…light came out of the ground and it just began to rumble up from inside him and he blared out the sound. And after that Dennis was completely changed he was just like terror. Before when he came down, he was and now he was. They're both very tall and…

…changed he was just like terror. Before when he came down, he was and now he was. They're both very tall and skinny. Maybe Dennis is taller and he just looked down at me you know, with this bluish haze around his Face and his eyes were so wide…

…flower from what? The contents DMT, the contents DMT and you have had it from the flower. How do you prepare it? Well, how is Dennis now? Oh he's fine. How long was he weird? He wrote me a letter a month after. Well, you'll hear about how it gets…

…for us was very patchy and we weren't like immediately threatened by physical harm of the jungle. However, you know, yeah Dennis began to deteriorate. He was thirsty, lost his blood. He's got a question. He's thirsty lost his blood bless you. And…

…a lot of other people just tell them up to may 4th there's not that much more. March 4th: the final deterioration of Dennis. Okay he has the experiment right and the experiment entails an arrangement of the e chain and I think the primal arrangement was…

…taken ayahuasca? Oh I felt it in my back I felt like wings were growing. So what happens in the storehouse? So I don't know. Dennis is just a man goods but bad. Yeah he never slept and never ate. He says: wow that happened to a friend of mine. Okay…

…Was that Howard? Was that Howard? Was that him? What did he do? The deaf people used to be sentimental. What did he do? Dennis Didn't do anything really. He did nothing obscene but he would just go up to these straight nuns and just rave to them like…

…always stood out you know, and he's a little better today than he was yesterday. And finally Terrence is just saying: you know Dennis get back in your hammock, you have to conserve your energy for the final condensation. We had to. It was so intense you…

…to say the mantra, you can just close your eyes, close your eyes and repeat to yourself: what is it? And any question you have, Dennis will give you. The answer. Ah fantastic, I know it was a great idea. I said it worked he just didn't hear me. Well…

…to Colorado Every time. I would appreciate it if you'd write and tell me all about it. Is that right? What's his name? Dennis what? Mckenna? Yeah is that the guy? Terrence, Terrence McKenna? Oh Dennis McKenna I didn't realize. Well, I don't think he was…

…should attempt to contact something which isn't rational we should attempt we should choose the most skeptical person and the most suggestible person Dennis and Michael. No didn't he decide it would be me and he and I and Michael and I and we should send…

…and so we went back and we told them this isn't pertinent, I shouldn't waste so much time on it I should cut through. But anyway Dennis came out and he and I were there and he saw the light as well he was stoned and I was stoned. We were falling…

…and so we took it and we were all sitting around waiting to get stoned and it was a lot of nitpicking between Sarah and Dennis who Dennis had not come forward as a personality at all in this situation. So finally, you know he just came and he said…

…we took it and we were all sitting around waiting to get stoned and it was a lot of nitpicking between Sarah and Dennis who Dennis had not come forward as a personality at all in this situation. So finally, you know he just came and he said you know…

…very exposed and there seemed to be a kind of distance developing which was dividing us into two groups Sarah and Michael Lasky and Dennis Kumi and I were the two opposing groups so we spent this night in this small house and it was very very leaky…

…would take a big trip we were experimenting with the dosage so the next time we'll take a big trip. We took 25 apiece Kumi, Dennis and I took 25 apiece Michael and Sarah were supposed to come up to our house about 3 in the afternoon to get stoned.…

…stake had now been taken it didn't manifest itself. We were sitting around rapping and my father who was in the United States, Dennis the last letter that Dennis had gotten from him before he went into the Amazon said they were going to go golfing in…

…it didn't manifest itself. We were sitting around rapping and my father who was in the United States, Dennis the last letter that Dennis had gotten from him before he went into the Amazon said they were going to go golfing in San Diego and Dennis did…

…letter that Dennis had gotten from him before he went into the Amazon said they were going to go golfing in San Diego and Dennis did this rap about how he was worried that they hadn't gone to San Diego to go golfing because he hadn't been able to…

…to fade away and I was just, you know, in my reveries and suddenly my brother was he made a very funny noise was that Dennis right? He made a very funny noise and he said, wow that's pretty strange. I think I'll try and do that again was that a…

…He was very excited we all crawled back in our hammocks and waited till morning. We went tearing down to the other house and Dennis got Sarah, shook her out of her hammock and said: we took a lot of mushrooms last night and I was able to make…

…you can hear these harmonic overtones vibrating down the string this fascinated Pythagoras of whom we will hear more later. But anyway, Dennis said: well now another phenomenon that's known is you can use sound you can use two sounds to cancel a sound if…

…motion in very localized areas, in very small areas you can produce very low temperatures with audio cancellation through sound and so Dennis said that he had figured out a way. Here's what he said. He said there's a group of psychoactive compounds, right,…

…mescaline, psilocybin the tryptamine complex, and then the harmala compounds beta carbolines, the things which occur in yahe. Anyway, Dennis said that if you look at the molecules of this progressive cyclicizing of the beta phenolethylamine family that what…

…head and the hiravoshaman they hear a buzzing in the head and they buzz and there's something about buzzing connected with it. So Dennis said you take yahe, you have it metabolizing through your neural matrix in the brain and you hear a matrix. Right and…

…once you hear this, you hear it and then you can imitate it and then what you have is a sound, a buzz which you make. But Dennis said that you can do things with this sound if you know what the sound is and what to do it with since it is an…

…appear. A molecule which is at absolute zero will bond to anything it just enforces its way into the into the structure. So Dennis said the harmony molecule which looks like a little Bell and gives this like chiming, buzzing sound, he said you know if…

