Terence McKenna (1947-2000)

Terence McKenna relinquished his body at 2:15 a.m. Pacific time on April 3, 2000. He died at peace and with people whom he loved and who loved him. There will be memorial events in a few cities over the coming months, and information about them will be available as plans are made.

The psychedelic shaman and visionary Terence McKenna returned to his Hawaii home last May with severe headaches that progressed rapidly to a grand mal seizure. It was discovered that he had a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) a malignant brain tumor the size of a walnut. Although the affliction was not causally linked with his more than three decades of smoking and ingesting various psychotropic substances in his career as an ethno-botanical advocate and spokesman, he accepted this cruel twist of fate with composure and peace, and we all will miss him.

McKenna teamed with his brother Dennis to write "The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens and the I Ching" in the 1970s, a bizarre and powerful world view that advocated compacting world cycles culminating in a world-wide apotheosis in the year 2012. Indeed I am sure he was saddest at having to miss this powerful time of unifying psychedelia, the information revolution creating a global brain, and ecstatic reveries of the possibilities of humanityÕs future.

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