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Terence McKenna

I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there..

About Me

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) studied the ontological foundations of Shamanism and the Ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for the past quarter century. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, Terence emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival. Poetically dispensing enlightened social criticism and new theories of the fractal dynamics of time, Terence deobfuscates many aspects of the visionary lexicon, and then some. As Artist Alex Grey suggests, "In the twilight of human history, McKenna's prescription for salvation is just so crazy it might work."

My Interests

Psychedelics, Fantastic Art, Time and its theories, I-Ching, DMT, Astronomy and Science, History, Fractal Theory, Ethnobotany, Novelty and Complexity, the Eschaton, Pharmacology, Consciousness, Hallucinogens, Ayahuasca, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Self Transforming Machine Elves of Hyperspace, Trance, History of Religious Movements and Currents, Language, Linguistics and Syntax, Love, Death, Shamanism, Visual Language, James Joyce, Alchemy, Quantum Mechanics, The Archaic Revival, The End of History, Computers and Technology, True Hallucinations

I'd like to meet:

The Hyperdimensional Attractor at the End of Time aka the Eschaton

Music:

the Grateful Dead, Coil, the Orb, House, Techno

Movies:

Quasi at the Quackadero, Fellini

Television:

http://www.levitycom/eschaton/hyperborea.html

Books:

Etidorhpa, Or The End of the Earth-John Uri Lloyd, Lucius Shepherd, Moby Dick, I-Ching, Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, Thomas Pynchon, The Art of Seeing-Aldous Huxley, R. Gordon Wasson, Greg Egan, Phil Dick, Steve Erickson, Codex Serafinianus, Voynich Manuscript, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy-Mircea Eliade, Illusions and Delusions of the Supernatural and the Occult-D.H. Rawcliffe, Robot-Hans Moravec, Darwin Among the Machines-Freeman Dyson, Vladimir Nabokov, The Self-Organizing Universe-Eric Jantsch, From Being to Becoming-Ilya Prigogine, The Time Machine-H.G. Wells, Process and Reality-Alfred North Whitehead, Plotinus, The Hieroglyphic Monad-John Dee, Child of Fortune-Norman Spinrad

My Blog

Albert Hofmann has passed on

Albert Hofmann, creator of LSD, has died at age 102.http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/29/hofmann.obit.ap/index.h tml
Posted by Terence McKenna on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:32:00 PST

Some things worth checking out...

Some things worth checking out...Amazing twisted and tripped out glass artistColton DesignsDMT: The Spirit Molecule MovieTrippy art from the realms of the spirit molecule...ElphendenElphenden MyspaceW...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:32:00 PST

Terence McKenna Vids

Well, thats it. I've put up all the video of Terence I have. There are quite a few hours of him doing his thing though. Have a look at Terence's videos when you have the time...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

Interview, ICA, London, 11/10/96

Gyrus: Firstly, have you seen Independence Day, and what did you make of it?I didn't see it, because I saw enough of it in shorts to realize it's The Day The Earth Stood Still with worse actors and mo...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:33:00 PST

Terence McKenna Speaks... 1999, Allchemical Arts Conference

Terence McKenna Speaks...Interview by Jon Hanna and Sylvia Thyssenat the 1999 AllChemical Arts Conference,Kona Coast, HawaiiTerence was a primary reason for our being in Hawaii. The AllChemical Arts c...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:31:00 PST

Terence McKenna Interview by OMNI Magazine, May 1993

"My life is like a James Joyce scratch pad," declares Terence McKenna. "I have a lot of fun, a kind of reverse paranoia. I think reality is a plot for my own amusement and advancement -- which it seem...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:29:00 PST

Terence McKenna: Mushrooms Sex and Society

Terence McKenna: Mushrooms Sex and Societyinterview by Philip H. FarberNote: This interview originally appeared in New History magazine in June of 1993. We think it remains quite thought-provoking and...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:28:00 PST

Obituary by brother Dennis

I'm a few days late with this, as my computer was in the shop. The 7th anniversary of Terence's death from cancer was April 3rd. Here's the obituary his brother Dennis had published. TERENCE KEMP Mc...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

Surfing the Fractal Wave at the End of History

Live at the Lighthouse, NYC April 23, 1997It's a pleasure to be in Manhattan. This is my spring money run to the mainland. I've been in Boston (where I noticed that their liberalism is actually rooted...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:50:00 PST

Surfing the Fractal Wave at the End of History pt 2

Q & ALive at the Lighthouse, NYC April 23, 1997This is one of those social situations where lack of brevity is proof of psychosis, and you WILL be judged!Q1 It's one question, but it's in two parts. T...
Posted by Terence McKenna on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:52:00 PST