Required fields are marked *. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, explorer and ethnobotanist. It was during this first trip, that Terence met Kathleen Harrison, an ethnobotanist who would go on to become his wife. The exhibition is at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, Pall Mall, London, from April 30 to May 5. Additional McKenna talks are included in the Trialogues playlist. He was a strong advocate for the responsible use of these plants to explore altered states of mind. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("grsession", "osid.dcf199de4a0d524ef609e6537846881c"); What did happen that fateful year was the publication of "The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss," a wonderfully honest crowd-funded chronicle of Terence's life written by his brother Dennis, who didn't shy away from sharing how difficult it had been for him growing up next to such a brilliant --but also callous, and sometimes even cruel-- older sibling. Monty Python And The Holy Grail/Life Of Brian } Terence McKenna adds finishing touches to portrait of Zoe Wannamaker with Roger Lloyd Pack in the background (photo: Terence and Mandy McKenna), Top row: Willow Major (student); Kenneth Cranham (actor); Indian woman with gold earring; Judge Peter Rook QC. //]]> Born November 16, 1946 Died April 3, 2000 (53) Add or change photo on IMDbPro Add to list Known for setDisplayBids: function() {}, She also ran the Far East Theatre Company and co-founded fEAST Theatre. var cookie = cookies[i]; Terrence McKenna was born on November 16, 1946. Terence McKenna (film producer) Edit View history Terence McKenna is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. } Bruce Damer is another fascinating individual: A polymath and multi-disciplinary intellectual who helps NASA design the spaceships that will one day be used to send the first human beings to Mars, he's also co-written scientific papers proposing a new hypothesis of how Life began on our planet billions of years ago --unlike the most popular hypothesis that puts the oceans as the cradle of the first single-cell organisms, Bruce thinks clay ponds were a likelier candidate; so to call this man a genius would be something of an understatement! McKenna became one of the pioneers of the psychedelic movement and began to give public lectures and host workshops. But on those final days the cancer (or the Teacher) shattered those last remaining defenses, and Terence was finally able to welcome the affection of the people who helped him through that final material transition, and --according to Damer-- he was also able to receive the final lesson: that in the end it's not about ideas, but about Love. They published them, and in the 1980's were growing 70 pounds every six weeks. He was a youth given to memorizing passages of James Joyce and reading Carl Jung's ''Psychology and Alchemy,'' and his main satisfactions percolated from his fertile imagination. And this induced panic in Terence, and probably --I speculate-- a feeling that he was going mad. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("surface", "mw"); As many young kids of the 80's --and from the early generations that preceded us-- I was obsessed with space flight and the idea of not only traveling to strange and exotic planets, but that the denizens of those worlds could already be visiting our own, as evidenced by the many . [CDATA[ It was created to collect, protect, propagate, and understand plants of ethnomedical significance. McKenna was the foremost authority on psychedelics. } catch (err) { Terence McKenna was born on 16 November 1946 in Paonia, Colorado, USA.