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  Terence McKenna: Modern Shaman - StarIQ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
McKenna was born on November 16, 1946, at 7:25 am in Hotchkiss, Colorado, with the heroic Sun and the romantic Venus rising in Scorpio in the house of ancestral souls—the Twelfth House.
McKenna’s Mercury and Mars are both in Sagittarius (another signature of travels, both inner and outer) and link his impeccable academic, researching mind to a more adventurous and iconoclastic world-view (shown by the Moon in Virgo in the Ninth House, along with Saturn and Pluto in Leo).
Terence McKenna was a shaman of the Western variety—capable of thinking both magically and critically, and leading people to the thing they couldn't see until he carefully pointed it out.
www.stariq.com /pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=1038   (1264 words)

  
 ACE CyberCatalog 2003 - Terence McKenna CDs
At the 1994 Starwood Festival, with humor and a unique eclectic scholarship, Terence teaches us that throughout time the psychedelic experience has been the true magic at the heart of the evolution of consciousness.
An in-depth examination of the pharmacology, preparation, effects, and significance of the DMT-bearing plant Salvia Divinorum, "The Wizard's Sage," a potent mind-expanding plant of power, through the personal experience of Terence McKenna.
Terence gives explicit instructions and advice on the use of Psilocybin mushrooms, its benefits and pitfalls, and shares amazing tales of his own travels in the fantastic realms of the expanded mind.
www.rosencomet.com /catalog/tapes/mckenna-tapes.html   (158 words)

  
 Terence McKenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000) was a writer and philosopher.
McKenna was a contemporary and colleague of Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Riane Eisler and participated in jointworkshops and symposiums with them.
McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions, a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the Island of Hawaii, where he lived for several years prior to his death.
www.therfcc.org /terence-mckenna-60095.html   (538 words)

  
 frontwheeldrive.com: terence mckenna interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
McKenna’s quest led him to Nepal and Tibet, where his studies of central Asian art and culture reaffirmed his belief that, contrary to Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner’s assertions in their switched-on version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the psychedelic experience had no strict corollaries in traditional systems of esoteric thought.
Intriguingly, McKenna was raised in the Catholic tradition, a background he shares with one of his acknowledged influences, the devout Roman Catholic Marshall McLuhan.
Terence McKenna: I’m mistrustful of the dynamic at work in high technology, but you’ve probably heard me quote the French sociologist Jacques Ellul, who said, "There are no political solutions, only technological ones; the rest is propaganda." I believe that.
www.frontwheeldrive.com /terence_mckenna.html   (6218 words)

  
 Terence Mckenna - Uncyclopedia
McKenna has proposed the possibility of mankind inventing a real time machine in the year 2012.
McKenna's claim to fame came out of a comment made by Timothy Leary, who introduced McKenna to a crowd of people as "my better half." Others have also offered their own compliments and criticism, including a caller to the Art Bell radio show who accused McKenna of being the anti-christ because McKenna was against prohibition.
The sentimental value McKenna held for this device caused him to be extreamly reluctant to get a new phone which, if he had, may have allowed him to answer hate mail in the year 2013.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Terence_Mckenna   (408 words)

  
 Sound Photosynthesis: TERENCE McKENNA: videotapes audiotapes publications and more
Terence McKenna is the author of Food of the Gods, Archaic Revival and True Hallucinations and co-author of The Invisible Landscape and Trialogues at the Edge of History.
Terence briefs the listener on this invaluable conservation project of transplanting medicinal and hallucinogenic plants from the vanishing rainforest of the Amazon to his 9 acres in Hawaii so that they can be protected, researched and distributed.
Terence also provides the philosophical groundwork for the weekend with a discussion of his view that we're approaching the end of history as evidenced by the destruction of the rainforests.
www.photosynthesis.com /terencemckenna.html   (3224 words)

  
 cannabisnews.com: Terence McKenna, 53, Writer, Spiritual Theorist
McKenna Source: San Jose Mercury News Terence McKenna, spiritual theorist and author of several books proclaiming the virtues of psychedelic mushrooms, has died after a long battle with brain cancer.
McKenna's best known books was 1975's ``The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching,'' which he co-wrote with his brother Dennis.
McKenna became known for his controversial lectures and books claiming that psychedelic plants, most notably psilocybin mushrooms, were the key to the evolution of human consciousness.He married Kathleen Harrison in 1976 and formed a company called Lux Natura, which circulated tapes of his lectures, and disseminated spores that were said to grow the psilocybin mushrooms.
www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread5314.shtml   (615 words)

