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The launch of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna kicks off on Wed Oct 8, @ The Berkeley Alembic Foundation, 2820 7th St, Berkeley CA.
19:00-20:30
All details for this & other events www.edgecentral.net/strangeattra...
Books available at all events
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Thanks Libby, though release day is now Oct 7.
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Hi James, if you've ordered it now, you have preordered it (it will be sent shipped on the On Sale Date of Oct 7). The copies in the pic are advanced/review copies. Thanks!
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T minus 3.5 weeks to launch of "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna" Advance copies arrived and looking Fabulous. Preorder now from MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

Praise, excerpts, launch info, etc at: www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...

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“Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest,” is a serialised essay about the oldest surviving recording of McKenna (and exploring the artifice of his oratory). It accompanies the release of a video-sync of the rap. www.edgecentral.net/post/terence...
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Was recently on the Brainforest Cafe podcast with Dennis McKenna, talking about my new book Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MITP, Sep 30, 2025, with a foreword by Erik Davis)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...

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Graham St John: Strange Attractor - The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
YouTube video by Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
www.youtube.com
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Six weeks to launch sequence

“The definitive biography of Terence”
— Dennis McKenna

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 30 Sep 2025) by Graham St John mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

Further details www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...

Reposted by: Graham St John

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Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer

psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
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“The definitive biography of Terence. . . Indispensable!”
— Dennis J. McKenna

Graham St John's Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 30 Sep 2025)

PREORDER options, including 25% off from Tertulia (July / US only), at:
www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
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Preorder Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press
www.edgecentral.net/post/preorde...

“A rich and resonant portrayal of the man and his mind.”
From the foreword by Erik Davis

“Indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna

"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff

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Preorder Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press
www.edgecentral.net/post/preorde...

“A rich and resonant portrayal of the man and his mind.”
From the foreword by Erik Davis

“This biography is indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna

"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
gmantic.bsky.social
Terence McKenna’s Alien Dreamtime by Graham St John,
MAPS Bulletin: v. 24 n. 1 (Nov 2024).

This story emerges from an extensive study bearing fruit in a biography to be published by MIT Press in 2025, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinogenic Life of Terence McKenna.
maps.org/news/bulleti...
Terence McKenna, Lisbon, 1994, on the set of Manual of Evasion LX94. Courtesy of Edgar Pêra.

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