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  • Happy Birthday, Terry!

    This is your little brother Dennis, writing to you across the gulfs of time and space. Almost as though you were still out there somewhere…and perhaps you are. One thing I do know; you are still ‘in here,’ in my heart, and remembered, and loved. I miss you very much.

  • Remember to remember: Take away lessons from my interview with Tim Ferris

    Earlier this month I had the pleasure of appearing on Tim Ferriss’ podcast. Our conversation was wonderful and wide-ranging; Tim is an excellent interviewer. We touched on a number of topics of course but I was reminded of something his assistant suggested I should ponder, ahead of our interview, namely, if I had the opportunity…

  • Dennis McKenna at “The event at La Chorrera: a 50-year retrospective”

    They (our friends) were actually concerned that Terence and I were going off the rails. And, maybe we were. They were not convinced of the information we were downloading. And we were utterly convinced about it… Look, this (the Experiment) is happening. We understand each other perfectly what we’re trying to do and we understand…

  • The experiment at La Chorrera: a 50-year retrospective

    The fall of 1970 was a difficult year for my brother and me. Our mother died on October 25th, at the young age of 57, after a long battle with cancer. My brother Terence had been hanging out in the jungles of Indonesia, for most of the previous year collecting butterflies, keeping a low profile…

  • The World as we know it has ended

    In 1950, the year I was born, did any of us alive then imagine where we would be at this historical juncture? I certainly didn’t. 2020 will be remembered, I think, as the year that the world as we know it ended. Thankfully it has not ended in the cataclysm of an asteroid impact or…