The Definitive UFO Tape (1982)

Terence McKenna: The Definitive UFO Tape, December 1982

"The extraterrestrial is the human over soul in its general and particulate expression on the planet. . . . The over soul is some kind of field that is generated by human beings, but that is not under the control of any institution, any government, and religion. It is actually the most intelligent thing on the planet, and it regulates human culture through the release of ideas out of eternity and into the continuum of history."

"What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us."

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Terence McKenna: Hermeticism & Alchemy (1991)

Art: Remedios Varo 'Creation of the Birds' (1957)

Terence Mckenna workshop given in New York 1991

Exploring The Hermetic Tradition: (1hr 31min)

These 2 parts are the pre-talk anicdotes before the workshop, Alchemy & The Hermetic Tradition.

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Image: 14th Century Plague Doctors Mask

Alchemy & The Hermetic Tradition: (4hr 38min)

"History itself is a kind of alchemical process. ... History is the catalyst of nature."

"If we could raise to consciousness our alchemical heritage, and our heritage in the shamanism of the archaic, then we could actually see that the purpose of technology is to liberate, not to enslave, and somehow we've lost the thread."

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The Alchemical Dream: Rebirth Of The Great Work

In the mid-1990's Terence McKenna and Mystic Fire's Sheldon Rocklin teamed up to make this rich and exciting film. Little did they know that this would be their last film. Originally titled Coincidencia Oppositorum: The Unity of Opposites and filmed in Prague with Terence portraying his usual erudite rendition of the Irish Bard, this filmed classic takes us on a journey into the alchemical renaissance of King Frederick V and his wife Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. Playing the role of John Dee, court magician for Queen Elizabeth of England, Terence McKenna shows us how the promise of a return to the tradition of alchemy was almost instituted in Europe. He also shows us that this early attempt at the creation of an alchemical kingdom actually lead to the European Renaissance and the institution of Cartesian science and the beginnings of rationalism within the western mindset.

Arnoldo Di Villanova - Rosarium Philosophorum (1550)

Illustrations - Jaroš Griemiller (1578)

The Rosary of the Philosophers (Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei) is a 16th century alchemical treatise. It was published in 1550 as part II of De Alchimia Opuscula complura veterum philosophorum (Frankfurt)

Illustrations from De Alchimia Opuscula Complura Veterum Philosophorum

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Fulcanelli - The Mystery Of The Cathedrals

In 1926 the fabled alchemist Fulcanelli left his remarkable manuscript concerning the Hermetic Study of Gothic Cathedral Construction with a student. He than disappeared. The book decodes the symbology found upon and within the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe which have openly displayed the secrets of alchemy for 700 years.

Fulcanelli introduces us to the art of reading the secrets of the gothic cathedrals. That the cathedrals themselves were repositories for Hermetic Science, specifically that of alchemy.

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Thich Nhat Hanh: The Nature Of Things (2005)

Stonehill College Retreat, August 2005.

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Thich Nhat Hanh: Dharma Talks (2008)

Five zen talks given between 16 March - 7 September 2008

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Light Of The Of 3rd Millenium (1996)

Terence McKenna: Light Of The 3rd Millenium (Austin, Texas) 1996


Terence McKenna: Light Of The 3rd Millenium (Chicago) 1996


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Anthony Burgess: Interview (1985)

Anthony Burgess interviewed by Don Swaim 19th September 1985

Snakes & Ladders (1999)

Performed on the 10th of April 1999 at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square at a meeting of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn by Alan Moore, with music by Tim Perkins. It explored the local area and its magical associations, and dealt particularly with the disinterment of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Siddell, and Arthur Machen's visionary experiences.

The Birth Caul (1995)

In 1995 Alan Moore had recently "come out" as a practicing magician. He did a spoken word performance called The Birth Caul (A Shamanism of Childhood) with music by David J and Tim Perkins, which was soon released on CD. It was staged at the Old County Court in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 18 November 1995.

The birth caul is a thin piece of placenta sometimes present at birth covering the face like a veil. It is kept traditionally as a good luck charm. When Moore's mother dies he finds her birth caul amongst her effects. The Caul represents a map of humanity which Moore proceeds to read from. The text is essentially an examination of the connections between our language, our identity and our perceptions of the world. The narration regresses from early adulthood, adolescence, childhood, infancy and prenatal existence in a quest for a primitive consciousness existing before language. Ultimately the quest aborts as there are no words to describe that consciousness.

The Politics Of Ecology (1962)

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Aldous Huxley on the Politics of Ecology, lecture given 30th November 1962.

“It might be sensible to think less about the problem of landing a couple of astronauts on the moon and rather more about the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who in less than forty years will be six billion, to lead a tolerably human existence without in the process ruining and befouling their planetary environment.”

“Prisoners of their culture, the masses, even in those countries where they are free to vote, are prevented by the basic postulates in terms in which they do their thinking and their feeling, from summarily decreeing an end to the collective paranoia that governs international relations.”

“Some day, let us hope, rulers and ruled will break out of the cultural prisons in which they are now confined.”

“To possess power is ipso facto to be tempted to abuse it."

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The Final Message (1983)

The following is a final message to his fellow crew members on board of Spaceship Earth.

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BBC Great Lives - Audio Biography (2010)

Matthew Parris hosts, joined by futurist and business strategist, Hardin Tibbs, as they debate the charge that if Buckminster Fuller - who had a molecule named after him, for its resemblance to his geodesic domes - really was the Twentieth Century's answer to Leonardo da Vinci, then why is he so little known about today? A man, John Lloyd argues, who preached environmentalism before the term was coined, so in advance of his times, but yet whose time has come today.

Tue 27 April 2010 - BBC Radio 4

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Audio Arts: Volume 2 No.1 (1974)

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Buckminster Fuller at Art Net (November, 1974)

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Joseph Beuys at the Institute of Contemporary Art (November, 1974)

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Portland Community College (1973)

Buckminster Fuller gave a long speech at the dedication of a new building at Portland Community College on January 8th 1973. It was recorded on Scotch 203 quarter inch reel tape. The three MP3 files contain most of the speech as digitized from the tape, there are minute-long gaps where the tape was changed and restarted.

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Prometheus Rising (1989)

Robert Anton Wilson somewhere in 1989 demonstrating self-observation exercises from his book

Prometheus Rising.

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Quantum Psychology (1991)

Robert Anton Wilson: Quantum Psychology - San Jose, Whole Life Expo 9-14-91

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Calvi, The Pope, & The Brotherhood (1987)

Bob's track from the Project One LP, more info at discogs

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Iraqi Prisoner Abuse (2004)

Robert Anton Wilson speaks with Nick Cooper from Houston Indymedia about Iraqi prisoner abuse and the societal context for torture.

This interview was originally aired on 5/10/04 on the Houston Indymedia show on KPFT, Pacifica radio Houston

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Infinity Factory (1997)

Dated November 7th 1997, the interview is conducted by Richard Metzger and special guest

 Genesis P-Orridge.

SubGenius Hour Of Slack (1987)

The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry seeks to brainwash you totally into abject lifelong subservience to The High Epopt and Living SlackMaster, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs,

 BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

1987 - Stang opened for Robert Anton Wilson when he spoke in Dallas, and afterwards brought RAW into the KNON studios for an interview. KNON canceled Hour of Slack later, and it was never again played in Dallas. Luckily it was already syndicated in a dozen other cities.

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Everything Is Under Control (1998)

Robert Anton Wilson discusses his book "Everything Is Under Control," in which he covers the strangest and the most plausible conspiracy theories.

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Robert Anton Wilson: An Incorrigible Optimist (2006)

R.A.W.