The Al Manning Tapes is Truly Buried Treasure Revealed.

The discovery of The Al Manning Tapes (and a CD) is better than my wildest dreams coming true. That’s because I was hoping to find Al’s old cassette products listed in the old ESP Lab catalog covering topics like improving eyesight, losing weight, healing relationships, etc.  A bunch of those were tracked down along with audio cassettes – dozens of them – with cryptic labels such as RS 1-14, CC 1-X, etc.

Popping RS 1 into a tape player that can digitize such recordings on the fly, it seems that RS stands for radio show.  Hearing the voice of Al G Manning introduce the audience to “Adventures in Awareness” gave me some chills.  The Al Manning Tapes sent me over the moon inside of two minutes.

Here’s a sneak preview of what you can look forward to:

I hadn’t heard that voice in decades which is the time I flew into DFW and drove an hour or so to hang out with Astral Al at his home.  The hours passed quickly and pleasantly and seemed like just minutes in total. And here I am, unlikely heir and guardian of his legacy, listening to the voice of one of my magical mentors ask the audience to have a pencil and paper handy to write down that legendary address in Santa Monica to request more information.  The Al Manning Tapes preceded the Internet by some ten years by my estimates so there was no website to plug, no Twitter (X), Facebook, etc. Just old school marketing that was the peak of promotion back in its day and still pretty powerful today.

The Al Manning tapes also consist of five videotapes – three 8mm from a camcorder and two VHS tapes, one of them unlabeled.   I’m sending them off to Legacybox for expert treatment digitizing these videos for posterity.

In the months ahead ESP Lab members will be in for a historical treat, truly a walk down magical memory lane.