Friday, March 21, 2008

Other (non-podcast) Audio Sources

I love podcasts. I drive a lot for work and it is so much better than listening to the radio. I can listen to people talk about the things that interest me. For a taste of my tastes there is a Podcast Mix section just below My News Feed on the right (my babies!)

Anyway, despite the growing popularity and utility of RSS feeds and podcasting there are still some sites out there that have great audio content but do not have a podcast feed. Here are a few of my favorites:

- the Binary Research Institute does a monthly hour-long podcast called The Cosmic Influence. This podcast, and the Institutes's Research, revolve around what is most commonly known as the Yuga cycle. They are also the organizers of the now yearly Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge. To their credit they are on iTunes but do not have a generic RSS feed.
- Future-Hi is pretty static but features downloads of people like Terrence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson.
- Project Camelot has MP3 versions of its video interviews with a variety of people focussed on the subject of UFOs, ETs, and the "Spirit of the Age". They have interviews with people like Richard Hoagland, David Wilcock, Gary McKinnon and others. They have a definite track they are working down with regard to the UFO question but their interviews are fascinating no matter what stand you take.
- Rupert Sheldrake has a collection of Trialogues available. Unfortunately they are streaming audio and not available for download, but still they are thought provoking and well worth the listening

Another great resource is LibriVox. It is basically a community of people volunteering to record audio versions of public domain books. They have a lot of interesting titles although being in the public domain many of the English translations have a bit of a King James feel to them. But hey, they're free!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very good post! We need more sharing of information like this. I'll be feasting on this information for a while. Thanks for making work much more bearable!

- C from Whoa?!

John said...

C- if you haven't checked out the Psychedelic Salon podcasts you should. They have tons of Trialogues with McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham. The "official" trialogues are the ones on Rupert Sheldrake's site.

They also have McKenna only podcasts.

I highly recommend anything by Robert Anton Wilson as well.

John