SMON: the Virus that wasn’t

I've been aware for a long time that Adam was once involved in the New Atheist Movement, being a particularly big fan of Christopher Hitchens. In this interview I ask him about his personal journey both in and out of that movement, and what exactly happened to the movement as a whole. Follow Adam at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZqzZos4R6NbWkq4ycAJuyw/videos

20 Maj 202242min

'We can take a complex mystical concept like "dissolution of the self" and turn that into something so common and mundane that everybody does it every day. If the mystical experience is rooted in something as simply as falling asleep, then anyone can do it, and do it to a great degree of depth.' Meditation on Consciously Experiencing the Deep Sleep State: https://payhip.com/b/4GB6w Tim Freke's Deep Awake Meditation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3Af5oPgqk In the Light of Death: https://timfreke.com/Product/114/In%20the%20light%20of%20death Music by Sash - Non-Existent Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJ4KErSc_0

13 Maj 202217min

What have you experienced outside Mind? And if you haven't, are you sure there's anything there to find? From the book: Of Matter or Mind?: Paradoxical Poems on the Nature of Reality Available on Amazon: (US), (UK) And on Payhip

11 Maj 20221min

Adam Fitzgerald interviews me on The Darkened Hour Podcast about my book Contemplating Conspiracy.   Contemplating Conspiracy: Excursions into Undiluted Madness, available on  Amazon (US) (UK)

3 Maj 202250min

'Previously David Icke was a spiritualist who wrote about how problems in the world, including his predictions of natural disasters, arise from humanities negative thought patterns. He doesn’t reject this view, but now a nefarious force takes centre stage to direct this process.'   See David's full presentation on The Robots' Rebellion here: https://odysee.com/@bambaferko:7/The-Robots-Rebellion--David-Icke:8   I talk about David's use of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, without mentioning he rejects the notion they are a Jewish document. His full presentation makes that clear. Also, some of the details in this episode are drawn from David's following work, And the Truth Shall Set You Free. I have heard David refer to these two books together as his 'five sense period', where he uncovered the details of the great conspiracy.   Donations in support of the show can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZL2DQE3EK446C The Essence of Anarchy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SN1X3HL Contemplating Conspiracy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WNDZCP3 Music: Crossing Over. Curtesy of Neutrin05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1M18G5Lo3k

24 Apr 202237min

By the turn of the twentieth century, and much as with Nicaragua, American corporations were consolidating large landholdings and lobbied the US government to protect their investments as they ran into conflict over issues such as peasants rights. The first US military incursion took place in 1903 and occurred consistently over the succeeding decades. Because the country was effectively controlled by American fruit corporations, it was the original inspiration for the term ‘banana republic.’   Sources Stephen Kinzer’s Overthrow http://stephenkinzer.com/2013/09/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change-from-hawaii-to-iraq/   Documentary: Hidden in Plain Sight The School of the Americas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DX6OR-j47c   Democracy Now Before Her Assassination, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QiA8BA8WkM   “A Moment of Hope”: Xiomara Castro’s Likely Win in Honduras Ends Years of Right-Wing Rule After Coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMzFQxO3FtU   Mark Weisbrot, Will Congress Act to Stop US Support for Honduras’ Death Squad Regime? https://original.antiwar.com/mark-weisbrot/2013/04/02/will-congress-act-to-stop-us-support-for-honduras-death-squad-regime/   Stephen Zunes: The US Role in the Honduras Coup and Subsequent Violence https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence   Music - Corrido a Honduras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTbxetdtN4   The Essence of Anarchy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SN1X3HL   Contemplating Conspiracy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WNDZCP3   Donations in support of the show can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZL2DQE3EK446C

10 Apr 202223min

The United States now moved to block the Nicaraguan government from putting down the rebellion. They employed the same tactic that had been used in Hawaii twenty-seven years earlier, forbidding the Nicaraguan soldiers from firing on the rebels for fear they might hit American civilians. US Warships then deployed Marines to enforce this order.   The quote, ‘When history is written, the contras will be folk heroes’ is from Elliot Abrams, Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State and major architect of the war with Nicaragua.   Sources Stephen Kinzer’s Overthrow http://stephenkinzer.com/2013/09/overthrow-americas-century-of-regime-change-from-hawaii-to-iraq/ And Blood of Brothers http://stephenkinzer.com/2013/09/blood-of-brothers-life-and-war-in-nicaragua/   John Pilger's documentary: Nicaragua, a Nation's Right to Survive http://johnpilger.com/videos/nicaragua-a-nations-right-to-survive   Frontline documentary, War on Nicaragua, https://odysee.com/@TheExpos%C3%A9:6/frontline-war-on-nicaragua-(1987):6   Debate on Political Crisis & Violent Deaths in Nicaragua: Camilo Mejía vs. Julio Martinez Ellsberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcdcpqqNdjQ   Music Nicaragua Nicaraguita, by Carlos Mejía Godoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7-nWslZe0   The Essence of Anarchy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SN1X3HL   Contemplating Conspiracy, book available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WNDZCP3   Donations in support of the show can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZL2DQE3EK446C

3 Apr 202230min

The Panama Canal was Theodore Roosevelt's pet project. Panama was then a province of Columbia, albeit one with an active separatist movement. Columbia was reluctant to give the United States the kind of control it wanted over the canal zone, requesting ten million dollars to cede sovereignty. Rather than pay up, Roosevelt had a different solution in mind. Sources: The Panama Deception (Documentary) https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Panama-Deception-(1992)--Documentary:c The Treaty That Wall Street Wrote, by Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/library/treaty-wall-street-wrote Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer http://stephenkinzer.com/category/books/ https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Panama-Warns-of-Disguised-US-Attempts-to-Install-Military-Bases-20210304-0015.html Rain and Tears by Neutrin05 https://soundcloud.com/neutrin05 Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2PKvY28 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/RRsQBq9nSXQ

27 Mars 202216min