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




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




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




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




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




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




a thinking allowed conversation where terence mckenna and jeffrey mishlove examine ufo phenomena through jungian psychology and alternative theories of extraterrestrial contact




terence mckenna on how governments manage chaos through mass distraction and why the establishment fears psychedelic experience in youth culture




terence mckenna on the global environmental crisis, western civilization's exhaustion, and the urgent role of plant consciousness and shamanic knowledge.




terence mckenna reads fitzhugh ludlow's 1857 memoir of hashish, a foundational account of cannabis effects on consciousness, perception, and the psychedelic state.




terence mckenna argues human history is not our fault but driven by a magnetic field propelling genetic material toward novelty




terence mckenna's short millennium tour segment maps the modern alien mythos onto the old spirit world, then folds in virtual reality, language, and the eschaton




a segment of teal's millennium tour travelogue where terence mckenna is tracked down on the big island of hawaii and asked about the galactic alignment, the internet, and cultural




terence mckenna linking psychedelic shamanism to a theory of visible language, octopus communication, and psychedelics as a dissolver of cultural conditioning.




terence mckenna interviews thinkers at the international transpersonal conference in prague czechoslovakia




terence mckenna explores psychedelics and intelligent machines as complementary consciousness expanding technologies




terence mckenna bonus chapter on shamanic understanding, psychedelic substances and the universal right to alter consciousness




jan irvin's documentary about returning to ecuador to meet amazon shamans and experience ayahuasca, featuring terence mckenna on plant-based shamanism




a fictional narrative following characters communicating through digital streams, exploring themes of consciousness, botanical exploration, and strange attractors, with references




john hazard interviews terence mckenna in hawaii in october 1998, an hour on novelty theory, the omega point, and the i ching as a map of dna




dennis mckenna critiques the 2012 phenomenon as a neo-pagan repackaging of christian apocalyptic thinking that discourages personal responsibility