Your good name please? *
Your good name please?
There is nothing better than a birthday from the wife! Shellfish and sake in the place with the aquariums, Chinese macaroons, take away sushi, sandals and even a sexy card! Just needed a tiny bit of editing... It's my birthday. Go get yourself something nice. Like the audiobook 🐙🎤📖😁 #octopus #octonation #marinescience #marinebiology #octopusfacts #goodwifey #goodwifestatus #lovestory #sciencememes #sciencegeeks #biogeek #technopagan #escapeartist #lovingkindness #mustdobetter
Props to Sam the sound engineer who recorded the audiobook. I told Sam about the e-mail from the Audible people that said they require submitted files measure at an RMS level between -23dB and -18dB, with a maximum peak level of -3dB and something about floors and ceilings and how I wanted my shouting voice to be of equal intensity as my sexy voice and Sam was all: as pictured! In the end I got a personal e-mail from Audible that said: "Congratulations on a great production!" Stoked. #audiobook #audiobookstagram #audiobooknarrator #spokenword #performancepoetry #mythopoetic #dmttrip #authorsofinstagram #soundengineer #studiotime #acx #audiblebooks #askforhelpwhenyouneedit #psychedelicart #octopus #octopusspeaks
People are asking: who did Goddess Glue and Venus on your audiobook? (apparently, she added a touch of class to the production). One of my buddies even thought she was TWO PEOPLE. Enter the fabulous Josephine Buchan. Josephine is a talent scout, voice coach, documentary filmmaker, theater impresario, former television presenter and close friend who (oddly enough) jumped at the chance to play some of my characters -- even if it meant going to an industrial estate in West Ham and being locked in a tiny soundproof room. When she read the part of Goddess Glue she said she immediately though she should play her as a young Queen Elizabeth. Nailed it! The Octopus Speaks! #audiobooks #audiobooknarrator #studiotime #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #performancepoetry #campfirestory #talkstory #mercuryretrograde #mercuryinretrograde #oshoquotes #burningman #psychedelic #psychedelicart #dmttrip #terencemckenna #alchemy #octonation
Great, there goes another £20... https://socksmith.co.uk/collections/animals-mens/products/mens-socktopus-socks?variant=19687096189031 #octopus #octonation #sockgame #sockgamestrong #sockgameonpoint #sockgameonlock #technopagan
Listening to Terence on the Psychedelic Salon podcast from a talk he gave at Esalen all the way back in '89. He was talking about how Western civilization was like the prodigal son, only instead of leaving the kingdom of his father, s/he was leaving Eden. And like the prodigal son ,Western civilization has discovered all these amazing treasures and had all these incredible insights and -- our science, our understanding of physics/biology/psychology/art -- it's not like we, modern culture don't have anything to offer to the world we seem hell bent on destroying, but it's time for us to return home and use our gifts for the benefit of the Kingdom. Queendom. Obviously I'm paraphrasing but it got me thinking... #terencemckenna #terencemckennaquote #esalen #esaleninstitute #psychedelic #psychedelica #returntosource #theprodigalson #archetypes #jungianpsychology #abetterworld #octonation #octopuslove #technopagan (did I mention my audiobook just came out?) :-)
So the lovely graphic designers who live upstairs and helped design my book and audiobook cover which in no way had anything to do with my looking after their flat for a month last summer while they were in Australia because that would be transactional and therefore gauche, anyway the guy comes downstairs, hands me these proofs and asks which color I like better and I'm like, excuse me? Anyway the book is finally out! #attentiontodetail #graphicdesign #audiobook #kdp #acx #authorsofinstagram #octonation #dmttrip #indiatravel #terencemckennaworld #mercuryinretrograde #mercuryretrograde #greekmythology #channeling #bookdesign #teal #octopuslove
"I once took a drug, DMT... And we were immediately nailed to the sofa. And I saw god, this amazing towering thing. And I was humbled. And what I'm saying is, that moment didn't turn my life around, but it was a clue." -- The Sunday Times #octonation #beatlesmemes #beatles #dmt #dmttrip #dmtworld #psychedelic #psychedelicart #psychedelicartist #terencemckenna #thesixties #thesundaytimes (Oh, and hey, my new DMT-catalyzed, McKenna-encouraged spokenword audiobook came out yesterday -- check the bio!) @dmtworld @pyptek @dmtspiritmolecule @alexgreycosm @joerogan @dmt__official @terencemckennaworld @terencemckennaofficial @terencemckennaarchive
After clinical psychosis and fifteen years in my head, the audiobook is finally out. God: tackled! Vegetarians: slain! Chivalry: attempted! Drugs: differentiated! America: Explained! My favorite review of all time for the spoken word? "Strangely gripping" -- The Scotsman Please do go through my bio, check it out and, if you love it, star that shit up! #spokenword #audiobook #authorsofinstagram #narratorsofinstagram #burningman #terencemckenna #mercuryretrograde #dmt #dmttrip #psychedelic #psychedelicart #oshoquotes #osho #wildwildcountry #lovingkindness #indiatravel

banner, blog & wildlife photos © Ian Winn

octopus photos courtesy of Roy Caldwell