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Index
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Copyright 2012 © by Dennis McKenna
Dedication
Table of Contents
Epigraph
Disclaimer
Foreword
Preface
Part One - Beginnings
Chapter 1 - Beginnings
Terry and Denny, 1952.
Central and Northern Peru (Map by M. Odegard)
Chapter 2 - Three Sisters
Joe and Hadie McKenna during World War II.
Chapter 3 - Roots and Wars
Left to right: grandmother Molly McKenna, Terence, father Joe McKenna, Dennis with Skelly, and grandfather Joseph McKenna.
Chapter 4 - Terry and Denny
Terence Kemp McKenna and Dennis Jon McKenna.
Chapter 5 - Happy Day Rides
Denny with Skelly.
Chapter 6 - The Nobody People
Chapter 7 - The Collector
Terence in the Amazon, 1971. (Photo by S. Hartley)
Chapter 8 - Flying, Fishing, and Hunting
Denny and his father beside the Piper Cub, in 1956.
Chapter 9 - Goodbye to All That
Terence and Dennis dressed for church, 1959.
Chapter 10 - The Big Picture
Chapter 11 - First Loves: 1962
Chapter 12 - The California Crusade
Chapter 13 - The Experimental College: 1965
Chapter 14 - Cannabis: 1966
Chapter 15 - The Tutor
Chapter 16 - A Psychedelic Education
Chapter 17 - Mapping Inner Space: Carl Jung
Chapter 18 - The Ladders of Ecstasy: Mircea Eliade
Chapter 19 - Summer of Love: 1967
Chapter 20 - The Secret Encountered
Chapter 21 - The Stoners’ Revenge
Chapter 22 - My Datura Misadventure
Chapter 23 - Escape from Mordor: 1968
Chapter 24 - The Church Lawn Bunch
Chapter 25 - Busted Again: 1969
Chapter 26 - Girl with a Gun: 1970
Part Two - Into the Abyss
Chapter 27 - The Brotherhood Forms
Chapter 28 - Our Mother’s Death
Chapter 29 - A Narrow Passage: 1971
John Brown, Puerto Leguizamo, 1971. (Photo by S. Hartley)
Route map to La Chorrera. (Map by M. Odegard)
Chapter 30 - On the Edge of the Abyss
Chapter 31 - The Experiment at La Chorrera
Chapter 32 - Waiting for the Stone
A canoe at La Chorrera. (Photo by S. Hartley)
Chapter 33 - The Bell Tower and a UFO
Chapter 34 - Reflections on La Chorrera
The chorro at La Chorrera. (Photo by S. Hartley)
Part Three - Invisible Landscapes
Chapter 35 - Invisible Landscapes
Chapter 36 - The Timewave
The Timewave (Illustration by T. McKenna)
Chapter 37 - To See the Great Man
Chapter 38 - Fun with Fungi: 1975
Cover of the Grower’s Guide, first edition, 1976. (Photo by J. Bigwood)
Chapter 39 - A Lab in Paradise
Chapter 40 - In the Trenches
Chapter 41 - An Encounter with Ayahuasca
Don Fidel Mosombite, the ayahuasquero, and his family.
Dennis and helpers preparing voucher specimens, 1981.
Chapter 42 - The River of Poisons
Wade Davis and Dennis enroute to Pebas. March 1981.
Route Map to Pebas (Map by M. Odegard)
Don Marcos preparing ku-ru-ku hallucinogenic paste in Puco Urquillo, 1981.
Don Alfredo and his first sample of oo-koo-hé.
The village of Brillo Nuevo.
Terence standing beside a cumala tree near Puco Urquillo.
Terence packing seeds to take back to California, April 1981.
Pablo Amaringo (on guitar) and friends.
Chapter 43 - Adulthood and its Victims
Dennis working in the lab in Vancouver.
Chapter 44 - The Plant Teachers: 1985
A proud father and his two sons on Dennis’s wedding day, 1984.
Chapter 45 - The Perpetual Postdoc
Sheila and Dennis, about 1993.
Chapter 46 - Climbing the Vine: 1991
Preparing hoasca at the UDV temple in Manaus, Brazil.
Chapter 47 - New in Town
José Cabral and Dennis preparing voucher specimens, UDV study, 1993.
Chapter 48 - The Bard in Light and Shadow
Terence (Photo by J. Wagner)
Chapter 49 - A Desperate Situation
Aunt Amelia, Terence, Christy, and Dennis, 1999.
Chapter 50 - Into the Fire
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Patrons
Bibliography
Appendix
About the Author
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