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Daniel Pinchbeck (2006) 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Jeremy P. Tarcher, New York City. 384 pages; ISBN: 1585424838. Pinchbeck mentions McKenna and his works in passing a score of times in his exploration of an impending transformation of human consciousness. LibraryThing.
L. G. Nicholas and Kerry Ogamé (2006) Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook: Easy Indoor and Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA. 224 pages; ISBN: 0932551718. Nicholas and Ogamé, in the prologue and first chapter, outline the historical significance of the mushroom cultivation method the McKenna brothers detail in their “classic” Psilocybin, magic mushroom grower’s guide: A handbook for psilocybin enthusiasts (1976). “With its philosophical asides, lovely, phantasmagorical illustrations, and Lovecraftian speculations about the off-world origins of the organisms and their import for humankind… it is, above all, a great read.”. LibraryThing.
Andy Letcher (2006) Shroom: A cultural history of the magic mushroom. Faber and Faber, London. 360 pages; ISBN: 0571227708. Letcher devotes a chapter to McKenna: “The Elf-Clowns of Hyperspace,” Chapter 14, pp. 250-274 in the Faber and Faber edition. According to Letcher, “… the jury is still out on the question of whether McKenna was an unsung Newton, or was just plain nuts, …”. LibraryThing.
Jan Irvin and Andrew Rutajit (2006) Astrotheology and shamanism: Unveiling the law of duality in Christianity and other religions. Illustrator: Nicholas Zervos. Book Tree, San Diego CA. 236 pages; ISBN: 1585091073, 978-1585091072. McKenna's stoned ape theory—as well as the entire “The mushroom speaks” from Psilocybin, magic mushroom grower’s guide (1976)—among several other quotes, adorn this kaleidoscopic treatment of drugs, gods and the skies. LibraryThing.
Vanessa Grigoriadis (2006) Daniel Pinchbeck and the new psychedelic elite. Rolling Stone no.1008 ISSN: 0035-791X. "The 2006 Fall music review." Illustrator: Matt Mahurin; pp.88-90,114,116; More information: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11217201/daniel_pinchbeck_and_the_new_psychedelic_elite. Profile of Pinchbeck, author of Breaking open the head: A psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism (2002) and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (2006), who is cast as a pretender to the throne once occupied by Leary, and then McKenna.
Dan Carpenter (2006) A psychonaut's guide to the invisible landscape : The topography of the psychedelic experience. Park Street Press, Rochester VT. 128 pages; ISBN: 1594770905. Carpenter invokes the title of McKenna’s first book, and heeds his call to document the psychedelic experience, in discussing his DXM (Dextromethorphan) trips. He speculates, building on Jeremy Narby's The Cosmic Serpent, that McKenna’s self-transforming machine elves of hyperspace are an altered state perception of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid). LibraryThing.
Geoff Stray (2005) Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or ecstasy: A complete guide to end-of-time predictions. Vital Signs Publishing, Lewes UK. 352 pages; ISBN: 095506080X. Stray discusses Dennis and Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero method of calculating the arrival of the Eschaton based on the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, and relates their theories to many other predictions concerning the winter solstice of 2012. LibraryThing.
Tom Robbins (2005) Terence McKenna. In Wild ducks flying backward Bantam Dell, New York City. 112-116 pages; ISBN: 0553804510. Robbins reprints his foreword to The archaic revival: speculations on psychedelic mushrooms, the Amazon, virtual reality, UFOs, evolution, shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess, and the end of history (1991). LibraryThing.
Clifford A. Pickover (2005) Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves : Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence. Smart Publications, Petaluma CA. 352 pages; ISBN: 1890572179. Pickover quotes McKenna in his narrative concerning DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), but mainly uses him, among many, in epigrammatic sidebars. More information: http://smartpub.web01.yourhost.com/books/Sex-Drugs-Einstein%20&%20Elves.php.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Ralph Metzner (2005) Sacred mushroom of visions: Teonanácatl: A sourcebook on the psilocybin mushroom. Park Street Press, Rochester VT. 294 pages; ISBN: 1594770441. Metzner summarizes, in six or seven sympathetic pages of his introduction to this collection of essays, McKenna’s ideas about entheogenic mushrooms (psilocybin) (pp.36-43). This edition is a reprint of the original Teonanácatl. More information: http://www.innertraditions.com/Product.jmdx?action=displayDetail&id=1193.Purchase: http://www.rmetzner-greenearth.org/book_sacred_mushrooms.htm. LibraryThing.
Philip Coppens (2005) The hyperdimensional ambassador: Terence McKenna. Sub Rosa: Where Science and Magic, Myth and History Meet no.1 pp.24-31; More information: http://download.dailygrail.com/subrosa/SubRosa_Issue1-Single.pdf. .
Martin Torgoff (2004) Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. Simon & Schuster, New York City. 560 pages; ISBN: 0743230108. Torgoff profiles McKenna for several pages in the chapter “Nouveau Psychedelia.” Interspersed with snatches of interview is a summary of McKenna’s The archaic revival, illustrated with notions from Food of the gods (pp. 411-16). More information: http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=torgoff.html.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Ralph Metzner (2004) Teonanácatl: Sacred mushroom of visions. Four Trees Press, El Verano CA. 287 pages; ISBN: 0936329017. Metzner summarizes, in six or seven sympathetic pages of his introduction to this collection of essays, McKenna’s ideas about entheogenic mushrooms (psilocybin) (pp.37-43). http://www.rmetzner-greenearth.org/book_sacred_mushrooms.htm">http://www.rmetzner-greenearth.org/book_sacred_mushrooms.htm. LibraryThing.
Eric Paul Cunningham (2004) Visions of a place beyond time: Nishida Kitarō’s historical world and the problem of overcoming modernity. Ph.D. Dissertation in History. Jeffrey Hanes, Advisor. University of Oregon, 480 pages; More information: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=765349911&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=17866&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Daniel Wojcik (2003) Apocalyptic and millennarian aspects of American UFOism. In UFO religions Editor: Christopher Partridge. Routledge, London. 274-300 (of 383) pages; ISBN: 0415263239. Wojcik summarizes McKenna’s view of UFOs as foreshadowing our encounter with the Eschaton, referring to chapters in The archaic revival. LibraryThing.
Peter Stafford (2003) Psychedelics. Ronin Publishing, Berkeley. 144 pages; ISBN: 0914171186. LibraryThing.
Steven Shaviro (2003) Connected, or what it means to live in the Network Society. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 289 pages; ISBN: 0816643628. LibraryThing.
Jim Richardson and Allen Richardson (2003) Trippin’ Balls: DNA TV. Ripsaw News Dec 10, More information: http://www.gonzoscience.com/columns/0018-McKenna.htm.
John Horgan (2003) The man in the purple sparkly suit. In Rational Mysticism Houghton Mifflin, New York City. 177-194 (of 292) pages; ISBN: 0618060278. LibraryThing.
Nevill Drury (2003) Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans. Thames & Hudson, New York City. 240 pages; ISBN: 0500511403. LibraryThing.
Jim DeRogatis (2003) Turn on your mind: Four decades of great psychdelic rock. Hal Leonard Corporation, New York City. ISBN: 0634055488. Briefly discusses McKenna’s involvement with and influence on the rave scene. LibraryThing.
Eugene Burger and Jeff McBride (2003) Mystery school: an adventure into the deeper meaning of magic. Miracle Factory, Seattle. 448 pages; ISBN: 0971040540. McKenna appears in a section entitled: “Terence Mckenna: Magic, Science, and Language”. More information: http://miraclefactory.net/mystery.htm.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Daniel Pinchbeck (2002) Breaking open the head: A psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism. Broadway Books, New York City. 272 pages; ISBN: 0767907426. Reviewed in L.A. Weekly (2002). More information: http://www.breakingopenthehead.com/.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Mark Pesce (2002) Bios and Logos. Pesce explores ideas in The invisible landscape. Posted: Oct 3, 2002. Visited: Jun 4, 2003. More information: http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/biosandlogos.html.
