Copyright 2012 © by Dennis McKenna

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Editing: Jeremiah Creedon

Credits

The following works are used by permission:

Photographs by Sara Hartley.

Photograph by Jeremy Bigwood.

Photograph by Jill Wagner

Maps by Mark Odegard.

Drawing on title page by Janet Gordon.

Excerpts from TRUE HALLUCINATIONS by TERENCE MCKENNA.

Copyright © 1993 by Terence McKenna. Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

Poem by William P. Watson, “Pursuing To Peru The G’nostic Guru,”

printed by permission of the author.

Portions of Chapter 46 are adapted from an essay by the author that appeared in Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, edited by Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White (2000).

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McKenna, Dennis

The Brotherhood of the screaming abyss: my life with Terence McKenna / by Dennis McKenna