Religion

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".

A long-form Terence McKenna talk on matter, magic and the alchemical imagination, running just over four hours.

Trialogue between Terence McKenna, biologist Rupert Sheldrake and mathematician Ralph Abraham on chaos and the world soul. A Hither Hills production, also issued by Sound Photosynthesis as catalog #V377-95.