In this rebroadcast from our first episode, we take a look at the first segments by Faust (aka Jer, the American counterpart to that gentleman villain Mr VI, of Cultivating Madness) and True.

Dealing with utilization of the tools in ourselves and centering in order to better understand how those tools can be used, it seemed a little fitting to us that these be placed together.

Also, there's a short intro by our "illustrious" curator/producer, with some details on future projects for the Mayhem crew.

With closing music by White Trash Shaolin and our opening track is by:

Download "Hope The Light" (mp3)
from "Subterranean Kicks"
by The Furze
Three Sixty Records

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This is a rebroadcast of the first podcast in the MayhemRadio series Recreating Reality, from our very own contributor Rose. First uploaded a year ago, this provides an excellent ground work for many of the concepts and ideas which Rose has touched on over her last two segments.

In this podcast she examines the phenomena known as synathesia and what it means to the philosophic idea that reality is in the eye of the beholder.

With music by Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads

Ok, ok. We know we told you he'd shut the hell up after the last one. And he did. Sort of. This one's not about stories at all. It's about data, patterns, and the information that's born from them. See? It's different. This is a classic mayhem extract from the original, recorded over a year ago. We promise the next one will have a different voice. Till then, show Barroom some love.

Download "Blood On The Banisters" (mp3)
from "The Incredibly Strange People Who Stopped Living And Became..."
by The Creeping Cruds
SPAT! Records

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Background music by Locust Toybox

Fellows, friends, and other well wishers...

He finally shut the hell up.

In this final installment, Barroom Hero goes after the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and America's amazing lack of guilt for its direct hand in those two crimes.  Why is it that Germany goes after Holocaust deniers, but the Smithsonian tells outright falsehoods (read: lies) about the only aggressive use of an atomic bomb?

But he only uses this as a springboard to go into the deeper ramifications of national myths, and what they do to us as individuals (whether we like it or not).

Music: Undefined by Cassock

Sergio Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto 2 in C Minor

And I'm not referencing the band that is my most secret and guiltiest of musical pleasures.

Instead, it's something much cooler.

What if you could encode almost any information you desired into memory? What if the only thing standing in your way was your own sloppy neural house keeping?

In this, his second episode on neural hacking, Cassock explains and gives you a detailed howto on just that. He covers mempegs, a system for accelerated learning and memorization, and goes specifically into the Journey system. This system is used by the select few of the world who have practiced enough to memorizes thousand digit long number string in under and hour.

Get out your neurological brooms and dustbins, people, because this definitely shouldn't be missed. Music by Welder

Download "The Heart" (mp3)
from "Vines & Stream"
by Welder
Cyberset Music

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“There is nothing permanent except change.�

-Heraclitus of Ephesus

Need we say more?

Yes, we probably do. Especially if you're to download the latest installment of the Mayhem Radio Podcast Project.

Don Genaro lends us his wisdom and experience in this episode, which has been a long time in coming... both the episode, and his loan.

If we seek to make change, we must first make it in ourselves. Along the same lines is the assertion of the teacher Confucius that man must build character before he is able to put his house in order, and rulers must put their houses in order before they may set their kingdoms right.

What does this mean for us?

Listen and find out.

Thus concludes "Up Against a Wall." Following the earlier line paved with the previous two episodes, VI and Jer continue discussing the "nature of fear" in magick, the focus of liberation, and even the primacy of sex/sex magick.

Music by:
Azathoth: Amaranth

Previous Episodes:

Cultivating Madness: Up Against a Wall Part 1
Cultivating Madness: Up Against a Wall Part 2

Memory is one of the most potent tools man uses in his survival.

Here are three questions.

How did you survive that last predator's attack? How did you find enough money to make rent the last time something like this happened? What did you do for lunch this time last year?

Honestly, though, only two of these three are probably easy for you to answer. You probably don't remember the events from exactly a year ago.

But what if you could?

In the first of hopefully many contributions, Cassock gives background, theory, and practice on how an individual could make it a possibility. By coupling memory with imagination, he explains how you can make memorization on demand, and therefore into an even more potent and user-friendly tool.

ALL Music by Locust Toybox

This week's segment comes from that loveliest of flowers, The Rose.

Our own reality doesn't come spontaneously from nowhere. It is, instead, a combination of our own imaginative creation and reactive creation to others around us. As we travel though this cosmically large manic depression we call life, we hit beautiful high and the darkest of lows... how we deal with them determines what reverberations are sent through the tangled and delicately balanced web in which we exist, and whether they pull others up with us or drag them down to us.

Don't miss this show, folks, or you just might entangle others in a web of your making.

With Music by Die Warzau

In Barroom Hero’s last installment, he talked about stories.  Stories, stories, stories.  He seems to think that's all our personality's made of.

Is he right or wrong?  No way to tell, really, since it's all just conceptual.

Now, as promised, he delivers a short audio essay on symbols and why they’re so damned powerful.  Why they pull us every which way even if we don’t realize it or want them to.

If you enjoyed the first part of Stories, don’t miss this, the second installment.

Music by The Uncontrollable Urge