Geoff Dyer (2002) The Visionary Cookbook. L.A. Weekly October 25-31, p.51, Section. 49 Edition. Illustrator: Brian Stauffer. ISSN: 0192-1940. [Review of Breaking open the head] Dyer’s positive review of Pinchbeck’s Breaking open the head takes the book seriously, and both mentions and quotes McKenna. More information: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/49/books-dyer.php.
Marcus Boon (2002) The imaginal realms: Psychedelics and literature. In The road of excess : A history of writers on drugs Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 218-275 (of 320) pages; ISBN: 0674009142. Boon mentions Food of the gods and True hallucinations on pages 268-70. “…McKenna’s view of the psychedelic imagination is more gnostic than Huxley’s,” since his other worlds “… exist separately from, but are accessible from, this one”. LibraryThing.
Stephen Beard (2002) Aftershocks: the End of Style Culture. Wallflower Press, London. 191 pages; ISBN: 1903364248. Beard publishes here a story that didn’t make it into the London style magazine i-D in 1994 (131, Aug) entitled Confidence Trickster; a review of McKenna’s appearance at Megatripolis that morphs into a positive review of True hallucinations. “Prowling the stage with the mike like a predatory stand-up comedian, he looked every inch the postmodern storyteller as he regaled his audience with tales from the far side of the druggie experience”. LibraryThing.
Stuart Walton (2001) Out of it: A cultural history of intoxication. 1^st ed. Hamish Hamilton, London. 320 pages; ISBN: 0241140382. Walton, in his quest to establish intoxication as a biological imperative, and reclaim it as a fundamental human right, cites Food of the gods in several contexts. LibraryThing.
Andrew O'Hehir (2001) Tripping: An anthology of true-life psychedelic adventures. The Oxford American no.38 Mar/Apr, ISSN: 1074-4525. [Review of Tripping] Illustrator: Peter Spacek; pp.135; Positive review of Tripping, the “undisputed highlight” of which is the extended interview with McKenna.
Dennis J. McKenna (2001) Terence R.I.P. High Times no.305 Jan, ISSN: 0310-2165. pp.8;
Ian Winn (2000) Major Terence: Bon voyage, mushroom philosopher. The Anchorage Press August 10-16, Section. 9(32) Edition. More information: http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/documentb02f.html.
Bryan Winchell (2000) Terence McKenna, R.I.P.: Psychedelic visionary explores mind-expanding drugs, the Amazon rain forest, the end of time and now, death. Tacoma Reporter Apr 26, Section. More information: http://www.maps.org/forum/2000/msg00240.html.
Mike Tribby (2000) Tripping. Booklist Vol:97 no.6 Nov 15, ISSN: 0006-7385. [Review of Tripping (2000)] pp.590; Positive review of Tripping (2000). The interview with McKenna is described as “fitting”. “For seriously treating what is often characterised as nihilistic and destructive entertainment, the book deserves its place in the literature of psychoactive substances.”.
James Sullivan (2000) In Celebration of Terence McKenna: Phil Lesh joins Lost at Last. San Francisco Chronicle Dec 14, p.E2, Section. A brief article promoting the Lost at Last and Phil Lesh gig at a North Beach club, on December 15, 2000, celebrating McKenna. More information: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/14/DD51823.DTL.
Michael Simmons (2000) Terence McKenna: The truth understood. High Times no.300 Aug, ISSN: 0310-2165. Illustrator: Robert Venosa; pp.26; Purchase: http://headshop.hightimes.com/cgi-bin/72D07F2D/mac/additmdtl.mac/showItemDetail?item=300 .
Alix Sharkey (2000) Obituary: Terence McKenna. Independent Apr 15, p.7, Section. Foreign Edition.
Steve Robles (2000) A shaman worth hearing: In memoriam Terence McKenna, 1946-2000. San Francisco Bay Guardian Vol:34 no.30 Apr 26, ISSN: 0036-4096. pp.35; An obituary (with a number of factual errors) by an “experimental DJ” focussing on McKenna’s relationship to acid house music and the rave phenomenon.
Jim Richardson and Allen Richardson (2000) Gonzo Science: In Memoriam; Terrence [sic] McKenna. Ripsaw News Vol:2 no.20 Aug 2, pp.19; More information: http://www.gonzoscience.com/columns/0018-McKenna.htm.
Nestor Perala (2000) McKenna didn’t predict the end of the world, exactly. Mushroom: The journal of wild mushrooming Vol:18 no.4 Fall #69, ISSN: 0740-8161. pp.39; Letter to the editor. Perala corrects the impression in Martin’s New York Times obituary (Terence McKenna, 53, Dies, 2000) that McKenna ever stated “the end of the world” would occur on December 22, 2012: “At a weekend workshop which he conducted, I asked him what the world would be like the day after Dec. 22. He said, ‘I have no idea. I can only tell you what my calculations show’”.
Pablo P. Pavillard (2000) McKenna y la broma cósmica [McKenna and the cosmic joke]. In Visionarios. Ebriedad, sustancias y plantas de poder: Reflexión y creatividad [Visionaries. Intoxication, essences and plants of power: Reflection and creativity] Editor: José Carlos Aguirre. (In Spanish) El Idiota, Madrid. 320 pages; LibraryThing.
Don Mills (2000) ‘90s version of Timothy Leary believed drugs were salvation. National Post Vol:2 no.143 Apr 10, ISSN: 1486-8008. pp.A16;
Dennis J. McKenna (2000) Terence McKenna Update: December ‘99. After Dark: the official Art Bell newsletter February, pp.14;
Douglas Martin (2000) Terence McKenna, “the Timothy Leary of the ‘90s,” dies. Mushroom: The journal of wild mushrooming Vol:18 no.3 Summer #68, ISSN: 0740-8161. pp.30; Excerpt of Martin’s New York Times obituary Terence McKenna, 53, Dies.
Douglas Martin (2000) Terence McKenna, 53, Dies; Patron of Psychedelic Drugs. New York Times Apr 9, p.40, Section. Sunday, Final Edition. ISSN: 0362-4331.
Mark Luce (2000) Good Trips, Bad Trips — the Use and Abuse of Illegal Drugs. San Francisco Chronicle Dec 3, p.5,11, Section. [Review of Tripping] Luce reviews Plant’s Writing on drugs and Hayes’ Tripping. While he is irritated by the number accounts in the book and the length of the McKenna interview, Luce finds the book intriguing and McKenna insightful. More information: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/03/RV88864.DTL.
Lawrence Hagerty (2000) The spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the evolution of global consciousness. Matrix Masters, San Diego. 240 pages; ISBN: 097036511X. Hagerty dedicates the book to McKenna, and quotes McKenna from several sources, including In praise of psychedelics (1988), Spacetime Tsunami (1992), Psychedelic society (1997). LibraryThing.
Nevill Drury (2000) History of magic in the modern age: A quest for personal transformation. Carrol & Graf, New York City. 304 pages; ISBN: 0786707828. McKenna is discussed in Chapter Ten: Archetypes and Cyberspace. LibraryThing.
Erik Davis (2000) Terence McKenna’s last trip. Wired Vol:8 no.5 May, ISSN: 1059-1028. pp.156,158,160,162,164,166,168; More information: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/mckenna.html.
Frazer Clark (2000) Obituary for a prophet unrecognised in his own time. Visited: Apr 10, 2000.
Richard T. Carey (2000) Illuminated Manuscript: Robert Venosa’s Illuminatus. MAPS: Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Vol:10 no.3 Fall, Editor: Sylvia Thyssen and Jon Hanna; "Psychedelics and Creativity." Illustrator: Robert Venosa; pp.28-29;
Anon (2000) Spiritual theorist also promoted mushrooms. Daily Breeze Apr 6, p.A4, Section. Brief obituary.