…got their shit together and moved off. And so we had been told that when they left we could move to this hut and uh, Dennis would just spend lots of time alone writing furiously or he would come back and talk to us. And by just he was just he…

…because they were frightened. I mean they just said, you know wow I thought we were going to collect plants and Dennis was just you know raving about superconductivity and harmonic cancellation and the gnosis from beyond the crab nebula and ending history…

…and the candle burned over on its side and it was like it seemed to violate gravity and it wasn't getting any shorter. And Dennis and Kumi were. I was just I was just frantic that they were going to tip over the yahé because they were getting clumsier…

…this little ladder and pull the ladder in after you. So I told them to go to their hammocks and that I would do everything. Dennis was going to make the sound, but that okay you will make the sound because you can hear it and I will just run…

…into the house, got the mushroom moved into the house got it set on a piece of paper and we were ready to go. And Dennis was just like he could barely speak English I mean I just don't know what was going on. The candle the candle had not shortened…

…the experimental mode. So he took one he took we all took the yahé we drank it and it's just churning through your guts. And Dennis took one mushroom, just one so that he could hear the tone come on. So we waited about 25 minutes and then he said…

…was well up in the sky and it was just a beautiful day and I could walk along across this pasture and I would say, Dennis, and the response was instantaneous it was just like thought and I and I kept it confused I mean I just kept stopping and doing…

…experiments with it like I had said: Terrence first experiment, Terrence was very much like talking to yourself and so then I said Dennis and it was instantly there, just ready to do business. So then I said McKenna, McKenna and and it was still there…

…immediately without fanfare and then everyone sat down and started contacting this thing asking questions. I took off my clothes because Dennis has. Well the thing seemed to be our understanding of it what was happening see what you what's hard to…

…I didn't something was wrong it was that expectation was outrunning reality. So then it came out that that no one could hear Dennis Except me. They were all actually saying so then we entered the next phase which was a period of confusion which was all…

…was a period of confusion which was all about: look I'm down, where are you. Okay we're both down now where are they and Dennis was he was disengaging, he no longer. You would talk to him and he didn't know you were talking to him he would break…

…we just have to wait a few hours and these people will come down. That was everybody's conclusion except Dennis's and mine. Dennis, it was no longer possible to communicate with him. Exactly my conclusion was that something had happened that he had done…

…there were tears of joy streaming down my Face I wasn't yet twisted out of the mud and so said: we'll wait for tomorrow Dennis will come down. So we waited the next morning Dennis was not down at all. In fact during the night while everyone was…

…wasn't yet twisted out of the mud and so said: we'll wait for tomorrow Dennis will come down. So we waited the next morning Dennis was not down at all. In fact during the night while everyone was sleeping Dennis had wandered miles away and gone to the…

…come down. So we waited the next morning Dennis was not down at all. In fact during the night while everyone was sleeping Dennis had wandered miles away and gone to the choro and and which was you know tremendous someone could kill you in an instant…

…didn't sleep for 14 days and I did not sleep a wink. I felt great. The reason it was very strange was because had Dennis been where he was and everyone else been normal the conclusion would be: he's toxically schizophrenic. We have to get out of here…

…and and I was for all practical purposes perfectly normal except for one thing which was I insisted that everything was all right and that Dennis knew exactly where he was at that he would be okay and that he had done what he said he was going to do…

…the metaphor of condensation it is condensing it is here it was like perfect alchemical metaphor the stone is everywhere it is here and Dennis would say I can see it it's 250 feet away to the left it's down near the water hole hovering above the water…

…And I got down to the river and they were washing clothes by this time there had been karma with the mission people and Dennis had been moved to a house by the river because they were afraid he would run into the jungle which was nonsense and he…

…I had been thinking, my hands had built a fire out of small sticks. It was as though everything was cognitive activity. Dennis went what would be conventionally called a psychotic episode but it wasn't a typical psychotic episode it was a kind of turning…

…from the group and allow the yahé taking and the experimental test of hypercarbolation to go on without them. I am sure that Dennis, mind far more than my own was preoccupied with the details of the test. During the days preceding he had been often…

…this cleverness. I sat in my hammock and verbally participated as much as I could in all of this though it was clear that Dennis had no difficulty in maintaining a conversation on his own. In fact he seemed to have hit the main vein of the fountain of…

…all was very, very well. The last rave of this long, amazing day came after dinner in the firelight when from his hammock, Dennis broke the silence to explain that this night in our dreams we would learn a series of things that would end with us…

…and the role it must have played in forming the mental world of human beings. Once as we sat staring into the campfire Dennis had remarked to me that people have been looking into fires like this for thousands and thousands of years. The squeal of these…

…it became like a vast mushroom cloud, the aftermath of a thermonuclear blast. The impression was very startling and ev recalled to me Dennis words with regard to the mushroom. He said that it was the mushroom at the end of history, that the shape of the…

…caused the residual psilocybin to emerge into consciousness as a deep hallucinogenic experience. While I completed the boiling, ev and Dennis went to their hammocks and lay down to await the completion of the preparations. We laughed together and talked…

…areas involving quantum physics, submolecular biology and DNA structure. Though the idea that I developed may not have been caused by what Dennis did in the Amazon, I assume that it was, that he did something and I got a informational feedback off my DNA…

…overtones. If you strike the chord and then quench it, you can hear the harmonic overtones. It was something which had fascinated Pythagoras. Dennis pointed out to me that one can use two sounds to cancel a sound if they are exactly the same in relation…

