The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
A short video by Dennis McKenna introducing his memoir project about life with his brother Terence McKenna. He explains their sixty-year relationship, shared explorations, and the ideas that defined their work. Dennis discusses his role as the one who can tell their unvarnished story, mentioning how Terence's legacy continues through his published works and cultural impact.
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I'm Dennis McKenna, and I'm asking for your help to write a book tentatively titled
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, My Life with Terrence McKenna.
Terrence McKenna is a legend in the psychedelic community,
radical philosopher, futurist, raconteur, and cultural commentator.
I am the younger brother of Terrence McKenna.
I want to write a memoir telling the real story of our intertwined life together over the past 60 years
and of the ideas, adventures, and explorations, both inner and outer, that we shared.
I am the only one who can tell this tale in all its unvarnished detail.
Terrence died in 2000, but his ideas live on the net and in his books.
For example, True Hallucinations, Food of the Gods, The Archaic Revival, The Invisible Landscape, and others.
He is one of the prime originators of the 2012 mythos.
The time has come to tell his story.
In reality, it is our story.

terence mckenna on a collaborative biomedical study of ayahuasca's chemistry and physiological effects, conducted in brazil with the udv and sponsored by botanical dimensions.

recorded in december 1982 and recovered by the psychedelic salon, mckenna explores ufos as psychological phenomena linked to psilocybin experience and the collective oversoul.









