Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
Cultural anthropologist, historian, vibeologist, gnomicologist, research fellow, and author. New book: Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, Oct 7, 2025)
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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.”
lareviewofbooks.org
"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:
@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.
@mitpress.bsky.social
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.
@mitpress.bsky.social
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Oct 7
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
All details for this & other events www.edgecentral.net/strangeattra...
Books available at all events
19:00-20:30
All details for this & other events www.edgecentral.net/strangeattra...
Books available at all events
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Sep 29
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
www.themonthly.com.au
Nice first review of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, MIT Press, Oct 7, 2025 (reviewed by Ben Brooker in The Monthly):
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Thanks Libby, though release day is now Oct 7.
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Sep 13
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!
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Sep 13
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...
Praise, excerpts, launch info, etc at: www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
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Praise, excerpts, launch info, etc at: www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
@mitpress.bsky.social
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Sep 13
“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...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Aug 20
Graham St John: Strange Attractor - The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
YouTube video by Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
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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)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...
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Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Aug 15
Psilocybin Summer
An excerpt from Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John
psychedelicpress.substack.com
An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John
(MIT Press, Sept 30, 2025).
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
Preorder: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...
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(MIT Press, Sept 30, 2025).
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Preorder: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...
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Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Aug 15
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...
Further details www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
“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...
Further details www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
Reposted by Graham St John
Psychedelic Press
@psypre.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt from
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
@gmantic.bsky.social's forthcoming biography of Terence McKenna - Psilocybin Summer
psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Jul 12
“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:
www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
— 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:
www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Apr 14
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
“Indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna
"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
@mitpress.bsky.social
www.edgecentral.net/post/preorde...
“A rich and resonant portrayal of the man and his mind.”
From the foreword by Erik Davis
“Indispensable!”
Dennis McKenna
"Wonderful"
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
@mitpress.bsky.social
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Apr 14
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
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
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Mar 16
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.
www.latintimes.com
Damn, I miss Fastnacht! www.latintimes.com/switzerlands...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Nov 19
New Issue of Dancecult just out, Spaces of Dancing. dj.dancecult.net/index.php/da...
Graham St John
@gmantic.bsky.social
· Nov 17
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.
maps.org/news/bulleti...
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.
maps.org/news/bulleti...