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Episode 99 – Masculine intuition

by Aaron Battle on April 6, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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In this episode kurt brings to our attention to what appears to be a break up over a messenger chat. The screen shot was captured and uploaded as a Facebook status. Kurt and Aaron enjoy the role play then discuss their thoughts on what is actually happening here.

There are super heroes amongst us, however for most people relationships can be daunting, intimidating and confusing. At any stage of relations people can find themselves caught up and emotional charged. The world is about to end – a text message wasn’t answered, the un-answered phone call, or returning to 12 missed calls. These are examples of the land mines of the dating game.

We visit the theme of personal perspectives, where everyone must be accountable for how we choose to interact in this world, Saagar put it, “You don’t see the world as it is, you see it, as you are.” Personal growth is the never ending story and closing this gap is a life-time of serious work. So to get a quick fix of higher knowledge, butter the popcorn and put down the Rubik’s cube, here is another mind expanding episode of The Paradise Paradox!!!

Episode 98 – Appearing and Disappearing Objects

by Kurt Robinson on April 1, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Everyone has had the experience of having a sock go mysteriously missing, apparently without a trace. You can open up the lint trap, search behind the washing machine, and turn it upside down, but there is nothing to be found. Is it just a case of a misplaced sock, or is there something stranger at play?

Some people have also reported unusual appearances of objects. An innocuous towel carefully folded on the stair. A USB stick with documents pertaining to a foreign company, arriving on the desk in the middle of the day. And of course, socks spontaneously reappearing at precise intervals, coming out of the wash as if they’d never left.

Are there people breaking into homes and inserting objects just to make life interesting? Are there 6th dimensional wormholes opening up in the spin cycle? Is our universe a simulation with glitches that only affect unattended items of clothing moving in a clockwise direction at greater than 20km/h? We ask these questions and more, in the next sock-disintegrating episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Eps:

Episode 47 – I Dream of Vocho

The Links:

Disappearing object phenomenon

What’s the creepiest thing that has ever happened to you? On Reddit

Have you ever had an object disappear or appear? On Reddit

Episode 97 – Surviving A Bus Crash

by Aaron Battle on March 23, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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In this episode Kurt and Aaron are talking about their recent personal events since leaving Anarchapulco, the largest Anarchist-Capitalist conference in Acapulco, Mexico. On the return trip home from the conference, Kurt was involved in a serious bus accident, where his bus collided with a semitrailer. On impact Kurt’s forehead was split on the seat in front and he awoke to gashing blood from his head. Thinking that this could be the end, Kurt was able to remain calm by controlling his breathing and acted smart by attending to his head wound – these factors saved his life. Kurt has since returned to Guadalajara and is safe and sound.

Meanwhile Aaron has found himself in New Jersey where he is visiting family, all due to a visa mishap. As Australians, both Aaron and Kurt have the luxury of easy travel, worry free boarder crossing and confident visa applications – that is if a visa is required at all. With an Australian passport one has access to 138 countries with no visa required and has a power rank of 9 on the passport index. However, Aaron’s wife has a Mexican passport, which ranks 22 in comparison – Joanna will need a visa to travel via the USA and a visa to enter Australia. Considering visas are compulsory, expensive and time consuming, it appears that perhaps not all people are born equal, whereas Australians live young and free.

The Links:

Passport Index

How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders

Episode 96 – Using Sustainable Agriculture To Make A Cooperative Earth: Kenny Palurintano

by Kurt Robinson on March 18, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Many ancient cultures attempted to design agricultural systems based around the natural strengths and needs of plants. For example, the Iroquois always grew the “Three Sisters” together – beans, corn and squash. The corn provides a natural pole, enabling the bean vines to grow higher. The bean plants release nitrogen into the soil, allowing the growth of the following year’s corn crop. The squash vines act as a living mulch, maintaining the moisture in the earth.

Today, it’s common to see farms where plants are grown in monoculture, all in lines of the same plant together. It looks very well-organised, but without the right kind of chaos, or the right kind of interplay between different plants and animals, the soil soon becomes infertile, and so farmers are constantly playing a game of catch-up with the land they struggled so hard to tame.

In this interview, Kurt talks with Kenny Palurintano about how various types of plants and animals can work together to create a sustainable garden, and even self-sustaining gardens, providing enough for humans and for other beings on this planet. Kenny mentions other indigenous cultures carefully selected the crops that they placed together, to increase their harmony. By using food forests modelled on natural systems, we can create something which provides an outstanding level of abundance. We also talk about some of Kenny’s adventures, travelling around the US by hitchhiking, and how he subtly plants the seeds of liberty into the minds of people he meets.

