The age old goal of becoming truly human has been discarded in favor of reverting to a Gorilla Mindset. Well, for some folks this is the case. What about you? 

topics include: update, alternative media landscape, going mainstream, Alex Jones performance artist, truth as a marketing tool, lawsuits, Mike Cernovich, Alt Right, Gorilla Mindset, esoteric goal of becoming human, Hercules, 12 animals of zodiac, thinking by the numbers, defeat with popularity, Battle of Berkeley, trap of anger, greater truth, mundane routine, Tao, semantics games, doing something useful, positivity, AJES article

Aaron shares some of his thoughts on president Donald Trump, the Truth Movement, and where the "alternative" media may be heading. 

topics include: supporting Aaron, president Trump, anti-establishment president, alternative media, Age of Transitions team, technology, post truth world, sharing research material, Alt Right, alt media joining mainstream, right wing politics, fringe politics, racism, doublethink, Radical Islamic Terrorism, War on Terror, Truth Movement, civil liberties, foreign wars, Truthers as bad guys, Nazis, martial law, Trump the celebrity, political leaders need to relate to average person, population divided, self destruction, left right political paradigm

Aaron talks about some of the strangest examples of his own brain's neurons firing off electro-chemical signals across synapses. 

topics include: status of podcast, remembering childhood consciousness, meditation as precursor to OBE, Nothing, experiences that defy logic, occult practices, metaphysics are misunderstood, attention, waking up, awareness during sleep, dreams, astral projection, Robert Bruce, mobile body awareness, Rosicrucians, sleep paralysis, vibration, feeling as though you are struggling with someone, dark side of your psyche, physical and metaphysical realities coincide, reductionist empiricism, Persinger’s God Helmet, public acquiescence to academic opinion, lucid dreaming experiences, telepathy, retaining awareness just before falling asleep, transhumanism, definition of normal

A life of creating media leads to contemplation of its many shortcomings. More than one devilish prankster has purposely taken advantage of these built in media biases in order to have a good laugh. In this podcast, Aaron encourages such nonsense not only to have some fun but to better understand media and social dynamics as well. 

topics include: art, animation, art class, local newspapers, journalism, interviewee taken out of context, point of view, spin, The Age of Transitions, New Year's Eve 2000, Y2K, WTC 7 as command center, terrorism, promoting the official story of 9/11, viewer, communication, Andy Kaufman, inter-gender wrestling, pranks, Franni 

Aaron returns to the dark topic of race politics. Both mainstream and alternative media are in love with stories that can instantly create a hate fueled vitriolic divide within the population. As this occurs the mainstream and alternative worlds grow ever closer in their philosophic ideals. Political extremism is becoming the norm. 

topics include: website rebuild, CSS, race politics, ordinary people fighting each other, media techniques, polarized politics, right and left wing extremism, reactionary public, hatred, stirring up emotions, birthers, Donald Trump the first birther, drift toward fringe, blurring line between mainstream and alternative, controversy, racism, anger, frustration, libertarian philosophy, free markets, American Dream, Neocons, war, American Empire, Defense budgets, white genocide, Nazi sympathy, media encouraging racism against white people, racist social media posts, rational people leaving alternative ideas behind, economic system, slaves to the bottom line, no regard for true value, quantity over quality, Shark  Tank, waste of time, depression

Aaron talks about two similar topics: Donald Trump, and cat crap. 

AgeOfTranstiions.com has been hacked.

topics include: hacked websites, detachment, humility, Stone Cold Steve Austin

Dave McGowan passed away on Nov 22, 2015. This podcast is a small tribute to his life and work.

