New Projects…
ICPR 26
In June of 2026 Klea McKenna will present at ICPR, Europe’s biggest conference on psychedelic research: In this visual presentation, she will share potent gems from Lux Natura Archive’s thousands of letters, manuscripts, journals, photos, audio recordings and butterfly specimens. Klea candidly re-examines her father’s legacy and the aesthetics of the psychedelic subculture she was raised in. By tracing archival evidence of intellectual cross-pollination, she highlights the urgency of preserving the storied history of 20th century counterculture and the individual psychonauts that brought us this far. Tickets and program here.
COMING THIS SUMMER & Fall:
BLUE STREAK: A podcast about the life and work of Terence McKenna seen thru the Lux Natura Archive.
Terence McKenna X Spacetime Continuum: A new album of a never-before-published, live concert will be released on vinyl, CD and digital download.
Recent books by other artists and scholars:
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century. Written by Graham St John and published by MIT Press. Available here.
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. Written by Erik Davis and published by MIT Press. Available here.
The Butterfly Hunter
Terence’s daughter, visual artist Klea McKenna, created a limited edition artist book in collaboration with her father’s memory and the thousands of lepidoptera specimens that he collected from 1968-1972. Author Erik Davis called The Butterfly Hunter “A remarkable visual meditation on time, loss, and the culture of nature”. It is available here and her work is viewable here: www.kleamckenna.com
Photo taken by Kathleen Harrison in Oakland, CA 1975. >>