Remember to press the like button on Kenny’s Facebook page and check out his website, Kenny’s Conscious Kitchen.

The Eps:

Episode 73 – Anarchist Adventurer Kenny Palurintano

The Links:

Kenny’s Conscious Kitchen

Kenny’s Conscious Kitchen on Facebook

Greening the Desert II – Turning a desert in Jordan into a self-sustaining lush food forest

Indian man single-handledly plants a 1,360 acre forest

Episode 95 – Shamans with Guns: Luis Fernando Mises

by Kurt Robinson on March 14, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Many millenia ago, certain people started to work with herbs and other plants, healing the bodies and souls of their tribespeople. Over time, they learnt how to use certain plants to form a connection with some deep part of their unconscious, tapping into wisdom of unknown origin, which would, slowly but surely, affect the fate of humanity. Some shamans claim they contact spirits, and by using psychedelic drugs, they can come into contact with the divine.

In this episode, Kurt had a chance to catch up with Luis Fernando Mises at Anarchapulco 2016 and discuss shamanism. We discussed the contrast between San Pedro/huachuma and ayahuasca – how huachuma is like a patient grandfather who is ready to work with you at your own pace, and how ayahuasca is like a stern granddmother; how huachuma gave Luis a master’s degree on economic policy, how the roles of shaman, consultant and gun-owner are more harmonious than it might seem at first, and how psychedelic medicine can have a domino or fractal effect through many lives.

The Eps:

Episode 67 – The Ayahuasca Diaries Part 1

Episode 68 – The Ayahuasca Diaries Part 2

Episode 69 – The Ayahuasca Diaries Part 3

Episode 22 – The Face of Death

The Links:

Emancipated Human on YouTube

Emancipated Human on Facebook

V is for Voluntary on Facebook

Anarchast Español on YouTube

Anarchast Español on Facebook

Episode 94 – Liberty Hip Hop Live at Anarchapulco 2016

by Kurt Robinson on March 11, 2016 in Podcast • 1 Comment

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I started writing a song for Juan Galt’s documentary series about freedom-loving expatriates in Acapulco. I wrote a bunch of verses, a few beats and a few hooks, but nothing really came out right. I asked Juan and he gave me a few concepts, laying out his vision for the song – the idea of people escaping an oppressive regrime, and the parallels to Galt’s Gulch, the refugee for productive people from Ayn Rand’s famous novel “Atlas Shrugged”.

These ideas simmered away in my mind, and in the next few days, while I was out walking, a simple hook bubbled to the surface: “I’m sailing in on a sloop on a Pacific wind/Waiting to start my life again/I don’t know much, y pues, yo no se mucho/Pero, yo se que si voy yendo a Acapulco…” I recorded it on a voice note on my phone. I felt elation, and instantly I knew that I was onto a good thing. After that, it came down to putting in the hard work to write verses which lead to the inevitable and potent conclusion.

When I posted the song in the Anarchapulco group on Facebook, Jeff Berwick heard the song and almost immediately asked me to perform at the event. I said yes, though I didn’t really know what I was going to do. The last time I had done anything resembling a performance was one year before, at Anarchapulco 2015, when Rob Hustle called for MCs to come from the crowd, and I jumped up and spat eight bars with intensity and conviction.

So I spent the next couple of weeks going through some old tracks, digging through audios to find some instrumentals from years ago, to see if I could put together a short set. This is that set.

Many thanks to Dan Dicks of Press For Truth and Doug Scribner of Watchmybit for providing the footage.

The Links:

Kurt Robinson Raps on YouTube

Don’t Hold Dollars (Q.E.) on YouTube

Architect of Your Own Life on YouTube

To Acapulco on SoundCloud

Press For Truth

Watchmybit

Episode 93 – Polyamory and Monogamy

by Kurt Robinson on March 8, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Many people assume that having a monogamous relationship is normal and healthy. Many men get into long-term relationships, enjoy themselves for a while, but soon feel the need for the exhilarating touch of another woman’s skin, a craving for sexual diversity which many believe is biological. In such cases, men will turn to pornography, going to strip clubs, or cheating on their partners outright, with prostitutes or other women. In some parts of the world, these habits are very much frowned on, but in others they are somewhat accepted – as long as the wife never hears about it.

Individuals in the polyamorous community have decided that it doesn’t make sense to fight these urges, but instead work with them, by embracing multiple partners, in loving relationships. Humans are tribal animals, they say, and part of that tribal kinship involves sexuality. Of course, by solving the problem of cheating, they open up other problems – of course, having a relationship with one person is difficult enough.

