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Food Of The Gods

A Radical History of Plants, Psychedelics and Human Evolution

The cult classic on psychedelics and human consciousness by the world famous ethnobotanist Terence McKenna.

The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics

The modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens

The culture’s foremost spokesperson for the psychedelic experience

Essential reading for anyone who ever wondered why people take drugs

Food Of   The Gods deploys some entertaining learning, and provides an exciting   challenge to conventional thinking.

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

‘The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics’ The Independent 
 
What can altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature? 
 
In this landmark piece of psychedelic literature renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna explores our ancient relationship with organic psychedelics and opens a doorway to a higher state of being for us all. 
 
An odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. A daring work of scholarship and exploration, it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment and a humane basis for our interaction with each other and the natural world. 
 
'The modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens' The Washington Post

Terence McKenna

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

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

A Psychedelic Adventure

'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.

Terence McKenna

Praise for True Hallucinations

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

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

Books by Terence McKenna

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