TERENCE MCKENNA

Terence McKenna was a psychedelic author, explorer, and showman.

In 1975, Terence graduated from Berkeley with a degree in ecology, resource conservation, and shamanism.

In 1985, Terence co-founded the non-profit Botanical Dimensions, with Kathleen Harrison-McKenna, to collect and propagate medicinal and shamanic plants from the tropics around the world. During the 90s, he wrote and lectured widely about shamanism, ethnopharmacology, and psychoactive plants and chemicals (especially psilocybin mushrooms and DMT). His sometimes fantastic theories, lectures, and writings led some to dismiss him as a kook, some to follow him as a visionary, and others to enjoy him as an intellectual entertainer.

He spent the last few years of his life living in Hawaii and died of brain cancer in 2000 at the age of 54.

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