Tagged with terence mckenna

[RS Single] • Who is this older man, addressing a generation half his age, rhapsodizing about psychedelics and shamans? Simply, he is an icon with a thriving milieu of disciples. Join a conversation with the key words psychedelic, entheogen, DMT, ayahuasca, mushroom, shamanism, or 2012, and Terence McKenna's name is likely to crop up. (more)

Terence McKenna was a brilliant psychedelic philosopher who foresaw the potential for a transformative future, pegged to the Mayan calendrical date of December 21, 2012. Join us for the next Evolver Intensive live, online video course, "Psychedelic Adventures at the Edge of the Abyss: The Ideas of Terence and Dennis McKenna." (more)

In 1992, a new book, Food of the Gods, opened my eyes to TM's theorizing from his experiences tripping, including "stoned apes," his now famous -- or infamous -- "theory" of how psilocybin mushrooms, eaten by ancestral hominids in Africa, catalyzed the evolution of Homo sapiens.

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Terrance McKenna used the I Ching to graph a theory of time, reaching a zero point on December 21st, 2012. Here I present a mathmatical objection to the validity of the timewave. (more)

In June, Dr. Martin W. Ball published an article on Reality Sandwich entitled "Terence on DMT: An Entheological Analysis of McKenna’s Experiences in the Tryptamine Mirror of the Self." The present article is a reply to it. (more)

If anyone ever wanted to get to know me, the first thing I would tell them is, "Read Terence McKenna." A few weeks ago my friend Michelle suggested I write a "Terence for Dummies" piece. So, since "For Dummies" is under copyright, here's my bent on the McKenna legacy. (more)