Terence McKenna spoke and wrote about psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
McKenna said that one of his early psychedelic experiences with morning glory seeds showed him “that there was something there worth pursuing”, and in interviews he claimed to have smoked cannabis daily since his teens.
After the partial completion of his studies, and his mother’s death from cancer in 1971, McKenna, his brother Dennis, and 3 friends traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of a plant preparation containing dimethyltryptamine (DMT). They found various forms of ayahuasca, or yagé, and fields full of gigantic Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, which became the focus of the expedition.
Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. During McKenna’s studies, he developed a technique for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms with Dennis and in 1976, the brothers published what they had learned in a book entitled Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide. In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs.
McKenna soon became a fixture of popular counterculture with Timothy Leary once introducing him as “one of the five or six most important people on the planet.” McKenna spoke on a wide array of subjects including; shamanism; metaphysics; alchemy; language; culture; self-empowerment; techno-paganism; artificial intelligence; evolution; extraterrestrials; science and scientism; the web; virtual reality and aesthetic theory or art/visual experience as information.
In mid-1999, after a long lecturing tour, McKenna returned to his home on the Big Island of Hawaii. A longtime sufferer of migraines, McKenna had begun to have increasingly painful headaches. His condition culminated in three brain seizures in one night, which he claimed were the most powerful psychedelic experiences he had ever known. McKenna was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. McKenna died on April 3, 2000, at the age of 53.
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What a wonderful discussion. Especially the parts about certain characteristics and distinctions between these plant medicines. Insightful.
Omg I've recently takin mushrooms(golden caps) and I experienced exactly what's he's talking about, the conversation with the mushroom. It was like I was speaking to a higher consciousness, imo I believe that we are actually speaking to or own subconscious the results of our left and right brain being connected together. I believe that our subconscious already knows all the these answers to these questions, but I also believe that it connects us to the universal consciousness of everything.
I wonder if Terrence mckenna ever freebased cocaine
I write "travel books."' Ah, Terence I miss you.
Could joe rogan possibly ever fill the shoes of this man?
is Terence dead?
yesterday I took 1.4 g. (half an eight). with vit c and apple cider vinegar. Metaphorically speaking, it was like standing outside in winter naked, shivering in-front of God. Good but not pleasant. The "mushroom talking" is just you facing naked truth and speaking from that space. At one point one thought came to me. Why is the truth necessarily moral in nature? The following answer came, because my life matters to me. Even a small dose like that was deeply humbling and shook the very foundation of my existence. It's a great teacher and they shouldn't be sold to people they should be given to people with a blessing. I made a mistake of watching porn later on that night and it threw me back into a negative state of anxiety. Business as usual.