Drawing on the experiences of shamanic culture drawn from living with African tribes, American Indians and the peoples of South America, the author of this book provides a study of humanity's use of mind-altering drugs. He presents a convincing thesis that the synergism between early man and the various plants with which they interacted and co ...
Why does the Maya calendar end in 2012? In this groundbreaking book, Jenkins shows that the end date of the Maya long count calendar on December 21, 2012, marks the rare alignment of our solar system with the galactic center. This happens every 26,000 years, and the Maya believed this alignment would greatly accelerate human evolution. 200 ...
A thoroughly revised edition of the much-sought-after early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.
This account of an expedition to the Amazon Basin is of a search for the mythical hallucinogen of the Witoto, Oo-koo-he. In March 1971, Terence McKenna and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas - the result of his theory that psilocybin is the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language. ...
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
Are the eternal laws of nature still evolving? In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary Terence McKenna, biologist and author of the morphogenetic field theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity, and their connections to cosmic ...
It's been forty years since Timothy Leary sat beside a swimming pool in Cuernavaca, Mexico, ingested several grams of the genus Stropharia cubensis, and experienced a dazzling display of visions that led him to herald the dawning of a New Age. And yet, from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, through the War on Drugs, to this very day, the ...
Mycologist R. Gordon Wasson's pioneering work with Mexican curandera Maria Sabina in the 1950s brought increased attention to the use of psychoactive plants in the healing and spiritual life of indigenous peoples.
Sacred Mushrooms and the Law is the only book covering the legal landscape underlying psychedelic mushrooms. All federal and state laws concerning mushrooms are covered, and charts outline potential punishments.
The War on Drugs is really a war on freedom of thought. Our fundamental right to pursuit of happiness includes in the innate right to explore inner space without government interference. Author Steve Kubby explains how the authorities have short-circuited democracy through illegal, unconstitutional sanctions on the use of psychoactive plants and ...
Reissued because of the current interest in Ecstasy, this is McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He wonders why we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness, do they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature?
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Through challenge and ...
Recalling the '60s, McKenna seeks nothing less than "symbiosis between human beings and the biosphere", and makes a stunning case for achieving this union through the psychedelic experience.
When Terence McKenna passed away in early 2000, we lost not only a brilliant and daring writer on the nature of consciousness -- but one of the most entertaining speakers of all time. The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge was McKenna's magnum opus -- an in-depth series of public talks covering his lifelong investigation into our 20,000 ...
McKenna brings his considerable talents to bear on the meltdown of values of Western civilization and the future of the human species, and calls for an Archaic Revival and the dissolution of synthetic boundaries erected by the male ego.
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