This is a video titled Metamorphosis, produced in 1995 by Mystic Fire Video. It is a discussion between Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralf Abraham on chaos and the world soul.

Terence McKenna Today's program features a 1985 conversation between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham that took place at the Esalen Institute near Big Sur, California. Their conversation centers on the science of chaotic attractors and models of their actions. While mathematicians will more fully […]

Terence McKenna 04:11 Ralph begins with “Fractals on my mind, an epic in four parts.” . . . Part one, the sandy beach. 13:54 Ralph Abraham: “It’s the fractal boundary, the sandy beach, which destroys determinism.” 16:58 Ralph Abraham: “At the age of one, […]

Rupert Sheldrake 02:14 Ralph Abraham: Takes issue with McKenna’s and Sheldrake’s interpretation of chaotic attractors. . . . To a mathematician, the word ‘attractor’ does not necessarily imply attraction. 07:23 Rupert Sheldrake: “But Newtonian physics and the triumph of the mechanistic […