Terence McKenna
<p>Oct 25, 2012 02:47 PM  the Food of the Gods Quote is at that node below.
 
1946 to 2000... ethnobotanist, psychonaut..
 
from Colorado... uncle introduced him to geology...
solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos... deep artistic and sci appreciaiton of nature.
 
at age 16 moved to Los Altos, Calf
1963 intro to psychdelics... Aldous Huxley
 
at CAL from 1965.   shamanism;  opium and kabbal phase;
traveled to Jerusalem to mee wife  ...
 
1969 to Nepal...  hallucin shamnsim...
 
hash smuggler
 
traveled to Columb Amazon  found  DMT, and ayahuasca  yage
psilocybe cubensis...
 
into contact with Logos...  universal to visionary relig experience...
 
1972 return to CAL  switch to ecol and conserv.
 
early 80s  speak publicly abt psych drugs...  importance of felt experience...
 
death from GBM in 1990 in Hawaii.
 
 
 
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