Terence McKenna : Open Doors Pt.1

October 15, 2008

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Born in 1946, author and explorer Terence McKenna has spent the last twenty-five years in the study of the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethno-pharmacology of spiritual transformation. McKenna, the founder of Novelty Theory, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a distributed major in Ecology, Resource Conservation and Shamanism. After graduation he traveled extensively in the Asian and New World Tropics, becoming specialized in the shamanism and ethno-medicine of the Amazon Basin. With his brother Dennis, he is the author of The Invisible Landscape and Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom Growers' Guide. A study of the impact of psychotropic plants on human culture and evolution Food of the Gods has recently been published by Bantam, and a book of essays and conversations, The Archaic Revival quickly followed from Harper San Francisco. Most recently a group of discursive chats, Trialogues at the Edge of the West, with mathematician Ralph Abraham and British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, has been published in English, German, French and Spanish editions. His latest book is, True Hallucinations, a narrative of spiritual adventure in the jungles of the Colombian Amazon. He recently appeared on a number of CDs and live performances with musical groups such as The Shamen and Zuvuya in England and Space/Time in San Francisco.http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm

The word psilocybe traces its roots back to the Greek words “psilos” bare and “kube” head, and literally means “bare headed.” This meaning refers to the mushroom’s plain cap. The word may be pronounced with the accent either on the first syllable or on the second. The final “e” is not silent. A fascinating effect of magic mushrooms is an experience that is called synthesia. This happens when a person’s senses seem to overlap; for example, a visualization of color may occur upon hearing a particular sound.

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