…represented by the flame. What is happening to us? I asked it myself again but said nothing. Silent, seeming more eloquent, Dennis wrote furiously part of the day as follows: March 4th it is now possible to reconstruct the physical chemical idea that…

…to vanessa and Dave's Riverside Residence for our breakfast in common. When we left our own hut and went in search of food, Dennis had been deeply asleep, but now he was up and had apparently gone immediately to awaken vanessa and describe to her his…

…principle can be used to still molecular motion in very localized areas. One can produce low temperatures with audio cancellation. Dennis felt he had figured out a way to do something using psychoactive compounds, psilocybin, the tryptamine complex, and then…

…dimension roving lens vehicle, once articulated, was never far away. His statement was also the first appearance of the UFO Image in Dennis Thoughts since the experiment, a theme to be articulated in a thousand ways in the days that were to follow. The…

…immense energies accumulating. The effect was reinforced by the hammocks hanging like acceleration slings ready to receive a starship's crew. Dennis Lay in his hammock, nearly unable to hold a pencil, but writing furiously in tight operational terms about the…

…in a thousand ways in the days that were to follow. The equation lapis equals self equals UFO was the operating assumption of Dennis long voyage of self discovery and return with these images of death in sleep and rebirth inside a starship ringing in our…

…time but in a few days all the families would leave and there would be ample empty housing in the jungle. Dave, Dennis and vanessa had already inspected one place and determined it to be ideal, close to good. Insect and plant collecting and definitely…

…to be simply the exact reverse of logical expectations. Knowing that the brain seems to operate on the principle of a hologram Dennis had speculated before our experiment that he might receive a reverse image of my brain mind organization for a brief time…

…excited assertion that some extremely peculiar energy field had been tapped into and verified. At the end of breakfast I suggested to Dennis that rather than arguing with people about the nature of the experience, he should go off by himself and write down…

…with the local people when our need for this airlift became known. Also I had not the faith of vanessa that all Dennis needed to return him to normal was to check him into the world of modern psychiatry with its harebrained reductionism and chemotherapy.…

…of psychedelics it seemed to be uniquely associated with these harmine compounds. The hevero shaman also report a buzzing in the head. Dennis idea was that when one takes yahé, when it is metabolizing through one's neural matrix in the brain a sound is…

…but in Sia's head I'm sure it was this loose. As we put off from Puerto Leguizamo, we were therefore six: vanessa, Dave, Ev, Dennis and myself and Sia Six people. Sia hated me. Ev had left him in st Augustine and come to Bogota, where they had said…

…in silence, each lost in thoughts unshared. The evening's only moment of humor was provided by ev's animated description of Dennis evading vanessa's wardenship and slipping away from the Riverside house sometime during the previous night and going to sit…

…depth and breadth of a truly intense psychedelic experience. It is, however, extremely mercurial and difficult to catch at work Dennis and I through a staggered description of our visions, noticed a similarity of content that seemed to suggest a telepathic…

…see this condensation as it will appear in the mushroom at the same instant that the bond is completed in a higher dimension. Dennis explained that he was unable to move very well because something having to do with the backward flow of time and the…

…free associations consisted of incidents which I had experienced more than a year previously and more than 10 000 miles from where Dennis was then living, incidents about which I had spoken to no one. Dennis seemed to possess the ability to hear my mind…

…previously and more than 10 000 miles from where Dennis was then living, incidents about which I had spoken to no one. Dennis seemed to possess the ability to hear my mind working during the time after the experiment. I illustrate by recalling an incident…

…heard. That is characteristic of the interaction. Once the sound is heard it can be imitated. What you have is a vocal sound. Dennis insisted he could do things with this sound. He said that he would be in effect emitting an amplified spin resonance, an…

…no hallucinogens for several days. The effects we were experiencing were not arising from that source. Something else was happening. Dennis was now narrating our countdown toward an omega point that none of us could really understand. We were completely…

…such strength he could easily injure me or perhaps escape. While mulling this disturbing possibility for the first time, I noticed that Dennis had left his hammock and was standing in the doorway of the hut in a perfect imitation of our father's voice. He…

…standing in the doorway of the hut in a perfect imitation of our father's voice. He consoled me with the spoken thought that Dennis is a good lad and would never do a thing like that. Another incident occurred seven days after the reversal began. Dennis…

…come with us into the Amazon. We piled on a vintage Colombian air force plane and then landed at Florencia: Dave, Vanessa, ev Dennis and I, ev's dog and ten tons of equipment which was to be transported down the putumayo. Sia was at the airport waiting,…

…very crude, missing the point entirely about the nature of our situation in being. Conversation waxed hot and heavy ev Dennis and I, passionate defenders of the latter view, vanessa and Dave insisting on a psychological reductionist approach to the unusual…

…had passed and everyone had become comfortable with the pleasant plateau of hypnagogic imagery, someone initiated a discussion. It was Dave or Dennis, Dennis I believe. He said that we were now loaded in the home territory of the secret and so should not…

…and everyone had become comfortable with the pleasant plateau of hypnagogic imagery, someone initiated a discussion. It was Dave or Dennis, Dennis I believe. He said that we were now loaded in the home territory of the secret and so should not remain…

…that Dennis is a good lad and would never do a thing like that. Another incident occurred seven days after the reversal began. Dennis announced that at 11 o clock that night the good shit would appear. This was a reference to a kind of psilocybin…

…at 11 o clock that night the good shit would appear. This was a reference to a kind of psilocybin enriched hashish that Dennis claimed he had encountered a few months before in the states. This prediction of a material transmutation is not so odd when…

…inner wave of understanding, I quietly burned the record of my I Ching throws. It was a very uncharacteristic thing for me to do. Dennis watched all of this and then delivered himself of but one of the many riddles that he was to propound over the next…

…the foggy night, the warm enfolding fog over the pasture. Discussion: not all should go. A delegation, who should it be? Dennis nominated Dave and myself, calling Dave the least skeptical, me the most. Vanessa objected to me as most skeptical, suggesting…

…and myself, calling Dave the least skeptical, me the most. Vanessa objected to me as most skeptical, suggesting instead that Dave and Dennis should go. I heartily agreed not actually wishing to visit the dark and dewy pasture myself and having no faith, so…

…which led us into this experiment are recalled. After this conversation, ev and I returned to the forest house for the night and Dennis stayed at the river house. As was our custom, we smoked a bit of the local marijuana before turning in. During this…

…sat on the rocks, scanning the sky and listening for the drone of the little amphibian. Thus the afternoon passed, with even Dennis Quiet after an episode in the early morning in which he had methodically thrown the contents of his room out the window,…

…I, seemed to have my usual freedom of movement, but the world around me was coming to a crystalline and eerie halt. It was Dennis who finally spoke. A series of quantized energy levels have to be broken through in order to bond this thing. It is part…

…through the barbed wire wet to my fingers but warm seeming even at night so steamy as allisonus, once United with Dave and Dennis, I found the situation far closer to their description than I expected. There was a dim light on the ground a few yards…

…you could do, and thus the first day of the reversal passed. A reasonable conclusion would have been to suppose that Dennis was toxically schizophrenic and that we should leave the Amazon. What muddied the water considerably was me because I was…

…the water considerably was me because I was comparatively normal except for one thing: I insisted that everything was all right and that Dennis Somehow knew exactly what he was doing. It was okay I insisted he had done what he set out to do and now…

…will make three attempts before we break out of the experimental mode. We all drank the yahé sending it churning through our guts. Dennis took only one mushroom so that he could hear the tone. Darkness was utter and we had no clocks. It seemed hours…

…harmine brew, the harmine smoking mixture. After we each had taken a half a cup of the yahé infusion, we settled down to wait. Dennis had been hearing the esr tone that he deemed the sine qua non of what we were attempting for the past several days.…

…resin foreshadowed human immortality. Equally absurd and equally inexplicable was an incident that occurred on the morning of the fifth day. Dennis was sitting raving to no one in particular with a normal camp life going on around him. I was sitting near…

…the way mine was doing. The sound was suddenly much intensified in energy and was like the sound of a giant insect. While Dennis wrote the REST of us swam indolently in the river and washed our laundry under a clear, infinitely blue and empty amazonian…

…involving as they did the entities of tantric Buddhism, the bulging eyes, the rolling and possibly long tongues, that sort of thing. Dennis rose up in his hammock then the candle went out and he sounded his first howl of hypercarbulation. It was mechanical…

…reconstruct how predisposed we might have been to our eventual experiences. I find in a letter written 11 months before our expedition that Dennis was even then the person with the clearest conception. He wrote to me in china in may of 1970 to say: I…

…a normal camp life going on around him. I was sitting near the cooking fire, sharpening the expedition's butt knife. I listened while Dennis raved, scanning his ramblings for a hint of a message. Suddenly I stopped my work. Are you my tailor? This in a…

…further exploration of mushroom psilocybin until after our return from the Peruvian Amazon. It was the 23rd of December, a day before Dennis would arrive to spend the Christmas Holidays with us. Cat and I each again took five grams and settled down before…

…surface of the gently drifting igaraparana, falling like electricity across the land in the heat of the equatorial day. Late that afternoon Dennis came back down to the edge of the river looking for me. He found me washing out my tennis shoes on a…

…at you. Why you've got my knickers on. I blushed deeply. I looked at the ground and said nothing. I felt very boxed in. Dennis was imitating the conversation I had had with my little English friend after I had come looking for her and returned with her…

…evolution on a native planet had given them. They might well look as they wished to look. In the late summer of 1975 Dennis and I decided that the world we were exploring required a wider audience so that some consensus concerning what was going on…

…have to get this down. Within hours after the experiment this started impinging on me something that I must figure out. The next morning Dennis seemed to me slightly more down to earth but to a degree so slight over the day before that it was a matter…

…again: a long whirring yodel, strange and unexpectedly mechanical. Each time it was sounded I suggested a break before the third attempt, but Dennis was quite agitated and eager to bring it through, as he put it. We settled in for the third yell and when…

…we sat and talked. It had been about 16 hours since the episode with the strange sound during the trip of the evening before Dennis said that the writing exercise had been very useful. Great, and so what have you come up with? I'm not sure I'm very…

…into only our immediate family and from there to the resolution of the dualism involved in the question as to whether he was Dennis or Terrence. And finally and thankfully he came to REST with the realization that he was Dennis returned from the edge of…

…that earliest experience many of the motifs that have persisted through the years and remained mysterious. At one point during the evening Dennis and I both seemed to be able to see and describe the same hallucination off and on over the years this has…

…question as to whether he was Dennis or Terrence. And finally and thankfully he came to REST with the realization that he was Dennis returned from the edge of the universe of mind restored and reborn a shaman in the fullest sense of the word. But that…

…his call came clear but from afar, seeming to confirm us as actors on a stage part of a dramatic contrivance. Dennis had said that if the experiment were successful, the mushroom would be obliterated, the low temperature phenomena would explode the cellular…

…we talked several hours about these ideas and what finally emerged was the idea that we needed a test, or at least Dennis maintained that a partial test of this idea could be undertaken. To convince me, he thought that as the superconducting state became…