  
 RadioValve Interview
Terence McKenna, the "altered statesman" of the rave generation and technology revolution, evolved beyond his physical body on April 4th, 2000.
McKenna praised the evolution of technology as the greatest manifestation of a deeper psychedelic communication taking place externally, and supported the need for individuals to have psychedelic experiences in order to properly identify with the acceleration of human intelligence, and the greater "global mind" of the Internet.
From his introduction to John Major Jenkins epic work, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, Terence McKenna states: "We do not need the Maya and their prophetic calendar to know that we are living in times in which the ways of the world are being hammered and recast upon the anvil of fate.
www.radiovalve.com /features/mckenna.html   (794 words)

  
 Terence McKenna - Books & DVDs
Terence McKenna is the most important--and most entertaining--visionary scholar in America.
McKenna's ideas are rare jewels discovered during expeditions to the heights and depths of inner space....The Archaic Revival is flammable to the drybrush and deadwood of the intellect.
McKenna's presence is combined with the neo-psychedelic visuals of Rose X and ambient techno improvisations by Space Time Continuum and didgeridusita, Stephen Kent.
www.matrixmasters.com /bookclub/mckenna/mckennabooks.html   (1026 words)

  
 Terence McKenna: Modern Shaman
Terence McKenna was one of the great explorers of consciousness, and of the wild Earth.
Terence traveled to the Colombian Amazon, and from that experience in 1971, wrote True Hallucinations in 1993 for Harper Collins.
Novelty: McKenna uses this term to describe periods in history when innovation and discovery are really high, and the world seems “alive” with new concepts and ideas.
www.erinsullivan.com /articles/Terence_meckenna_article.htm   (1236 words)

  
 The Idler Archives » Conversations: Terence McKenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
McKenna turned out, as is so often the case with the figures castigated by the establishment as misfits only suitable for ridicule, to be a most charming and stimulating companion.
McKenna is an anti- rationalist McLuhanite, with a shamanistic impulse, whose favourite philosopher (and this may surprise some people) is Alfred North Whitehead, friend of Bertrand Russell.
McKenna is best known for his espousal of the magic mushroom (or, more specifically, the psilocybin this intriguing plant contains).
www.idler.co.uk /archives/?page_id=83   (2048 words)

  
 Radio-V: BEAM: Innerviews: Terence McKenna
In addition to being an amazing mind and explorer of the deeper realms of the human/Gaian condition, Terence was a very kind and warm man. We had the pleasure of hanging out with him at our Digital Be-Ins, and we co-hosted his last San Francisco lecture at Fort Mason on December 13, 1998.
Terence McKenna authored six books on enthogenics and psychedelia, including the underground Rave Culture sensation 'Trialogues at the Edge of the West,' a 3-way conversation piece with Ralph Abrahams and Rupert Sheldrake.
Probably Terence McKenna will most be remembered as Rave Culture's Shaman, for the 'permission' and 'direction' he gave to that increasingly dominant neo-pagan cultural shift.
www.radiov.com /main/beam/innerviews/terence/index.htm   (3371 words)

  
 Browse All Items by Terence McKenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Terence McKenna has provided us with the map and compass for the long strange trip; you supply the food.
By O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric; with a foreword by Terence McKenna
This is the late Terence McKenna's magnum opus - an in-depth series of public talks covering his lifelong investigation into our 20,000-year relationship with visionary plant substances and their impact on our species.
www.sevenrays.com /catalog/McKenna,Terence   (522 words)

  
 Erowid Terence McKenna Vault   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Terence McKenna was a psychedelic author, explorer, and showman.
He travelled widely in Asia, South America, and Europe during his college years and his first book, co-authored with his brother Dennis McKenna, was based on their 1971 investigations of Amazonian hallucinogens.
In 1985, Terence co-founded the non-profit Botanical Dimensions, with Kathleen Harrison-McKenna, to collect and propagate medicinal and shamanic plants from the tropics around the world.
www.erowid.org /culture/characters/mckenna_terence   (323 words)

  
 disinformation | terence mckenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
According to occult scientist Terence McKenna, the end of the world as we know it will occur at 11:10 PM, December 22, 2012 and he's worked out a computer model based on an intuitive decoding of the I Ching to prove it mathematically.
But McKenna is no mere doomsday prophet and once you've been exposed to the psychedelic mindscape of the man referred to as 'the Timothy Leary of the Nineties' (by Leary himself!), your worldview may never be the same ever again....
From the LA Weekly, an account of how psychedelic futurist Terence McKenna was nearly stopped from giving a speech at UCLA by a faceless bureaucrat until the ACLU came in to save the day.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id12/pg1.html   (699 words)

  
 Terence McKenna Speaks... (1999 Interview) - Summer 2000
Terence's vision to co-organize the 1999 AllChemical Arts conference on psychedelics and creativity was a bold step toward promoting the importance of psychedelics.
But more than a simple shared love of art, it was also our concern for Terence's health that brought us to the island, alongside the knowledge that this might-well be the last time that we had to spend with him.
It was clear that Terence had held onto his wit, and his ability to mesmerize an audience with another one of his well-crafted, improvisational, meandering monologues - a McKenna hallmark.
www.maps.org /news-letters/v10n2/10206mck.html   (2927 words)

