He was fond of using the phrase heroic dose to describe the quantities in which he ingested psychedelics. Also had a penchant for the drug DMT. He is the creator, along with his brother (Dennis), of the timewave theory and the holographic brain theory as revealed in the book The Invisible Landscape. He is the author of several other books, movies and audio works including The archaic revival, True Hallucinations and Surfing on Finnegans Wake & Riding Range With Marshall McLuhan. He had a home in Hawaii and ran workshops from there. Terence Mckenna had an orgiastic number of ideas which are quite revolutionary and very logical.