alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/ Terence K. McKenna (1986) Rites of spring. Ojai Foundation, Ojai CA 93023. More information: www.futurehi.net/media.html. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 -- April 3, 2000) was an American author, public speaker, metaphysician, psychonaut, philosopher, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchist, anti-materialist, environmentalist, feminist, Platonist and skeptic. During his lifetime he was noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, biology, geology, physics, phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory.