Episode 12 // UFOs

This week's episode explores modern expressions of religion and their intersections with the bizarre and intriguing universe of UFOs, aliens, and extraterrestrials. This week we alternate between a UFO-themed playlist featuring artists like Sun Ra and Craig Leon, and an interview with Diane Brisebois, a leader and spiritual guide in the Raelian Church -- the largest UFO religion in the world.

The image below is a cave painting from the Dogon tribe in Mali who, at points in time, worshiped extraterrestrial deities known as the Nommo, [1]. Craig Leon, first encountered sculptures of the Nommo in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition in 1973, which eventually lead him to release an album under John Fahey's Takoma record label -- a release re-imagining what music would sound like if handed down from an ancient alien species. RVNG International is reissuing his work in a compilation album this June called, 'Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting'. [2]

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0:02:06 - station id: Jack Layton
0:02:16 - promo: cfrc twitter
0:02:29 - Supergrass - 'Jesus Came From Outta Space'
0:06:37 - talking: introduction
0:07:31 - Quiet Evenings - 'Split with Sundrips'
'":"":""' - interview with Diane Brisebois: introduction, the 'elohim'
0:18:57 - Michael Hurley - 'No, No, No, I Won't Go Down No More'
0:23:06 - psa: vegetarianism
0:23:25 - ad: Tone Deaf - Allison Cameron and Kyoko Ogoda
0:24:34 - Craig Leon - 'Nommo'
0:31:30 - Pulse Emitter - 'Meditative Music 3'
'":"":""' - interview with Diane Brisebois: gender/sexual justice, Clitoraid hospital
0:35:55 - Matt Rogalsky - 'Eliane 1'
0:37:35 - Grouper - 'Alien Observer'
0:41:32 - Sufjan Stevens - 'Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois'
0:44:01 - Pangea - 'Comet'
'":"":""' - interview with Diane Brisebois: sensual meditation, GMOs, act of apostasy, Raelian embassy
0:56:06 - No UFO's - '00/00/2010'

1:00:45 - psa: Noam Chomsky on community radio
1:01:31 - station id: Amy Goodman
1:01:47 - ad: The Sleepless Goat's soup program
1:02:17 - pro: cfrc programming volunteer application
1:02:53 - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - 'God Bless AMT'
1:05:29 - Ornette Coleman - 'Space Church (Continuous Service)'
1:14:04 - Biosphere - 'Laika'
'":"":""' - interview with Diane Brisebois: controversy, connect with Raelian community
1:22:05 - The Orb - 'A Huge Eveer Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld
1:23:37 - talking: outro
1:24:41 - Sun Ra & His Arkestra - 'Love in Outer Space'

"If we then turn our attention to mind and realize that we have no definition of what mind is, why then is there any mystery in the fact that we have no definition of what the UFO is? The mind is present at hand in every conscious moment. It has been our constant companion for fifty thousand years, and we haven’t a clue as to what it is. So therefore, a manifestation of the other — the superego, or the extraterrestrial other like the UFO — it is not surprising that it is a mystery. I always hark back to the words of J.B.S. Haldane, the great British enzymologist, who said ‘reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose."

- Terence McKenna (Aliens & Archetypes), [3]

More Info:
[1] Nommo of the Dogon Tribe of Mali
[2] Craig Leon's 'Nommos/Visiting' Release on RVNG International
[3] Terence McKenna on 'Aliens and Archetypes' (Video Interview)