Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.

As Trump gives the green light for a Turkish invasion of Rojava, we ask David Graeber what hope there is left for Syrian Kurds. Plus, the latest on Extinction Rebellion's Autumn Uprising with Aaron Bastani. https://novaramedia.com/2019/10/08/rojava-trump-betrays-the-kurds/

From the "Esoteric, Metaphysical" collection. Recorded at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.