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Politics And Ethos (Two Parts)
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.
Aliens, AI, And Art
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".
Lecture for the Whole Life Expo in Los Angeles
A video of a lecture that Timothy Leary gave at the Whole Life Expo in Los Angeles in November 1989. Leary discusses the psychedelic to the cybernetic.
Lecture in New York City
In this video of footage of a lecture in New York City for a conference called Sense8 in 1990, Leary discusses emerging technologies and the Cyber World along with audience Q & A with Leary and Robert Anton Wilson.
Video shorts by Retinalogic
A collection of video shorts by Retinalogic with Timothy Leary, Henry Rollins and Aileen Getty from the 1990's.