Terence Mckenna last interview CD psychedelic DMT

Track Titles: Disc One

1. Intro

LIFE AND TIMES
2. D'Naz
3. Catholic Rationalists
4. Everything Wants to Communicate
5. Folk Technology
6. The Atom Bomb

ENTHEOGENS, CULTURE, and SPIRITUALITY
7. Civilization is a Carnival
8. Psychedelic Ethics
9. The Download of History
10. Time Will Perfect Matter
11. Postmodern Spirituality
12. Fifty Kilos of Yoga
13. From Plato to Playdough

ALCHEMY and TECHNOLOGY
14. Shamanic Technology
15. Electric Alchemy
16. Magical Material
17. The White Cane
18. Descartes' Angel

THE INTERNET and VIRTUAL CULTURE
19. Native Intelligence
20. Defeated Utopias
21. The Ninth Generation
22. Right on Schedule
23. Not William Burroughs
24. Digital Oracle
25. The Wheel
26. Deep Blue

Track Titles: Disc Two

THE CARTOON CONTINUUM
1. Kinetic Unfolding
2. Shamanic VR
3. Fractal Negotiation
4. White Gloves on a Mouse
5. "Quasi at the Quackadero"

THE ALIEN FUTURE
6. Private Idaho
7. Edgy $**t
8. Dress Rehearsal
9. Gumbies from Space
10. The Other
11. To Serve Man
12. Demon Riddle
13. Lilly
14. Ketamine
15. Ecstasy

THE UR-OBJECT
16. Cracking the Psychedelic Code
17. Neoplatonic Math
18. Late Antiquity
19. Logos Purée
20. Mining the Veins of Entelechy
21. The Garland of Letters

MIND and BRAIN
22. Losing Categories
23. Closed Topologies
24. On the Natch
25. Prozac

THE BIG WHO KNOWS
26. The Revenge of Synthetic Matter
27. Death vs. Dying
28. Turbo-Charged Buddhism
29. The Shadow of the End
30. The Miracle

Biography of Terence Mckenna (from the Wikipedia)

Terence McKenna grew up in a small, highly religious town in western Colorado. Unusually poor eyesight forced him to wear bifocals at an early age. This and his nonathletic nature made him an outcast, and he spent much of his childhood alone. He was introduced to the subject of geology by his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the Arroyos near his home. From this he developed a deeply artistic and scientific appreciation of nature.
McKenna was first informed of psychedelics by the writings of Aldous Huxley. His first direct experience with them came when he ate several packets of commercially produced morning glory seeds, an experience he claimed set the direction of his life.
After graduating from high school, McKenna enrolled in U.C. Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco in The Summer Of Love before his classes began, and was introduced to Cannabis and LSD by Barry Melton, who happened to be rooming in the apartment opposite his.
In 1969 Terence received a B.S. in Ecology and Conservation from the Tussman Experimental College, a short-lived outgrowth of the Berkeley campus. He spent the years after his graduation teaching English in Japan, traveling through India and south Asia; smuggling hashish and collecting butterflies for biological supply companies.
Following the death of his mother in 1971 Terence, his brother Dennis, and three others traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of oo-koo-hé, a plant preparation containing DMT. At La Chorrera, at the urging of his brother, he allowed himself to be the subject of a psychedelic experiment which he claimed put him in contact with The Logos: an informative, hallucinatory voice he believed was universal to visionary religious experience. The revelations of this voice prompted him to explore the structure of the I Ching, which led to his Novelty Theory.
For most of the 1970s McKenna maintained a low profile, living in a nondescript suburban home, supporting his lifestyle with the royalties from the Magic Mushroom Growers Guide, and the cultivation and sale of psilocybin mushrooms. He said that he was frightened out of this line of work, and into public speaking by the harsh penalties the war on drugs exacted from his colleagues. He himself was once wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking.
McKenna was a contemporary and colleague of Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Riane Eisler and participated in joint workshops and symposiums with them. He was a personal friend of Tom Robbins, and influenced the thought of numerous scientists, writers, artists, and entertainers.
He became a fixture of popular counterculture in his later years. Timothy Leary once introduced him as “the real Tim Leary”. He contributed to psychedelic and goa trance albums by The Shamen, Spacetime Continuum, Zuvuya and Shpongle, and his speeches were sampled by many others. He was a skilled orator, and admired by his fans for his eloquence. While some of his presentations included verbatim repetitions of earlier material, his gift for extemporaneous speech allowed him to weave them into seamless performances that varied audience to audience. His responses to novel questions were usually as sophisticated and subtle as his prepared speech.
In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on the subjects of virtual reality (which he saw as a way to artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics), 'techno-paganism,' artificial intelligence, evolution, extraterrestrials, ancestor-worship (or, as he put it, contacting 'dead people'), and aesthetic theory (art/visual experience as 'information,' hence the significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics). He advised the taking of psychedelics in relatively-to-extremely large doses (asserting that those who had only sampled psychedelics in small doses failed to access their full potential), particularly alone, in a dark space, without music or other forms of external stimulation. Philosophically and religiously, he expressed admiration for Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gnostic Christianity, and James Joyce (calling Finnegans Wake the best literary representation of the psychedelic experience). He remained opposed to all forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening. He believed DMT was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience and spoke of the 'jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs' or 'self-transforming machine elves' that one encounters in that state. Although he avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of both monotheism and monogamy), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as being 'trans-dimensional travel, literally,' enabling an individual to encounter what could be aliens, ghosts/ancestors, or spirits of the earth.
McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions with Kathleen Harrison (his colleague and wife of 17 years), a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the Island of Hawaii, where he lived for many years before he died. Before moving to Hawaii permanently McKenna split his time between Hawaii and a town called Occidental, located in the redwood-studded hills of Sonoma County, California a town unique for its high concentration of artistic notables, including Tom Waits and Mickey Hart).
Terrence died in 2000 of glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. He was 53 years old. He is survived by his brother Dennis, his son Finn, and his daughter Klea.

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