This talk is great and Terence is in a particularly good mood. Enjoy.
I also wanna point you to this resource of eye-opening videos mainly based on Alan Watts and Terence Mckenna’s ideas, lectures and books:
Omega Point
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
Der Körper den ich habe, Der Leib der ich bin
Dürckheim’s legacy is psychotherapy in the spirit of Zen. His books are classics of transpersonal psychology.
Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known
At the age of thirteen he was discover by the Theosophical Society and proclaimed to be the new World Teacher to guide the evolution of humankind.
R. Gordon Wasson
Seeking the Magic Mushroom
Robert Gordon Wasson was an international banker, amateur mycologist, and author. It was him who reintroduced the ‘divine mushrooms’ to the West.
Terence McKenna
Dream Awake
I never resonated with someones’s ideas so instantly on such a deep level. Terence truly opened up a worm hole into many new things for me. Such as this blog if you look at it from a broader point of view.
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Vaka Valo
Dream Diaries
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Las Pozas
de Edward James
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak
Storytelling from borderlands of worlds
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
Moebius
The World of Edena
A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.
Problema
Who are we in the 21st Century?
A cinematic interpretation of this world’s largest round table gathering, Problema is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas.
The Net
The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet
Critical thinking in regard to technology isn’t overworked these days and it can’t hurt to reconsider our current course and if it is leading us towards a prosperous future.
Heinz Edelmann
My psychedelic childhood
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.
Kilian Eng
Looking ahead and deep inside
Kilian Eng is one of the most popular futuristic illustrators of today. Also one of the most productive one’s.
Sasha Shulgin’s
Notebooks and lab records
Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Lebensreform
Monte Verità
I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.
John C. Lilly
Of Mountains and Molehills
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
Sayat Nova
The Color of Pomegranates
The film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the filmmaker had tried to recreate the poet’s inner world.
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
DeepDream
Algorithmic pareidolia
And the hallucinatory code of perception
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
