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True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradis
by Terence Mckenna
from HarperOne

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Spellbinding
  Whether you are a hardcore rational materialist or the flower-power type, Terence McKenna will enchant you for sure.
  Anyway you look at True Hallucinations (adventure, intellectual sci-fi or the very tomb of Western science and pinnacle of Western Philosophy... which turns out is not Western at all in the case of the psychedelic experience) this work will change the way you look at everything. Because, well, this is a book about everything - i.e. the essence of our perceptions and experiences as... more info

• Even Better as an Audio Book!
  Hands down--Terence McKenna is the best storyteller that I've ever encountered, and True Hallucinations is one of my very favorite books of all-time. Terence's masterfully-crafted language simply holds me spellbound. A lot of people aren't aware that the book True Hallucinations is actually based upon a nine CD audio set of Terence telling the tale of his extraordinary adventures in the Amazon. As incredible as this book is, it simply pales by comparison next to the original "talking book." Terence was a... more info

• Expedition to the Amazon--an encounter with the magic mushroom in the presence of the "Other"
  Someone first getting acquainted with Terence McKenna probably has listened to some of his theories on novelty, time, and psychedelics and would like to dive deeper into his ideas by exploring his written works. In that case, the books "The Invisible Landscape", "Food of the Gods", and "The Archaic Revival" would be the most direct path.
  However if you have a place in your heart for Terence then it would eventually be necessary to read "True Hallucinations". This is the true story of his journeys to... more info

• Great read for any fan of psyconauts
  I found this to be a very good read and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It gives some great seeds to new thoughts.

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