Terence McKenna: Psychedelic Psychopomp and Meta Trip-Sitter
Join EGA and Graham St John on EntheoTV Wednesday September 6 2023 for a free, live webcast on Graham’s upcoming biography about one of our most iconic psychedelic visionaries; Terrence McKenna.
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 Graham St John’s 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.
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.
Read more about Graham St John at his website, Edgecentral.