Anon (2000) Obituaries; Terence McKenna; Promoter of Psychedelic Drug Use. Los Angeles Times Apr 7, p.B6, Section. Illustrator: Photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle © 1994. ISSN: 0458-3035. This obituary quotes Greatful Dead leader Jerry Garcia: “[He’s] the only person who’s made a serious effort to objectify the psychedelic experience—and done a good job of it.“.
Anon (2000) In Memorium: Terence McKenna. Green Egg: a journal of the awakening Earth Vol:32 no.134 May-Jun, ISSN: 1066-7385. "Play & Imagination." pp.48;
Anon (2000) Terence McKenna takes his ultimate trip. Shaman's Drum: a journal of experiential Shamanism no.56 Summer, ISSN: 0887-8897. pp.9;
Anon (2000) In Memoriam: Terence McKenna. MAPS: Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Vol:10 no.2 Summer, "Endings and Beginnings." pp.20; More information: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/terence.html.
Anon (2000) Terence McKenna. San Francisco Chronicle Apr 6, p.C2, Section. Final Edition.
Anon (2000) Terrence [sic] McKenna: Final message from beyond. Ecstasy: Journal of Divine Experience no.3 "The Sex Issue!" pp.Announcement of TMs death, followed by TMs Novelty List address of [date].
Anon (2000) Terence McKenna, psychedelic pioneer, dies aged 53. Reuters English News Service Apr 7, p.A9, Section. Night Final Edition.
Anon (2000) New-age theorist and magic mushroom advocate Terence McKenna dies. Associated Press State & Local Wire Apr 5, Section.
David Aardvark (2000) Reflecting…. Entheogen Review Vol:9 no.3 Winter, ISSN: 1066-1913. pp.121; Review of Dec. 15, 2000 Countdown to 2012 benefit for McKenna at 7^th Note Showclub in San Francisco.
David Aardvark (2000) Saying Good-bye… (a farewell to Terence McKenna). Entheogen Review Vol:9 no.1 Spring/Summer, ISSN: 1066-1913. pp.1;
Peter Meyer (1999) Fractal Time: The Software. More information: http://serendipity.magnet.ch/twz/index.html.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Peter Meyer (1999) History of the Timewave Software. Posted: Aug 30, 2000. Visited: Nov 25, 2000. More information: http://web.archive.org/web/19991008022207/http://serendipity.nofadz.com/ft/twz/hist.html.
Mark Lawrence McPhail (1999) (Re)reading resistance at the end of the twentieth century. Critical Studies in Mass Communication Vol:16 no.4 Dec, ISSN: 0739-3180. pp.478-480;
Eden b (1999) Terence McKenna: Psychedelische Erfahrungen [psychedelic experiences]. In Cybertribe — Visionen Editor: Wolfgang Sterneck. (In German) KomistA & Nachtschatten-Verlag, Solothurn CH. 173-175 (of 240) pages; ISBN: 3928988042. More information at: http://www.sterneck.net/cybertribe/drogen/terence-mckenna-pilze . LibraryThing.
Dennis William Hauck (1999) The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation. Penguin Books, New York City. 452 pages; ISBN: 0140195718. Hauck quotes briefly from The archaic revival (1991) and the Omni interview (Interview: Terence McKenna, 1993) in his recasting of Hermetic teachings for modern alchemical seekers. LibraryThing.
Jon Hanna (1999) Timothy Leary: outside looking in. Entheogen Review Vol:8 no.3 ISSN: 1066-1913. [Review of Timothy Leary: outside looking in] pp.120-121; Hanna gives a positive review of this Leary festschrift, but without mentioning McKenna’s contribution.
Jon Hanna (1999) Terence. Entheogen Review Vol:8 no.2 Summer, ISSN: 1066-1913. pp.45;
Michael Fairchild (1999) Rock Prophecy: Sex & Jimi Hendrix in World Religions; The Original Asteroid Prediction & Microsoft Connection; Defining the Faith of Creation’s Way: Religion of the Freeks. First Century Press, Rochester NY. 380 pages; ISBN: 1929342020. Fairchild quotes extensively from Food of the gods in his exegetical resuscitation of Jimi Hendrix’s “prophecy… concerning an asteroidal extinction event. In Fairchild’s view, Hendrix is the “figurehead” of McKenna’s archaic revival (p. 189). LibraryThing.
Fred Botting (1999) Virtual Romanticism. In Romanticism and postmodernism Editor: Edward Larrisy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. 98-112 (of 238) pages; ISBN: 0521642728. LibraryThing.
Simon Reynolds (1998) Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 454 pages; ISBN: 0316741116. McKenna’s stoned ape theory and the Eschaton, as well as his influence on rave culture, receive a scattered handful of mentions. There is also a 1999 paperback edtion by Routledge, New York, 0415923735. LibraryThing.
Jonathan Ott (1998) Post-Wasson history of the Soma Plant. Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds Vol:New Series no.1 ISSN: 1129-7301. pp.29-37; Ott criticizes Food of the gods for sloppy scholarship.
Michael Mirolla (1998) Mind-melding on the Net. Gazette Feb 8, p.D4, Section. Final Edition. ISSN: 0384-1294.
Gyrus (1998) The End of the River. Towards 2012 no.4/5 ISSN: 1359-2815. "apocalypse." pp.[121]-[126],[128]; More information: http://dreamflesh.com/essays/endofriver/.
John N. Grunwell (1998) Ayahuasca Tourism in South America. MAPS: Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Vol:8 no.3 Fall, "The Ayahuasca Issue." pp.59-62; More information: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v08n3/08359gru.html.
Kevin Tyler Dann (1998) Bright colors falsely seen: Synaesthesia and the modern search for transcendental knowledge. Yale University Press, New Haven CT. 240 pages; ISBN: 0300066198. LibraryThing.
Antonio Bianchi and Piero Coppo (1998) La cultura psichedelica e il mito della revoluzione planetaria [Psychedelic culture and the myth of planetary revolution]. In Piante, sciamani e droghe: uso e abuso dell'estasi chimica [Plants, shamans and drugs: Use and abuse of chemical ecstasy] (In Italian) Edizione Colibrì, Milano. 53-75 (144 total) pages; ISBN: 8886345186. McKenna’s work is discussed in the section “McKenna e l’iperspazio: una mitologia mancata,” 69-72 [McKenna and hyperspace: a failed mythology]. LibraryThing.
Harley Barnhart (1998) Sacred mushrooms and the law. Mushroom: The journal of wild mushrooming Vol:16 no.4 Fall #61, ISSN: 0740-8161. [Review of Sacred mushrooms & the law] pp.34-35; Favorable review of Boire’s book Sacred mushrooms & the law, although McKenna’s foreword is labelled “rancorous and contumacious”.
Anon (1998) unknown. Esquire Japan Vol:? Mar, pp.?;
Anon (1998) Het Leeslint: Drugs. Dagblad de Limburger Oct 2, Section. (In Dutch)
Anon (1998) Trialogues at the Edge of the Millennium: A day with Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake. Business Wire May 21, p.1, Section.
Mike Rose (1997) Psychedelic Eden. Spirit no.6 Jun/Jul, Illustrator: Josef Cabey; pp.14-15; A brief survey of psychedelic issues and substances. McKenna is mentioned several times.
Michael Pinchera (1997) Dennis McKenna Interview. TRP: The Resonance Project no.2 Winter, Dennis McKenna briefly mentions how Terence turned his little brother on to marijuana, along with his feelings about the Eschaton.
Sukie Miller (1997) After Death : A Geography of the Journey Beyond Death. Simon & Schuster, New York City. 240 pages; ISBN: 0684822369. Brief discussion of McKenna’s description of DMT hyperspace (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) as an “afterdeath vision,” along with such visions of Swedenborg and Rudolph Steiner. (pp. 131-2 of the 1^st edition). LibraryThing.
Bruce Eisner (1997) Dedication to Terence McKenna. Psychedelic Island Views Vol:3 no.1 "Terence McKenna's vision of a future culture." Illustrator: photo: Kathleen Carr; pp.1;
Paul Devereux (1997) The long trip: a prehistory of psychedelia. Penguin Arkana, New York City. xxii,298 pages; ISBN: 0140195408. LibraryThing.
Paul De Rienzo and Dana Beal (1997) The Ibogaine Story : Report on the Staten Island Project. Autonomedia, Brooklyn NY. 352 pages; ISBN: 1570270295. More information: http://www.cures-not-wars.org/ibogaine/.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Matthew Collin and John Godfrey (1997) Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House. Serpent's Tail, London. 288 pages; ISBN: 1852423773. Brief discussion of McKenna, and his relation to house music in the 1990s (pp. 205-6 of the first edition). LibraryThing.
Kate Chapman (1997) 1997 Botanical Preservation Corps Seminar on Ethnobotany and Chemistry of Psychoactive Plants. MAPS: Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Vol:7 no.2 Spring, "Synchronicity." pp.13-17; More information: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v07n2/07213cha.html.
Anon (1997) LX94 Manual of Evasion. Head Magazine no.8 ISSN: 1359-2815. [Review of Manual of evazion] pp.15; Regretful negative review of Pêra’s Manual of evazion: “It kind of degenerates into the McKenna roadshow…”.
Anon (1997) Renowned Ethnobotanist Terence McKenna to Chat on Talk City, The Chat Network. PR Newswire Oct 6, Section.
Gary Wolf (1996) And No Techno!. Favorable review of Surfing on Finnegan’s wake. Visited: Feb 6, 2001. More information: http://web.archive.org/web/20000525184649/http://hotwired.lycos.com/books/96/01/mckenna.html.
Ian Winn (1996) Notes on a Weekend with Terence McKenna. Tweak More information: http://www.tweak.com/muck/dement/.
Andrew Weil (1996) Pharmacology of consciousness: a narrative of subjective experience. In Toward a Science of Consciousness: the first Tucson discussions and debates Editor: Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak and Alwyn C. Scott. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 677-689 (of 790) pages; ISBN: 0262082497. Weil dismisses McKenna’s psilocybin/magic mushroom (psilocybin) origin of consciousness theory [p. 687], saying that accidental ingestion of psychedelics by primates could reduce, rather than increase, their chance of procreating. LibraryThing.
Michael Simmons (1996) I killed Tim Leary. L.A. Weekly Oct 3, p.100-101, Section. ISSN: 0192-1940. Cartoon version of the story of a synchronistic encounter with Leary, involving McKenna, The archaic revival and Leary’s High Priest.
Michael Simmons (1996) We’d love to turn you off: The VA’s bad trip over psychedelic futurist. L.A. Weekly May 31-Jun 6, p.16-17,20, Section. Illustrator: photo: Kathleen Carr. ISSN: 0192-1940. Simmons reports on the unsuccessful attempt by UCLA, at the behest of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to block McKenna from speaking at a VA auditorium. More information: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.leary.com/news/Politics/Terrence.html.
Dennis Romero (1996) Talking with the Timothy Leary of the ‘90s. Los Angeles Times May 3, p.1-3, Section. Illustrator: photo: Jay Blakesberg. ISSN: 0458-3035.
Stephen Rees (1996) Metamorphosis: A trialogue on chaos and the world soul. Video Librarian Vol:11 no.1 ISSN: 0887-6851. [Review of Metamorphosis] pp.16; A review of Metamorphosis (1995) recommending it only for “think tanks and university libraries”.
Judith Palmer (1996) EVENT The Incident ICA, London. Independent Oct 18, p.19, Section.
William S. Moxley (1996) The Center of the Universe: A Theory of Psychedelic Experience. Several paragraph discussion of McKenna’s psilocybin/magic mushroom (psilocybin) origin of consciousness theory, among others, in Chapter Seven: Evolution. Moxley mentions Andrew Weil’s rejection of McKenna’s theory that appeared in Toward a Science of Consciousness. Visited: Dec 1, 2000. More information: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/univcont.htm.
Richard Kadrey (1996) Chaos and the World Soul. Wired Vol:4 no.1 ISSN: 1059-1028. [Review of Metamorphosis] More information: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/streetcred.html?pg=4.
Harley Jebens (1996) Digital dreams; It’s a dream, it’s a game, it’s a film, it’s… ‘Strange Attractor’ a psychedelic Web experience unlike any other. Austin American-Statesman May 9, p.22, Section. ISSN: 0199-8560.
Desson Howe (1996) Film Capsules. Washington Post Mar 22, p.N41, Section. Final Edition. ISSN: 0190-8286.
Gyrus (1996) Dionysus Risen. Towards 2012 no.2 ISSN: 1359-2815. pp.42-56; More information: http://dreamflesh.com/essays/dionysusrisen/.
Josh Grossberg (1996) Reputation precedes ‘Leary protege'’: VA tries to move speech off site. The Outlook May 11, p.B1, Section. ISSN: 0898-5375.
Elyssa Getreu (1996) Free Speech. City News Service May 10, Section.
Randy Gener (1996) The state of the stone: A psychedelic reformation is underway: A report from the edge. Village Voice Nov 5, ISSN: 0042-6180. pp.33;
Mark Dery (1996) Escape velocity: cyberculture at the end of the century. Grove Press, New York NY. viii, 376 pages; ISBN: 0802115802. LibraryThing.
Horace Beach (1996) Listening for the Logos: a study of reports of audible voices at high doses of psilocybin. MAPS: Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Vol:7 no.1 Winter, "Learning to Crawl." pp.12-17; More information: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v07n1/07112bea.html.
Anon (1996) Timothy Leary’s dead. Independent Oct 6, p.4, Section.
Runyan Wilde (1995) Hallucinations on the archaic revival. Psychedelic Illuminations no.8 Winter 1995-6, pp.66-69;
Barry Walters (1995) McKenna: Exit, stage left; All talk, no action at Solo Mio. San Francisco Examiner Oct 2, p.C1, Section.
Scott Veale (1995) Nowhere Land. New York Times Dec 31, p.11, Section. Late Edition. ISSN: 0362-4331. [Review of The Flight into Egypt: Binding the Book (1995)] Mixed review of Ely’s pictorial work based on his grandfather’s travel journal. Veale declares McKenna’s Foreword “entertaining” and “stuffed with New Age blarney”.
Barbara J. Vaughan (1995) Global Perspectives and Psychedelic Poets [sic] by Terence McKenna. Library Journal Vol:120 no.2 Feb 1, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of Global perspectives and psychedelic poetics] pp.115; Generally positive review of Global perspectives and psychedelic poetics. “[H]is arguments are provocative, incisive, and not without a scholarly base. He should be heard by experts in fields involved in studying psychoactive drugs”.
Peter Stack (1995) Everybody Must Get Hemp, Film Suggests. San Francisco Chronicle Nov 29, p.C1, Section. Final Edition.
Jon Spayde (1995) 100 visionaries who could change your life. Utne Reader Jan, ISSN: 8750-0256. pp.54-82; McKenna is briefly profiled as #67 on page 70, and describes his current interests (the rave scene, virtual reality and virtual community) on page 80.
Ard Qualm (1995) Voedsel der Goden (excerpts). EGO 2000 no.6 (In Dutch) pp.95-97;
Russ Kick (1995) Alien dreamtime. In Outposts: A catalog of rare and disturbing alternative information Carrol & Graf, New York. 62-63 (of 264) pages; ISBN: 0786702028. LibraryThing.
Russ Kick (1995) The invisible landscape. In Outposts: A catalog of rare and disturbing alternative information Carrol & Graf, New York. 62 (of 264) pages; ISBN: 0786702028. LibraryThing.
Russ Kick (1995) Food of the gods. In Outposts: A catalog of rare and disturbing alternative information Carrol & Graf, New York. 62 (of 264) pages; ISBN: 0786702028. LibraryThing.
