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Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3,

Terence McKenna
2000) was an American ethnobotanist, philosopher,
psychonaut, researcher, teacher, lecturer, and writer on many
subjects, such as human consciousness, language, psychedelic
substances, the evolution of civilizations, the origin and end
of the universe, alchemy, and extraterrestrial beings.

1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Studying and traveling
1.3 Later life
1.4 Death
1.5 Library fire
2 Thought
2.1 "Stoned Ape" theory of human evolution Born November 16, 1946
2.2 Novelty theory Paonia, Colorado, United States
3 Bibliography
4 Spoken word Died April 3, 2000 (aged 53)
5 Discography San Rafael, California, United States
6 Notes Era 20th century philosophy
7 References
8 External links Region Western Philosophy
8.1 Audio and video resources School Metaphysics, phenomenology
Main interests shamanism, ethnobotany,
metaphysics, psychedelic drugs,
futurism, primitivism,
environmentalism, consciousness,
Early life phenomenology, evolution,
transhumanism, technological
Terence McKenna was born and raised in Paonia, singularity, historical revisionism, ,
Colorado.[1] McKenna's father was of Irish ancestry and his ontology, Mind at Large, virtual
mother was of Welsh descent.[2] He was introduced to reality, dominator culture, criticizing
geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary science, the Logos
fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home.[3] From this he Notable ideas Novelty Theory, The "Stoned Ape"
developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of Theory of Human Evolution,
nature.
Machine elves
At age 16, McKenna moved to Los Altos, California to live Influenced by
with family friends for a year. He finished high school in
Influenced
Lancaster, CA.[1] In 1963, McKenna was introduced to the
literary world of psychedelics through The Doors of

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Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley and certain issues of The Village Voice that talked about
psychedelics.[1][4]

McKenna claimed that one of his early psychedelic experiences with morning glory seeds showed him "that
there was something there worth pursuing."[1] In an audio interview Terence Mckenna claims to have started
smoking cannabis regularly during the summer following his 17th birthday.

Studying and traveling

In 1965, McKenna enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley[5] to study art history.[1] In 1967, while in
college, he discovered and began studying shamanism through the study of Tibetan folk religion.[6] That year,
which he called his "opium and kabbala phase"[7] he also traveled to Jerusalem, where he met Kathleen
Harrison, who would later become his wife.[7]

In 1969, McKenna traveled to Nepal led by his "interest in Tibetan painting and hallucinogenic shamanism."[7]
During his time there, he studied the Tibetan language and worked as a hashish smuggler, until "one of his
Bombay-to-Aspen shipments fell into the hands of U. S. Customs." He was forced to move to avoid capture by
Interpol.[7] He wandered through Southeast Asia viewing ruins, collected butterflies in Indonesia, and worked as
an English teacher in Tokyo. He then went back to Berkeley to continue studying biology, which he called "his
first love".[7]

After the partial completion of his studies, and his mother's death from cancer in 1971,[8] McKenna, his brother
Dennis, and three friends traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of oo-koo-hé, a plant preparation
containing dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Instead of oo-koo-hé they found various forms of ayahuasca, or yagé,
and gigantic Psilocybe cubensis which became the new focus of the expedition.[7] In La Chorrera, at the urging
of his brother, he was the subject of a psychedelic experiment which he claimed put him in contact with
"Logos": an informative, divine voice he believed was universal to visionary religious experience.[7] The voice's
reputed revelations and his brother's simultaneous peculiar experience prompted him to explore the structure of
an early form of the I Ching, which led to his "Novelty Theory".[7] During their stay in the Amazon, McKenna
also became romantically involved with his interpreter, Ev.[7]

In 1972, McKenna returned to Berkeley to finish his studies.[5] There he decided to switch majors to a Bachelor
of Science in ecology and conservation, in a then new experimental section of the same university called the
Tussman Experimental College.[1] During his studies, he would also develop techniques for cultivating
psilocybin mushrooms with Dennis.[7]

In 1975, he parted with his girlfriend, Ev, when she left him for one of his friends from Berkeley. Their parting
left him "tormented with migraines and living alone".[7] He graduated in 1975.[9] That same year, he began a
relationship with Kathleen Harrison, whom he had met in Jerusalem.

Soon after graduating, McKenna and Dennis published a book inspired by their Amazon experiences, The
Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens and the I Ching. He also began lecturing.[5] The brothers'
experiences in the Amazon would later play a major role in McKenna's book True Hallucinations, published in
1993.[7] In 1976, the brothers published what they had learned about the cultivation of mushrooms in a book
entitled Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide under the pseudonyms "OT Oss" and "ON Oeric".[10]

Later life

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In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, lecturing extensively
and conducting weekend workshops. Though associated with the New Age and human potential movements,
McKenna himself had little patience for New Age sensibilities. He repeatedly stressed the importance and
primacy of felt experience, as opposed to dogma.[11] Timothy Leary once introduced him as "one of the five or
six most important people on the planet."[12]

He soon became a fixture of popular counterculture. His growing It's clearly a crisis of two
popularity culminated in the early-to-mid-1990s with the publication of things: of consciousness and
several books: True Hallucinations, relating the tale of his 1971 La conditioning. These are the
Chorrera experience; Food of the Gods; and The Archaic Revival. He two things that the
became a popular personality in the psychedelic rave/dance scene of psychedelics attack. We have
the early 1990s, with frequent spoken word performances at raves and the technological power, the
contributions to psychedelic and goa trance albums by The Shamen, engineering skills to save our
Spacetime Continuum, Alien Project, Capsula, Entheogenic, Zuvuya, planet, to cure disease, to
Shpongle, and Shakti Twins. His speeches were, and are, sampled by feed the hungry, to end war;
many. In 1994 he appeared as a speaker at the Starwood Festival, But we lack the intellectual
documented in the book Tripping by Charles Hayes. His lectures were vision, the ability to change
produced on both cassette tape and CD.[14] our minds. We must
decondition ourselves from
McKenna was a colleague of chaos mathematician Ralph Abraham, 10,000 years of bad
and biologist Rupert Sheldrake, creator of the theory of behavior. And, it's not easy.
"morphogenetic fields", not to be confused with the mainstream usage
of the same term. He conducted several public debates known as —Terence McKenna, "This World...and Its
trialogues with them from the late 1980s until his death. Books Double", [13]
containing transcriptions of some of these events were published. He
was also a friend and associate of Ralph Metzner, Nicole Maxwell, and Riane Eisler, participating in joint
workshops and symposia with them. He was a personal friend of Tom Robbins, and influenced the thought of
many scientists, writers, artists, and entertainers.[citation needed] Comedian Bill Hicks' routines about psychedelic
drugs drew heavily from McKenna's works.[citation needed] He also may have been the inspiration for the Twin
Peaks character Dr. Jacoby.[15]

In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on the subjects of virtual reality, which he saw as a way to
artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics; techno-paganism; artificial intelligence; evolution;
extraterrestrials; and aesthetic theory, specifically about art/visual experience as information representing the
significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics.

In 1985,[9] McKenna co-founded Botanical Dimensions with his then-wife Kathleen, a nonprofit ethnobotanical
preserve in Hawaii, where he lived for many years before he died. In 1997 he and Kathleen divorced.[5] Before
moving to Hawaii permanently, McKenna split his time between Hawaii and Occidental, located in the
redwood-studded hills of Sonoma County, California.

Death

A longtime sufferer of migraines, in mid-1999 McKenna returned to his home on the big island of Hawaii after a
long lecturing tour. He began to suffer from increasingly painful headaches. This culminated in three brain
seizures in one night, which he claimed were the most powerful psychedelic experiences he had ever known.
Upon his emergency trip to the hospital on Oahu, Terence was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly
aggressive form of brain cancer. For the next several months he underwent various treatments, including
experimental gamma knife radiation treatment. According to Wired magazine, McKenna was worried that his

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tumour was caused by his 35-years of smoking cannabis; though his doctors assured him there was no causal
relation.[5]

In late 1999, Erik Davis conducted what would be the last interview of McKenna.[16] During the interview
McKenna also talked about the announcement of his death:

I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have
no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to
people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to
grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that
you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and
poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la
William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to
tears.[17]

McKenna died on April 3, 2000, at the age of 53, with his loved ones at his bedside. He is survived by his
brother Dennis, his son Finn, and his daughter Klea.

