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Strange Attractor launches in New York 16-18 Oct

Strange Attractor book launches in NYC and @ COSM 16-18 Oct. Poster by Martin Kondwani I'm very happy to announce upcoming book launches this week for Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John Book reading, discussion with the author, buy signed copies. Thursday Oct 16 , 2025 Alchemists Kitchen Elixir Bar, 117 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012 Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm Buy signed copies $35 Tickets at Eventbrite Friday Oct 17 , 2025 Gospel, 28

gstjohn

Oct 152 min read

Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part IV)

“We have unleashed some kind of process that is inimical to the planet, and very very final,” said the visitor. With the session closing on three hours, the laughter subsides as the speaker is at home inside a narrative of mounting tragedy, a turbulent story as familiar to him as it surely is to us. “We’ve triggered the final crisis for the planet. . . . We are trapped in history that gets more and more unimaginable, as the information piles up about the situation we find our

gstjohn

Oct 810 min read

Strange Attractor: US Launch Events

Strange Attractor US Launch events

gstjohn

Oct 31 min read

Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part III)

As his Dodge Place visit demonstrated, McKenna’s friends recognised his abilities as an engaging raconteur. Outrageous and captivating, entertainer-prophet hybrid, part comic and part eschatologist, his capacity to amuse was matched by a proclivity to charm. In recall, tone, and rhythm, he was, at the very least, an extremely talented bullshit artist.

gstjohn

Sep 2711 min read

Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest (Part II)

What did they have to lose? After a pregnant pause, the scraggly bearded beanpole makes a well-timed gesture that causes the room to explode with glee: “So we said, fine. So we’ll try it!”

gstjohn

Sep 1914 min read

Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest [Part 1]

“From that dawn moment when we piled out of our hammocks to look at the mushroom, something was very, very bizarre about me. Something had happened to me. And it was true. I mean . . . I was, and am, in a very strange place.” Such are the musings of Terence McKenna upon his condition in the aftermath of a much-vaunted “experiment” at the mission of La Chorrera deep in the Colombian Amazonas in March 1971.

gstjohn

Sep 1311 min read

Florentine Prince and Funny Bugger: Terence McKenna in Australia

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

gstjohn

Sep 11 min read

Psilocybin Summer (excerpt from Strange Attractor)

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.

gstjohn

Aug 21 min read

Zone Ghost in the Machine: Terence McKenna’s Cyberdelic Reanimation

"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.

gstjohn

May 291 min read