Strange Attractor & The Trip @ ACMI Sun 11 Jan
Strange Attractor & The Trip @ ACMI Sun 11 Jan @ 2pm
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Since Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna underwent the formality of actually occurring in early October, I'm thrilled, if not simply relieved, to report that the book has splashed down to a warm reception among fans of McKenna and reviewers alike. Strange Attractor sold out its first pressing within three weeks from the sale date causing some shipping delays in Oct-Nov,…
Strange Attractor promotion - 15% off @ Bookshop.org
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna is being featured in MIT Press's Bookshop.org holiday promotion. https://bookshop.org/info/mit-press ( use code MITP15 for 15% OFF this and other list titles) Excludes ebooks. Valid through 12/15/2025. As the first serious biography of Terence McKenna, Strange Attractor is a comprehensive chronicle of the life, work, and legacy of the…
Strange Attractor @ Garden States: Regeneration
The Australian tour of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MIT Press, Nov 2025) kicks off next weekend at Garden States: Regeneration, EGA's outdoor gathering at a beautiful site in Gembrook, east of Melbourne 28 Nov - 1 Dec. Amidst a stellar lineup, I will be presenting two evening talks and a book launch on Sat and Sun. All information and tickets at:…
Strange Attractor launches in New York 16-18 Oct
Strange Attractor book launches in NYC and @ COSM 16-18 Oct. Poster by Martin Kondwani I'm very happy to announce upcoming book launches this week for Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John Book reading, discussion with the author, buy signed copies. Thursday Oct 16 , 2025 Alchemists Kitchen Elixir Bar, 117 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012 Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm…
Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part IV)
“We have unleashed some kind of process that is inimical to the planet, and very very final,” said the visitor. With the session closing on three hours, the laughter subsides as the speaker is at home inside a narrative of mounting tragedy, a turbulent story as familiar to him as it surely is to us. “We’ve triggered the final crisis for the planet. . . . We are trapped in history that gets more…
Strange Attractor: US Launch Events
Strange Attractor US Launch events
Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part III)
As his Dodge Place visit demonstrated, McKenna’s friends recognised his abilities as an engaging raconteur. Outrageous and captivating, entertainer-prophet hybrid, part comic and part eschatologist, his capacity to amuse was matched by a proclivity to charm. In recall, tone, and rhythm, he was, at the very least, an extremely talented bullshit artist.
Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part II)
What did they have to lose? After a pregnant pause, the scraggly bearded beanpole makes a well-timed gesture that causes the room to explode with glee: “So we said, fine. So we’ll try it!”
Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest [Part 1]
“From that dawn moment when we piled out of our hammocks to look at the mushroom, something was very, very bizarre about me. Something had happened to me. And it was true. I mean . . . I was, and am, in a very strange place.” Such are the musings of Terence McKenna upon his condition in the aftermath of a much-vaunted “experiment” at the mission of La Chorrera deep in the Colombian Amazonas in…