Comments on: Literary Review: ‘True Hallucinations’ by Terence Mckenna

By: Literary Review: ‘The Yage Letters – Redux’ By William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg « Psychedelic Press UK

Fri, 07 May 2010 11:43:53 +0000

[...] At the end of ‘Junky’ Burroughs declares his intent to travel to South America to find yagé, a possible miraculous cure for his addiction. ‘In Search of Yage’ makes up the majority of the book and is comprised of ‘letters’ sent from Burroughs , in South America, to poet Allen Ginsberg. Harris quotes Terence McKenna in describing the book as a work of “pharmo-picaresque” by which he means to indicate that there are two trips that are occurring; journeys through physical and mental space. It was a theme that fused beat writing with a still embryonic psychedelic culture and is to be found throughout subsequent texts of the genre; not least by McKenna himself in ‘True Hallucinations’. [...]

By: Book Review: ‘Wildest Dreams – An anthology of drug-related literature’ « Psychedelic Press UK

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:29:38 +0000

[...] of course, some of the staples of the genre. McKenna’s ‘Kathmandu Interlude’ taken from ‘True Hallucinations’, Baudelaire’s ‘The Poem of Hashish’ and an extract from Jean Cocteau’s ‘Opium: Diary [...]

By: Literary Review – ‘The Archaic Revival’ By Terence McKenna « The psychedelic press UK

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:12:14 +0000

[...] breakdown in duality awareness stems from his experiment at La Chorrera that he chronicled in ‘True Hallucinations’ and ‘The Invisible [...]

By: Literary Review: ‘The Invisible Landscape’ By Dennis & Terence McKenna « The psychedelic press UK

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:31:14 +0000

[...] Part 1 investigates, analyses and speculates on several areas that have already been touched upon by the genre. For example, schizophrenia, which in many respects is a continuation of work like the essay “Psychosis: “experimental” and real” by Joe K. Adams that appeared in the Psychedelic Review in the early 1960s. However, the framework of the investigation has moved on slightly to reflect the specific entry into psychedelic knowledge that the McKenna’s experienced during their famous mushroom trip in La Chorrea. (See ‘True Hallucinations’) [...]