EDIT (2016, March)
You can support this finished movie project here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terence-mcke...
(Edit: The campaign has ended, and although I didn't reach my goal, the contributions were enough to finance the animated part of the movie and covered some expenses that I encountered since then. The project did turn out to be quite expensive (considering it's not a commercial product) so I appreciate any support through purchasing my music on iTunes or streaming it on Spotify. My Facebook artist page has all the links for that. If you'd like to reach out with Terence material or photos, or any questions, please email me at weplants@gmail.com)
The movie will be available on March 4th on my YouTube Channel.
Aficionados of Terence McKenna need no introduction to the story that started it all. A journey through the Amazon basin becomes an experiment to hyper-carbolate human DNA, while the events spark the idea of an eschatological theory based on the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching.
NEW: watch the second trailer
Packed with alchemical ramblings about the concretisation of the hyperdimensional object that is accessible in the ecstasy of mushroom intoxication, this is a story not for the faint hearted!
The bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. In search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters—including a mushroom, a flying saucer, and the voice of the Other — and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.
My name is Peter Bergmann, I'm the creator of a 3+ hour long documentary movie about the ideas of Terence McKenna, which I made available to watch in its entirety on YouTube.
It was a result of many years of work, and while my summer and all time went into the production last year, it was clear that the 'Experiment at La Chorrera' would be impossible to incorporate into the already lengthy project. Also, it felt as a separate entity, and a story so outlandish, it couldn't possibly be translated into any kind of visual experience, mostly because of the lack of actual material.
(With the Terence McKenna movie, I had hundreds of hours of audio and many videos to choose bits and pieces from, but there is very little tangible material for True Hallucinations, except of course the 9+ hour long talking book.)
The documentary above is highly recommended to be conquered on a long summer weekend, you can help my efforts by liking/sharing/commenting, thank you!
As a consequence of an unbearable itch to continue expanding the McKenna universe, it became obvious to me in recent months that 'True Hallucinations' can reach its fruition.
I've already finished some sequences which prove to me that it would be foolish not to release it to an audience, even though the full and finished product might suffer in the area of consistent quality.
I feel it's necessary to push the envelope on this one, and so I launched this campaign boldly, to gather funds for hardware costs that I'm encountering, and to finance sequences that require the help of other artists, most importantly animated parts, where there is no other way to tell the story.
Terence McKenna's words are poetry to those who know how to listen, and I'm confident the movie I created called 'The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time' provides the viewer with plenty visits from the alchemical angel.
'True Hallucinations' on the other hand strives for something much stranger, it is a set of experiments and ideas that perhaps seem like 'the ravings of an unhinged mind', as Terence often put it, yet the story carries with it an eerie sense of gnostic truth that cannot be ignored, and I believe must be packaged for new generations of psychonauts who will always be drawn to the work of the McKenna brothers.
I call these projects 'movies' for convenience, in essence they are a collection of videos, pictures and audio files gathered from the Internet, distilled, coagulated and juxtapositioned with music and visuals, to present Terence's life and ideas in compressed units. My plan is to publish Terence McKenna's True Hallucinations on YouTube one year after The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time premiered, on November 16th, which is Terence's birthday.
I thank you for your help, may Novelty win!
"I am assured by the people around me - publishers, editors, agents, marketing experts - people who are obviously uninformed as to the whispered promise of a special destiny made to me by the elves of hyperspace, that I am going to be big, have influence, and change the way people think.
Perhaps this will be true. I hope so. Something happened at La Chorrera, something extraordinary. I was extremely fortunate to have briefly glimpsed a strange, beautiful, and better sort of world and to have made a marvelous pact with the alien gods who dwell there."
- Terence McKenna
photo: Dennis And Terence
Terence McKenna was an author, lecturer, philosopher and shamanic explorer of the realm of psychedelic states. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He has been described by some as being 'so far out, nobody knows what he's talking about', and by others as 'the most innovative thinker of our times'.
(I'm always looking for anything related to Terence McKenna, if you'd like to contribute to the McKenna Image Archive, or you think something needs to be in the movie, or you'd like to creatively help, please contact me at weplants@gmail.com)
NOTE: This project was discussed and approved by Lux Natura.