In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory.

Lecture and Q&A by Robert Anton Wilson at Sonoma State University, November 12, 1989. Topics range across the Bush–Quayle administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rajneeshpuram, the apotheosis of power, the history of intoxication, the Pooka, the John Hull / Contra-cocaine affair, and a long extended Q&A.

Originally aired as Salon #485 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna speculates that the human break with nature came about due to a change in the climate, and explores the implications of this rupture for the modern condition.

It was Thanksgiving Day in Plum Village on November 25, 2004. The sangha gathered in Lower Hamlet, Plum Village during the Fall Retreat and Thay gave a 45-minute dharma talk on the topic of love and happiness. https://youtu.be/QtPqonJJP_o The telephone line should be called the “compassionate line.” We hope this line can be established everywhere so that young people in their suffering, despair, and strong emotions can have someone to talk with.

"And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind"