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.

Tilton Gallery, New York City

Lecture 4 of the "First Principles of Philosophy" series. Recorded in 1963 at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

"The only path in to the supernormal that I've found are the psychedelics. Everywhere else I found chicanery and fraud." "It's fun to be a free person. It's fun to not depend upon an institution, an ideology, an other person, a place,..."

"You don't conquer time by building vast instrumentalities and seeking a primary particle and all that. The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time." "I live in a kind of…