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.

I sat down with David Graeber to discuss his new book and radical politics.

"You discover that truth is philosophical coinage for the naïve. The 'banks' of philosophy do not trade federal truth certificates." "All knowing is incredibly provisional, and this is something which is hidden within the context of the culture, because cultures don't run…