AFTER DARK EP 1 - Terrence McKenna

The last interview with Terrence McKenna

In the annals of psychedelic research, there have been very few figures who have made a mark through their psychedelic discoveries and ideologies, and Terence McKenna was one of them. He was a renowned lecturer, psychonaut and writer, who had dedicated decades to study ‘shamanism’ and psychic alteration.

He died on April 3, 2000, due to brain cancer, at the age of 53.

McKenna was a talker; he had the gift of gab, and he frequently stated in his book that humanity is participating in an "archaic revival." This has only grown louder and more amplified. It has been 22 years since he left this realm, and his words of wisdom now echo as a profit,  

Terrence dared to say what we now know is so true  as he lamented , "We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow, you want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” 

"Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” 

"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."

-Terrence McKenna