TERENCE McKENNA — America’s Strangest Genius

Terence McKenna was a self-taught ethnobotanist, philosopher, psychonaut, and one of the most original thinkers America produced in the 20th century.
In this episode of American Biographies, we explore the full arc of his extraordinary life: his bizarre Colorado childhood, his globe-trotting adventures, his famous — and controversial — Novelty Theory and Timewave Zero, his deeply unusual relationship with psychedelic mushrooms.

SOURCES & REFERENCES
• McKenna, Terence. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
• McKenna, Terence. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. Bantam Books, 1992.
• McKenna, Terence. The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History. HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
• McKenna, Terence, and Dennis McKenna. The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. HarperSanFrancisco, 1975 (revised 1994).
• McKenna, Dennis. The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna. Polimedia Publishers, 2012. (Dennis McKenna's memoir — essential primary source)

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