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.

Deutsches Haus, University of New York

In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J.

Originally aired as Salon #702 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Your operating system determines what world you are living in." — Terence McKenna on consciousness as code and the hackable nature of reality.

Originally aired as Salon #560 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose 1960s work was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking about media. Recorded August 1993 at the Esalen Institute.