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Title: True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise
Publisher: Rider & Co
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0712661085
ISBN 13: 9780712661089
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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s/ Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's ParadiseLike a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the Amazon Basin. Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time & mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of down-to-earth reasons for preserving the planet.Preface1 The Call of the Secret2 Into the Devil's Paradise3 Along a Ghostly Trail4 Camped by a Doorway5 A Brush with the Other6 Kathmandu Interlude7 A Violet Psychofluid8 The Opus Clarified9 A Conversation Over Saucers10 More on the Opus11 The Experiment at La Chorrera12 In the Vortex13 At Play in the Fields of the Lord14 Looking Backward15 A Saucer Full of Secrets16 Return17 Waltzing the Enigma18 Say What Does It Mean?19 The Coming of the Strophariad20 The Hawaiian ConnectionEpilogueAcknowledgmentsFurther Reading

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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.

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