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Terence Mckenna Bibliography Video Media John Hazard Terence McKenna Bibliography This compilation is © 2000–2011 Chris Mays. Return to Table of Contents Video Media John Hazard (2011) A conversation with Terence McKenna. Hour long video interview conducted "in the jungle"—probably McKenna's residence in Hawai’i—in October, 1998, and ranging over many familiar topics, including Novelty, the I Ching, the strange attractor and the nature of time, matter and information. More information: http://www.hazarddp.com/?page_id=2. Sharron Rose (2008) Timewave 2013 The Odyssey II: The Future is Now. Sacred Mysteries, Ashland OR. More information: http://www.sacredmysteries.com/public/138.cfm. Sheldon Rocklin, Maxine Rocklin, Morgan Harris and Terence K McKenna (2008) Alchemical Dream: Rebirth of the Great Work. Mystic Fire, From the film's website: “Originally titled Coincidencia Oppositorum: The Unity of Opposites and filmed in Prague with Terence portraying his usual erudite rendition of the Irish Bard, this filmed classic takes us on a journey into the alchemical renaissance of King Frederick V and his wife Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia”. More information: http://www.sacredmysteries.com/public/147.cfm. Gary Tarpinian (2007) Doomsday 2012: The End of Days. Decoding The Past, Morningstar Entertainment, Burbank CA. Daniel Pinchbeck [2012: THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL (2006)] and his publisher Mitch Horowitz are heard in a brief segment about McKenna's Time Wave Zero prophecy (19:56-21:48) in this History Channel documentary on 2012. Terence K. McKenna and Mitchell Jay Rabin (2006) Toward the End of History: Terence McKenna. Penny Price Media, Staatsburg NY. Mike Kawitzky (2005) Cognition Factor. Schwann All Media, A forthcoming independent film by South African Schwann Cybershaman. The teaser trailer describes Cognition Factor as “A film on cognitive evolution with Dennis and Terence McKenna”. More information: media/cognitionfactorteaser.mov. Hagop Matossian (2004) Chaeostrophe. A short film (3:48) by Hagop Matossian, featuring abstract computer generated imagery, with voiceover by McKenna, and music by Shpongle. “It is impossible to conceive of another thousand years of human history”. More information: http://www.undeadarmy.org/video.htm. Will Richter and Mark Pesce (2003, May 23) The Incident. True Hallucinations: The Life and Death of Terence McKenna, Playful World Entertainment, Presented: Mind States IV, Berkeley CA. "One song from the still-to-be-completed opera about the life and death of Terence McKenna." Seven min., 19 sec. More information: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6151747495781176711. Will Richter and Mark Pesce (2003, May 23) Radiance. True Hallucinations: The Life and Death of Terence McKenna, Playful World Entertainment, Presented: Mind States IV, Berkeley CA. "One song from the still-to-be-completed opera about the life and death of Terence McKenna." Four min., 55 sec. More information: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1930392736465534580. Will Richter and Mark Pesce (2003, May 23) Strophariad. True Hallucinations: The Life and Death of Terence McKenna, Playful World Entertainment, Presented: Mind States IV, Berkeley CA. "One song from the still-to-be-completed opera about the life and death of Terence McKenna." Five min., 55 sec. More information: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-198863760774217459. Terence K. McKenna, Jonah Sharp and Stephen Kent (2003, 8 Apr) Alien Dreamtime. Magic Carpet Media, Austin TX. ISBN: ASIN:B000094JPZ. Presented: San Francisco. A DVD reformatting of ALIEN DREAMTIME (1993). Purchase: http://www.magiccarpetmedia.com/. Ken Adams, Britt Welin and Terence K McKenna (2003, 8 Apr) Strange Attractor. Magic Carpet Media, Austin TX. ISBN: ASIN: B000094JQ0. Purchase: http://www.magiccarpetmedia.com/. Teal Stevers (2001, May 1) Alien Dimensions. Millennium Tour, Living Dream Films, Unnumbered installment of a low-budget documentary series, featuring conversations with McKenna and Mark Pesce. Five min., 17 sec. More information: http://video.google.com /videoplay?docid=-3414658316753802189. Cover Terence K. McKenna and Duff Hendrickson (2001) Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines. HPX/Duff Hendrickson, Seattle. More information: http://www.surrealstudio.com/mckenna.html. Cover Terence K. McKenna (2001) Coincidencia Oppositorum: A Union of Opposites, Alchemy and the Renaissance magus John Dee, with Terence McKenna. Mystic Fire, More information: http://www.mysticfire.com/ntsc/projects /coinc.htm. Dean Jefferys (2001) Shamans of the Amazon: A film by Dean Jefferys. SBS Independent, Sydney NSW. More information: http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com/. Teal Stevers (2000, Jan 1) Episode 1: The Big Island of Hawaii. Millennium Tour, Living