John Hartl (1995) Anti-reefer madness: the case for hemp. Seattle Times Nov 17, p.F6, Section. Final Edition. ISSN: 0745-9696.
Carol Dratch-Kovler (1995) Alien Dreamtime. Library Journal Vol:120 no.6 Apr 1, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of Alien Dreamtime] pp.139;
Kevin Tyler Dann (1995) Bright colors falsely seen: Synaesthesia and the modern search for transcendental knowledge. Ph.D. Dissertation in History. T. J. Jackson Lears, Advisor. Rutgers University, New Brunswick. 375 pages; More information: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=742794371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=17866&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Kirsten Bonde (1995) Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. Anthropology of Consciousness Vol:6 no.1 Mar, ISSN: 1053-4202. [Review of Food of the gods] pp.35-36;
Anon (1995) Surfing on Finnegans Wake and Riding Range with Marshall McCluhan. Publishers Weekly Vol:242 no.36 Sep 4, ISSN: 0000-0019. [Review of Surfing on Finnegan’s wake] pp.32-33;
Robert Anton Wilson (1994) Chaos and beyond: The best of Trajectories. The Permanent Press, San Jose CA. ISBN: 1886404003. Wilson collects essays from his Trajectories magazine, including his review of Food of the gods: Book Previews (1991). LibraryThing.
Valdamar Valerian (1994) Matrix IV: The Equivideum: Paradigms and Dimensions of Human Evolution and Consciousness. Leading Edge International Research Group, Yelm WA. 1134 pages; LibraryThing.
D. M. Turner (1994) The Essential Psychedelic Guide. Panther Press, San Francisco Ca. 112 pages; ISBN: 0964263610. LibraryThing.
David Toop (1994) Pop Singles. Times Aug 6, Section. ISSN: 0307-661X.
R. U. (Ken Goffman) Sirius (1994) Sleeping with the Aliens. Wired Vol:2 no.5 ISSN: 1059-1028. [Review of Alien Dreamtime] pp.112; More information: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/streetcred.html.
Douglas Rushkoff (1994) Cyberia: Life in the trenches of hyperspace. 1^st ed. HarperCollins, San Francsico. xii,258 pages; ISBN: 006251010X. More information: http://www.rushkoff.com/cyberia/index.html.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Howard L. Rheingold (1994) True hallucinations. Whole Earth Review no.82 Spring, ISSN: 0749-5056. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.107; Positive review of True hallucinations, followed by an excerpt where Dennis McKenna telephones his mother in 1953 from the jungle in 1971.
Steve Rabey (1994) Instant karma/ Psychedelic drug use on the rise as a quick route to spirituality. Colorado Springs Gazette - Telegraph Aug 13, p.E1, Section. McKenna is briefly profiled among others in this article on drug use for spiritual growth.
Michael Raymond Pryzdia (1994) The wake of imagination and the postmodern meaning of “meaning” (Derrida, Jacques, Campbell, Joseph, Thompson, William Irwin, Mckenna, Terence). Ph.D. Dissertation in Philosophy. Ellen Berry, Advisor. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green. 228 pages; More information: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=741286621&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=17866&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Randy Pitman (1994) Alien Dreamtime. Video Librarian Vol:9 no.3 May-Jun, ISSN: 0887-6851. [Review of Alien Dreamtime] pp.26; Generally positive review of Alien Dreamtime: “Older acid freaks will probably love this, …”.
Tom McIntyre (1994) Millenium Witness; Psychedelic anthropologist Terence McKenna takes on the brave new world. San Francisco Examiner Oct 9, p.12-13,19-24, Section. Illustrator: photo: Ken Miller.
Jules Marshall (1994) Zippies! Wired Vol:2 no.5 May, ISSN: 1059-1028. pp.79+; Identifies McKenna as a “psychedelic hero” to “zippies,” British Zen-inspired professional pagans, or "“hippies with zip"”.
Howard Manly (1994) Listening to the voices from ‘Cyberia’. The Sun Jul 21, p.10D, Section. McKenna is quoted as one of the voices from Douglas Rushkoff’s Cyberia: Life in the trenches of hyperspace (1994). Rushkoff comments: “[H]ave psychedelics and virtual reality really come to us as a philosopher’s stone, or is it simply that our philosophers are stoned?”.
Samuel Lawson (1994) Life’s middle name: Intiatory fear and spontaneous ego-death misperceived as biological death. Towards 2012 no.1 ISSN: 1359-2815. "Part 1: Death/Rebirth." pp.14-25; More information: http://dreamflesh.com/essays/lifesmiddlename/. Lawson includes a passing reference to True hallucinations, and quotes the passage where Dennis climbs the “world tree” and gazes into “the vortex” before fainting.
James Kent (1994) Renegade in Babylon: Terence McKenna and the Descent into Chaos. Whole Life Times ISSN: 0279-5604. More information: http://users.lycaeum.org/~lux/features/renegade.htm.
Richard Kadrey (1994) Alien Dreamtime. Whole Earth Review no.82 Spring, ISSN: 0749-5056. [Review of Alien Dreamtime (Video, 1993)] pp.106; A positive review: “A sure delight for Deadheads, psychedelic shock troops, UFO mutants, technoids and New Agers of all persuasions.”.
Cliff Jones (1994) Insane in the membrane. The Face Vol:2 no.67 Apr, ISSN: 0263-1210. pp.98-102;
Tom Hodgkinson (1994) Fungus freaks. New Statesman & Society Vol:7 no.309 Jul 1, ISSN: 0954-2361. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.37-38; Snickering review of True hallucinations. “For any grown-up dreamer whose youth was clouded with tales of mystery and adventure but is now intrigued by the revelatory promises of drug-taking—and there are a lot of them around—the book is a dream come true”.
Mary Jo Griffith (1994) Main Event: Counterculture figure speaks at Chapman. Orange County Register Mar 31, p.F2, Section. Brief announcement of the Chapman University conference “Psychedelics, Rave Culture and the Students of the ’90s: Creativity, Insight and Illumination.”, where McKenna appeared with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass.
Eric Gladstone (1994) Terence McKenna’s rave new world. AP (Alternative Press) Vol:8 no.68 Mar, ISSN: 1065-1667. pp.90; Review of Alien Dreamtime.
Brendan Glacken (1994) Tripping out with Terence, the psychonaut of inner space. Irish Times May 23, p.12, Section. City Edition. ISSN: 0791-5144.
Jim DeRogatis (1994) Compilations of music to rave by. Chicago Sun-Times May 8, p.5, Section. Late Sports Final Edition. ISSN: 0195-6442.
Susan De Muth (1994) In bed with Susan de Muth: Life is a waking psychedelic dream; Terence McKenna. Independent May 18, p.21, Section.
Erik Davis (1994) Zippy the tech-head: British cyber-hippies invade New York. Village Voice Jul 5, ISSN: 0042-6180. pp.29;
Catherine Applefeld (1994) Video Previews: Performance. Billboard Vol:106 no.4 Jan 22, ISSN: 0006-2510. [Review of Alien Dreamtime] pp.70; A negative review of Alien Dreamtime that refers to McKenna (unnamed) as a “sniveling little man who throws out empty sound bites” whose “delivery is enough to scare Timothy Leary straight”.
Sharon Warren (1993) Letter to the editor. Mondo 2000 no.11 pp.12; Letter responding to interview in Mondo 2000 10 (Terence and the coming Eschaton, 1993). Warren complains about McKenna’s dismissive comments about crop circles and their enthusiasts.
David Toop (1993) Sounds like a radical vision. Times Feb 18, p.[none cited], Section. ISSN: 0307-661X. Discussion of the Shamen charted single: Re: Evolution (1993), that incorporates a canonical McKenna monologue. McKenna explains why he collaborated: “It was very important to me to reach this 17-28 market. It wasn’t my market in the States.”.
