True Hallucinations

[webbykevin]

I have been an avid lover of all things psychadellic for 20 years, however, I had never read the full book "True Hallucintations" by uncle Terence.

I have read so far to the end of the experiment at la chorrera (just over halfway through the book) and all I can say is, I am not worthy to call myself a psychonaught, I am in awe, stunned, convulsed with laughter, filled with a deep love and respect for the McKenna brothers and just generally gobsmacked.

I'm suspect most of BL'ers have read this book and are just nodding with a wry smile at my joy of reading this adventure for the first time, but if you haven't read it, and you consider yourself to be a afficianado of psychadellics in any way, then you simply must read this book.

One of the most incredible pieces of literature ever penned.

WOW WOW WOW



(Just a quick quote, I cant help myself lol :- "Dennis was oddly preoccupied, yet he assured me that his effort had succeded and that all over the world the wave of hyper-carbolation was sweeping through the human race, eliminating the distinction between the individual and the community as everyone discovered themselves spontaniously pushing off into a telepathic ocean whose name was that of its discoverer: Dennis McKenna")

 

[swilow]

Its an excellent book, with some utterly harebrained ideas.

Who on earth would think to sing the resonant frequency of psilocybin at a mushroom and bind harmine to their DNA??? Even though what they planned is almost defintely different to what really happened; there is no doubt that both the McKenna's had something very odd happen to them...

I find it interesting in the beginning how Terence is follwing a light which he thought may have been a shaman dancing around a fire- creepy...

 

[webbykevin]

Yeh it's hard to know how much of the surreal weird spooky aspects of it were real or just the tryptomines but i think set and setting had a lot to do with it.

What an amazing adventure though, what I would give to have been there with them, I'm sure I'd still be processing the expience 40 years later.

Anyway, i'm going back to finish reading the book now, can't wait to find out what happens.

 

[Rorthron]

I first read the Invisible Landscape, and I must confess it did not make much sense, when I did. It was also one of the hardest books I read *ever* (and being a PhD and an avid reader, trust me, I have read enough hard material!)

but when I read True Hallucinations it all made sense. and I was, as you mentioned: "wow, wow, wow!"

Now, after your finish True Hallucinations it's time time to go (back) to the Invisible Landscape! You will definitely not regret it.

 

[Tunnelfission]

Sometimes I have hallucinations that I feel the world or at least my group of friends have shared... in the end it turns out it was almost always just me trippin

 

[Tunnelfission]

I love listening to True hallucinations on audio, all the UFO sounds and whistling and whurring tones, I believe his story, and he is a very compelling storyteller. and as quoted by himself " a lesbian trapped in a mans body"