A talk on the impact of science and technology on man's role in the natural world.

Lecture 5 of the "Esoteric Anthropology" series. Recorded in 1958 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

In June, 2009, a 21-day retreat was offered at Plum Village on the theme “ The Path of the Buddha ” and this recording is the first talk of the retreat (June 2, 2009). This was also in the first year of Obama being president of the United States. Thay teaches about the sangha as it relates to the president.

Ted Koppel hosts an 80-minute panel discussion airing immediately after the ABC TV-movie The Day After — Sagan's first major TV deployment of the 'nuclear winter' framing, alongside Kissinger, McNamara, Buckley, Wiesel, and Scowcroft.

Trialogue #2 - The Evolutionary Mind and Language, Trialogue #3 - The Evolutionary Mind and the Machine (aka "Consciousness & Machines"), Trialogue #4 - The Evolutionary Mind at the Edge of the Millennium (aka "History, Fractals And Change")