Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory, proposing that this predicted the end of time, and a transition of consciousness in the year 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terence McKenna has received more than 5,168,448 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Terence McKenna is the 2,271st most popular writer (up from 2,455th in 2019), the 2,926th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,138th in 2019) and the 259th most popular American Writer.