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.

Lecture 4 of the "Great Polarities" series. Recorded in 1965 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

Originally aired as Salon #440 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!" "We have thought of history as something that we do."

Rupert Sheldrake 04:32 Terence McKenna: “But the fact of the matter is, there is no reason to believe that time is invariant, and experience argues the contrary.” 12:39 Rupert Sheldrake: “Maybe, you see, that the bonds between pigeons and their home are comparable to […]

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham "The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of […]