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2023 Microdose Episode 23 - Terence McKenna: Psychedelic Psychopomp and Meta Trip-Sitter
Abstract
As a cognitive libertarian and guerrilla ontologist, Terence McKenna was dedicated to transmitting the means of perception whereby growing numbers were encouraged to reclaim their minds and become authors of their own experience. That he is among the most influential and yet least understood of psychedelicists is a circumstance addressed in my forthcoming biography Terence McKenna: The Strange Attractor (MIT Press). With a focus on McKenna’s relationship with DMT, this presentation draws on material from this book and my previous work Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT, to discuss the circumstances by which he would grow to become “America’s shaman,” the Raver’s “shamanarchist,” and eventually, posthumous trip-sitter for a global audience.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:02 Comprehending Terence
00:10:28 Writing Terence’s biography
00:14:17 Psychopomping
00:15:41 Terence’s background
00:21:20 Surfing new dimensions
00:23:29 Art, literature, film and the psychedelic experience
00:27:22 Machine elves and the circus
00:29:56 Mystery
00:32:00 Amazonian shamanism, DMT and psilocybin
00:34:28 Marrying Kathleen Harrison
00:35:32 Becoming America’s shaman
00:38:47 ‘The Ethnobotany of Shamanism’
00:40:17 Shpongle and other psytrance samples
00:44:33 Merry go raum
00:50:20 McKenna and Jung
00:52:02 Fairies, Ireland and the piper
00:59:15 Meta trip sitting, shamanarchism and oracle
01:01:08 McKenna in Byron Bay
01:02:53 More McKenna psytrance samples
01:12:49 Q&A
01:38:02 Outro
Bio:
Graham St John, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist specializing in transformational events, movements, and figures. Graham has authored ten books, including the forthcoming biography Terence McKenna: The Strange Attractor (MIT Press), Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (NAB/Evolver, 2015), and Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012). Graham is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and is currently a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Music and Design Arts at the University of Huddersfield. Website:
You can contact Graham via his website - www.edgecentral.net/
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Thanks to Ken Adams for the use of this fantastic artwork "Terence McKenna visual languaging series # 1, Ken Adams, 2023".
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About EGA
Entheogenesis Australis is a charitable educational organisation established in 2004. We provide opportunities for critical thinking and knowledge sharing on ethnobotanical plants, fungi, nature, and sustainability. Through our conferences and workshops, we aim to celebrate the culture, art, politics and community around medicine plants in the hope to better wellbeing for humankind and the planet.
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