Item #39628 True Hallucinations. Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise. Terence McKENNA.
True Hallucinations. Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise.
True Hallucinations. Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise.

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True Hallucinations. Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise.

NY: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. Qtr. cloth. 238pp.

SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: “To Houlihan - Our best adventure. Enjoy! Terence McKenna”. Flyer for a promotional reading in LA by McKenna laid in - 'Special Event! Live at UFO Expo West the debut of True Hallucinations'.

The book recounts the author’s trip to the Amazon jungle in 1971 with his brother and other intrepid travellers, and the revelations resulting from their ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasaca. McKenna, who died in 2000, was the third and possibly last in the line of psychedelic visionaries and charismatic leaders after Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary.

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