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- From: v360np5s@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (GORDON SIMS)
- Subject: Terence McKenna + Psilocybin
- Message-ID: <CFKvtM.EK9@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:00:00 GMT
-
- While browsing through the computerized magazine index
- at my local library, I came across these articles on
- Terence McKenna. They aren't actually the articles, but
- a brief overview. Here it goes...
-
- #1
- AUTHOR: Jocobson, Mark
- TITLE: Is Terence McKenna the brave prophet of the next
- psychedelic revolution, or is his cosmic egg just
- a little bit cracked?
- SOURCE: Esquire v117 p107-9+ June '92
- CONTAINS:Illustration(s); portrait
-
- SUBJECTS COVERED:
- Hallucinogenic drugs
- PSILOCYBIN
- mushrooms
- McKenna, Terence K.:1946-
-
- ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna, who has been called the Timothy
- Leary of the 1990's, is acknowledged as the leading spokesman
- for the "psychedelic position." McKenna, who appears semiregularly
- on the spiritualist/New Age lecture circuit, makes his living by
- discussing his experiences with LSD-25 and psilocybin mushrooms.
- Cassettes of McKenna's psychedelic polemics have been popular
- for some time. Within the next year [remeber, this was writen
- in June, '92] 5 books detailing McKenna's ideas will be published
- including The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psyedelic Mushrooms,
- the Amazon, Virual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth
- of the Goddess, and the End of History. McKenna's personal
- life and beliefs are discussed, and the writer describes his
- visits with McKenna.
-
-
- #2 [a little bit more recent]
- AUTHOR: Miller, Sukie
- TITLE: Interview: Terence McKenna
- SOURCE: Omni v15 p69-70+ May '93
- CONTAINS: illustration(s); portraits
-
- SUBJECTS COVERED:
- Psilocybin
- mushrooms
- Hallucinogenic drugs
- McKenna, Terence K.:1946-
-
- ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna is an ethnobotanist, a radical
- historian, and a world-class psychedelic researcher. McKenna
- comes from the 1960s tradition of viewing psychedelic-drug
- taking as self-experimental, informational, and educational.
- He was born in 1946 in western Colorado and studied shamanism
- and the conservation of natural resources at the University of
- California at Berkely. For years, he made a living collecting
- Asian art and butterflies, but he has since become a high-voltage
- speaker and prolific writer. In his 1992 book Food of the
- Gods, McKenna chronicled a radical history of drugs and human
- evolution and extolled the virtues of psilocybin mushrooms
- and DMT, a potent psychedelic compound. In and interview,
- McKenna explains his theories and discusses the effects of
- psychedelics.
-
-
- *** If anyone reads or has read a book(s) by Terence McKenna
- I would appreciate it if you E-mailed me your opinion of it (them)
- thanx. ---Gordon Sims
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