…la charrera, we were involved with two ideas in particular. These were the motif of the teacher and the insect motif. Dennis and I could feel the overwhelming presence of some unseen intelligent entity which seemed to be observing and sometimes exerting…

…and joined us. In the hut for a smoke. Discussion led to an update and rehash of the experiment proposed for the evening. Dennis spoke. We will obtain a metabolizing living mushroom, dig up the shit around it and physically move the whole thing to the…

…of a small rise on which grew a young tree. Ama the wetoto word for brother had become one of the many new nicknames that Dennis had created for me. Now as we walked along we kept our eyes open for mushrooms as had become our habit even though all…

…all space and time, the universe, but a monad, a monadic plasma which contains all space and time, including one's own mind. Dennis leaned toward the mushroom standing on the raised experiment area look, as I followed his gaze, he raised his arm and…

…on the sandy path facing each other, with the afternoon sun on both of us. After a couple of preliminary low mechanical buzzes, Dennis made a sound very similar to the sound that he had unleashed in the knoll house three days before. This sound had an…

…along we kept our eyes open for mushrooms as had become our habit even though all thought of eating mushrooms was now behind us. Dennis Strode ahead of me and made his way to this tree, bending down and parting the grasses at the base of the tree he…

…pointed to the letters ama carved in the bark. It was carving at least several years old. The incident was confusing. How had Dennis known the carving was there and what did it mean anyway he answered my questions by sweeping his hand toward the dawn…

…broke over us over the roar of the wind that was now whipping the jungle all around us into a wild frenzy, I heard Dennis yell. It's a reflection of the approaching breakthrough it says to me there is now no doubt we'll succeed. From Dave a moan as…

…the singing voice to interact with the brain as though it were a color organ and a holographic library all wrapped into one. Dennis pointed the way toward a kind of orphic science where the great advances would be made using only the interaction of the…

…a hypnotic game into which one becomes absorbed in spite of oneself. We returned to our camp and mentioned to all present that Dennis had generated the wave of cold air that he had predicted from the theory, but it was all sufficiently ambiguous that no…

…bodies and stopping at the small stream that crossed the path to splash water in our faces. We had not spoken. It was Dennis who broke the silence. You are wondering if we succeeded. Yes, what happened? Your writing heard on this effect so what's going…

…returned to the Riverside house and the three of us settled into our first night in the forest since arriving at la charrera, Dennis was in a state of continual activity, amplifying his ideas and trying out new wrinkles on us. He retired into a world of…

…Let me try to understand this. As we walked on my own mind was racing with questions and as we walked along, Dennis, Occasional comments were it burst over me, answers to questions that I was thinking but not articulating. I stopped in my tracks.…

…to questions that I was thinking but not articulating. I stopped in my tracks. I clearly formed a question in my mind. Dennis, head bent beside me began to answer without waiting for me to articulate my thought aloud. I was dumbfounded. Was this it?…

…to be and found it still occupied. Returning through the pastures under a spectacular sunset, we gathered more mushrooms, enough for ev Dennis and me to each take more than we ever had before. How much, perhaps twenty mushrooms apiece? It was during that…

…some unusual and still unconfirmed effect was at work in our experiment, something like the principle of resonance cancelling that Dennis was so intrigued by. Breakfast of the second day following the experiment was closed with a hot discussion of whether…

…this it? Then I asked that he had somehow acquired telepathic powers. No, there was more to it than that. According to Dennis the bonding of the harmin into his DNA had given him immediate access to an enormous cybernetically stored fund of information,…

…this information was freely available to anyone in the world who looked into their mind and prefaced their question with the word Dennis. The absurdity of the second half of this proposition struck me as utterly too much. But naturally, at his insistence I…

…that Dennis was so intrigued by. Breakfast of the second day following the experiment was closed with a hot discussion of whether Dennis had really gone to the choro or only dreamed that he had done so. As the rhetoric exhausted itself, vanessa drew me…

…Is this the healing of my Split Tea that my astrologer foretold for this time scorpio? Vanessa asked of no one in particular. Dennis ate nothing. Ev and I shared a light meal with our guests. They wished us good night and good luck and hobbled away…

…the river. The three of us were then left alone and there remained nothing for it but to make the test that Dennis had devised and whose anticipation had caused so much strain on our expedition. The yahé had been brewed through having seen ayahuasca…

…alchemy become before enlightenment? Science scattered the adepts and so that in the pasture each foggy morning when I demanded of Dennis that he give me the philosopher's stone, it was both pressure upon him to reformulate his consciousness into a unity…

…naturally, at his insistence I made the test. I picked up a small plant growing at my feet and closed my eyes and asked Dennis: what is the name of this plant? Immediately, and without any effort of my own that I was aware of a scientific name now…

…I was quite uncreative in this period. I was taking the mushroom I was ecstatic all the time I would simply sit and listen to Dennis rave. It went beyond anything anyone I knew had ever dreamed of. We had set the evening of March 4th as the day we…

…there were wide differences in diagnosis of what was going on, so there were wide differences concerning what should be done. But since Dennis is your brother and you have strong opinions on the subject, I will defer in favor of what you think should be…

…the same source that was supplying me with energy so that I could matter of factly eliminate the need for sleep. Occasionally Dennis would interrupt me to ask that I or ev smoke a cigarette for him questioning uncovered his belief that in hyperspace the…

…different sort of experience as we sat around waiting to get stoned there was a lot of nitpicking going on between vanessa and Dennis. Up to this point Dennis had not come forward as a personality at all. Finally he had apparently had enough of vanessa…

