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Book Reviews by Terence McKenna

A Strikethrough means the work is a reprint, excerpt, or transcripts that is available (presumably) in a more accessible, appreciable format, like a talk or more famous McKenna work, like one of his books. Works with red text offer an expansion of earlier material. Next to the “FIND” tag, there is information on which sites the text is available. Hyperlinks are not provided for Z-Library and Libgen, but if they are listed, then you can find that particular text there by using the website’s search function. Hyperlinks are provided for the Internet Archive and other sites.

The source for this list is the Terence McKenna Bibliography by Chris Mays. Minor organizational changes have been made.


Terence K. McKenna (1989) Psychopharmacognosticon: Marshall McLuhan the cognitive agent a cyberpunk godfather. Mondo 2000 no. 1 Fall, Illustrator: Spiralling Books, McLuhan photo: Barbara Wilde; pp.48-49; McKenna reviews The Letters of Marshall McLuhan, edited by Molinaro, et al., 1987. “The Letters contextualize his work so that what now seems commonplace strikes us again with apocalyptic force”.
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Terence K. McKenna (1989) Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wildman. Whole Earth Review no. 64 Fall, ISSN: 0749-5056. [Review of Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wildman (Taussig, 1987)] pp.12; A slightly rewritten excerpt from McKenna’s review, Into the heart of darkness (1987), of Taussig’s Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man that appeared in Gnosis, followed by an excerpt from the book.

Terence K. McKenna (1988) Dynamics of a return to Eden. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no. 8 Summer, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of The Chalice and the blade. (Eisler, 1987)] “Alchemy.” pp.58;

Terence K. McKenna (1988) Has the world’s most mysterious manuscript been read at last?: Voynich translation claims to shed new light on Cathars & esoteric spirituality. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no. 7 Summer, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of Solution of the Voynich Manuscript (Levitov, 1987)] pp.48-51; Reprinted in The archaic revival (1991). This article is also a review of Levitov Solution of the Voynich Manuscript (1987).

Terence K. McKenna (1988) A solution to the Voynich manuscript by Leo Levitov. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no. 7 Summer, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of A solution to the Voynich manuscript (Levitov, 1987)]

Terence K. McKenna (1987) Into the heart of darkness: Shamanism, colonialism and the wildman by Michael Taussig. Gnosis: a journal of the Western inner traditions no. 5 Fall, ISSN: 0894-6159. [Review of Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wildman (Taussig, 1987)] pp.45; McKenna gives a positive review. “It uses the strong medicine of yagé, la purga, to purge the imp of infantilism from our own image of the shamans, their plant teachers, and the very real and suffering people whose lives depend on them”.

Terence K. McKenna (1981) Ecodynamics: A new theory of societal evolution by Kenneth E. Boulding. Zygon Vol:16 no. 1 Mar, ISSN: 0591-2385. [Review of Ecodynamics: A new theory of societal evolution (Boulding, 1978)] pp.100-101; Positive review of Ecodynamics by Boulding. McKenna was appreciative of Boulding’s “view which moves humankind away from a role as a mere spectator” of evolution to that of “a vital catalytic factor in the ongoing adventure of the becoming of the cosmos”.


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