Newly available and thoroughly revised, this early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna reveals the roots of the daring but disciplined speculations that prompted The New York Times to call Terence “the Timothy Leary (and much more) of the discreetly psychedelic 90s," and Tom Robbins to proclaim him he most important —and most entertaining —visionary scholar in America.”
TERENCE MCKENNA, author of True Hallucinations, Food of the Gods, and The Archaic Revival, is an ethnobotanist who has spent twenty-five years studying shamanism and ethnopharmacology.
DENNIS MCKENNA is an ethnobotanist and neurobiologist.
Author(s): Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna
Edition: 2
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 229
City: San Francisco
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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword to the 1994 edition
Preface to the 1994 edition
Acknowledgments to the 1975 edition
Acknowledgments to the 1994 edition
Introduction to the 1994 edition
PART ONE: Mind, Molecules, and Magic
Introduction
1 The Figure of the Shaman
2 Shamans and Schizophrenia
3 Organismic Thought
4 Toward a Holographic Theory of Mind
5 Models of Drug Activity
6 An Experiment at La Chorrera
7 Psychological Reflections on La Chorrera
PART TWO: Time, Change, and Becoming
Introduction
8 The I Ching as Lunar Calendar and Astronomical Calculator
9 Order in the I Ching and Order in the World
10 The King Wen Sequence as a Quantified Modular Hierarchy
11 The Temporal Hierarchy and Cosmology
12 Toward a Physics of Concrescence
13 The Wave of Time
14 Evolution and Freedom
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