…we sat around waiting to get stoned there was a lot of nitpicking going on between vanessa and Dennis. Up to this point Dennis had not come forward as a personality at all. Finally he had apparently had enough of vanessa and said: you know, you're…

…earlier trips in spite of the larger dose. We had come out of our reveries and were conversing softly about our reactions. Dennis complained that he felt blocked from a deep connection by concern for our father in Colorado, whether or not our last message…

…our last message is to him before setting off down the Rio Putumayo had reached him before he went on his vacation. Dennis seemed melancholy, a state of homesickness in combination with a hallucinogen, I supposed. I tried to reassure him and we talked…

…separated it from the edge of the pasture for five days. So after breakfast on that particularly flawless morning I chatted with Dennis and found him calmer and more Lucid Than he had been since the experiment. So composed and relaxed did he seem that…

…is never at a loss. It is the familiarity of these people that makes them Windows in my imagination opening onto the past. Dennis of course. He is the time tunnel longest on a parallel track to my own. No need to mention genetics back our connection…

…hear a voice in my head that was answering, however innamely or inaccurately, any question put to it I was less sure. Dennis was oddly preoccupied, yet he assured me that his effort had succeeded and that all over the world, the wave of hypercarbolation…

…the stage set for the next five days from the 5th to the 10th of March: the chaos at la charrera. During this time Dennis very slowly got better. He became more coherent. He said that the experience had catapulted him to the edge of the rhyme money…

…grew up in the same household, shared the same constraints and freedoms until I left home at 16. But I held close to Dennis and in the middle of my 21st year, returning from Seychelles to Bombay in the hold of the British Steam navigation company liner…

…when it was smoked, the bubbling of the water beneath the thick rind sounded very like the beating of some great heart. Even Dennis paused to admire this pipe and we determined that it would be used in our experiment when the moment came to smoke some…

…feel. We were trying to smoke some grass and then I said: smoking makes it easier to hallucinate. Smoke to get higher. Dennis was having trouble with matches, fumbling and fumbling. What's the problem? Just light the match. Would you light the match? We…

…and mirror. We thank Clea McKenna for being very smart and funny. Thank the mushroom. Terrence is his own voice. Dennis plays himself. Kat remembers herself. Bertrand Davies is Guzman and plays piano. Witotos speak witoto. Phillip porter plays sitar and…

…hut and the clearing to find them humming with a deserted air of emptiness that was heart sinking. I was not afraid that Dennis would wander into the forest and become lost as I was convinced that whatever his state of mind did not include that sort…

…our hut. Our conversation stopped and we listened as the small radio sound drew near and then began to fade. At that moment Dennis gave forth with a very machine like loud dry buzz. His body became stiff for a few seconds in which this occurred. After…

…the excitement in us rising toward the realization that the world was now somehow radically different, totally different in a fundamental way. Dennis spoke, so this must be it. We have not condensed the stone into visible space but we have generated it in…

…came over the rise that gave me a clear view of the river house and the lake below the choro I saw vanessa leading Dennis Toward the river house. I could sense that the situation was more difficult than I had hoped. Vanessa was angry and had seized…

…with our enterprise. As those first days at la charrera went by, the next day, the first of March, passed uneventfully. Dennis worked on his Journal, I collected insects and vanessa photographed around the mission. At evening we were all gathered again at…

…of glossolalia of thought that seemed to me the very embodiment of meaning seemed mere gibberish when verbalized and heard by other people. Dennis spoke of tremendous energy in the sound and said that he had felt it like a physical force of some kind. We…

…those times. I could only summarize those five days by labeling them absurdly: fire, water, earth, man, peace. I sat and Dennis raved without his glasses his eyes were wild and unsettling to look into. Since the night of his contested shamanic ramble,…

…the sound and said that he had felt it like a physical force of some kind. We discussed it for several minutes and finally Dennis decided that he wished to attempt the effect again. This he did, but for a much shorter time. He again reported that the…

…intuitions about why things were as they were. So on the morning of the third day following the experiment, shortly after breakfast Dennis announced a new teaching. This was that one could see any point in time by closing one's eyes, visualizing an eight,…

…the Amazon Delta, the symbol for change in time. Delta in Joyce and among graffiti artists throughout history, represents the vagina. Dennis was born in delta, Colorado. Was it possible that all of our experiences could have been a premonition of an event…

…was more difficult than I had hoped. Vanessa was angry and had seized the situation to drive home her point. It seemed that Dennis must have bolted from his hammock the moment that ev and I passed out of sight. He had gone straight to the mission,…

…a clear space in which to turn toward the future and discern it. Unbidden then came the thought that I would go with Dennis to South America. It was a certainty, and so in time it happened, not immediately, not before much more wandering in the east,…

…outrage. The delicate political balance I had established that had allowed me to have my way in the matter of treatment for Dennis was destroyed. Now vanessa's idea that he should be moved to the river house was brought forth and endorsed by the priests…

…simply to have stopped moving. The surface appeared frozen, yet the near half of the river was seen to continue as before. Dennis and vanessa were called out of the hut and they agreed that the effect was remarkable. I wandered away from a discussion…

…if he directed his voice downward. We discussed the effect in terms of sound possibly having a synergistic effect on metabolizing drugs. Dennis vowed that from the inside it felt like the acquisition of a shamanic power of some sort. He began pacing around…

…before dawn, at a time that I felt was exactly the time when we had performed the experiment two days before, I heard Dennis stir in his hammock inside the hut. Then I heard, low but strong and clear, the same ululating howl that had catapulted us…

