Today would have been Terence McKenna’s 78th birthday. He was a revolutionary thinker who wasn’t afraid to look at the world from his own perspective and share what strange and wonderful views he found, regardless of whether they gelled with the current consensus reality.
I wish he was still with us. I think he’d be amazed and amused by how accurate some of his predictions about the near future turned out to be.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or sad or afraid right now, spend 8 minutes with an open mind listening to this little snippet of an interview he gave back in 1999, shortly before his death. It will give you perspective. It will ground you in the present so you understand what you need to do, personally, next and going forward.
The mushrooms - that was powerful