Terence McKenna: Difference between revisions

'''Terence Kemp McKenna''' (November 16, 1946&nbsp;– April 3, 2000) was an American [[ethnobotany|ethnobotanist]] and [[mysticism|mystic]] who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring [[psychoactive plant|psychedelic plants]]. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including [[psychedelic drug]]s, plant-based [[entheogen]]s, [[shamanism]], [[metaphysics]], [[alchemy]], [[language]], [[philosophy]], [[culture]], [[technology]], [[environmentalism]], and the theoretical origins of human [[consciousness]]. He was called the "[[Timothy Leary]] of the '90s",<ref>{{cite book |last= Znamenski |first= Andrei A. |title= The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination |year= 2007 |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]] |isbn= 978-0-19-803849-8 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=JFgelrgGSIMC&pg=PA138 138]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Horgan |first= John |author-link= John Horgan (American journalist) |title= Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment |year= 2004 |publisher= [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |isbn= 978-0-547-34780-6 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=7dYV9UJszlUC&pg=PT188 177]}}</ref> "one of the leading authorities on the [[ontological]] foundations of shamanism",<ref name=Mavericks>{{cite book |title= Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium |year= 1993 |publisher= [[Ten Speed Press|Crossing Press]] |location= Freedom, CA |isbn= 978-0-89594-601-0 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/mavericksofmindc00brow/page/9 9–24] |editor1-first= David Jay |editor1-last= Brown |editor1-link= David Jay Brown |editor2-first= Rebecca McClen |editor2-last= Novick |chapter= Mushrooms, Elves And Magic |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/mavericksofmindc00brow/page/9}}</ref> and the "intellectual voice of [[rave|rave culture]]".<ref name="Partridge2006">{{cite book |last=Partridge |first= Christopher |author-link= Christopher Partridge |title= Reenchantment of West |chapter= Ch. 3: Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Contemporary Sacralization of Psychedelics |series= Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture |volume= 2 |year= 2006 |publisher= [[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] |isbn= 978-0-567-55271-6 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=iIfdkgicKhIC&pg=PA113 113]}}</ref>

 

 

==Biography==