…very little like the caranja but its small diesel engine, an echo of the larger engines further away in time. Yes, Dennis came with the first. These others different histories. Vanessa and I had been together in the experimental college at Berkeley. She…

…ecstatic believer. Looking back on it I believe that for me this was the critical juncture. Why did I not question Dennis more closely? Was I somehow self hypnotized? Did the unfamiliar setting, the restricted diet, strain and expectations push me into a…

…of. At one point he became so excited that we all three left the hut and stood looking out into the pitch darkness. Dennis was contemplating going immediately to find vanessa and Dave to discuss with them what had happened. Finally, a bewildered ev and I…

…developed during the month in Columbia Preceding our trek into the jungle. As I walked I looked for a place to sit down. Dennis had offered me his journal entry for that month. It was almost identical to the first experience: a lifting, pulsing wave of…

…a bag was hastily packed. The airplane came skimming in and then it was gone again and we were four. Vanessa and ev became Dennis nurses. He was moved to the river house and I preferred to continue to live at the jungle house to avoid crowding. Dave…

…continue to live at the jungle house to avoid crowding. Dave was gone. The debate continued as to whether the direction in Dennis Raving was toward improvement or whether it was only progressive drifting in the world in which he had become lost. Dennis…

…in Dennis Raving was toward improvement or whether it was only progressive drifting in the world in which he had become lost. Dennis move to the river was a turning point and from then hence the effects of the phenomenon unleashed were less in our…

…experiment. I did not know what was happening in the world or far away but I did know that since the moment Dennis had pronounced the experiment finished, I had felt an expanding and ever increasing wave of energy and understanding unfold through my being…

…poor scholar and revolutionary that I then imagined myself to be, the scene seemed staged in its casual elegance. We were talking about Dennis, whom vanessa had never met. He really is some sort of genius I guess. Anyway I'm his brother and I am quite…

…sun was well up in the sky and it was a beautiful day. As I walked across the pasture I would stop and say Dennis and the response was instantaneous. It was just like thought. It confused me. I kept stopping and doing this, sitting down on the grass…

…it used the metaphor of condensation it is condensing. It was like a perfect alchemical metaphor. The stone is everywhere it is here, Dennis would say I can see it it's 250 feet away to the left down near the water hole hovering above the water. Each…

…looked. Every shape and form around me was pregnant with its unearthly opalescent depths. Before our small party of fellow explorers, Dennis and I wept and exulted addressing the living and the dead with equal candor, saying things that should have been…

…months before. I had a very peculiar dream which occurred, though I did not know it, on the very day that my father and Dennis were told that my mother was dying of cancer. That was something I would not learn until nearly a week later. My journal…

…to hard ultraviolet radiation what the people of amazonas call machete skin. It was a reminder of all that we were returning to. Dennis was on his best behavior and beyond his commenting as we got aboard that an airplane was a partial condensation of a…

…As I walked along, I did some experiments. I said Terrence, Terrence it was very much like talking to yourself. Then I said Dennis, and the thing was instantly there just ready to do business. Then I said McKenna, McKenna and it was still there. I…

…concerning what was going on ranged from the religiously profound to the utterly absurd. On the afternoon of the 12th of March Dennis underwent a few hours when he was able to respond, however cryptically, to the questions we put to him concerning how…

…thereafter there was a perky alertness about this cock and hen that had received comment among us before this particular afternoon Dennis called our attention to the little hen, saying that if one thought of her as art then the achievement she represented…

…of culmination that its inevitability was already sending shockwaves and distorted images of the millennium crashing backwards through time. Dennis Recently reminded me that I assured all present that so inevitable had our experiment become, that if we did…

…we had touched and been touched by, it was now falling behind us. We stayed two days in Laetitia, days in which Dennis showed marked improvement while the REST of us drifted into various stances of distance with regard to each other, almost an effort…

…therefore Joyce, at his death, had somehow been shouldered with the responsibilities of overseeing this part of god's universe. In this Dennis was only following Wyndham Lewis who made Joyce's Ascent to eminence in the afterworld the subject of his novel the…

…us in Laetitia heightened the strangeness. I could not quite wrap my mind around it. By the time we reached Bogota, Dennis was nearly completely returned to normal, lending weight to the idea that some sort of temporary chemical imbalance had been…

…Lewis who made Joyce's Ascent to eminence in the afterworld the subject of his novel the human age. Jim and Nora, as Dennis called the newly revealed deity and his consort were in and through everything at lotcherer, particularly in the things that Joyce…

…a long distance. I wanted to return to the forest and see what else would unfold in my mind. I was recalling something else Dennis had said a few minutes before in the pasture. He had said that the demarcation between day and night, the dawn line, was…

…the ideas concerning time that are set out in the invisible landscape. On the 20th of March there was general agreement that Dennis was totally back with us. It was an occasion of great happiness and we celebrated at one of bogota's finest restaurants. It…

…in the mapping of hyperspace. They did not, however shed much light on our predicament from that view of life as literature. Dennis moved on. He reminded me that one of the alchemical analogs for the philosopher's stone that we share in our private code…

…I said that the ability to produce that key, which had been lost since our childhood, would prove the reality of Dennis Shamanic powers and their ability to materially transcend normal space and time. The conversation took the form of a question and…

…ability to materially transcend normal space and time. The conversation took the form of a question and answer session that ended with Dennis Demanding that I hold out my hand and then slapping his closed hand into my open one letting out a loud ludicrous…

…it now in the middle of the Amazon to completely distort my notion of reality? Or was this only a similar key that Dennis had been carrying? When he arrived in South America but that I had somehow not noticed until he produced it. This seemed unlikely.…

