Graham St John
Graham St John, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, historian, and vibeologist with an interest in transformational events, movements, and figures. He is author of ten books, including the recent biography Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (MIT Press, 2025). His other books include Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books 2015), and Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox 2012). Graham is Senior Research Fellow in the Dept of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
Dec. 21, 2025
Graham St. John: Terence McKenna's Hallucinatory Life
Cultural anthropologist Graham St. John spent ten years assembling McKenna's story, documenting the rogue scholar who argued that interfacing with tryptamines was evolution's missing link and that rave was its modern revival.