Full name: True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise

Author: Terence McKenna Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062506528

Like 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. Preface 1 The Call of the Secret 2 Into the Devil's Paradise 3 Along a Ghostly Trail 4 Camped by a Doorway 5 A Brush with the Other 6 Kathmandu Interlude 7 A Violet Psychofluid 8 The Opus Clarified 9 A Conversation Over Saucers 10 More on the Opus 11 The Experiment at La Chorrera 12 In the Vortex 13 At Play in the Fields of the Lord 14 Looking Backward 15 A Saucer Full of Secrets 16 Return 17 Waltzing the Enigma 18 Say What Does It Mean? 19 The Coming of the Strophariad 20 The Hawaiian Connection Epilogue Acknowledgments Further Reading Similar books: The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler Irrational Man by William Barrett Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker Party of One by Anneli Rufus Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard Your Brain Is God by Timothy Leary The Meaning of Truth by William James The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter Deviant Love by Sigmund Freud The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna Food of the gods by Terence McKenna The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach