Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist and a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of ten books, including Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT, Global Tribe, and Technomad. He is founding Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and has published widely on the ethnobiography of transformational events.

• IntroductionFreak GnosisBook OutlinePART IChapter One — Edge RunnersChapter Two — BerkeleyChapter Three — Terry IncognitaChapter Four — La ChorreraChapter Five — Return to ParadiseChapter Six — GrowmanceChapter Seven — Special ProjectsChapter Eight — Stand-Up PhilosopherPART IIChapter Nine — Timewave ZeroChapter Ten — Psychedelic GuruChapter Eleven — Zone GhostChapter Twelve — MetamorphosisAppendicesA. Acknowledgements and SourcesB. The McKennaverse

“An account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject.” – Publishers Weekly“ [A] delightful new biography.” – Reason“Due to St John’s intellectual reach, the book has, like a dark planet, drawn an entire menagerie of late 20th-century weirdness into its oblique orbit. With two appendices and 75 pages of notes, it is comprehensive and reference-heavy and seems to have left nothing unexamined in the labyrinth of the McKennaverse. The McKenna persona, familiar today from countless audio recordings strewn across the internet, is not so much invalidated here as given a merely human quality; the book is nothing if not the biography of a mortal. And for this we can be grateful, given the near-deification of McKenna that is well underway in some corners of the internet . . . The second part of the biography is a valiant attempt to lay out the various components of McKenna’s theoretical project, in what may constitute a groundwork for McKenna studies.” – Los Angeles Review of Books "A sympathetic and infectious travelogue of McKenna's psychedelic multiverse, but also pretty unflinching and even rigorous in unpacking the very, very high weirdness.” —Jesse Jarnow, author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America"Excellent scholarship, eloquently written, and deeply illuminating of its subject... Now it is possible to see the complexity of the man behind the raps." —Psychedelic Press

Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist and a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of ten books, including Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT, Global Tribe, and Technomad. He is founding Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and has published widely on the ethnobiography of transformational events.

• IntroductionFreak GnosisBook OutlinePART IChapter One — Edge RunnersChapter Two — BerkeleyChapter Three — Terry IncognitaChapter Four — La ChorreraChapter Five — Return to ParadiseChapter Six — GrowmanceChapter Seven — Special ProjectsChapter Eight — Stand-Up PhilosopherPART IIChapter Nine — Timewave ZeroChapter Ten — Psychedelic GuruChapter Eleven — Zone GhostChapter Twelve — MetamorphosisAppendicesA. Acknowledgements and SourcesB. The McKennaverse

“An account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject.” – Publishers Weekly“ [A] delightful new biography.” – Reason“Due to St John’s intellectual reach, the book has, like a dark planet, drawn an entire menagerie of late 20th-century weirdness into its oblique orbit. With two appendices and 75 pages of notes, it is comprehensive and reference-heavy and seems to have left nothing unexamined in the labyrinth of the McKennaverse. The McKenna persona, familiar today from countless audio recordings strewn across the internet, is not so much invalidated here as given a merely human quality; the book is nothing if not the biography of a mortal. And for this we can be grateful, given the near-deification of McKenna that is well underway in some corners of the internet . . . The second part of the biography is a valiant attempt to lay out the various components of McKenna’s theoretical project, in what may constitute a groundwork for McKenna studies.” – Los Angeles Review of Books "A sympathetic and infectious travelogue of McKenna's psychedelic multiverse, but also pretty unflinching and even rigorous in unpacking the very, very high weirdness.” —Jesse Jarnow, author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America"Excellent scholarship, eloquently written, and deeply illuminating of its subject... Now it is possible to see the complexity of the man behind the raps." —Psychedelic Press

Graham St John is a cultural anthropologist and a recent recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in the Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Huddersfield where he is a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of ten books, including Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT, Global Tribe, and Technomad. He is founding Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and has published widely on the ethnobiography of transformational events.

• IntroductionFreak GnosisBook OutlinePART IChapter One — Edge RunnersChapter Two — BerkeleyChapter Three — Terry IncognitaChapter Four — La ChorreraChapter Five — Return to ParadiseChapter Six — GrowmanceChapter Seven — Special ProjectsChapter Eight — Stand-Up PhilosopherPART IIChapter Nine — Timewave ZeroChapter Ten — Psychedelic GuruChapter Eleven — Zone GhostChapter Twelve — MetamorphosisAppendicesA. Acknowledgements and SourcesB. The McKennaverse

“An account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject.” – Publishers Weekly“ [A] delightful new biography.” – Reason“Due to St John’s intellectual reach, the book has, like a dark planet, drawn an entire menagerie of late 20th-century weirdness into its oblique orbit. With two appendices and 75 pages of notes, it is comprehensive and reference-heavy and seems to have left nothing unexamined in the labyrinth of the McKennaverse. The McKenna persona, familiar today from countless audio recordings strewn across the internet, is not so much invalidated here as given a merely human quality; the book is nothing if not the biography of a mortal. And for this we can be grateful, given the near-deification of McKenna that is well underway in some corners of the internet . . . The second part of the biography is a valiant attempt to lay out the various components of McKenna’s theoretical project, in what may constitute a groundwork for McKenna studies.” – Los Angeles Review of Books "A sympathetic and infectious travelogue of McKenna's psychedelic multiverse, but also pretty unflinching and even rigorous in unpacking the very, very high weirdness.” —Jesse Jarnow, author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America"Excellent scholarship, eloquently written, and deeply illuminating of its subject... Now it is possible to see the complexity of the man behind the raps." —Psychedelic Press