2012 Theorists: Terence McKenna, Graham Hancock, Jose Arguelles, Daniel Pinchbeck, Robert Bauval, John Major Jenkins, Semir Osmanagi

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Terence Mckenna, Graham Hancock, Jose Arguelles, Daniel Pinchbeck, Robert Bauval, John Major Jenkins, Semir Osmanagi . Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 April 3, 2000) was an American author, public speaker, metaphysician, psychonaut, philosopher, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchist, anti-materialist, environmentalist, feminist, Platonist and skeptic. During his lifetime he was noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, biology, geology, physics, phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory. Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado. He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home. From this he developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of nature. At age 16, McKenna moved to, and attended high school in, Los Altos, California. He lived with family friends because his parents in Colorado wished him to have the benefit of highly rated California public schools. He was introduced to psychedelics through The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and the Village Voice. One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing." In 1964, circumstances required McKenna to move to Lancaster, California, to live with a different set of family friends. In 1965, he graduated from Antelope Valley High School. McKenna then enrolled in U.C. Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco during the summer of 1965 before his classes began, was introduced that year to cannabis by Barry Melton and tried LSD soon after. As a freshman at ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24168 View Less