Newsgroups: alt.drugs From: v360np5s@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (GORDON SIMS) Subject: Terence McKenna + Psilocybin Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:00:00 GMT While browsing through the computerized magazine index at my local library, I came across these articles on Terence McKenna. They aren't actually the articles, but a brief overview. Here it goes... #1 AUTHOR: Jocobson, Mark TITLE: Is Terence McKenna the brave prophet of the next psychedelic revolution, or is his cosmic egg just a little bit cracked? SOURCE: Esquire v117 p107-9+ June '92 CONTAINS:Illustration(s); portrait SUBJECTS COVERED: Hallucinogenic drugs PSILOCYBIN mushrooms McKenna, Terence K.:1946- ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna, who has been called the Timothy Leary of the 1990's, is acknowledged as the leading spokesman for the "psychedelic position." McKenna, who appears semiregularly on the spiritualist/New Age lecture circuit, makes his living by discussing his experiences with LSD-25 and psilocybin mushrooms. Cassettes of McKenna's psychedelic polemics have been popular for some time. Within the next year [remeber, this was writen in June, '92] 5 books detailing McKenna's ideas will be published including The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psyedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History. McKenna's personal life and beliefs are discussed, and the writer describes his visits with McKenna. #2 [a little bit more recent] AUTHOR: Miller, Sukie TITLE: Interview: Terence McKenna SOURCE: Omni v15 p69-70+ May '93 CONTAINS: illustration(s); portraits SUBJECTS COVERED: Psilocybin mushrooms Hallucinogenic drugs McKenna, Terence K.:1946- ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna is an ethnobotanist, a radical historian, and a world-class psychedelic researcher. McKenna comes from the 1960s tradition of viewing psychedelic-drug taking as self-experimental, informational, and educational. He was born in 1946 in western Colorado and studied shamanism and the conservation of natural resources at the University of California at Berkely. For years, he made a living collecting Asian art and butterflies, but he has since become a high-voltage speaker and prolific writer. In his 1992 book Food of the Gods, McKenna chronicled a radical history of drugs and human evolution and extolled the virtues of psilocybin mushrooms and DMT, a potent psychedelic compound. In and interview, McKenna explains his theories and discusses the effects of psychedelics. *** If anyone reads or has read a book(s) by Terence McKenna I would appreciate it if you E-mailed me your opinion of it (them) thanx. ---Gordon Sims