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featuring: Words - Terence McKenna Visuals - Rose X Music - Spacetime Continuum Didgeridu - Stephen Kent Alien Dreamtime was produced as a live multi-media event in San Francisco, on the evenings of February 26 and 27, 1993. The performance is divided into three movements, each reflective of Terence McKenna's ethnobotanical theories: Archaic Revival, Alien Love and Time Wave Zero. McKenna's presence is combined with the neo-psychedelic visuals of Rose X and ambient techno improvisations by Space Time Continuum and didgeridusita, Stephen Kent. Take a trip without breaking the law. about Alien Dreamtime: (Alien Dreamtime)... would turn even Timothy Leary straight. - Billboard Magazine Alien Dreamtime comes closer to replicating a psychedelic experience than anything else we've ever seen. - Brain Mind Bulletin This video is a phenethylamine-drenched, techno-primitive extravaganza, par excellence. - Howard Rheingold in Whole Earth Review Event of the year. - Urb Magazine Average. Amazon Customer Review: 5 Stars "My friend gave me a warning before popping this tape in, that it might be a bit intoxicating. That was one of the biggest understatements I have ever heard." "I highly recommend this video for anyone who needs a little vacation from reality & some healthy affirmation of the spirit of mankind." Captured live in San Francisco this event dissolves distinctions between performance art, rave, shamanic ritual, and inspired oratory. Terence McKenna pulls out his multimedia mojo bag and becomes raver, storyteller and psychedelic tourguide bringing all on a howling, transdimensional ride into some inexplicably weird territory. Backed by Stephen Kent's whirling didgeridoo, live video scratching by Rose X, and ambient loops by Spacetime Continuum, we are shuttled back 15,000 summers ago to the mushroom induced ecstasy on the African savannah, propelled into alien landscape of the DMT flash inhabited by hyperdimensional, self-transforming, machine elves, and left to ponder the mysteries of the psychedelic experience, the future of the human species, and its forward escape out of history. All in all, a wonderous, intensely trippy and enlightening adventure.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)

Not to Cool

I thought this was going to be better. The visual effects were not very good. Maybe real out of date by now. Mckenna on his first to rants didn't really make me interested in seeing the complete DVD. I watch the rest of it someday when I'm real bored. I'd pass on this one if I were you.
June 21, 2008

Dissapointed

I have listened to the CD of Alien Dreamtime hundreds of times (literally) and this companion video has ruined that cumulative experience. I highly recomend avoiding this DVD if you have heard the CD before as it will taint that experience.

The graphics in the video are very dated and I am sure someone could make a better visual show on their MAC (If you do let me know where to find it!) The sound quality of this Live recording is also not as clean as the CD.

CD = Highly Highly Highly Recomended
DVD = Only after you have listen to the CD and appreciate its content.

I think I purchased this just to add to my McKenna collection.

Sorry for the bad review...
October 25, 2007

Interesting

If at all interested in Terence McKenna, you should probably check this DVD out. The visuals aren't very complex, but the speech is a classic (on the Archaic Revival). There is one sequence which features crude, psychedelic images of phallics, which makes me feel uncomfortable on viewing. I don't understand why it's there. Anyways, when you get past the phallic scene, it's a classic psychedelic tale set to some decent visuals.
February 15, 2007

All it did was make me dizzy

First off, let me begin by saying that I think Terence McKenna is one of the most important people to come around in the last hundred years or so. If you think this would be a good introduction to what he was all about don't start here. I don't recommend that anyone watch this. What it amounts to is just a bunch of swirling psychedelic images kaleidescoping about while TM riffs over the top with some standard raps of his. I was wanting it to be over by about 7 minutes into it, by then I had discovered it probably wasn't going to get any better. There is not nearly enough Terence here. There are huge streaches where he's not even speaking at all, the images are lame and annoying. You do get to see a semi-nude woman dancing for a while yet no beaver shots....This is a sad substitute for real experience. If you don't have the balls to take 5 grams in silent darkness, alone -like he often recommended - then maybe this movie will make you think that you just had a trip, but don't kid yourself....the contents of your own mind will be far more interesting and insightful than anything you are likely to find here. For a good source of TM audio material, check out the audio archives of rinf.com. You will get the inside scoop from The Man himself with nothing else in the way.
October 13, 2005

deep

I've been trying to locate info about this movie for years....if you are into exploring your personal realms of being.....or into psychedelics this is for you....You when you try to explain to someone THE experience its practiclly impossible to give the journey justice...Terrence set the mood to the T,....Tune In
July 16, 2005

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