Terence McKenna’s Alien Dreamtime
- gstjohn
- Nov 15, 2024
- 1 min read
A little known story about Terence McKenna's raveolutionary career, drawing on material from my forthcoming biography of Terence, published in MAPS Bulletin, v. 24 n. 1 (2024).
The following is a story untold in the life of Terence McKenna, a towering figure in the history of psychedelic culture, as enigmatic as he was charismatic. The story emerges from an extensive study bearing fruit in a biography to be published by MIT Press in 2025, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinogenic Life of Terence McKenna. While he died in 2000, aged 53, from the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme, McKenna became a shooting star in the backplane of cyberspace, where he remains today the single most sampled voice in electronic music. This strange circumstance is rooted in the early nineties when McKenna adopted rave as a much-vaunted creode in the “Archaic Revival.” While not a music person himself, nor someone even known to dance, McKenna became an overnight booster for a new dance movement. [continue at link above...]
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