A mesmerizing, fast-paced, and surreal account of McKenna's expedition to the Amazon Basin in search of a mythical shamanistic hallucinogen, and the planet-shattering secret it revealed. After encountering a cast of remarkable characters, McKenna's band discovers that the "universe is stranger than we can suppose".
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A mesmerizing, fast-paced, and surreal account of McKenna's expedition to the Amazon Basin in search of a mythical shamanistic hallucinogen, and the planet-shattering secret it revealed. After encountering a cast of remarkable characters, McKenna's band discovers that the "universe is stranger than we can suppose".
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New. Size: 5x0x9; New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Radical Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. From Publishers Weekly In 1971 ethnobotanist McKenna ( Archaic Revival ), his brother Dennis and three friends boated to a town in Amazonian Colombia, seeking a hallucinogenic plant that enables the Witoto tribe to talk to elf-like "little men. " In psychedelicized ravings interspersed with diary excerpts, McKenna records their experiences after ingesting mind-altering mushrooms and other psychoactive plants. A flying saucer slowly flew over McKenna's head; he calls it a "holographic mirage" of a future technology. Dennis had a revelation about a "psychofluid" that pervades the universe. McKenna flashes forward to Hawaii in 1975 where mantis-like creatures from hyperspace attack his lover, and flashes back to his tantric lovemaking in Tibet and to Indonesia where unrepentant Nazi scientists tried to recruit him in 1970. He posits the existence of a particle of time, the chronon, which conditions matter. A bizarre book.
Terence McKenna writes about his journey into the heart of the Amazonian jungles of Colombia where he and a small group undergo an amazing experiment at La Chorrera. This is a great introduction into McKenna's ideas (you can find countless hours of free audio lectures through a search engine) and style of writing, as it outlines one of the events in his life that lead him to explore the infinite side of existence. This is one of his less heavy reads, even with that in mind, it is full of very inspired ideas that you will likely not hear anywhere else.