Our Goal:

Our goal is to collect, catalog and digitize Terence's original work and life story.

when Terence left this world, he wasn’t finished. His expansive ideas and luminous wit live on in the writings and recordings he left behind - some of which have yet to be heard. We have already gathered nearly 70 boxes containing, journals, personal letters, early audio cassettes, videos, books, photographs and over 1000 butterfly specimens Terence collected between 1968-1972.

Our Plan:

PHASE 1

  • Gather: To gather all available images, recordings and texts of Terence’s original work and life story. We will bring together materials from family members, individual collectors, old friends, the internet, physical storage and the institutions Terence worked with.

  • Catalog: To inventory all materials, digitize them and create a catalog reference that summarizes the contents and highlights of the collection.

  • Archive: The catalog we create will help us to secure an ideal forever home in an institutional archive where it can be professionally preserved and shared as part of our collective historical record.

PHASE 2

  • License: To create an accessible and streamlined system for licensing Terence’s words and voice to artists, scholars, musicians, filmmakers, etc. and support the stewardship of his work.

  • Publish: To release previously unpublished works and newly curated collections of both audio and written material.

  • Collaborate: To work with artists, scholars and filmmakers to illuminate new interpretations of Terence’s work and inspire future creativity.

Contributors

This Project is funded by a generous grant from Albert Hobohm and the Nostromo Foundation. We are also grateful for the ongoing donations, big and small, from Terence’s listeners, readers and community.

Materials have been contributed to the growing archive by:

  • Library of Consciousness

  • Esalen Institute

  • Omega Institute

  • Paul Herbert / Dolphin Tapes

  • Alan Watts Foundation

  • Chris Mays

  • Kevin Whitesides

  • Klaus John

  • Erik Davis

  • Dennis McKenna

  • Kathleen Harrison

  • Finn & Klea McKenna

  • Peter Bergmann

  • Grahm St John

  • Leslie Rossman

  • Sara Hartley

Email info@TerenceMcKenna.com if you have digital or physical materials to share.

Why Give?

  • ✽

    Supporting the creative work of philosophers, artists and writers is one of the ways we can build a more creative culture despite living in an extractive, capitalist system.

  • ✽

    Terence’s message was prescient, but now it is urgent. With a new wave of interest in psychedelic science, it’s important to preserve the history of the counter-culture and the psychonauts that brought us this far.

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