entheogens secreted by the planet to regulate humans, and each one was merely a ste […]
  Rak Razam
• 53: The Further Adventures of Ken Kesey November 2, 2011
  To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Ken Kesey on Nov 10, 2001, experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Ken Babbs, one of the last Merry Pranksters, to chat about the life and impact of Kesey and his coterie on the counterculture of the 1960s–and the world. Discover the origin of the Pranksters' name and the first-han […]
  Rak Razam
• 52: Mum and Dad aren't Shamans October 10, 2011
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam gets all down-to-earth with Shane and Margaret, shamanic practitioners–not shamans!–in Australia trained in the Peruvian style with both Wachuma and Ayahuasca entheogenic sacraments, and part of the spiritual business of the second generation of the global shamanic resurgence. Hear their intimate stories of shamanic initiati […]
  Rak Razam
• 51: Cleva Fela September 13, 2011
  Join experiential journalist Rak Razam and his special guest 'Cleva Fela'–and his many children–in this unique character profile of a white man dreaming the indigenous Australian land and culture. 'Cleva Fellas' is a slang expression for medicine men in Aboriginal culture, and this Cleva Fela, whilst making no claims to the role, has spen […]
  Rak Razam
• 50: Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse August 17, 2011
  You are cordially invited to the 50th podcast of In a Perfect World, for which experiential journalist Rak Razam hosts a dinner party unlike any other, held in these perilous times of planetary awakening in late July, 2011, or as is soon becoming apparent, the Edge of the Apocalypse. Joining us tonight are the Wizards of Oz: Darpan, global shamanic facilitat […]
  Rak Razam
• 49: Diamond Age June 30, 2011
  Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Susan Joy Rennison, author of Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism and Spiritual Evolution, and a physics and geophysics lecturer who focuses on the emerging science of space weather. Learn about solar flares, magnetars and cosmic rays coming from both galactic and universal sources that are bombarding our planet […]
  Rak Razam
• 48: Digital Mystery Schools June 8, 2011
  Subversive independent documentary maker Ben Stewart, of The Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica fame talks with experiential journalist Rak Razam. What is the nature of media in todays social networked world, where millions of people download documentaries like Stewart's to explore the nature of reality? How does this 'subversive' infotainment chang […]
  Rak Razam