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).

"see now I prefer my definition of meme which is" I need help finding this quote, specifically this part where he points out his definition may slightly differ from the general public definition or something Also post terence quotes that you are also hunting for

So it’s not just me right…? clearly Terence was correct about novelty theory, it was his understanding of what 2012 really meant that discredits the notion to a normal person.. anyone whose listened to him religiously can see that he was absolutely correct. I feel that way, at least.

Hey everyone, seems like Skool has a cheap tier now so I reactivated the group, we'll see if it's good for anything. Would be nice to have some new features that they promised recently like video uploads etc but that will probably be limited to the pro plan. Anyway, feel free to talk about anything. Here's my latest video!

I'm slowly working my way through these talks from earlier this year. My favourite so far is the one by Wade Davis, whose book One River is really excellent. https://mckenna.academy/mka-programs/wisdom-of-the-leaf-coca-summit/ but this is fairly amazing: there are some people growing coca right in Medellin https://youtu.be/sYN074tsx9g it's called The Khoka Project: https://khokaproject.com/en/home-english/