True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise - Couverture rigide

McKenna, Terence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712661085 ISBN 13 : 9780712661089

Editeur : Rider & Co, 1994

Synopsis

This account of an expedition to the Amazon Basin is of a search for the mythical hallucinogen of the Witoto, Oo-koo-he. In March 1971, Terence McKenna and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas - the result of his theory that psilocybin is the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language. Along the way, they encounter a cast of remarkable characters. Terence McKenna is the author of "The Food of the Gods".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters -- including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of poultry, and translinguistic matter -- and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.

Biographie de l'auteur

Terrence McKenna has spent twenty-five years exploring "the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation" and is a specialist in the ethnomedicine of the Amazon basin. He is coauthor, with his brother Dennis, of The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, and the author of Food of the Gods.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rider & Co
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712661085
• ISBN 13: 9780712661089
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 237
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible