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

McKenna, Terence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846044251 ISBN 13 : 9781846044250

Editeur : Rider, 2014

Synopsis

In March 1971, Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas. Along the surreal way, they encounter a cast of remarkable characters - including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirates from outer space, and James Joyce in the guise of poultry. One result of their adventures was McKenna's theory that psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in the stropharia cubensis mushroom, is the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language...

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Rider
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846044251
• ISBN 13: 9781846044250
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256