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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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From: v360np5s@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (GORDON SIMS)
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Subject: Terence McKenna + Psilocybin
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Message-ID: <CFKvtM.EK9@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 23:00:00 GMT
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While browsing through the computerized magazine index
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at my local library, I came across these articles on
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Terence McKenna. They aren't actually the articles, but
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a brief overview. Here it goes...
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#1
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AUTHOR: Jocobson, Mark
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TITLE: Is Terence McKenna the brave prophet of the next
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psychedelic revolution, or is his cosmic egg just
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a little bit cracked?
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SOURCE: Esquire v117 p107-9+ June '92
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CONTAINS:Illustration(s); portrait
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SUBJECTS COVERED:
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Hallucinogenic drugs
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PSILOCYBIN
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mushrooms
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McKenna, Terence K.:1946-
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ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna, who has been called the Timothy
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Leary of the 1990's, is acknowledged as the leading spokesman
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for the "psychedelic position." McKenna, who appears semiregularly
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on the spiritualist/New Age lecture circuit, makes his living by
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discussing his experiences with LSD-25 and psilocybin mushrooms.
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Cassettes of McKenna's psychedelic polemics have been popular
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for some time. Within the next year [remeber, this was writen
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in June, '92] 5 books detailing McKenna's ideas will be published
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including The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psyedelic Mushrooms,
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the Amazon, Virual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth
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of the Goddess, and the End of History. McKenna's personal
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life and beliefs are discussed, and the writer describes his
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visits with McKenna.
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#2 [a little bit more recent]
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AUTHOR: Miller, Sukie
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TITLE: Interview: Terence McKenna
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SOURCE: Omni v15 p69-70+ May '93
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CONTAINS: illustration(s); portraits
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SUBJECTS COVERED:
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Psilocybin
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mushrooms
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Hallucinogenic drugs
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McKenna, Terence K.:1946-
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ABSTRACT: Terence McKenna is an ethnobotanist, a radical
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historian, and a world-class psychedelic researcher. McKenna
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comes from the 1960s tradition of viewing psychedelic-drug
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taking as self-experimental, informational, and educational.
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He was born in 1946 in western Colorado and studied shamanism
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and the conservation of natural resources at the University of
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California at Berkely. For years, he made a living collecting
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Asian art and butterflies, but he has since become a high-voltage
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speaker and prolific writer. In his 1992 book Food of the
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Gods, McKenna chronicled a radical history of drugs and human
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evolution and extolled the virtues of psilocybin mushrooms
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and DMT, a potent psychedelic compound. In and interview,
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McKenna explains his theories and discusses the effects of
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psychedelics.
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*** If anyone reads or has read a book(s) by Terence McKenna
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I would appreciate it if you E-mailed me your opinion of it (them)
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thanx. ---Gordon Sims
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