Terence K. McKenna Libri

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 & expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants. In these essays, interviews & narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche & the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past & future.

A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human EvolutionFor the first time in paperback, the counterculture manifesto on mind-altering drugs & hallucinogens. Illustrated.

'The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics' The Independent With a new foreword from Dennis McKenna. From renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna comes this surreally mind-bending adventure into the depths of the human experience. True Hallucinations is a mesmerising odyssey of McKenna's travels in the Amazon with a band of friends during the 1970s. From mushrooms and flying saucers to pirates and James Joyce, McKenna uncovers the limitless potential of organic psychedelics to open our minds, bodies and spirits to higher states of being.

"What can altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature? A cult classic from renowned ethnobotanist Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods is a mind-bending exploration of our ancient relationship with organic psychedelics that opens a doorway to a higher state of being for us all"--Back cover.

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.

Explore the relationships between chaos, creativity, and imagination, and their connection to the soul of the world. Join Ralph Abraham, mathematician and leader in the new science of chaos, Terence Mckenna, shamanologist and ethno-pharmacologist, and Rupert Sheldrake, acclaimed biologist and originator of the theory of morphogenetic fields, as they "trialogue" on such questions as: - How can chaos contribute to our lives? - Is Armageddon a self-fulfilling prophecy? - How can scientists and myssstics share the same planet? <i>Trialogues at the Edge of the West</i> challenges us to the deepest levels of thought as it calls into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life in the universe. [Description taken from the back of the book]

Pozoruhodné, a snad i provokující dílo, napsané před více než dvaceti lety, zavádí čtenáře do Amazonie prozkoumat fenomén zvaný „Nostalgie po ztraceném ráji“, aby posléze spojilo moderní vědecké metody (zahrnující oblast farmakologie, neurofyziologie, biochemie, genetiky, matematiky a fyziky) s prastarými technikami šamanismu, užívání psychotropních látek a věšteckého umění.

Spekulace o psychedelických houbách, Amazonii, virtuální realitě, UFO, evoluci, šamanismu, znovuzrození Bohyně a konci historie. ISBN 80-86013-55-3 a 80-85905-43-4 jsou chybná (viz NKC)