Graham St John

How DMT Converted Terence McKenna Into a Psychedelic Edge Runner After a mind-bending trip at nineteen, Terence McKenna, or “America’s shaman,” spent his adult life transforming a molecule into a cultural sacrament.

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We Are the Alien | Los Angeles Review of Books Forest Lewis ponders Graham St John’s “Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna.”

"Due to St John’s intellectual reach, the book has, like a dark planet, drawn an entire menagerie of late 20th-century weirdness into its oblique orbit."

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna" by @gmantic.bsky.social:

Book launches in New York 16-18 Oct
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John (MIT Press)
Alchemists Kitchen (16 Oct), Gospel (17 Oct), COSM (18 Oct). For all details: www.edgecentral.net/strangeattra...
Books sold & signed at all events.
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The launch of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna kicks off on Wed Oct 8, @ The Berkeley Alembic Foundation, 2820 7th St, Berkeley CA.
19:00-20:30
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Books available at all events

Altered statesman: Graham St John’s ‘Strange Attractor’ The life and ideas of psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna, who advocated a return to humanity’s ancestral relationship with psychoactive plants

Nice first review of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press, Oct 7, 2025 (reviewed by Ben Brooker in The Monthly):

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Thanks Libby, though release day is now Oct 7.

Hi James, if you've ordered it now, you have preordered it (it will be sent shipped on the On Sale Date of Oct 7). The copies in the pic are advanced/review copies. Thanks!

T minus 3.5 weeks to launch of "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna" Advance copies arrived and looking Fabulous. Preorder now from MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

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“Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest,” is a serialised essay about the oldest surviving recording of McKenna (and exploring the artifice of his oratory). It accompanies the release of a video-sync of the rap. www.edgecentral.net/post/terence...

YouTube video by Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy Graham St John: Strange Attractor - The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna

Was recently on the Brainforest Cafe podcast with Dennis McKenna, talking about my new book Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MITP, Sep 30, 2025, with a foreword by Erik Davis)

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Psilocybin Summer An excerpt from Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John

An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John
(MIT Press, Sept 30, 2025).
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Six weeks to launch sequence

“The definitive biography of Terence”
— Dennis McKenna

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 30 Sep 2025) by Graham St John mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

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Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer

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“The definitive biography of Terence. . . Indispensable!”
— Dennis J. McKenna

Graham St John's Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 30 Sep 2025)

PREORDER options, including 25% off from Tertulia (July / US only), at:
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Preorder Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press
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“A rich and resonant portrayal of the man and his mind.”
From the foreword by Erik Davis

“Indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna

"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff

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Preorder Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press
www.edgecentral.net/post/preorde...

“A rich and resonant portrayal of the man and his mind.”
From the foreword by Erik Davis

“This biography is indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna

"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Switzerland's Anti-Trump Protestors Wear Giant Middle Fingers on Their Heads During March A march in Switzerland was directed at Donald Trump, featuring a brigade of flute players wearing giant hats in the shape of a hand raising the middle finger.

Damn, I miss Fastnacht! www.latintimes.com/switzerlands...

New Issue of Dancecult just out, Spaces of Dancing. dj.dancecult.net/index.php/da...

Terence McKenna, Lisbon, 1994, on the set of Manual of Evasion LX94. Courtesy of Edgar Pêra.

Terence McKenna’s Alien Dreamtime by Graham St John,
MAPS Bulletin: v. 24 n. 1 (Nov 2024).

This story emerges from an extensive study bearing fruit in a biography to be published by MIT Press in 2025, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinogenic Life of Terence McKenna.
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