Death

In this early (November 1982) Terence McKenna lecture we hear him describe what took place during what he calls “The Experiment at La Chorrera” as “very loose science or very tight magic”. We also hear some of his earliest formulations of what …

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263-McKenna: "The Last Interview" Part 2

In this final part of Erik Davis’ interview with Terence McKenna, not long before his death, Terence talks about life and death and ways in which psychedelics have somewhat prepared him to face his own imminent death. Near the end of this interview he …

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215-McKenna: "Under the Teaching Tree" Part 1

This is the first part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave at the Ojai Foundation in April of 1985. In it he speaks about death and DMT among other things, such as: “I came to feel, and I still sometimes offhandedly refer to it like this, that it [DMT]…

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202-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 2

Among many other provocative ideas found in this talk is: “The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be ba…

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