…to the forest, grumbling a good part of the way. When we had gone slightly past the place where I had parted from Dennis, we came upon something which could not at first be fitted into any set of expectations. This was Dennis Rihuana and shirt discarded…

…where I had parted from Dennis, we came upon something which could not at first be fitted into any set of expectations. This was Dennis Rihuana and shirt discarded in the middle of the path. Next came a pair of pants and then further on two sweat socks…

…the gnashing beast, but not yet of it. We lived there three months, ramsacking articles, writing letters, maintaining constant correspondence with Dennis who was in Colorado, amassing information on a near mythical world that none of us had ever seen. I had…

…cure. Whenever I tell this story it is the phenomenon of the liquid that I stress. That was what I accentuated to assure Dennis that night at la charrera. I did not tell the absurd part about waking up wearing someone else's underwear. It was damn…

…hurled away. Following this trail of cast off garments led us back to the hut in the forest. There we found ev and Dennis both naked and sitting on the floor of the hut discussing and doing the ask Dennis Meditation, with the comment that you cannot…

…forest. There we found ev and Dennis both naked and sitting on the floor of the hut discussing and doing the ask Dennis Meditation, with the comment that you cannot receive a proper initiation unless you are naked. Dennis insisted that we take off our…

…discussing and doing the ask Dennis Meditation, with the comment that you cannot receive a proper initiation unless you are naked. Dennis insisted that we take off our clothes. Vanessa peeled and Dave and I followed her example. The presence of the mushroom…

…this phenomenon, then tomorrow the 18th day, will mark some sort of halfway point in this experience. I predict that tomorrow Dennis will return to the psychological set he experienced prior to March 1st though it is possible that rather than a residual…

…original box was lost long ago so the key was never tested. A final ironic note is added to the story by the fact that both Dennis and I were fans of the stories of h p Lovecraft and so were aware of his story through the gates of the silver key,…

…of his story through the gates of the silver key, a tale seething with many dimensions, strange beings and a cosmic timescale. After Dennis had moved to reside in the river house there was no longer any need for my sleepless watch at night but the lack…

…has it there is no doubt. If one does not have it, it seems a very murky thing. Everything was very amicable, except that Dennis was showing a tendency to talk right through other people's comments as if they were not present. It was as though he were…

…last 20 days and have some idea of the approximate nature and direction of the opus. This journal entry makes clear that while Dennis was recovering from his submergence in the titanic struggle, I was quite in the grip of a struggle of my own. I was…

…using sound to convey incredible emotion, emotion so intense that its power is truly magical. Perhaps these ideas are no more than Dennis were then concerning the meaning of the powers of psilocybin. What unites the two perceptions is the sense of a nearby…

…their very nature are mysterious. I would have not believed such a thing possible had I not been shown later that same evening. Ev Dennis and I smoked a joint of Santa Marta Gold before turning in. It was a calm, perfectly clear night when we sat down…

…spent in Bogota, a dreary time the urban dregs of a teeming modern city resting not lightly on our jungle sensitive perceptions. Dennis seemed quite normal, so weakened and sobered by all that had gone on. There were no messages from Dave and vanessa had…

…and sobered by all that had gone on. There were no messages from Dave and vanessa had returned to the state. On the 29th Dennis followed her example and flew to Colorado. I insisted that ev and I go to Southern Columbia so that I could simply have…

…over the whole area. We had come from depthless clear night sky to dense fog in a few minutes. I was frankly amazed. Dennis was the first to offer an explanation with a certainty that seemed as puzzling as the thing itself. It's some kind of barometric…

…of the stupor that the morning heat and being in the hammock had induced. We were talking and talking, analyzing and analyzing. Dennis seemed most out of it. Dave and vanessa, uncertain that anything at all had really happened, was distant and I was…

…opening of the day. Something was wrong. Expectation was outrunning reality. Nothing had happened. It came out that no one could hear Dennis in their mind except me. They were all actually wondering what was going on. We had entered the next phase which…

…They were all actually wondering what was going on. We had entered the next phase which was a period of confusion for all. Dennis was disengaging from reality. I would talk to him and he didn't know anyone was speaking to him. He was still breaking into…

…with the grime of fire tending. We gathered up our scattered clothing and during this effort it came out that Dennis had thrown his glasses away, along with his boots and everything else. Disheveled and disoriented, we set off, searching unsuccessfully…

…Sia, who have very little in common, are warm friends. Is this because I have miffed vanessa? It is not going well at all. Dennis is very quiet. Dave is worrying about the food. He is a chronic worrier and naive. He seems to have thought that one just…

…head assured me they were certainly beaming and chortling about something on we walked toward the mission and its shower in the sunshine, Dennis would not stop talking. The consensus was building that we had a crisis on our hands but it wasn't yet out of…

…is very peculiar and thought that the passage of a few hours would smooth everything out. That was everyone's conclusion except Dennis and my own. It was no longer really possible to communicate with Dennis. My conclusion was that something had happened…

…smooth everything out. That was everyone's conclusion except Dennis and my own. It was no longer really possible to communicate with Dennis. My conclusion was that something had happened that he had done something that some kind of odd principle had been…

…there were tears of joy streaming down my Face. I wasn't out of touch with reality. I said: we'll wait for tomorrow Dennis will come down. Everyone seemed to be finding their way back to their normal psychic equilibrium, save Dennis and myself. I was…

…for tomorrow Dennis will come down. Everyone seemed to be finding their way back to their normal psychic equilibrium, save Dennis and myself. I was burdened with odd but wonderfully expanded perceptions, while his wandering ideas and wild eyes indicated that…