Īt age 16 McKenna moved to Los Altos, California to live with family friends for a year. This was the same age McKenna first became aware of magic mushrooms, when reading an essay titled "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" which appeared in the edition of LIFE magazine. He also became interested in psychology at a young age, reading Carl Jung's book Psychology and Alchemy at the age of 14.
McKenna developed a hobby of fossil-hunting in his youth and from this he acquired a deep scientific appreciation of nature. With Irish ancestry on his father's side of the family. Terence McKenna was born and raised in Paonia, Colorado, Biography Early life A 2006 photograph of Paonia, Colorado, where McKenna was born Novelty theory is considered pseudoscience. His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespread beliefs about the 2012 phenomenon. McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory, proposing that this predicted the end of time, and a transition of consciousness in the year 2012. He was called the " Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture". He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. On Steven Weinberg's book, The First Three Minutes
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