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The brotherhood of the screaming abyss : my life with Terence McKenna / Dennis McKenna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenna, Dennis J., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McKenna, Dennis J., 1950-.
- McKenna, Dennis J.
- McKenna, Terence K., 1946-2000.
- McKenna, Terence K.
- Ethnobotanists--United States--Biography.
- Ethnobotanists.
- Ethnopharmacology--Amazon River Region.
- Ethnopharmacology.
- Hallucinogenic plants--Amazon River Region.
- Hallucinogenic plants.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience--Amazon River Region.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.
- Hallucinogenic drugs.
- Amazon River Region.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 508 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Cloud, Minn. : North Star Press of St. Cloud, [2012]
- Summary:
- An autobiography about the author's life with his older brother Terence McKenna, including growing up in Colorado and exploring the Amazon for hallucinogenic plants.
- Contents:
- pt. 1: Beginnings. Beginnings
- Three sisters
- Roots and wars
- Terry and Denny
- Happy day rides
- The nobody people
- The collector
- Flying, fishing, and hunting
- Goodbye to all that
- The big picture
- First loves: 1962
- The California crusade
- The experimental college: 1965
- Cannabis: 1966
- The tutor
- A psychedelic education
- Mapping inner space: Carl Jung
- The ladders of ecstasy: Mircea Eliade
- Summer of love: 1967
- The secret encountered
- The stoners' revenge
- My datura misadventure
- Escape from Mordor: 1968
- The church lawn bunch
- Busted again: 1969
- Girl with a gun: 1970
- pt. 2: Into the abyss. The brotherhood forms
- Our mother's death
- A narrow passage: 1971
- On the edge of the abyss
- The experiment at La Chorrera
- Waiting for the stone
- The bell tower and a UFO
- Reflections on La Chorrera
- pt. 3: Invisible landscapes. Invisible landscapes
- The timewave
- To see the great man
- Fun with fungi: 1975
- A lab in paradise
- In the trenches
- An encounter with ayahuasca
- The river of poisons
- Adulthood and its victims
- The plant teachers: 1985
- The perpetual postdoc
- Climbing the vine: 1991
- New in town
- The bard in light and shadow
- A desperate situation
- Into the fire.
- Notes:
- Forward by Luis Eduardo Luna.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-504).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780878396368
- 0878396365
- OCLC:
- 824567173
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