Terrence McKenna - His Life & Ideas - Explorer, Philosopher and Wordweaver Extraordinaire!

[Peter Lemkin]

Another one that died way too young. Brain cancer too like Bob Marley and Gladys Marin and others. Beautiful man. Met him here in Sydney as he was a hometown friend of boyfriend at the time. Other friends knew him from Hawaii and we corresponded occassionally. Do you know much about his brother? Walked a similar road with him but maybe a bit more corporate in the latter days.

Well, now THAT is an amazing bit of synchrony - that you and I both knew him! His brother is still alive and working. He was never as 'public' a person as Terrence. He is a trained ethnopharmicologist and was much saddened by his brother's death. Another blow [or black op] was the fire that destroyed Terrence's huge collection of books and papers. Once I had his brother's email address and that of his partner....but I think that disk crashed. I believe she still lives in Hawaii and he lives somewhere in CA but goes to S.A. and elsewhere doing his work from time to time. I met his brother just once at one of his rare public talks.

Yes, Terrence died MUCH too young....and while it could have been a 'natural' brain cancer, I have always harbored just a little skepticism - given what I know of assassinations and attempts to derail cultural and counter-cultural heroes. It was a very rare type, and manifested very quickly. He was well aware that the Deep State was keeping an eye on him. He and I talked not only about his usual topics, but about deep political events. He was fully aware of them, and in the two years before his death had begun to incorporate them into his talks. He was fully 'up' on the JFK Assassination and other events like that - fully aware, generally. A brilliant man! One of Vaclav Havel's chief advisers was working with me to secure the castle for his retreat. I believe that Havel had also tried some psychedelics in his life....but can't prove that. One type of magic mushroom grows in one area here, and a small few know about where they can be collected and what they look like. Terrence was very interested to try them in a medieval atmosphere. It was not to be.