Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, recognized as a primary inspiration for engaged Buddhism.
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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.
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".
Complete twelve-tape participant recording of Terence McKenna's multi-day Esalen workshop on the I Ching, the Tao and the Timewave -- roughly fifteen hours of unedited sessions. Circulated as a participant tape set; the source upload dates it to November 1988 while the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography lists a 1991 Esalen workshop under the title "The Time Wave, the Tao, and Novelty".
Beyond the Neoliberal University: How Do We Free Education? A talk and rally in the run up to the National Demonstration for Free Education, to discuss the impact of neoliberalism on education and how we can transcend the current education system, abolishing financial and social barriers and creati
A prince, a rockstar, and LSE director Minouche Shafik walk into a bar. It happened last week, at Davos. Well, we’re not sure about the bar part. Still, we wonder: what happens at Davos? Is it truly the annual meeting of neoliberals patting each other on the backs, or do we owe some of our importa
