Duncan Russell was playing around with the idea of giving his AI different voices and characteristics to respond to his inquiries, which led me to the idea that having the AI respond in the sound and sensibility of Terence. I already asked ChatGPT to write a short essay in the style of T on the topic of general AI and the conjunction of the discovery of alien co-habitation on earth and the reply was very poetic and interesting.

Michael Hollingshead was an early figure in the history of LSD research. Apparently he lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia for many years and according to his daughter he died there, of a stomach ulcer, in 1984. I lived in Cochabamba for many years too, but nobody ever mentioned Hollingshead to me until I got back to London in 2023 and met a niece of his who is an artist and lives somewhere in the South East of England. There was a book published by MIT Press in 2019 about him, "Divine Rascal" https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781907222788/divine-rascal/ does Terence McKenna mention him at all?

Share your favourite TM memes here, I'll start with this legendary one, I wish I didn't forget the name of the gentleman who came to the original Facebook group and created a bunch of high quality memes like this and just poof disappeared.

This is very early on but I wanted to send out invitations to all the long-time McKennites who have been in the original Facebook group, and to some folks on Reddit, but eventually I will build this up into a very informative place for anyone interested in Terence's ideas. Thanks for joining, feel free to post anything!

There was a biography of TM slated to be published sometime in 2025 by an American university press (it started with an M... U of Minnesota Press, maybe?) The working title for the bio was STRANGE ATTRACTOR. I haven't heard anything about it for a long time and I'm wondering if it's still in the works. If it's no longer happening, I'll be sad, but in that case, I'm also going to get my agent working on that. I would love to do a biography of TM's life.