Still others will contend that having a strictly monogamous relationship is very difficult, but entirely worth it, in maintaining the sanctity of marriage, and also providing for children in a consistent, stable environment – an environment which can even indirectly protect against government tyranny, by ensuring the family trust each other more than they do the authorities.

Which type of relationship is right for you? A monogamous relationship, a crazy single life where you screw everybody, or perhaps even complete abstinence? We explore these concepts and more, in the next willy-shaking episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

Men’s testosterone boosted by interactions with women – sex or even flirting

Why men cheat – a life and death situation

Sex at Dawn Venn diagram

Polyamory diaries – I’m not trying to be your girlfriend

Polyamory diaries – why friends aren’t enough

Episode 92 – Peak Experiences

by Kurt Robinson on March 5, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Everybody, at some point in their life, has a peak experience. It might be described as a mystical, or religious experience, being touched by the hand of God, having a spiritual awakening, or perhaps just a moment of clarity. It can come in the form of intense awe, happiness, well-being, acceptance or tranquility. Abraham Maslow coined the term “peak experience”, and originally thought they were only experienced by self-actualised people, but with further research he realised that they were available to everyone – it was just that certain types of people felt them more intensely and more frequently.

What do peak experiences mean? Are they blessings from God, or just a glitch in our brains? Can they reveal greater truths about life and the universe? Who knows, but I ask those questions and more in the next spine-tingling, chakra-awakening, spirit-rattling episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Eps:

Episode 19 – Anomalies of Consciousness

The Links:

Peak experiences on Wikipedia

Abraham Maslow on Wikipedia

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Peak experiences on The Spirit Wiki

Episode 90 – The Passion of Anarchapulco 2016

by Kurt Robinson on February 23, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Many people in the liberty movement are very left-brained, extremely focused on logic, because that is how many of them came to the conclusion that allowing any particular organisation a monopoly on power is not a good idea, not effective, or even not practical. However, there are many people who have very similar or related feelings about liberty or about caring for others, who may not yet have the mental tools to entirely leave behind their indoctrination about government.

The hippie movement was a huge call for peace, though it later went on to be undermined by mysterious forces in the seventies – perhaps just by the realisation that it was time to get a job and a mortgage. But hippies as a movement are still very much alive, and in many ways, many Burners and Rainbow Gatherers are much more free than any Austrian economist writing essays in his suburban home could ever be. Step by step, the liberty movement extends to people who haven’t just come to liberty as an intellectual conclusion, but to people who live it and breathe it, who feel it in their bones, on their sunburnt faces, and on their blistered bare feet. Even many academic socialists who advocate robbery in the form of taxation, and many forms of impractical public policy, does so because it is congruent with his compassion for others – his desire for freedom and prosperity.

The question is, how can these two camps of logic and emotion, which, on the surface might seem to be very contradictory, be combined? The perfect answer is divine revelation. The practical answer is art. Through creating something beautiful, manifesting a piece of divinity in the human world, bringing people to a point of exaltation through poetry, song, food and painting, can win over hearts, where minds still lay closed.

Episode 89 – Anam Paiseanta: Living Rent Free

by Kurt Robinson on February 16, 2016 in Podcast • 0 Comments

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Many people decide to set off to travel across the globe with nothing but a backpack and few changes of clothes, hopping from hostel to hostel and embracing the various mind-opening experiences that these journeys can offer them, and nursing their bed-bug bites as they go. But what if you could do it in luxury? What if you had several houses all over the country, or all over the world where you could stay, without cost, without debt, and perhaps without even owning the houses – even making a profit by controlling these houses – and in the meantime, providing a valuable solution to the person who does hold the deed.

All this is possible, with a little hard work, a little hard thinking, a handful of specific real estate techniques, and perhaps a healthy measure of intestinal fortitude.

In this episode, Kurt talks with Anarchapulco speaker, author, entrepreneur and liberty lover, Anam Paiseanta, about his methods of creating lease options to live without paying rent, to speculate on property prices and make a profit, and to help many desperate sellers to find a way out of a difficult situation. We discuss the differences between passive marketing and active marketing, and how someone can get started in this liberating endeavour. We also discuss his Connector app, which can help people of common interests find each other across the world, enabling people to prescreen new social connections, finding business and agorist networks, and developing and maintaining liberty-loving communities.

Join us on another globe-trotting, money-making adventure in this episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint: How to Quit Your Job in 19 Weeks or Less

How to Create Multiple Streams of Income: Buying Homes in Nice Areas With Nothing Down

Three Friends Free: A Children’s Story of Voluntarism

Connector App – Meet friends you haven’t met yet