Library fire

On February 7, 2007, McKenna's library of rare books and personal notes was destroyed in a fire that burned
offices belonging to Big Sur's Esalen Institute, which was storing the collection. An index maintained by his
brother Dennis survives, though little else.[18]

Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind There are these things, which
via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For I call "self transforming
example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses machine elves," I also call
of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the them self-dribbling
apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of the "jeweled, basketballs. They are, but
self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" that they are none of these things.
one encounters in that state. I mean you have to
understand: these are
Although he avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation metaphors in the truest sense,
(part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of meaning that they're lies! [...]
psychedelics as being "trans-dimensional travel"; literally, enabling an I name them 'Tykes' because
individual to encounter what could be ancestors, or spirits of earth.[11] tyke is a word that means to
He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based me a small child, ... and
forms of spiritual awakening. when you burst into the DMT
space this is the Aeon - it's a
Either philosophically or religiously, he expressed admiration for child, and it's at play with
Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gnostic Christianity, colored balls, and I am in
Alfred North Whitehead, and Alchemy. McKenna always regarded the eternity, apparently, in the
Greek philosopher Heraclitus as his favorite philosopher.[12] presence of this thing.

He also expressed admiration for the works of James Joyce (calling

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Finnegans Wake "the quintessential work of art, or at least work of

literature of the 20th century")[20] and Vladimir Nabokov: McKenna —Terence McKenna, "Time and Mind", [19]
once said that he would have become a Nabokov lecturer if he had
never encountered psychedelics.

During the final years of his life and career, McKenna became very engaged in the theoretical realm of
technology. He has advocated the idea of a technological singularity.[21] In his last recorded public talk,
Psychadelics in The Age of Intelligent Machines, he outlined strong ties between psychedelics, computation
technology, and humans. [22]

"Stoned Ape" theory of human evolution

In his book Food of the Gods,[23] McKenna proposed that the transformation from humans' early ancestors
Homo erectus to the species Homo sapiens mainly had to do with the addition of the mushroom Psilocybe
cubensis in its diet - an event which according to his theory took place in about 100,000 BC (this is when he
believed that the species diverged from the Homo genus). He based his theory on the main effects, or alleged
effects, produced by the mushroom. One of the effects that comes about from the ingestion of low doses, which
agrees with one of scientist Roland Fischer's findings from the late 1960s-early 1970s,[24] is it significantly
improves the visual acuity of humans - so theoretically, of other human-like mammals too. According to
McKenna, this effect would have definitely proven to be of evolutionary advantage to humans' omnivorous
hunter-gatherer ancestors that would have stumbled upon it "accidentally"; as it would make it easier for them
to hunt.

In higher doses, McKenna claims, the mushroom acts as a sexual stimulator, which would make it even more
beneficial evolutionarily, as it would result in more offspring. At even higher doses, the mushroom would have
acted to "dissolve boundaries", which would have promoted community-bonding and group sexual
activities-that would result in a mixing of genes and therefore greater genetic diversity. Generally McKenna
believed that the periodic ingestion of the mushroom would have acted to dissolve the ego in humans before it
ever got the chance to grow in destructive proportions. In this context, he likened the ego to a cancerous tumor
that can grow uncontrollable and become destructive to its host. In his own words:

Wherever and whenever the ego function began to form, it was akin to a cancerous tumor or a
blockage in the energy of the psyche. The use of psychedelic plants in a context of shamanic
initiation dissolved-as it dissolves today-the knotted structure of the ego into undifferentiated
feeling, what Eastern philosophy calls the Tao.
—Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods

The mushroom, according to McKenna, had also given humans their first truly religious experiences (which, as
he believed, were the basis for the foundation of all subsequent religions to date). Another factor that McKenna
talked about was the mushroom's potency to promote linguistic thinking. This would have promoted
vocalisation, which in turn would have acted in cleansing the brain (based on a scientific theory that vibrations
from speaking cause the precipitation of impurities from the brain to the cerebrospinal fluid), which would
further mutate the brain. All these factors according to McKenna were the most important factors that promoted
evolution towards the Homo sapiens species. After this transformation took place, the species would have begun
moving out of Africa to populate the rest of the planet[23] Later on, this theory by McKenna was given the
name "The 'Stoned Ape' Theory of Human Evolution".[25]

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Novelty theory

According to McKenna the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases
interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012 at which point anything and
everything imaginable will occur simultaneously, what he referred to as the Eschaton. He conceived this idea
over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.[26]

McKenna viewed the universe as a swarm of matter waves, spiralling down the gradient of their synergetic
(energetically favourable) constructive interference. He saw the universe as being "pulled from the future
toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the
rim...it comes to rest at the lowest energy state, which is the bottom of the bowl. That’s precisely my model of
human history."[27]

In novelty theory, when two matter waves become connected by mutual constructive interference (quantum
entanglement, rapport), they imagine or grok each other. Mc Kenna believed that imagination was capable of
interconnecting matter waves instantaneously, stating that "the imagination is a dimension of nonlocal
information,"[28] and "novelty is density of connection." [29]