Scott Thomas (1993) In the Amazon, tour guides for a journey of the mind. Buffalo News May 2, p.7, Section. Sunday, Final Edition. ISSN: 0006-2510. The reviewer may be somewhat agape, but the review of True hallucinations (1993) is open-minded, and takes the story at face value.
Genevieve Stuttaford (1993) True hallucinations. Publishers Weekly Vol:240 no.15 Apr 12, ISSN: 0000-0019. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.52; A mixed review by a bewildered reviewer. “McKenna flashes forward to Hawaii in 1975 where mantis-like creatures from hyperspace attack his lover, and flashes back to his tantric lovemaking in Tibet and to Indonesia where unrepentant Nazi scientists tried to recruit him in 1970”.
Rick Strassman (1993) Food of the Gods. Network: The Scientific and Medical Network Newsletter no.53 Dec, [Review of Food of the gods] pp.58-59; A sympathetic review of Food of the gods by a leading DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) researcher. Strassman is critical of McKenna’s drug biases and unscientific exposition—“a romantic collection of essays”—but more to warn uninitiated scientist readers than to discourage readers generally.
Fred Smith (1993) Mavericks of the Mind. Psychedelic Illuminations no.5 [Review of Mavericks of the mind] pp.69-70;
Richard Evans Schultes (1993) Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna. American Scientist Vol:81 no.5 Sep/Oct, ISSN: 0003-0996. [Review of Food of the gods] pp.489; More information: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna/mckenna_review2.shtml.
Alix Sharkey (1993) Saturday Night: From Mike’s flat to a parallel universe. Independent Nov 27, p.37, Section.
Alix Sharkey (1993) A psychedelic trip up the ladder of evolution. Independent Jul 10, p.37, Section. More information: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna_terence/mckenna_review1.shtml.
Will Self (1993) Food of the gods. Times Jan 22, p.7, Section. ISSN: 0307-661X. [Review of Food of the gods]
Donna Seaman (1993) True hallucinations. Booklist Vol:89 Mar 15, ISSN: 0006-7385. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.1277;
Sylvia Rubin (1993) Mr. Mushroom Raves On; Psychedelic guru McKenna trips out a new generation. San Francisco Chronicle Aug 16, p.E3, Section. Illustrator: photo: Lea Suzuki.
Frank Owen (1993) Log on, lock in, space out: A beginner's guide to new edge culture. Newsday Apr 18, p.7-[9], Section. Nassau Edition. McKenna is listed, with a cursory paragraph, among others—William Gibson, Timothy Leary, …—in this whirlwind survey of things cyber-, psychedelic, and post-human.
Maffew Objekt (1993) Shamanism and The End of the World As We Know It. Zippy Times no.Two pp.[30-[31]; A favorable review, and a synopsis, of a talk by McKenna of the same name given at the restaurant Fungus Mungus in London on February 10, 1993. “A lord arrived directly from the House of Lords, a German baron, three ‘retired’ dope dealers, five ‘acid house’ djs, several ‘heroes’ of the sixties and a number of comfortably-off New Age therapists for whom £30 was no problem at all but who had obviously come to the conclusion that perhaps, after all, aromatherapy didn’t quite hit the button. As Fraser [Clark] summed it up: ‘A true networking of the extremes of the underground going overground’”.
Timothy O'Neill (1993) Trialogues at the edge of the West. Small Press no.11 Spring, ISSN: 0000-0485. [Review of Trialogues at the edge of the west] pp.70;
Alfonso Montouri (1993) Food of the Gods. World Futures Vol:37 no.4 Aug, ISSN: 0260-4027. [Review of Food of the gods and The archaic revival] pp.211-212; A sympathetic review of Food of the gods and The archaic revival: “[T]he point is not even so much if he is right or wrong, but the kind of bizarre and fascinating connections he makes which open up worlds of creativity and imagination for the reader”.
Peter Meyer (1993) Time Wave Zero. Dolphin Software, More information: http://serendipity.magnet.ch/twz/index.html.Purchase: LibraryThing.
Paul Lashmar (1993) Come fly with me: the hysteria surrounding the whole issue of drugs prevents an examination of the real value and historical significance of psychedelics. New Statesman & Society no.6 Jun 25, ISSN: 0954-2361. pp.18-20;
Eric Hinsdale (1993) Anthropology & customs — True hallucinations by Terence McKenna. Library Journal Vol:118 no.6 Apr 1, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.109; Generally negative review of True hallucinations. “Pseudoscientific ramblings concerning the nature of time serve only to move this book farther out toward the fringes”.
Roy Herbert (1993) Trialogues at the edge of the West. New Scientist Vol:137 no.1857 Jan 23, ISSN: 0262-4079. [Review of Trialogues at the edge of the west] pp.45;
Jordan Gruber (1993) Stalking the elusive Oo-Koo-Hé. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.28 Summer, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of True hallucinations] "One God or Many?" pp.80-81;
Scardocchia Gaetano (1993) Un fungo per il paradiso; America, Terence McKenna e’ il nuovo profeta degli allucinogeni: vi faro’ entrare “nel cuore del mistero”. La Stampa May 9, p.19, Section. ISSN: 1122-1763.
Trip Gabriel (1993) Tripping, but not falling. New York Times May 2, p.6, Section. Late Final Edition. ISSN: 0362-4331.
Jory Farr (1993) Western world’s wake-up call. Press-Enterprise Feb 14, p.F01, Section. ISSN: 0746-4258.
George Earley (1993) Letter to the Editor. UFO: A forum on extraordinary theories and phenomena Vol:8 no.5 ISSN: 1043-1233. pp.5; Earley maligns McKenna’s credibility generally on the basis of his having said in an interview (Questioning Terence McKenna, 1993) that Jung’s book on flying saucers (Ein Moderner Mythus von Dingen, die am Himmel gesehen werden, 1958) appeared within 18 months of a first widely reported siting, rather than 11 years later, and suggests one ignore “the muddled musings of a drug-sodden brain”.
Dennis Drabelle (1993) Far out and in deep. Book world Vol:23 no.24 Jun 13, ISSN: 0006-7369. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.9;
Katherine Diehl (1993) History Ends In Green. Body Mind Spirit Magazine Vol:12 no.6 ISSN: 0895-7657. [Review of History ends in green] pp.57-58;
Katherine Diehl (1993) Food of the Gods // The Archaic Revival. Body Mind Spirit Magazine Vol:12 no.1 Feb 28, ISSN: 0895-7657. [Review of Food of the gods and The archaic revival] pp.66;
Erik Davis (1993) True hallucinations (review). Details no.11 Apr, ISSN: 0740-4921. pp.166-167;
Judy Corman (1993) Sobering words about drugs. New York Times May 9, p.11, Section. ISSN: 0362-4331. Chiding response—from a vice president of a nonprofit substance abuse services organization—to Tripping, but not falling (1993). “Surely the fact that Terence McKenna says that the psilocybin mushroom ‘is the megaphone used by an alien, intergalatic Other to communicate with mankind’ is enough for us to wonder if taking LSD had done something to his mental faculties”.
Vicki Cooper (1993) True hallucinations. UFO: A forum on extraordinary theories and phenomena Vol:8 no.4 ISSN: 1043-1233. [Review of True hallucinations] Editor: Vicki Cooper and U. F. O. Psychedelic; pp.37-38;
Peter Conrad (1993) Arcadia: Last of the head trips. New York Times Book Review Jun 6, p.A1, Section. ISSN: 0028-7806. [Review of True hallucinations] A negative review. “This [obsidian liquid] sounds to me like moonshine, and I suffered hallucinogenic agonies of my own while reading his shrilly ecstatic prose”.
Allan Combs (1993) Trialogues at the Edge of the West. World Futures Vol:38 no.4 Dec, ISSN: 0260-4027. [Review of Trialogues at the edge of the west] pp.256-257; Positive review of Trialogues at the edge of the west: “We owe a debt of thanks to these three highly original individuals for allowing us to eavesdrop in this fertile and unedited (chaotic) stage of the creation of ideas”.
Anon (1993) The Hallucinogeneration Game. New Musical Express Feb 27, ISSN: 0028-6362. More information: http://www.cuttlefish.com/universalshamen/articles/1993.html.
David Jay Brown (1993) True McKenna. High Times no.218 Oct, ISSN: 0310-2165. [Review of True hallucinations: Being an account of the author’s extraordinary adventures in the devil’s paradise (1993)] "The new tribalism." pp.17; An enthusiastically positive review of True hallucinations by an author of the long High Times interview collected in Mavericks of the mind: Conversations for the new millennium (1993). Purchase: http://headshop.hightimes.com/cgi-bin/72D07F2D/mac/additmdtl.mac/showItemDetail?item=218.
Anon (1993) The Sacred Mushroom Seeker. Through the Looking Glass (Freakbeat Supplement) no.8 Apr 19, [Review of The sacred mushroom seeker] pp.25;
Anon (1993) Food of the Gods. Through the Looking Glass (Freakbeat Supplement) no.8 Apr 19, [Review of Food of the gods] pp.25;
Anon (1993) Answers blowin’ in the mind: The vision thing; A regular digest of ideas whose time has not yet come. Guardian Jan 11, Section. ISSN: 0261-3007.
Anon (1993) Answers blowin’ in the mind: The vision thing; A regular digest of ideas whose time has not yet come. Guardian Jan 4, p.8, Section. ISSN: 0261-3007.
Anon (1993) Terence McKenna: New Age lecturer and author. Newsmakers: The people behind today's headlines ISSN: 0899-0417. "1993 Cumulation." Illustrator: photo: Kathleen Thormod Carr; pp.307-309; Confusing biographical conflation of McKenna with the Canadian journalist and documentarian of the same name, also with a brother as collaborator. McKenna, the subject of this bibliography, gets about 95 percent of the coverage.
Gail Wood (1992) Parapsychology — The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna. Library Journal Vol:117 no.7 Apr 15, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of The archaic revival] pp.110; Positive review of The archaic revival. “The ideas presented in this collection of interviews, speeches, and articles are radical even now, and will challenge the reader”.
Barbara Valle (1992) History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics, and the Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna. Library Journal Vol:117 no.21 Dec, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of History ends in green] pp.212;
Richard Thomas (1992) Feed Your Head. San Francisco Chronicle Aug 2, p.10, Section.
Peter Stafford, Jeremy Bigwood, Andrew Weil and Dan Joy (1992) Psychedelics Encyclopedia. 3^rd expanded ed. Ronin Publishing, Oakland CA. 420 pages; ISBN: 0914171518. Stafford mentions “The Inner Landscape” [sic] on p. 337; not mentioned in 1^st ed. (1978), but 2^nd Revised edition (1983) also has a would-be The invisible landscape reference on p. 337. The first edition mentions Psilocybin. LibraryThing.
Fred Smith (1992) Food of the Gods: a recipe for the mind. Psychedelic Illuminations no.3 [Review of Food of the gods] pp.52-53;
Kyle Silfer (1992) Nevermind the Overmind: Nirvana, Terence McKenna, Rodney King and White Guilt. Reign of Toads no.2
John Shirley (1992) Zapped by the Great Pink Beam. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.23 Spring, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of In pursuit of Valis] "Gnosticism Revisited." pp.70-71; Mixed review of In pursuit of Valis. “The dismaying attempts by Sutin and McKenna to vindicate the sadder side of Dick’s visions weaken the book for me”.
Donna Seaman (1992) Food of the Gods. Booklist Jan 1, ISSN: 0006-7385. [Review of Food of the gods]
Tensho David Schneider (1992) Saving the Earth’s healing secrets: Traditional peoples have spent millennia learning the miraculous healing powers of tropical plants. As the rainforests go, so goes this irreplaceable indigenous wisdom. Yoga Journal no.105 Aug 31, ISSN: 0191-0965. pp.56-63;
Giorgio Samorini (1992) The oldest representations of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the world (Sahara desert, 9000-7000 b.p.). Integration: Zietschrift für Geistbewegende Pflanzen und Kultur no.2&3 ISSN: 0939-4958. pp.69-78; More information: http://www.samorini.net/doc/sam/sah_int.htm. Samorini, in the original print article, acknowledged that McKenna had separately proposed the Saharian ethnomycological hypothesis (p. 75). The web version of the article, however, omits this acknowledgement, while retaining the ReVision citation (Hallucinogenic mushrooms and evolution 1988) among the references.
Howard L. Rheingold (1992) Food of the Gods & Experiment at Petaluma. Whole Earth Review no.74 Spring, ISSN: 0749-5056. [Review of Food of the gods and Experiment at Petaluma] pp.60-61; Positive review of Food of the gods that takes the common position that McKenna’s theories are best understood as myths: “McKenna is a writer and encyclopedic interdisciplinary scholar, and a swashbuckling psychedelic ethnobotanist, but I believe he is primarily a bard.” Also includes one-sentence description of Experiment at Petaluma, and an excerpt from Food of the Gods.
Richard Restak (1992) Beyond the Doors of Perception. Washington Post Mar 22, p.X4, Section. Final Edition. ISSN: 0190-8286.
Alex Raksin (1992) Food of the Gods. Los Angeles Times Feb 23, p.6, Section. Sunday, Home Edition. ISSN: 0458-3035. [Review of Food of the gods]
Paco Xander Nathan (1992) Timewave surfer dudes. bOING bOING: Brain Candy for Happy Mutants! no.10 pp.34; More information: http://www.deoxy.org/t_twzrev.htm.
Rowland Morgan (1992) Throwing Open The Doors Of Perception. Independent Oct 11, p.32, Section. Sunday Edition.
Don Kennison (1992) Terence McKenna: Shamanic Evolutionist for the Neopsychedelic Age. Reflex no.26 Jul, ISSN: 1065-1195. pp.41;
Penny Kaganoff (1992) The Archaic Revival. Publishers Weekly Vol:239 no.19 Apr 20, ISSN: 0000-0019. [Review of The archaic revival] Illustrator: Satty; pp.48-49;
Ryan J. Huxtable (1992) The mushrooming brain. Nature no.356 ISSN: 0028-0836. [Review of Food of the gods] pp.635-636; Relentless dismissal of Food of the gods and the stoned ape theory, without being a wholly negative review. “If anything, Food of the Gods is poetry disguised in the language of science,” and, "“…perhaps the arguments in this book are no more meant to be taken literally than any other creation story”.
Eric Hinsdale (1992) Social Science — Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna. Library Journal Vol:117 no.3 Feb 15, ISSN: 0363-0277. [Review of Food of the gods] pp.188; Generally negative review of Food of the gods. “The author’s disdain for the scientific approach and reliance on spiritualism obscures some worthwhile insights on the irrational intolerance of drugs in our society”.
Jordan Gruber (1992) Return of native wisdom. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.24 Summer, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of Food of the gods] "Saints & Scoundrels." pp.61-62;
Richard Gehr (1992) Omega man: It’s the end of the world as we know it (and Terence McKenna feels fine). Village Voice Vol:37 no.18 May 5, ISSN: 0042-6180. pp.47-48;
Richard Gehr (1992) Omega Man: A Profile of Terence McKenna. Posted: Apr 5, 1992. Visited: Apr 26, 2000. More information: http://www.levity.com/rubric/mckenna.html.
Lucy Fisher (1992) Paradise lost and found. Times Aug 15, Section. ISSN: 0307-661X. [Review of Food of the gods]
Erik Davis (1992) Trialogues at the edge of the West. Voice Literary Supplement no.110 Nov, ISSN: 0887-8633. [Review of Trialogues at the edge of the west] pp.29;
David Ciaffardini (1992) True hallucinations. Sound Choice no.17 ISSN: 8756-8176. [Review of True hallucinations] Illustrator: Michael Roden; pp.48-49; An very enthusiastic review of the audiobook True hallucinations, followed by extensive excerpts. “[T]he narrative is masterful, with a gothic tone of scientific and spiritual mystery and revelation that is a match for the best adventure story-telling of Edgar Allen Poe”.
