Wide-ranging Esalen talk in which McKenna moves from UFO belief systems and high-dose psilocybin to the emergence of artificial intelligence, borrowing Gibson's Wintermute to imagine a newly conscious machine asking what it is, and arguing that humans may be pushed toward what machines cannot do: art, imagination and the unexpected. Released from Esalen's own archive; the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography lists this as "Aliens, A.T. & Art", but Esalen's title is "Aliens, AI, and Art".

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David Graeber, Laura Bear and Nayanika Mathur were recently in conversation at the London School of Economics on the anthropology of bureaucracy. They reflected on the connections between their recent publications that propose a new anthropology of bureaucracy.

In this short clip with Dr. Gabor Maté he reveals the #1 cause of addiction, how to prevent addiction, the impact of trauma and more. Check out the full interview I did with Dr. Gabor Maté: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RCTiDsag_Y ⚠ WELLNESS DISCLAIMER ⚠ Please be advised; the top

Gabor Maté is a medical doctor recently retired from active practice. He was a family physician for two decades and for seven years he served as Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. For twelve years he worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged