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".

This is a video of footage of a Lecture/Performance by Leary from the 1980's. Leary discusses conspiracies, prisons, the space shuttle, and death.

Leary Audio #7 Space Migration Lecture Star Trek Convention, Oakland, CA - August 1976 TRT: 47:27

Timothy Leary's 1976 lecture at the Oakland Star Trek Convention on space migration psychology, comparing cargo-cult thinking to do-it-yourself space habitats, with reference to Gerard O'Neill's predictions of 10,000 people in geosynchronous orbit by 1986.

"The UFO community is just fraught with the most crack-brained, peculiar, self-serving, unstable, mush-minded group of people you would ever hope to get together in one place. I mean it's like a magnet for screwballs." [Terence then went on, at great length, to…