Terence McKenna
speech-to-text transcripts of everything Terence McKenna said - lectures, interviews, trialogues, and raps.

a brief spoken fragment by terence mckenna on auditory sensation and perception during an altered state.

terence mckenna's lecture on nature as the mirror of consciousness, the limits of scientific materialism, and why psychedelics matter to human evolution

a thirty-two-part workshop series of dialogues between terence mckenna and an interviewer on shamanism, technology, psychedelics, consciousness, and the sacred possibilities of ani

terence mckenna on the descending phase of a dmt experience - the entity retracting and pulling away

terence mckenna on the technique of DMT breakthrough, teaching the practice of courage and commitment required to penetrate through the perceptual threshold

terence mckenna on dmt's four-minute duration and its appeal as a psychedelic compared to longer experiences.

terence mckenna on the importance of encouraging widespread dmt use to gather comparative data and understand how such profound experiences are possible

radio orbit broadcast from april 3, 2006 marking the sixth anniversary of terence mckenna's passing with recorded interviews featuring his brother dr. dennis mckenna and herbalist

dr. dennis mckenna and attorney richard boyer discuss cognitive liberty, psychedelic plants, and freedom of consciousness on radio orbit

radio orbit episode from october 2007. host mike hagan interviews dr. dennis mckenna on ethnobotany, natural health products research, psychedelic pharmacology, and the relationshi

terence mckenna describing the dmt experience from ingestion through breakthrough and encounter with entities.

terence mckenna on creativity, shamanism, and psychedelic vision. the artist as shaman opening human consciousness to transcendental experience and cultural transformation

terence mckenna on art, consciousness, and psychedelics as a gateway to transcendent creativity and the moral imperative of vision

sounds true weekend workshop with terence mckenna recorded live in boulder, colorado. exploration of psilocybin's role in human evolution, the nature of language, and shamanic tech

a 29-second dub-remix outro with terence mckenna voiceover

terence mckenna on recent astrophysical discoveries, the cosmological constant, and what they reveal about novelty theory, consciousness, and the role of psychedelics in human evol

terence mckenna's 1988 talk on botanical conservation, travel as spiritual practice, and the role of psychedelics in recovering direct experience

terence mckenna's workshop on plants and consciousness. a two-day lecture series exploring the psychological and mental interpenetration of plants and human beings.

nick rankin's radio program on the chemistry of mind-altering plants. an exploration of how drugs interact with neurotransmitters and the fundamental workings of consciousness.

part of the plants of power radio series on mind-altering plants, tracing how industrial societies transformed sacred botanical medicines into addictive drugs through extraction an

episode from nick rankin's plants of power documentary series examining psychoactive plant chemistry, human alkaloid adaptation, and global drug policy

terence mckenna on earth's path toward self-transcendence through technological development and the consciousness required to navigate machine-human symbiosis.

terence mckenna's 1982 esalen workshop on psilocybin as a path to altered consciousness and human evolution. explores how tryptamine experience anticipates the future development o

terence mckenna in a radio interview on psychedelics, consciousness, and the political challenge they pose to any cultural system