Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000) was an American psychonaut, lecturer, and writer. var ue_furl = "fls-na.amazon.com"; It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control., Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Stranger Than You Can Suppose - AI Generated Art Collections, Notes: Mental issues and psychedelics go hand in hand, labelling a whole trip 'bad' means the learning process is not understood, and finally,there can be. he asked his doctors. ''Surely the fact that Terence McKenna says that the psilocybin mushroom 'is the megaphone used by an alien, intergalactic Other to communicate with mankind' is enough for us to wonder if taking LSD has done something to his mental faculties,'' Judy Corman, vice president of Phoenix House of New York, a drug treatment center, said in a letter to The New York Times in 1993. He was a strong advocate for the responsible use of these plants to explore altered states of mind. //= 2; // retina display It happened when they were living for a time in the Big Island [Hawaii] and it was a mushroom trip they shared that was absolutely terrifying for Terence [emphasis mine]. As many young kids of the 80's --and from the early generations that preceded us-- I was obsessed with space flight and the idea of not only traveling to strange and exotic planets, but that the denizens of those worlds could already be visiting our own, as evidenced by the many reports of unidentified flying objects and their mysterious occupants I voraciously read about. A similar thing happened to Terence McKenna's own legacy of precious alchemical texts and rare books, which he painstakingly collected for several decades, some years after he passed away: the warehouse in which they were stored suffered an unexpected fire, turning all those expensive volumes to ash in 2007. With the help of his brother, Dennis McKenna, who is still working as an ethnopharmacologist, Terence developed a new technique for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms. //