"What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward

what Whitehead called "concrescence", a tightening gyre.
Everything is flowing together. The "autopoietic lapis", the
alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything
flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the
universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum,
the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to
cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here
to classical millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of the A screenshot of the "Timewave Zero"
rate at which change is accelerating. From the way the gyre is software
tightening, I predict that the concrescence will occur
soon—around 2012 AD. It will be the entry of our species into
hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the
mind into the imagination."[30]

McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as
"timewave zero" or the "timewave". "Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the
ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized
complexity.[26] Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[5] the graph
appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and
sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of
other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of 16
November 2012. When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya Calendar had been
correlated by Western Maya scholars with December 21, not far from his own hypothesized end date, he
decided that the Maya were more likely to be right on this subject and he adopted their end date.[31] The 1975
first edition of Mc Kenna's The Invisible Landscape refers to 2012 (but no specific day during the year) only
twice. In the 1993 second edition, McKenna employed the 21st of December 2012 throughout, the date arrived
at by the Mayanist researcher Robert J. Sharer's.[Note d][32]

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1975 - The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (with Dennis McKenna)
(Seabury; 1st Ed) ISBN 0-8164-9249-2.
1976 - The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna, and Quinn Taylor) (Scribner) ISBN
0-8264-0122-8
1976 - Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (with Dennis McKenna: credited under the
pseudonyms OT Oss and ON Oeric) (2nd edition 1986) (And/Or Press) ISBN 0-915904-13-6
1992 - Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (with Dennis McKenna: (credited under the
pseudonyms OT Oss and ON Oeric) (Quick American Publishing Company; Revised edition) ISBN
0-932551-06-8
1992 - The Archaic Revival (HarperSanFrancisco; 1st edition) ISBN 0-06-250613-7
1992 - Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants,
Drugs, and Human Evolution (Bantam) ISBN 0-553-37130-4
1992 - Synesthesia (with Timothy C. Ely) (Granary Books 1st Ed) ISBN 1-887123-04-0
1992 - Trialogues at the Edge of the West: Chaos, Creativity, and the Resacralization of the World (with
Ralph H. Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake and Jean Houston) (Bear & Company Publishing 1st Ed) ISBN
0-939680-97-1
1993 - True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s
Paradise (HarperSanFrancisco 1st Ed) ISBN 0-06-250545-9
1994 - The Invisible Landscape (HarperSanFrancisco; Reprint edition) ISBN 0-06-250635-8
1998 - True Hallucinations & the Archaic Revival: Tales and Speculations About the Mysteries of the
Psychedelic Experience (Fine Communications/MJF Books) (Hardbound) ISBN 1-56731-289-6
1998 - The Evolutionary Mind : Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable (with Rupert Sheldrake and
Ralph H. Abraham) (Trialogue Press; 1st Ed) ISBN 0-942344-13-8
1999 - Food of the Gods: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (Rider & Co; New
edition) ISBN 0-7126-7038-6
1999 - Robert Venosa: Illuminatus (with Robert Venosa, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Mati Klarwein)
(Craftsman House) ISBN 90-5703-272-4
2001 - Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness (with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph H. Abraham)
(Park Street Press; revised ed) ISBN 0-89281-977-4 (Revised edition of Trialogues at the Edge of the
West)
2005 - The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues on Science, Spirit & Psychedelics (Monkfish Book
Publishing; Revised Ed) ISBN 0-9749359-7-2

History Ends In Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival, 6 audiocassette set, Mystic Fire
audio, 1993, ISBN 1-56176-907-X (recorded at the Esalen Institute, 1989)
TechnoPagans at the End of History (transcription of rap with Mark Pesce from 1998)
Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1999) 90 minutes video (http://video.google.com
/videoplay?docid=-335621086425739066#)
Alien Dreamtime with Spacetime Continuum & Stephen Kent (Magic Carpet Media
(http://www.magiccarpetmedia.com) ) (CD)
Conversations on the Edge of Magic (1994) (CD & Cassette) ACE
Rap-Dancing Into the Third Millennium (1994) (Cassette) (Re-issued on CD as The Quintessential
Hallucinogen) ACE
Packing For the Long Strange Trip (1994) (Cassette) ACE
Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, broadcast on May 22, 1997, Five hour interview covering various topics
Global Perspectives and Psychedelic Poetics (1994) (Cassette) Sound Horizons Audio-Video, Inc.
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge (1992) (Cassette) Sounds True

