Strange AttractorAn intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946 2000) was the twentieth century's psychedelic Renaissance man.