Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Amazon Psychotropical Quest is the oldest known surviving recording of Terence McKenna. The three hour rap was taped by Tama Starr at a private apartment in Dodge Place, Tenderloin, San Francisco, 18 November 1972. The recording is released with the permission of Tama Starr and Martin Inn.
Author of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, Graham St John, has written an accompanying essay on the Dodge Place rap and the artifice of McKenna’s oratory. The serial blog-essay “Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest,” is available at:
edgecentral.net/post/terence-mckenna-in-embryo-amazon-psychotropical-quest-part-1
With a foreword by Erik Davis and described by Dennis McKenna as "the definitive biography of Terence," Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, can be ordered (currently preordered) from MITP at:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049573/strange-attractor/
Praise, excerpts, launch info, and subscribe for announcements at: edgecentral.net/terence-mckenna-biography
Amazon Psychotropical Quest is the oldest known surviving recording of Terence McKenna. The three hour rap was taped by Tama Starr at a private apartment in Dodge Place, Tenderloin, San Francisco, 18 November 1972. The recording is released with the permission of Tama Starr and Martin Inn.
Author of Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, Graham St John, has written an accompanying essay on the Dodge Place rap and the artifice of McKenna’s oratory. The serial blog-essay “Terence McKenna in Embryo: Amazon Psychotropical Quest,” is available at:
edgecentral.net/post/terence-mckenna-in-embryo-amazon-psychotropical-quest-part-1
With a foreword by Erik Davis and described by Dennis McKenna as "the definitive biography of Terence," Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, can be ordered (currently preordered) from MITP at:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049573/strange-attractor/
Praise, excerpts, launch info, and subscribe for announcements at: edgecentral.net/terence-mckenna-biography
