Unfortunately as of yet nobody has tested whether the proposed ESR effect does occur in vivo. The second part of the book is about the insights gathered during this experiment in relation to how the I Ching pattern is related to a nested fractal of time waves.Īlthough the present day understanding how neurotransmitters and their hallucinogenic mimics has shown that these interactions occur via protein based receptors in the synaptic membrane, effects of intercalation in nucleic acids are not to be excluded. This is a necessary step to come to their speculative theories about how the audible effect could have been generated by intercalation of neurotransmitter-like hallucinogenic tryptamine compounds in DNA or RNA in conjunction with ESR signals thereby generated, which might have been the cause of the sounds. Interestingly the book attacks the induction based method of science to replace it with a holographic theory of mind and existence. This led to an enhanced perception of the so-called audible effect during such experiences. The first part of the book is about the experiment the brothers McKenna undertook in La Chorrera in the Amazon in which they took a mixture of Ayahuasca and hallucinogenic mushrooms. From a daring shamanistic experiment with hallucinogenic compounds they arrived at insights about a holographic temporal wave (called "time wave zero") based on a fractal of cycles which they could derive from the I Ching. The Invisible landscape by Terence and Dennis McKenna is a very original and unusual book. This is a pretty amazing book, given that the brothers McKenna were just in their mid 20s when they wrote it.įor a much more entertaining and easy-to-grasp account of the events and experiment at La Chorrera that led to this book, check out True Hallucinations, preferably the original audio book version. Part of it is just that they didn't even try to explain some of their scientific models, but expected the reader to do lots of background reading. Part of the reason this book is so difficult is the way they phrase things. I wish their editor would have cleaned up the dense language. The authors are just so sure of themselves. According to this map, practically the last moment of time sends us spiraling into the concrescence, so time will tell, and we have little way of knowing whether this is true until those last moments. My intuition is that the brothers were onto something, which was their feeling as well, and all we can say about a talking fungus that told them the I Ching contained a map of time. I shelved the book for 11 years and now I've returned to pick through the dense language for some clue as to what it all means. In 1999, I got about 40 pages into the book and could get no further. (RIP McKenna, though I feel I've gotten to know him better as the internet has gained fidelity). The clerk knew of McKenna's terminal medical condition. I bought this book at Shaman Drum on State in Ann Arbor during a period of my being on the outs with phonetic language. ![]() If you’re a fan of the McKenna brothers or any of the above topics, maybe you should give this one the old college try. Luckily I received a copy of this for my birthday this year, so I can hopefully come back to it with a better background later. As a fan of most of the topics in the previous paragraph, I found the book very interesting. I enjoyed the graphs and figures of the Timewave hypothesis, something I have read a lot about but not seen very much of. The parts that I understood were pretty entertaining and thought-provoking. The book is all over the place - it would help greatly to have a doctoral background on all of the topics I have listed above before attempting to read this one.Īnd yet, I still liked the book. The McKenna brothers cover a lot of ground in this one - shamans, schizophrenia, holographic thought, the experiment at La Chorrera, the I Ching, the Timewave hypothesis and the prediction of the eschaton - the end of the world-as-we-know-it that is expected to take place on December 21, 2012. In my opinion, it is much easier for the layman to trudge through than The Invisible Landscape, which was simply to above-my-head for me to enjoy. The Invisible Landscape is a collaborative effort between Terence and Dennis McKenna, known in the psychedelia circuit as the “McKenna brothers.” The events of this book took place during 1971, and the inspiration for a lot of the ideas contained within occurred during the La Chorrera experiment, which is explained in Terence’s book True Hallucinations. It’s the last one I am reviewing for 2009, and I am a huge fan of Terence McKenna.
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