Terence McKenna
speech-to-text transcripts of everything Terence McKenna said - lectures, interviews, trialogues, and raps.
a 1988 episode of Thinking Allowed, interview with Terence McKenna on hallucinogens and their role in human culture.
terence mckenna discusses time and the i ching with jeffrey mishlove in this 1988 thinking allowed interview
terence mckenna's 1987 talk proposes ufo phenomena as a psychedelic monitoring mechanism arising from the collective human psyche when society develops in pathological directions
terence mckenna introduces the concept of a psychedelic society that lives in the light of the mystery of being rather than relying on belief systems
terence mckenna on psychedelics and mortality. a brief reflection on how decades of consciousness exploration reshape one's approach to death.
terence mckenna recounts his first DMT experience, describing his encounter with self-transforming machine elves and the hyperdimensional realm they inhabited
a thinking allowed conversation where terence mckenna and jeffrey mishlove examine ufo phenomena through jungian psychology and alternative theories of extraterrestrial contact
terence mckenna's lecture on plant alkaloids, secondary metabolites, and the evolutionary relationship between plants and humans through biochemical innovation.
terence mckenna on the UFO phenomenon, examining contact experiences, jung's depth psychology, and the notion that UFOs may be an assertion of the feminine into the male-dominated
terence mckenna's talk on imagination as the uniquely human faculty, exploring its evolutionary origins, its relationship to consciousness and perception, and its expression throug
terence mckenna on shamanism, psychedelia, and the archaic revival. he argues the psychedelic experience is a doorway out of dominator culture and back to the paleolithic conscious
terence mckenna on ayahuasca preparation and shamanic phenomenology. drawing from ethnographic research in the Amazon, a discussion of brewing techniques, sound-driven visions, and
bruce damer's buddha field festival talk on ego dissolution, the machine elves of dmt, and avatars as entities that shape consciousness.
bruce damer and terence mckenna in conversation about virtual worlds in the late 1990s. they discuss the medium's potential for consciousness exploration and reaching audiences.
a one-minute musical interlude in the terence mckenna archive, preserved without spoken content
terence mckenna on how governments manage chaos through mass distraction and why the establishment fears psychedelic experience in youth culture
terence mckenna on the neurological and anthropological foundations of human consciousness, arguing for psilocybin's role in our transition from animal to self-aware beings.
terence mckenna's firsthand account of the march 1971 la chorrera expedition with his brother dennis, exploring psilocybin and ayahuasca for consciousness research. the narrative t
terence mckenna on twenty-five years of psychedelic research. he presents three models for understanding consciousness - psychological, shamanic, and mathematical - arguing that hu
terence mckenna on sleep, wakefulness, and the dream-like nature of reality. he explores how contact with transcendent consciousness may require a certain unconsciousness and recep
terence mckenna at an earth trust speakers program event on consciousness, evolution, and the botany of psychedelic compounds
terence mckenna on eros and the eschaton. exploring the philosophical and scientific foundations for intelligent hope, centered on cosmic interconnectedness and nature's persistent
erik davis's expanding mind podcast with ethnobotanist dennis mckenna on ayahuasca, dmt, shamanism and the bridge between scientific and spiritual approaches to visionary plants.
terence mckenna's november 1982 lecture exploring shamanism, hallucinogens, and the psychological, biological, historical, and cosmic abysses confronting human existence