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Re : Evolution with The Shamen (1992)

Terence McKenna & Zuvuya - Dream Matrix Telemetry (1993)
Alien Dreamtime with Spacetime Continuum & Stephen Kent (Magic Carpet Media
(http://www.magiccarpetmedia.com) ) (DVD)
2009 - Cognition Factor (2009) (http://cognitionfactor.net)
2012 - The Terence Mckenna OmniBus 2012 (http://cognitionfactor.net/tmom2012.html)

d
Coe's initial date was "24 December 2011." He revised it to "11 January AD 2013" in the 1980 2nd
edition of his book,[33] not settling on 23 December 2012 until the 1984 3rd edition.[34] The correlation of
b'ak'tun 13 as 21 December 2012 first appeared in Table B.2 of Robert J. Sharer's 1983 revision of the 4th
edition of Sylvanus Morley's book The Ancient Maya.[35]

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(deoxy.org). http://deoxy.org/timemind.htm. /mckenna_terence_maps_hyperspace.shtml) 1989
20. ^ "Surfing Finnegans Wake" 31. ^ Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna (June
(http://www.lancerules.com/terence 1983). "Dynamics of Hyperspace" (http://www.ralph-
/finneganswake.mp3) . Terence Mckenna. abraham.org/talks/transcripts/hyperspace.html) .
http://www.lancerules.com/terence Santa Cruz, California: Ralph Abraham.
/finneganswake.mp3. http://www.ralph-abraham.org/talks/transcripts
21. ^ "Technocalyps" (http://www.youtube.com /hyperspace.html. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
/watch?v=b8v8mgwuubU&t=8m33s) . 32. ^ Sacha Defesche (2007). "'The 2012 Phenomenon':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v8mgwuubU& A historical and typological approach to a modern
t=8m33s. apocalyptic mythology." (http://skepsis.no/?p=599) .
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLeG3gQguWA) . 2011.
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/watch?v=JLeG3gQguWA. peoples and places series, no. 10 (2nd ed.). London:
23. ^ a b McKenna, Terrence (1992) [1993]. Food of the Thames and Hudson, p. 151.
Gods: the Search for the original Tree of 34. ^ Coe, Michael D. (1984). The Maya. Ancient
Knowledge. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-37130-4. peoples and places series (3rd ed.). London: Thames
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Novelty theory (http://2012wiki.com/index.php?title=Novelty_theory)

Terence McKenna Land at deoxy.org (http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm)
Terence McKenna at levity.com (http://www.levity.com/eschaton/tm.html)
Erowid's Terence McKenna Vault (http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna_terence
/mckenna_terence.shtml)
Botanical Dimensions (http://www.well.com/user/dpd/botdim.html)
FloatingWorldWeb's McKenna Pages (http://floatingworldweb.com/plex/#-2328)
Terence McKenna's Last Trip (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/mckenna.html) 2000 Wired
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"Mind contagions" (2001) at disinfo.com (http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1515/pg2/)

Psychedelics, Evolution & Fun (http://www.lysergia.com/FeedYourHead/McKenna
/TerenceMcKenna.htm) 2008 essay by Patrick Lundborg
Machine Elves 101, or Why Terence McKenna Matters - Reallity Sandwich
(http://www.realitysandwich.com/machine_elves_101) by Daniel Moler
Transcription from 1991 interview regarding cannabis (http://www.dope-smoker.co.uk/quotes-
from-terrance-mckenna/)
ArtFutura 1992 at artfutura.org (http://www.artfutura.org/v2/artthought.php?idcontent=10&
idcreation=39&mb=6&lang=En)
Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero Theory (http://www.fractal-timewave.com/)

Audio and video resources

Terence McKenna's interview (http://www.hazarddp.com/?page_id=2) taken by John Hazard in October

1998
Terence McKenna media archive at deoxy.org (http://deoxy.org/media/McKenna)
Terence McKenna media archive at erocx1.com (http://erocx1.com/TerenceMcKenna.aspx)
McKenna at the 1999 Entheobotany Seminar (http://www.matrixmasters.com/pn/MiscMP3s
/TerenceMcKenna1999.html) audio podcast
Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines (http://www.surrealstudio.com/mckenna.html) video
samples from the 1999 DVD
Terence McKenna videos on FloatingWorldWeb (http://floatingworldweb.com/plex/index.html#-4428)
Over 100 podcasts of Terence McKenna talks (http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon
/?category_name=terence-mckenna)

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