  
 Terence McKenna Land
An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, Terence has emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival.
Terence on death and dying, by Erik Davis
Terence Mckenna and Schwann at Rustlers in South Africa
www.deoxy.org /mckenna.htm   (717 words)

  
 mininova : Other > Other > Terence McKenna - The Last Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Terence McKenna: the Last Interview is a two-disc set thatcompiles the best and brightest nuggets from these conversations.
Finally,the conversations turn to the problem of death and dying, a topicthat McKenna engages with admirable humor and courage.
This interviewwith Erik Davis is the last recording of McKenna’s career,featuring Terence's final thoughts on entheogens, culture, thefuture, his own spiritual beliefs, and the grim problem of cancer,death and dying.
www.mininova.org /tor/178457   (330 words)

  
 DigitalSpace Commons : 
We were operating live from Terence's jungle retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii on a wireless packet radio network.
Terence appeared as "Zoneghost" - in avatar as a tall skinny alien with almond shaped eyes.
A bunch of us went on a trip together...we teleported through a gate to the world called "Pollen." Due to bandwidth limitations I did not see the fully rendered world on the group trip...had to go back later when it was quieter to see the incredible enthoegenic garden someone had built.
www.digitalspace.com /worlds/fan-terencem/index.html   (566 words)

  
 Terence McKenna: The Last Interview
In November of 1999, six months before Terence McKenna succumbed to brain cancer, Erik Davis visited him at his home on the Big Island of Hawaii for an in-depth interview.
This two-disc set covers Terence's final thoughts on entheogens, culture, the future, his own spiritual beliefs, and the grim problem of cancer, death and dying.
This is Terence as you’ve never heard him before, and the final words in a grand psychedelic legacy none of us will soon forget.
www.tripzine.com /listing.php?smlid=563   (120 words)

  
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Terence Mckenna - Memory - 3-87 p1of2 rc.mp3
Terence Mckenna - Marijuana and Hemp - SWR UTL 6 KPFK.mp3
Terence Mckenna - Nature is the Center of the Mandala rc.mp3
mckenna.psychedelic-library.org   (418 words)

  
 Who was Terence McKenna? - BlackjackInfo.com Forums
Terence McKenna was the Magellan of psychedelic head space, and humanity's first ambassador to the hyperdimensional machine elves of the Eschaton.
McKenna was a true child of the '60s, graduating from UC Berkeley with one of those majors you could only get in Berkeley in the '60s — Ecology, Resource Conservation and Shamanism.
McKenna studied these drugs repeatedly and in large doses, along with his brother, Dennis.
www.blackjackinfo.com /bb/showthread.php?p=14178&mode=threaded   (129 words)

  
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The late Terence McKenna was an author, ethnobotanist, and explorer of psychoactive substances.
Terence McKenna discusses such topics as psychedelic drugs, Y2K, and technology.
In a 5-hour broadcast, author Terence McKenna shares his experiments with psychoactive substances as well as his thoughts on artificial intelligence.
www.coasttocoastam.com /guests/724.html   (141 words)

  
 Sound Photosynthesis: TERENCE McKENNA: videotapes audiotapes publications and more
Terence McKenna, enthnobotanist and proponent of the psychedelic society, author, word wizard, art historian, examines time and its mysteries, the nature of language, the techniques of ecstasy, high technology and virtual cyberspace, the role of hallucinogenic plants in shamanism and the evolution of human cultures, and the foundations of post-modern spirituality.
McKenna's breakthrough work ends with a master plan for seriously seeking to come to terms with America's drug problems.
This is a full circle tape, we started recording Terence when he spoke about this topic ten years ago and what a long strange trip it has been.
sound.photosynthesis.com /TERENCE_M.html   (3055 words)

  
 Terence McKenna 1946 - 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Terence McKenna once joked that, if nothing else, his success proved the value of a liberal arts education.
His flights of speculation were grounded in a healthy skepticism, and a willingness to accept all explanations as provisional.
Terence saw the dark side, but was always good for a laugh, even when the stakes were high and the message was urgent.
www.abrupt.org /LOGOS/mystery.html   (278 words)

  
 Terence McKenna-- Lectures on Alchemy
In a talk that Terence gave at Wetlands Preserve in 1998, he said:
As you read these lectures, please send prayers for Terence's safe passage to the other shore.
For some of Terence's thoughts on death, click here and here.
www.well.com /user/davidu/tmalchemy.html   (190 words)

  
 terence mckenna
Terence was a White Lunar Wind (challenge to communicate spirit)
Terence McKenna using computer technolgy and the I Ching came up with an
Terence McKenna was born on November 16th 1946.
www.mayantimes.com /terence.htm   (639 words)

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