True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise
- Author:
- Terence McKenna (author)
- Language:
- English
- Original language:
- English
- Categories:
- Drugs and philosophy
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Synopsis:
McKenna uses this book to detail the trip to La Chorrera, a town in South America, that he, his brother Dennis, Ev (a translator), Vanessa (a photographer and anthropologist), and Dave undertook in search of Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and DMT-containing plants. Instead they become entangled with Stropharia cubensis, a hallucinogenic mushroom (called that at the publication of the book, but now classified as Psilocybe cubensis). The rest of the book is a long musing, interspersed with details of the travel through the Colombian Amazonas itself, on the contents and meaning of the several encounters with this mushroom the troupe experience.
- Review:
A riveting read; McKenna draws many interesting conclusions from his travels. I can definitely recommend the book.
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- Table of Contents:
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- Preface
- Chapter One: The Call of the Secret
- Chapter Two: Into the Devil's Paradise
- Chapter Three: Along a Ghostly Trail
- Chapter Four: Camped by a Doorway
- Chapter Five: A Brush with the Other
- Chapter Six: Kathmandu Interlude
- Chapter Seven: A Violet Psychofluid
- Chapter Eight: The Opus Clarified
- Chapter Nine: A Conversation Over Saucers
- Chapter Ten: More on the Opus
- Chapter Eleven: The Experiment at La Chorrera
- Chapter Twelve: In the Vortex
- Chapter Thirteen: At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Chapter Fourteen: Looking Backward
- Chapter Fifteen: A Saucer Full of Secrets
- Chapter Sixteen: Return
- Chapter Seventeen: Waltzing the Enigma
- Chapter Eighteen: Say What Does It Mean?
- Chapter Nineteen: The Coming of the Strophariad
- Chapter Twenty: The Hawaiian Connection
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading