Strange Attractor - The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the twentieth century's psychedelic Renaissance man. Perfecting his rugged philosophy on the role of psychedelics in evolution, consciousness, and time, McKenna was a riotous charmer who stalked the shadows, but also sought the iridescence. More than twenty years since his untimely passing, McKenna has an enduring magnetism across the virtual pop stream, in pervasive digitization, and within social media networks. In the first biography of this enigmatic figure This book is an engaging chronicle of the life, works, and legacy of this brazen adventurer of the inner and outer dimensions, whose weird intelligence affected multitudes and who continues to haunt the present. St John gathers previously unpublished materials (including McKenna's journal, letters, and ephemera) and over 70 interviews with his friends, family, and co-conspirators, as well as a magnificent gallery of 52 photographs and artworks. Neither glorifying nor disparaging its subject,

Product details

• Authors: Erik Davis, Davis Erik, Graham St John, Graham St John
• Assisted by: Davis Erik (Foreword)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9780262049573
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04957-3
• No. of pages: 548
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, 20th Century, Philosophy, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Entheogens & Visionary Substances, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Biography: philosophy and social sciences