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Terence McKenna (film producer)
Canadian filmmaker
For the American writer, see Terence McKenna.
Terence McKenna is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He has collaborated with his brother Brian McKenna, also an award-winning filmmaker.
In , McKenna won the Pierre Berton award.
Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse
In the CBC series Doc Zone, McKenna investigated the history of the global financial collapse from "backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions," and "from Wall Street to Dubai to China which began in September The series included "After the Fall", "Paying the Price", "A Global Tsunami", "The Men who Crashed the World".
Partial filmography
- Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse
- The Secret History of 9/11,
- Land, Gold and Women,
- Son of al Qaeda,
- Life and Times of John Paul II,
- Korea: The Unfinished War,
- Trail of a Terrorist,
- Black October (film),
- The Valour and the Horror,
- The Squamish Five,
References
- ^ "P – Brian McKenna fonds". Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University. September Retrieved 4 January
- ^"Personalities A-Z: Terence McKenna". CBC News. Archived from the original on Retrieved
- ^"Terence McKenna". Archived from the original on Retrieved
- ^ "Brian McKenna". Rabble. Archived from the original on Retrieved
- ^"Meltdown: Episode Guide Host". CBC. Retrieved 4 January
- ^"Meltdown". . Retrieved 1 December
- ^Donovan, Paul. Cinema Canada, "The Squamish Five", January
External links
McKenna straddles this divide. He believes that psychedelics should be more fully integrated into society, through art, design, and pharmacology. But despite his love of science - he callsScientific American the most psychedelic publication that crosses his desk - McKenna is ultimately a romantic, and romantics rarely shape mainstream values these days. He's no kook, but talk of Timewaves and galactic mushroom teachers speaking a transcendental language may not be what the psychedelic movement needs as it gropes toward legitimacy. As Earth, who runs the Vaults of Erowid site, explains, "Some people would certainly argue that it doesn't help to have the most famous second-generation psychedelicist be another man in a purple sparkly suit. One of the primary criticisms of psychedelic users is that they're loopy as hell, and it can certainly be said that Terence McKenna's ideas are, at their best, controversial and, at their worst, confused and delusional."
Today, the psychedelic community has ripened to a point where it may no longer need a charismatic leader. In a sense, this was McKenna's goal. Because if Aldous Huxley was an aristocrat of psychedelics, and Leary was a populist demagogue, then McKenna is a crunchy libertarian. So it is perhaps fitting that McKenna is the last of his line, that no new harlequin hero waits in the wings. What does remain, however, is a network making sure that psychedelics remain an option, covert or otherwise.
"In the end, all McKenna is asking anyone to do is to become a shaman, journey to the numinous, and draw their own conclusions," says Mark Pesce. Even if the invisible landscapes one discovers hold no more reality than dreams or VR worlds, the trip itself forces a direct confrontation with just how weird life is. And how deeply, profoundly weird dying may prove to be.
"The future I regard as history, but I don't want to miss it. We are on the brink of a posthuman e
Terence McKenna
American ethnobotanist and mystic (–)
For the Canadian documentary filmmaker, see Terence McKenna (film producer).
Terence McKenna
Born ()November 16,
Paonia, Colorado, U.S.Died April 3, () (aged&#;53)
San Rafael, California, U.S.Occupation Author, lecturer Education BSc in ecology, resource conservation, and shamanism Alma&#;mater University of California, Berkeley Period 20th century Subject Shamanism, ethnobotany, ethnomycology, metaphysics, psychedelic drugs, alchemy Notable works The Archaic Revival, Food of the Gods, The Invisible Landscape, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide, True Hallucinations. Spouse Kathleen Harrison (–; divorced) Children 2 Relatives Dennis McKenna (brother) Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, –April 3, ) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".
McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory, proposing that this predicted the end of time, and a transition of consciousness in the year His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespread beliefs about the phenomenon. Novelty theory is considered pseudosci
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