Full number line 1-10. In black boards with gilt to type on spine. Bottom corners lightly dinged, some smudges to boards and some light wear to ends of spine which is slightly cocked. interior clean and binding solid. Jacket is unclipped(14.99 pounds) and glossy with light edgewear. 1st Printing.

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Title: True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in Devil's Paradise
Publisher: Rider, London
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0712661085
ISBN 13: 9780712661089
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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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