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  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781846047527
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00

True Hallucinations

Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise



The cult psychedelic adventure memoir from the world-famous ethnobotanist Terence McKenna.

'The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics' The Independent

With a new foreword from Dennis McKenna.

From renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna comes this surreally mind-bending adventure into the depths of the human experience.

True Hallucinations is a mesmerising odyssey of McKenna's travels in the Amazon with a band of friends during the 1970s. From mushrooms and flying saucers to pirates and James Joyce, McKenna uncovers the limitless potential of organic psychedelics to open our minds, bodies and spirits to higher states of being.

  • Published: 15 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781846047527
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00

About the author

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was an American ethnobotanist, psychonaut and author noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics and subjects ranging from shamanism to the origins of language and civilization. His other books include Food of the Gods, The Archaic Revival and, with Dennis McKenna, The Invisible Landscape.

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Praise for True Hallucinations

One of the five or six most important people on the planet

Timothy Leary

It would be hard to find a drug narrative more compellingly perched on a baroquely romantic limb than this passionate Tom-and-Huck-ride-Great-Mother-river-saga of brother bonding ... Terence is a hoot

Esquire