Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake 02:31 Terence McKenna: “[The apocalypse] seems to be the unique, unifying thread throughout the Western religions Most insistently of all religious systems on Earth, it is the Western systems that have insisted on appointing an end to their world.” 05:07 […]

"In hyperspace nothing is hidden." "Culture is a narrowing." "We're about to have the chance to create a global culture, to essentially clean our basement and decide what we're going to save and what we're going to keep." "It's the monotheistic religions…

Sagan's first-draft dictation of Chapter 3 of his novel Contact, narrating the Ellie Arroway / SETI Project Argus material in his own voice.

Speech at the 50th rededication of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, on the escalation of weaponry from Gettysburg to nuclear arsenals and the case for reconciliation.

Sagan's commencement speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on planetary science, scientific literacy, ozone depletion, and nuclear proliferation.