This is the last episode in the Alchemical Golden State of California podcast series. Take a trip out the I-15 to Zzyzx Road and relive the history of Curtis Springer's Zzyzx Mineral Springs. The Boulevard of Dreams is aptly named as the Golden California Dream itself has always been a desert mirage. 

topics include: Disneyland, alchemy, gold, ideals, reality, Irvine, toll roads, traffic, suburbs, sprawl, car chases, catharsis, Zzyzx Road, Curtis Springer, mineral springs, I 15, desert, Death Valley, Borax, Amargosa Opera House

The Alchemical Golden State of California series continues on Trans Resister Radio. Orange County takes center stage as Aaron talks about this bizarre land of fruits and nuts. From MMA fighters in HB to the gold-digging televangelist ministry of Robert Schuller, not even Walt Disney himself could have imagined this sort of New Gold Dream.

topics include: sprawl, large population in small area, Orange County, Republicans, far-right politics, materialism, Huntington Beach, white supremacy, appearance of wealth, plastic surgery, mania, children of privilege, MMA ultimate fighting, PCH, cycle bots, fashion, Crystal Cathedral, Robert Schuller, worst of religion, Disneyland, Abraham Lincoln, alchemy, Tomorrowland, virtue and vice, waking dreams, psychedelic, arrested development, Club 33, something out of nothing

Aaron continues talking about some of the things that make California unique. In this episode he gets into some of his personal experiences and observations from living in Long Beach and Orange County. 

topics include: Freemasonry, alchemy, LA, Hollywood, film, Griffith Park Observatory, James Dean, Ahmanson, Philosophical Research Society, Manly P Hall, William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Castle, Esalen Institute, SLO, Monterey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, MIC, LAX, Long Beach, downtown revitalization projects, TED, Rose Park, Rosicrucians, tortoise cult, oil, Port of Long Beach, Queen Mary, Spruce Goose, San Pedro, Sunken City, Asian American population, Hispanic community, Spanish, racial tension, churches, Orange County

Aaron shares a little of his personal history as he contemplates his own future, and talks about his experiences in the world of alternative research and media production. Sometimes it is worthwhile to take a long and winding path in order to go back to where you started.

topics include: art school, animation, 9/11, truth movement, conspiracy, pattern recognition, religion

Aaron does a quick podcast about autonomous robotic systems. Many jobs that are now performed by humans will be done by machines in the near future. So the question is what should we be doing about this now?

topics include: Ai, robotics, autonomous systems, self-driving cars, FIRST competition, DARPA Grand Challenge, academia, military, transportation, Silicon Valley

Aaron gives some added points on past podcasts. The World Stage concept continues to be important in its relation to what is said here.

topics include: Carlisle PA, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Jim Thorpe, Great Sioux War, Benjamin Franklin, David Lynch, Andy Kaufman, performance art, trickster spirit, nothing is real, transcendental meditation, cosmic consciousness, truth, relief, relaxation, religion, cults, Michael Richards, Laurel Canyon, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Bruce Dern, films, Hollywood, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive.

Hang in there as Aaron preaches about exercise, because later he deals with the incredibly pressing issue of the 2015 Grammy Awards. People do tend to get worked up about such events, but what kind of performances nearly always go unnoticed?

topics include: cycling, exercise, weight training, making time, health, Grammy Awards, Kanye West, Beck, performers, stage, world stage, reality and fiction, subtlety, Andy Kaufman, theater of war, presidents, actors, speech writers, propaganda, perception

Aaron suggests listening to one of the many interviews he's given lately. Internet radio shows and podcasts including Legalise Freedom, The Bridge with Kira, ClandesTime, The Ripple Effect, and Reality Bytes are the most recent. These shows are all either posted online now, or will be very soon. Check out the "Press" tab at ageoftransitions.com to listen to them.

What begins as a reading from Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope ends up as a critique of the alternative media at large. Society itself is in a state of tragic confusion, of anomie, but what about the alternative sphere? Should we not be offering some sort of solution to that great problem, instead of piling more refuse onto an already massive landfill of nonsense?

topics include: Carroll Quigley, Roundtable Group, Milner Group, Cecil Rhodes, Lord Milner, Ango-American Establishment, British colonization, anomie, confusion, loss of morality, addiction, sociology, alternative media, right wing, reactionary movements, masses, angry mob, occult, religion, Christianity, Bible, simplistic views, contradictions, Mystery Tradition, secret societies, occult knowledge

Aaron keeps things casual as he talks about various topics. The show ends up with an exploration of the idea of Enlightenment. A difficult thing to nail down, Enlightenment is certainly a real phenomenon. Where it actually takes an individual is never certain until that person takes action on their own.

topics include: American Civil War, hidden history, Sam Houston, divide and conquer, confusion, Enlightenment, epiphany, different interpretations, good and evil, fear of death, devaluing life

A dark cloud now hangs over the alternative media. Race politics, Nazi sympathy, and "white genocide" have become the jumping off points for a rising faction within the alt media sphere. Now is the time to point out this obvious fact.
topics include: hate within the alternative media, race politics, white supremacy, Nazi sympathy, depression, self destruction, standing on your own, no affiliations, hypothetical futures, destroying the Truth Movement, documentary filmmaking, Alex Jones, clip videos, transhumanism, future of resistance movements, reactionary groups, violence, not falling into traps, defending your mind.

The MIC has an abundance of trade magazines. Reading through them one quickly finds the same big issues regaled by the major media outlets. Terror is everywhere, and somebody's gotta do something about it. 
topics include: Military Industrial Complex, magazines, Unmanned Systems, National Defense, UAV, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, robotics, appealing to public, recruiting youth, competitions, DARPA, DoD, non profit organizations, autonomous robots, bioterrorism, cybersecurity, DHS, smart phones, soldiers, defense budget cuts, NSA, Google, Vinton Cerf, enlisted men and women, propaganda, hypocrisy, memes, sustainability, saving the world, justification, psychology

New innovations come with unforeseen consequences. These problems are one thing, but what makes matters worse is the complete and utter denial that such problems even exist. It is in this way that we are all left on the dark side of a horrible multiplication.

topics include: Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Unabomber, news, media, politics, advertizing, vested special interest groups, drugs, vaccines, lack of debate, public relations.

Trans Resister Radio has switched over to a new RSS feed. Aaron gives you the details on the new feed, how to subscribe, and more details on the podcast. He even spends some time rambling about a few odd ideas.

topics include: new RSS feed, new iTunes subscription, quality over quantity, workaday world, clearing your head, website, Themes and Memes, new podcast, intangibles, digital media, internet, creating media, youngsters, philosophy

The Under the Sun series continues on Trans Resister Radio. This installment is an exploration of the occult significance of Saturn. Saturn figures prominently in creation myths as he is the Father God. Other important aspects of Saturn have to do with time, death, the harvest, and the Mineral Kingdom.

Topics discussed in this episode include: Saturn, Cosmic Mind, Ain Soph, creation myths, light and dark, black, father god, golden age, Uranus, heaven and earth, form, matter, Caaba stone, stone, rock, Mineral Kingdom, Great Work, foundation, bone, rough ashlar, alchemy, putrefaction, death, Grim Reaper, scythe, harvest, seed, time, bell, square, cube, androgyny, Urania, goddess, male and female creative principles, Crone, the Destroyer, nature, law, spirit, light, motion, vibration, life, atoms, sound, skeleton, evolution, Osiris, mneumonic memory, science, transhumanism

The Under the Sun series returns to Trans Resister Radio. This is the first of five new episodes which will delve into various aspects of the Ancient Mystery Tradition. On this show Aaron recounts a personal story concerning the occult concept of the Absolute. Is it possible to imagine a total lack of any thing, to somehow encounter no thing?

Topics discussed in this episode include: occult studies, mind, madness, transcendence, mortality, death, nothing, philosophy, the Absolute, the Void, Ain Soph, unmanifested light, Kabbalah, creation, mystery,  esoteric, creation myths, secret societies, observer, looking at things from different angles