The Archaic Revival (1992) is Terence McKenna‘s speculatory collection of 18 essays on the visionary rills and polychromatic, hallucinatory spillways of nature, hallways of heathen-revolved human nature, and all these timely lingering ways and loamy means of beauty, foamed, roared lust, and hoary, ancient darks and colds (…penitently underlying the present’s folds and leading, ineluctably, into unfolding Time Wave Zeroes of our future) — of which Raiazome excerpts several, below.

Contents

1. Foreword by Tom Robbins.
2. Acknowledgements.
3. Essays.
   1. Introduction: The Archaic Revival.
   2. In Praise of Psychedelics (with Jay Levin).
   3. High Frontiers Interview (with Will Nofke).
   4. Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness.
   5. Remarks to ARUPA, 1984.
   6. A Conversation Over Saucers (with Will Nofke).
   7. Alien Love.
   8. New Maps of Hyperspace.
   9. Temporal Resonance.
   10. Among Ayahuasqueros.
   11. Mushrooms and Evolution.
   12. New Dimensions Interview (with Michael Toms).
   13. The Voynitch Manuscript.
   14. Wasson’s Literary Precursors.
   15. Critique Interview (with David Jay Brown and Rebecca McClen).
   16. Plan/Plant/Planet.
   17. Virtual Reality and Electronic Highs.
   18. Sacred Plants & Mystic Realities (with Nevill Drury).
4. Bibliography.
5. Index.

Sources

deoxy.org, that tendrilled nodule of online idea-cloaca and -ephemera, proved its mighty worth… Without that online collection of McKennan essays, interviews, and other coagulant documents, this collection — in the published guise of The Archaic Revival — could not have been.

Consequently, this page just directs you to the aptly named:

• deoxy.org. Terence McKenna Land.