Tagged with Terrence Mckenna

As we seek to experience our primal/cosmic natures, the imagined solution may only be compounding the problem. If the (ab)use of entheogens were decimating our own individual "biospheres" and preventing us from having full access to our faculties, this would exactly mirror the ways in which our disconnection from the environment has affected the Earth's biosphere. (more)

At this inertial juncture in history, I propose the inauguration of Psychedelic Studies as an interdisciplinary academic field. I would like to do this by tapping Queer Studies as a justificatory precedent. (more)

I'm standing next to Garo, the CEO of a firm that has developed a cancer vaccine that is unique to each individual patient. The vaccine helps the body "re-learn" itself to recognize the cancer cell, so the immune system "knows" how to kill the errant information generating the renegade cells. McCluhan-esque. (more)

Terence McKenna's musings on DMT, with its machine elves and aliens, continue to influence explorers of altered states of consciousness. Yet, are his wild accounts ground-breaking, reality-shattering explorations? Or are they fantasy projections of his own ego, quite literally gambling with his life? (more)