Persona Classification Layer
Compare Personas
Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Terence McKenna
Logos through the mushroom — psychedelics as the engines of human cultural evolution and the bridge to the transcendent other
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Terence McKenna |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Spirit-relational |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | Mystical |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Terence McKenna
Eschatological-fractal time culminating in the timewave-zero singularity.
Space
Terence McKenna
Non-local subtle-imaginal geography accessible through entheogen-induced states.
Matter
Terence McKenna
Substantival but mind-permeated; the entities encountered in psychedelic states are taken to be in some sense real.
Observer
Terence McKenna
Plural; multiple time/space instances through psychedelic experience. Spirit-relational metaphysical agency.
Energy
Terence McKenna
Reversible alchemical-imaginal energetic regime.
Information
Terence McKenna
Relational; the logos comes through.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
McKenna's timewave-zero eschatological prediction of a 2012 cosmic-cultural transformation was tested by history and failed. The stoned-ape hypothesis remains unprovable and is dismissed by mainstream paleoanthropology; sympathetic ethnobotanists treat it as a serious if speculative proposal. The current psychedelic-therapy renaissance has selectively adopted McKenna while leaving the millenarian framework behind.