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Cited by the L.A. Weekly as "the culture's foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, and expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants. In these essays, interviews, and narrative adventures, McKenna ta
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent read. Mckenna has a beautiful command of the english language, perhaps as a result of his extensive use of entheogenic fungi. It is an entertaining and thought provoking book. I believe Mckenna strides on the edge of psuedo-science by offering a heavy dose of speculation, but since Western science turns its back on the entheogenic experience we have to start somewhere.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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One of the most important psychedelic thinkers to ever live on this earth, more important than Tim Leary. This book is a collection of interviews and articles that appeared during the 80s and 90s on various magazines, picked by McKenna himself. The material over here, as well as the material you can find in other McKenna's books is mind-blowing, and as usual everything is written very well.
Super recommended.
Super recommended.
40 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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The above one-star review proves why it is necessary to read this book. Dismissing ideas because we may be ridiculed for taking them seriously is what landed us in this undeniable global mess. Whether or not shrooms are ETs or artifacts of ETs is not the issue. A quote of Terence's: "I like to show people how things can be seen differently, and if things can be seen THAT differently, in what other ways can they be seen differently", because staying the course is not working. Open-mindedness is Terence's message, and his convincing proof of the viability of his "crazy" ideas will go a long way toward opening you up to new ideas. Another quote: "It doesn't do you any good to know that in some computer somewhere there are equations that perfectly model or perfectly don't model something else. The only understanding of the universe that will do you any good is your own understanding, because it's you you have to live with, and it's you you have to die with.... the last dance you dance, you dance alone"
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This isn't a book, but transcripts of Terence Terence's very early talks, way back in the 1980's. Today you can download his audio lectures from the late 80's and beyond, however,... Read more
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This man has lots of ideas, revealed largely during the course of several interviews. Entheogens have played a big part in the way T. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ronald Arthur Dewhirst
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I have not read this book but recently met Terence McKenna's daughter and her boyfriend on a trip in Spain (Granada). How random is that? Read more
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McKenna is decidedly different from most authors in his interpretation of drugs in our society and presents an intriguing point of view that is as fascinating to the experienced... Read more
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One line - how 'bout one word: gibberish.
I think McKenna may have taken a few too many 'shrooms himself. He postulates that mushroom spores are intergallactic travellers, whose form protects them from all elements. Read more
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