Novelty Generation is a group I formed to bring together people from all professions, backgrounds, and walks of life with the purpose of discussing the writing, lectures, and crakpot theories of Terence McKenna.

Subjects of discussion will include, but not be limited too, novelty theory, time wave zero and the myan calender, eschatology, shamanism, enthnobotany, mycology and the mushroom experience, altered states, consciousness expansion, hallucinogens, and the psychedelic experience in general.

When you get done here...you're straight friends will have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

Terence McKenna is an author, orator, conservation ecologist, consciousness researcher, futurist, and an expert in shamanism, enthnobotany, enthnomedicine, early tibetan art, nerochemistry, and psychedelic psychology. Art Bell called him the "heir to the throne of Timothy Leary." He is the creator of a new theory of time, called novelty theory, which claims time to be a fractal wave of increasing complexity. He is the coauthor, with his brother, of The Invisible Landscape - mind, hallucinogens and the i ching, and Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. He is the author of The Archaic Revival, Food of the Gods, and True Hallucinations

And hell, here's his bio from wikipedia.com:

Terence McKenna received a B.S. in Ecology and Conservation from the Tussman Experimental College, a short-lived outgrowth of UC Berkeley, in 1969. He spent the months after his graduation traveling through India and other Asian countries, alternately smuggling illicit drugs and collecting butterflies for biological supply companies.

In 1971 Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and three others traveled to the Colombian amazon in search of oo-koo-hé, a plant preparation containing DMT. At La Chorrera, at the urging of his brother, he allowed himself to be the subject of a psychedelic experiment which he claimed put him in contact with The Logos: an informative, hallucinatory voice nearly universal to the visionary experience. The revelations of this voice prompted him to undertake his investigations into the structure of the I Ching, which eventually led him to his Novelty Theory.

For most of the 1970s McKenna maintained a low profile, living in a nondescript suburban home, supporting his lifestyle with the royalties from the Magic Mushroom Growers Guide, and the cultivation and sale of psilocybin mushrooms. He said that he was frightened out of this line of work, and into public speaking by the harsh penalties the war on drugs exacted from his colleagues. He himself was once wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking.

McKenna was a contemporary and colleague of Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Riane Eisler and participated in joint workshops and symposiums with them. He was a personal friend of Tom Robbins, and influenced the thought of numerous scientists, writers, artists, and entertainers.

He became a fixture of popular counterculture in his later years. Timothy Leary once introduced him as “the real Tim Leary”. He contributed to techno-trance albums by The Shamen, Spacetime Continuum and Shpongle, and his speeches were sampled by many others. He was a skilled orator, and admired by his fans for his eloquence. While many of his presentations tended to be verbatim repetitions of the same catch phrases, his gift for extemporaneous speech allowed him to weave them into seamless performances that varied audience to audience. His responses to novel questions were often as sophisticated as his prepared material.

McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions, a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the Island of Hawaii, where he lived for several years prior to his death.

He died of glioblastoma multiforme, a rare type of brain cancer. He was 54 years old. He is survived by his brother Dennis, his son Finn, and his daughter Klea.




Terence McKenna's Hyperborea at Levity.com


Terence McKenna Psychedelic Library - audio archives for your listening pleasure


Mind Food of the Gods: Works by and about Terence McKenna