Dream Films, First installment of a low-budget documentary series, featuring a conversation with McKenna. Eight min., 48 sec. More information: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913831813766694803. Terence K. McKenna (1999) Dreaming Awake at the End of Time. Sound Photosynthesis, Mill Valley CA. Presented: Fort Mason, San Francisco CA, December 13, 1998. Purchase: http://sound.photosynthesis.com/Terence_Mckenna.html. Werner Weick (1998) A vision of the end (Part one of Apocalypse: Revelations for the new millennium). Mystic Fire Video, New York City. ISBN: 1561764159. Jacques Vallee, Terence K. McKenna, James Harder and Richard Grossinger (1998) Life in the Universe?. Thinking Allowed Productions, Oakland CA. This compiliation includes “Aliens and Archetypes” (Mishlove, 1988). Edgar Pêra (1998) Zombietown 23. More information: http://elementarista.blogs.sapo.pt/. Cover Terence K. McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph H. Abraham (1998, 6 Jun) Trialogues at the Edge of the Millennium. Trialogue Press, Santa Cruz. ISBN: 0942344243. Presented: University of California, Santa Cruz. More information: http://www.aerialpress.com/trialoguepress/catalog/millen.html. Terence K. McKenna (1997, 11 Aug) New views of the Time Wave. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. 109 min. Terence K. McKenna (1997, 8 Aug) Relationships, career, drugs & our times. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. 101 min. Terence K. McKenna (1997, 12 Aug) Robot Humans and Human Robots. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. 105 min. Terence K. McKenna (1997, 5 Aug) Aliens, A.T. & Art. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. 96 min. Terence K. McKenna and James Kent (1997) Ketamine: Metaprogramming and Karmic Cleansing from within the Eye of the Storm. Sound Photosynthesis, Mill Valley CA. Presented: Mind States, International House, University of California, Berkeley. More information: http://www.erowid.org /mindstates/mindstates_1997.html. Purchase: http://sound.photosynthesis.com /Terence_Mckenna.html. Edgar Pêra (1996) A Konspyração dus 1000 Tympanos (The 1000 Eardrumz Konspyracy). McKenna is featured as a voice-over. Mike Kawitzky (1996) Terence at Rustlers. Handheld footage of McKenna’s appearance at Rustlers Valley Mountain Retreat in the Maluti mountain foothills of South Africa, in October 1996. Windows media file: 10:48. Also available at the web site are two shorter Windows media files following McKenna as he and other seminar participant wander through the parklands at Rustlers Valley. More information: http://www.webtrance.co.za/webter.html. Anthony Clarke, Andrew Weil, Lester Grinspoon and Terence K. McKenna (1996) The hemp revolution. Vanguard Cinema, Buena Park CA. ISBN: ASIN: B00005KHK9. McKenna is heard in five snippets of a minute or less between mins. 41-58, expressing views about marijuana as a psychoactive plant, developed further in FOOD OF THE GODS. Also available as a 2001 Region 1 NTSC DVD from Amazon.ca (Amazon Canada). More information: http://www.crrh.org /hemptv/docs_revolution.html. Purchase: http://www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KHK9/. Rupert Sheldrake, Terence K. McKenna and Ralph H. Abraham (1995) Metamorphosis: A trialogue on chaos and the world soul. Mystic Fire, New York NY. ISBN: 1561762970. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. More information: http://www.mysticfire.com /frmst_single.html?sku=76297. Terence K. McKenna (1995, 12 Apr) Time Wave Theory revisited. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. 104 min. Terence K. McKenna (1995) Time wave zero. Sound Photosynthesis, Mill Valley CA. Purchase: http://sound.photosynthesis.com/Terence_Mckenna.html. Edgar Pêra, Terence K. McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker (1994) Manual of evazion LX 94. “Manual of Evazion is... a trans-temporal investigation in the city of Lisbon with interventions by the californian writers alternative-thinkers Terence McKenna (Dok Shaman), Rudy Rucker (Cybermagus) and Robert Anton Wilson (Neuroh-Investigator).” YouTube excerpt from director Pêra's blog is available. More information: http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=LLbS-kQhd9o. Terence K. McKenna, Jonah Sharp, Stephen Kent, Ken Adams and Britt Welin (1993, 26 Feb) Alien Dreamtime. City of Tribes Communications; Astralwerks : [distributed by] Caroline Records, ISBN: ASIN:B000003RVH. Presented: San Francisco. Also available as a DVD: ALIEN DREAMTIME, from Magic Carpet Media. Reviewed in BILLBOARD (1994), LIBRARY JOURNAL (1995), OUTPOSTS: A CATALOG OF RARE AND DISTURBING ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION (1995), VIDEO LIBRARIAN (1994), WHOLE EARTH REVIEW (1994), WIRED (1994). Purchase: http://www.lightworksav.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2387.
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