the first of a series of conversations between terence mckenna, ralph abraham, and rupert sheldrake, recorded at esalen in september 1989. sheldrake begins by questioning whether t

a brief philosophical meditation on cosmic transformation and the impermanence of all things, recorded from terence mckenna's archive.

a lecture by alan watts arguing that the ordinary sense of self as an ego trapped inside a bag of skin is a hallucination, since every organism is inseparable from its environment.

a full length, three session alan watts seminar recording on the myths of a divine king and a mechanical universe, social institutions as convention, and accepting death as a way o

a five part alan watts radio lecture series on philosophy and society, moving from perception and idealism through the nature of self, cosmology, mysticism and morality, to psychia

argues that an intelligent species cannot come from a purely unintelligent universe, comparing human evolution to an apple tree that naturally apples.

a six part kpfa radio series in which alan watts moves from chinese cosmology and the yijing through buddhist doctrine and mysticism to joseph campbell's shamanic forest and a saus

a wfmu lecture in which alan watts questions the sense of self as an isolated ego trapped in a bag of skin, tracing it to two western myths of the universe as artifact and as mecha