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

terence mckenna in 1998 on imagination and cosmic intelligence. brief spoken fragment exploring consciousness and the universe.




terence mckenna's 1998 talk in san francisco on consciousness, sleep, and the nature of reality through his extended metaphor about being awake versus asleep.

terence mckenna on art bell's coast to coast am, march 1998. they discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness, psychedelic experience, and the acceleration of technological chan




terence mckenna, ralph abraham, and rupert sheldrake's 1998 trialogue on evolutionary psychology, consciousness, and the mind's development through human prehistory.

a 1998 trialogue between terence mckenna, rupert sheldrake, and ralph abraham. three perspectives on the evolution of consciousness and the evolutionary mind.

terence mckenna, ralph abraham, and rupert sheldrake recorded in santa cruz in june 1998, discussing skepticism, epistemology, and the crisis of statistical methodology in modern s

terence mckenna on coast to coast am in may 1997, discussing time as a fundamental force, the acceleration of novelty, and altered states as gateways to consciousness.




terence mckenna's 1997 talk in sydney. explores novelty theory, complexity in nature, and the transcendental object at the end of time.




terence mckenna recorded at rustlers south africa in 1996 speaking about self-reliance exploration and psychedelic experience




terence mckenna's 1996 canyon walk with friends through what appears to be the karoo landscape. conversation wanders through geology, indigenous burial practices, botanical identif




terence mckenna delivers his 1995 talk on human consciousness and evolutionary theory in sacramento challenging mainstream scientific explanations for the emergence of human intell




a 1995 trialogue at esalen institute with terence mckenna, ralph abraham and rupert sheldrake on chaos theory, morphic resonance and the nature of reality




terence mckenna explains his timewave zero theory derived from the king wen sequence of the i ching proposing that time has a fractal structure with novelty increasing toward 2012

terence mckenna, rupert sheldrake, and ralph abraham's 1994 private conversation on hawaii's big island, exploring evolution through island ecosystems and the deep patterns of life




a 1993 live performance film by terence mckenna with space time continuum on sound, stephen kent on didgeridoo, and rose x on visuals




terence mckenna's 1993 berkeley lecture on classifying the various kinds of illusions that stand between us and truth

a 1992 trialogue from the psychedelic salon, with terence mckenna and ralph abraham exploring psychedelics and mathematical vision.




terence mckenna's 1991 talk seeking the stone distills thirty years of thinking about psychedelic shamanism into one comprehensive lecture

terence mckenna's 1991 mannheim lecture on radical freedom, psychedelics and direct experience. argues that psychedelic consciousness dissolves ego and empowers individuals to resi

september 2, 1991 trialogue. rupert sheldrake, ralph abraham, and terence mckenna examine the institutional foundations of modern science and what grassroots alternatives might loo

terence mckenna examines history as a psychedelic experience, tracing the collapse of centralized structures toward bioregional and planetary consciousness.




terence mckenna's 1990 lecture at port hueneme on creativity as a natural force and the artist's role in refining and communicating vision.

the first of a series of conversations between terence mckenna, ralph abraham, and rupert sheldrake, recorded at esalen in september 1989. sheldrake begins by questioning whether t




terence mckenna and biologist rupert sheldrake discuss morphogenetic fields and psychedelic experiences in this 1988 dialogue