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Terence McKenna: Reading ‘True Hallucinations’ 9 (Audiobook)
Feb 4th
Chapter 3: Along A Ghostly Trail True Hallucinations, subtitled “Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise,” is an autobiographical recounting of Terence McKenna’s improbable adventures with psilocybin mushrooms in the Amazon Basin. In 1971, McKenna, along with his brother Dennis and three other companions, ventured by plane, boat, and foot to the paradisical Colombian mission town of La Chorrera, where they hoped to encounter the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé. Fate would have it otherwise. Their attention soon turned to the large numbers of Stropharia cubensis that they lucked upon, and before long Terence and especially Dennis were formulating the psychopharmacological “experiment at La Chorrera” which would eventually give rise to Terence’s expanded Jungian notion of the UFO as human oversoul and his I Ching based timewave theory which holds, among other things, that history as we know it is accelerating and, in fact, will come to an end sometime during the beginning of the next century (more precisely, in December of 2012, in accordance with the Mayan calendar). It is hard to know what, exactly, to make of this self-described “minor icon in the culture of the underground.” On the one hand, McKenna, who possesses an enormously rich and evocative bardic vocabulary, is unquestionably brilliant and stimulating, with a depth of cultural perspective and psychedelic vision that is both illuminating and provocative. On the other hand …
Terence McKenna Reading ‘True Hallucinations’ 62/62 (Audiobook)
Dec 9th
Chapter 21: Open Ending True Hallucinations, subtitled “Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise,” is an autobiographical recounting of Terence McKenna’s improbable adventures with psilocybin mushrooms in the Amazon Basin. In 1971, McKenna, along with his brother Dennis and three other companions, ventured by plane, boat, and foot to the paradisical Colombian mission town of La Chorrera, where they hoped to encounter the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé. Fate would have it otherwise. Their attention soon turned to the large numbers of Stropharia cubensis that they lucked upon, and before long Terence and especially Dennis were formulating the psychopharmacological “experiment at La Chorrera” which would eventually give rise to Terence’s expanded Jungian notion of the UFO as human oversoul and his I Ching based timewave theory which holds, among other things, that history as we know it is accelerating and, in fact, will come to an end sometime during the beginning of the next century (more precisely, in December of 2012, in accordance with the Mayan calendar). It is hard to know what, exactly, to make of this self-described “minor icon in the culture of the underground.” On the one hand, McKenna, who possesses an enormously rich and evocative bardic vocabulary, is unquestionably brilliant and stimulating, with a depth of cultural perspective and psychedelic vision that is both illuminating and provocative. On the other hand, while some …
Terence McKenna Reading ‘True Hallucinations’ 61/62 (Audiobook)
Dec 8th
Chapter 21: Open Ending True Hallucinations, subtitled “Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise,” is an autobiographical recounting of Terence McKenna’s improbable adventures with psilocybin mushrooms in the Amazon Basin. In 1971, McKenna, along with his brother Dennis and three other companions, ventured by plane, boat, and foot to the paradisical Colombian mission town of La Chorrera, where they hoped to encounter the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé. Fate would have it otherwise. Their attention soon turned to the large numbers of Stropharia cubensis that they lucked upon, and before long Terence and especially Dennis were formulating the psychopharmacological “experiment at La Chorrera” which would eventually give rise to Terence’s expanded Jungian notion of the UFO as human oversoul and his I Ching based timewave theory which holds, among other things, that history as we know it is accelerating and, in fact, will come to an end sometime during the beginning of the next century (more precisely, in December of 2012, in accordance with the Mayan calendar). It is hard to know what, exactly, to make of this self-described “minor icon in the culture of the underground.” On the one hand, McKenna, who possesses an enormously rich and evocative bardic vocabulary, is unquestionably brilliant and stimulating, with a depth of cultural perspective and psychedelic vision that is both illuminating and provocative. On the other hand, while some …
Terence McKenna Reading ‘True Hallucinations’ 60/62 (Audiobook)
Dec 7th
Chapter 21: Open Ending True Hallucinations, subtitled “Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise,” is an autobiographical recounting of Terence McKenna’s improbable adventures with psilocybin mushrooms in the Amazon Basin. In 1971, McKenna, along with his brother Dennis and three other companions, ventured by plane, boat, and foot to the paradisical Colombian mission town of La Chorrera, where they hoped to encounter the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé. Fate would have it otherwise. Their attention soon turned to the large numbers of Stropharia cubensis that they lucked upon, and before long Terence and especially Dennis were formulating the psychopharmacological “experiment at La Chorrera” which would eventually give rise to Terence’s expanded Jungian notion of the UFO as human oversoul and his I Ching based timewave theory which holds, among other things, that history as we know it is accelerating and, in fact, will come to an end sometime during the beginning of the next century (more precisely, in December of 2012, in accordance with the Mayan calendar). It is hard to know what, exactly, to make of this self-described “minor icon in the culture of the underground.” On the one hand, McKenna, who possesses an enormously rich and evocative bardic vocabulary, is unquestionably brilliant and stimulating, with a depth of cultural perspective and psychedelic vision that is both illuminating and provocative. On the other hand, while some …
Terence McKenna Reading ‘True Hallucinations’ 59/62 (Audiobook)
Dec 1st
Chapter 20: The Oversoul As Saucer True Hallucinations, subtitled “Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise,” is an autobiographical recounting of Terence McKenna’s improbable adventures with psilocybin mushrooms in the Amazon Basin. In 1971, McKenna, along with his brother Dennis and three other companions, ventured by plane, boat, and foot to the paradisical Colombian mission town of La Chorrera, where they hoped to encounter the elusive psychedelic oo-koo-hé. Fate would have it otherwise. Their attention soon turned to the large numbers of Stropharia cubensis that they lucked upon, and before long Terence and especially Dennis were formulating the psychopharmacological “experiment at La Chorrera” which would eventually give rise to Terence’s expanded Jungian notion of the UFO as human oversoul and his I Ching based timewave theory which holds, among other things, that history as we know it is accelerating and, in fact, will come to an end sometime during the beginning of the next century (more precisely, in December of 2012, in accordance with the Mayan calendar). It is hard to know what, exactly, to make of this self-described “minor icon in the culture of the underground.” On the one hand, McKenna, who possesses an enormously rich and evocative bardic vocabulary, is unquestionably brilliant and stimulating, with a depth of cultural perspective and psychedelic vision that is both illuminating and provocative. On the other hand …