Anon (1992) Hot new age diversion: Shamanism. Rolling Stone no.630 May 14, ISSN: 0035-791X. pp.91;
Anon (1992) (tbd). i-D Magazine: i-deas, fashion, clubs, music, people no.107 ISSN: 0262-3579.
Robert Anton Wilson (1991) Book Previews. Trajectories no.10 Fall, [Review of In pursuit of Valis and Food of the gods] pp.8-12; Positive reviews of In pursuit of Valis, The Eagle’s Quest and Food of the gods. Includes excerpts of all three. Wilson does not mention McKenna’s afterword to In pursuit of VALIS. Refering to Food of the Gods, Wilson says: “What McKenna has produced will shake all the social sciences like no book of our century”.
Kathleen Harrison McKenna (1991) review. Whole Earth Review no.72 ISSN: 0749-5056. pp.79;
Sam King (1991) Turn on, tune in, drop out and save the world. Independent Oct 14, p.16, Section. Monday Edition.
Dan Joy (1991) Psychedelics now: A report on the Bridge Conference. High Times no.190 Jun, ISSN: 0310-2165. pp.52-5,60-1; Three paragraphs on McKenna’s “antiwar” speech. “The propsychedelic position is an antidrug position,” because entheogenic “deconditioning agents” promote reflection and not the “unconscious, destructive behavior patterns” of other drugs.
Anon (1991) Food of the Gods. Kirkus Reviews Dec 15, ISSN: 0042-6598. [Review of Food of the gods]
Robert Anton Wilson (1990) Gaia: the trajectories of Her evolution, Part IV. Trajectories no.7 Spring, pp.14-18; Article by Wilson mentions McKenna’s Timewave Theory on p 17; “I cannot imagine socio-evolutionary quantum jumps accelerating to the rate of 1,000,000 per second. Yet I most certainly believe that McKenna has a correct intuition somewhere in the middle that rather baroque theory. I totally agree with him that things can only get weirder and move faster from here on out…”.
Nick West (1990) The experiment at Petaluma. Magical Blend no.27 Jul, ISSN: 1073-5879. [Review of Experiment at Petaluma] pp.79-80; An enthusiastic review of Experiment at Petaluma, “an amazing visual and audio rendition of Terence McKenna’s lastest thinking on psychedelics, visual [sic] reality, and ‘visible language.’” West notes that this kind of media object is “baby’s first visible words” in the language McKenna anticipates.
Ted Schultz (1990) Tributes to a magical mycophile. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.17 Fall, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of The sacred mushroom seeker] "Sex & Spirituality." pp.70,72;
Alistair Couper (1990) The holy data suit (letter to the editor). Whole Earth Review no.67 Summer, ISSN: 0749-5056. pp.136-137; Couper mulls over the contrast between Jaron Lanier’s Virtual Reality and McKenna’s Psychedelic Reality (Plan, plant, planet, 1989), eventually opting for the latter: “I rest assured that all the mutability and transformation I can handle lie no further than the nearest cowpie…”.
Richard Allen (1990) Gateway to inner space. Through the Looking Glass (Freakbeat Supplement) no.7 Nov, [Review of Gateway to inner space] pp.18;
Howard L. Rheingold (1989) Ethnobotany and the search for vanishing knowledge. Whole Earth Review no.64 Fall, ISSN: 0749-5056. pp.16-22;
Micky Remann (1989) Im Garten der Zauberpflanzen. Esotera: Neue Dimensionen des Bewußtseins Sep 9, ISSN: 0003-2921. (In German) pp.22-28; In a survey of issues around plant-based hallucinogens which mentions Albert Hoffmann, Gordon Wasson and Christian Råtsch, among others, McKenna and wife Kathleen’s Botanical Dimensions plantation in Hawaii is described as a “Noah’s Ark for psychoactive plants”.
E. E. Rehmus (1989) UnMcKenna-like! (letter to the editor). Critique: A journal of conspiracies & metaphysics no.32 Oct/Nov/Dec/Jan, ISSN: 0735-6501. pp.4; Rehmus chides McKenna for his “un-McKennalike” view, expressed in Brown and McClen’s Terence K. McKenna: An interview (1989), that the “Eleusinian Mystery God” counseled procreation, and that one has no relevance for the future unless one does.
Mark Nicoll-Johnson (1989) The I, Claudius/magic mushroom connection. Whole Earth Review no.65 Winter, ISSN: 0749-5056. pp.138-139; Brundage commends the works of Robert Graves, including The white goddess, and Fraser’s The golden bough, to readers of McKenna, Rheingold and Wasson.
Stephen A. Hoeller (1988) Bohemia, not Bavaria. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.9 Fall, ISSN: 0894-6159. "Northern Mysteries." pp.3; Letter to the editor of Gnosis. Refering to McKenna’s article reviewing A solution to the Voynich manuscript, Hoeller points out McKenna’s error of fact concerning the historical period of the manuscript’s appearance.
Mary A. Fischer (1988) Blast to the past: Terence McKenna's traveling Archaic Revival floats into Ojai, on a psychedelic mushroom cloud. Los Angeles Magazine Vol:33 no.8 ISSN: 0024-6522. [Review of Man and woman at the end of history (1988)] Illustrator: Photo credit: Morgan Alexander; pp.54-60; Sympathetic and engaging article describing a weekend seminar with McKenna and Riane Eisler (The chalice and the blade: our history, our future, 1987) at the Ojai Foundation, which was recorded for publication.
Michael J. Castronova (1988) Voynich mystery solved: Cross-cultural purification? Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.9 Fall, ISSN: 0894-6159. "Northern Mysteries." pp.3; Letter to the editor of Gnosis. Refering to McKenna’s article reviewing A solution to the Voynich manuscript, Castronova speculates the manuscript concerns a menstrual purification rite, rather than Levitov’s claim of group euthansia by venesection.
Bob Banner (1988) A summary report on the Angels, Aliens and Archetypes Conference. Critique: A journal of conspiracies & metaphysics no.27 ISSN: 0735-6501. "Beyond left/right." pp.64-65,36; Brief notes on McKenna’s talk, Shamanic Approaches to the UFO, at the Angels, Aliens and Archetypes Conference (1987). According to Banner, McKenna argued against rushing to explain UFO contact phenomenon and for understanding the UFO as an archetypal rebuttal to the dominator culture/Science paradigm.
Elvin D. Smith (1985) Commentary on the works of Dennis and Terence McKenna. Psychozoic Press no.10 Summer, pp.[24]-[39];
Ted Schultz (1985) Amazonian psychoactives. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no.1 Fall/Winter, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of True hallucinations] "Gnosticism Ancient & Modern." pp.44;
Gracie and Zarkov (1985) “They say it helps if you close your eyes, cowboy”. High Frontiers no.2 pp.27; Review of the Esalen weekend seminar: Psychedelic perspectives on future history. The title is a quote from the weekend attributed to McKenna.
Richard Dobson (1985) True hallucinations (alien intelligence and psilocybin). Shaman's Drum: a journal of experiential Shamanism no.1 Summer, ISSN: 0887-8897. [Review of True hallucinations] pp.38;
Robert Anton Wilson and John Thompson (1977) Cosmic Trigger: Final secret of the Illuminati. And/Or Press, Berkeley CA. 272 pages; ISBN: 0915904292. Wilson summarizes and discusses the “McKenna Theory” of the hologramatic universe and the accelerating pace of novelty (pp. 215-8) as described in The invisible landscape. LibraryThing.
Anon (none) letters to the editor. High Frontiers no.2

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