Psilocybin Summer is an excerpt from my forthcoming biography Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MIT Press Sep 30, 2025).

Starting in about 80 minutes on my YouTube channel, join the live chat there! I'm sure I should've figured out by now how to create a live chat and watch party here as well but I'm terrible with this Skool site, sorry! The stream will be around 150 minutes long, see ya there! Peter

Duncan Russell was playing around with the idea of giving his AI different voices and characteristics to respond to his inquiries, which led me to the idea that having the AI respond in the sound and sensibility of Terence. I already asked ChatGPT to write a short essay in the style of T on the topic of general AI and the conjunction of the discovery of alien co-habitation on earth and the reply was very poetic and interesting.

Michael Hollingshead was an early figure in the history of LSD research. Apparently he lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia for many years and according to his daughter he died there, of a stomach ulcer, in 1984. I lived in Cochabamba for many years too, but nobody ever mentioned Hollingshead to me until I got back to London in 2023 and met a niece of his who is an artist and lives somewhere in the South East of England. There was a book published by MIT Press in 2019 about him, "Divine Rascal" https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781907222788/divine-rascal/ does Terence McKenna mention him at all?

Share your favourite TM memes here, I'll start with this legendary one, I wish I didn't forget the name of the gentleman who came to the original Facebook group and created a bunch of high quality memes like this and just poof disappeared.