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Terence McKenna, a Rare card
Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and mushrooms.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
- He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".
- Critical reception of McKenna's work was deeply polarized, with critics accusing him of promoting dangerous ideas and questioning his sanity, while others praised his writing as groundbreaking, humorous, and intellectually provocative.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Terence McKenna article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Terence McKenna (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jon Hanna, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.


