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Join Graham St John in the back seat of Terence McKenna’s first and only visit to Australia.

An excerpt from Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna. It takes up the story of the breakthrough in Berkeley in 1975, when the McKenna brothers discovered a method to cultivate the Psilocybe cubensis spores they had retrieved from the Amazon basin, in 1971.

"It's like trying to capture the lightning of Zeus and selling it in a jar at the local drugstore," says Terence McKenna in his near incantatory lilt on 4 Oct 2024.