Can't Find My Way Home
America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
Chapter One
The World's
Oldest Cyberpunk
The Los Angeles Times had called Terence McKenna
"the Tim Leary of the 90s." McKenna had even
used his own playful variation of Leary's
infamous catchphrase of the Sixties: "Log on,
tune in, and drop out." Even Tim Leary called
McKenna "the Tim Leary of the Nineties," but
that did nothing to diminish Leary's stature in
the story of the psychedelic culture. Cyberpunk
had more than vindicated Leary. By the winter of
1993, his smiling countenance was being widely
featured in a print campaign for the Gap. Twenty
years later, the same man who had once been
labeled the most dangerous man in America by a
federal judge in California was selling blue
jeans and T-shirts to a whole new generation as
Ti ... read full excerpt from Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 ebook
