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Among the most dedicated psychonauts I’ve ever encountered, Terence McKenna’s spent a lifetime traveling among the far flung fringes of multidimensional consciousness. An unabashed advocate for all manner of psychoactive substances, Terence McKenna didn’t simply write about psychedelic experiences, he successfully incorporated insights gleaned from numerous ‘trips’ into a well postulated, holistic psychological practice. We are fortunate McKenna left behind an extensive archive of culturally transformative material, including several books, as well as countless audio and video recordings. These serve to reveal not only his unique communication style, but how he was absolutely fluent in his deep understanding of our psychic evolutionary origins.

There are many videos out there with insightful McKenna voice over sound bites, yet relatively few providing any substantive biographical context, or making an effort to encapsulate the essence of this truly original thinker’s full life experience. Compiled here from actual film footage, with appropriate mix of music and custom visual effects, Peter Bergmann successfully captures the high points of their amazing Amazonian basin adventure. Using unearthed field notes, along with later recordings, the material for this famous underground classic ultimately became “True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise”

Beginning back in 1971, their intrepid group went by plane, then boat, and finally many miles on foot, to visit the paradisical mission town of La Chorrera. While there, Terence and his brother Dennis McKenna, along with two other brave travelers, searched in vain for the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé, so the group soon shifted their attention to the large numbers of Stropharia Cubensis growing in the vicinity. In the days and weeks that followed, they slowly formulated a grand psychopharmacological manifesto, while also subsisting upon a diet primarily of psychedelic mushrooms. This period of their collective psychedelic adventure is commonly referred to as the “Experiment at La Chorrera.”

This unusual “experiment” later provided the conceptual basis for Terence McKenna’s ongoing expansion of certain Jungian concepts, including the possibility of UFOs as reflections of Archetypal Oversouls, as well as his Talking with Mushrooms, the Howling Tao, or on Keeping the Faith, and an antidote episode on collecting Butterflies in the Jungle. Also included is a detailed description of McKenna’s system of using the I Ching to create his TimeWave Zero Theory, postulating an eschatological view of historical time as accelerating, ultimately racing towards some globally significant singularity of cosmic consciousness.

There are certainly more substantive lectures and interviews the Terence McKenna out there, suggesting perhaps everything contained in this particular biographical documentary has been mythologized, or events made to appear more spiritual or illuminating than they might have been. Yet as McKenna himself would often say, all beliefs are considered provisional, so don’t fixate or defend what you think, which would exclude possible new and improved beliefs from emerging into awareness. Overall, McKenna is a most interesting and engaging character, with very entertaining stories of personal adventure, both in this physical world, as well as through other dimensions of existence only a very special few can frequently travel.