Ev returned with Dave and vanessa to the river that morning and for the first time in two days, Dennis and I were alone and the atmosphere was one of calm. I busied myself sorting through and arranging the equipment. Our campsite was again spic and…

Chapter 16: return. On the 15th of July, Ev and I again stood on the edge of the Amazon Interior. My intention to return to la charrera was fast becoming fact. My journal begins again as we started down the putumayo a name that had by then come to…

…of five? We were a party of five when we arrived at la charrera, but we were a party of six departing from Puerto Leguizamo. Ev and I were living together as much as a couple can live together when they sleep in a hammock every night and pile off a…

…back across the pasture, the atmosphere seemed to be even more alive and active with spawning clouds and drifting mist than usual. Ev pointed to the southeast where a black stratocumulus mass was seething and boiling up to great altitudes. We watched for a…

…pace. I enjoyed this chore. The costal seemed light, almost a pleasure to carry along without pause even to REST for a moment. Ev and I returned to the mission and to vanessa and Dave's Riverside Residence for our breakfast in common. When we left our…

…the west and this was all taking place in the southeast. We watched it for perhaps a minute and then it stopped abruptly. Ev was quite shaken. It was of an empirical order different than anything she had experienced at la charrera up to that time.…

…in the way of activity, then by virtue of the very nature of the contact, that something will be exactly what we are doing. Ev and I lived quietly at la charrera from august until November of 1971, and during that time I was able to completely indulge…

…implications of all this were not lost upon us. From the spring of 1975 onward, I was not without a continual supply of Stropharia. Ev and I had parted earlier in the year. I was living alone and finishing up an academic career that had lasted far too…

…by the nun in charge, la madre being the form of address to the number one nun at these missions while we ate. Ev questioned the priest more carefully concerning la charrera. Yes the trail took five days for a fully loaded expedition to traverse. We…

…flavor, 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…

…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 we could have their apartment in the two weeks.…

…Colombia? We were a party of five bound by friendship, extravagant imagination, naivete and a dedication to travel and exotic experience. Ev our translator, was the only member of the group not long an acquaintance of us all. She was an American like…

…contact with the thing that was like a teacher. It let me know things I knew things which I couldn't possibly know. Ev had gone through the experiment but nothing at all had happened to her. The other people seemed very distant. They couldn't understand…

…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 toward the…

…from the jungle isolation was being announced as a faint but growing theme. It all fell into place from the second day onward. Ev became a kind of liaison with the REST of the world of la charrera. She arrived in the late afternoon and departed each…

…were all gathered again at the edge of the knoll where our small lodging stood in silent communion with each other in the river. Ev and I sat looking out over the lake. It was ev who noticed it first the lake beneath the chorro was flecked with foam…

…in 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…

…a joint of Santa Marta Gold before turning in. It was a calm, perfectly clear night when we sat down and began our ritual. Ev commented on the clarity of the night and we all stared together for a moment out into the galaxy, the night awash with…