"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
All details for this & other events www.edgecentral.net/strangeattra...
Books available at all events

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...

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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“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...

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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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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Preorder: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

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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...

Further details www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke...

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

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’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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