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_The Invisible Landscape : Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching_

by Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna (Contributor)

Paperback - 256 pages Reprint edition (April 1994)
Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0062506358 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x 9.17 x 6.10

The background to what eventually becomes a radical new model of historical time provides important scientific and philosophical refutations of the mind/body split, as the authors attempt to "understand the mechanics of the mutual interrelatedness of mind and the organic matrix at formative submolecular junctures." Plus one of the best brief discussions of shamanism, and its relationship to schizophrenia.

Terence McKenna and his brother relate their experience with a South American psychoactive plant, and the mind-blowing  insights that they gained from it. The I Ching's  'King Wen sequence' of the 64 hexagrams is interpreted as a digital code, and in fractal geometry-like fashion, concatenated onto itself to create a wave function for the entirety of the universe, with its peaks and minima related to rises and falls in the rate of 'novelty' in reality as different dimensional realities interpenetrate in the McKennas' version of 'the end of the world  as we know it.'

• track _Novelty Waves_ MP3 (192k) by Biosphere off of _Novelty Waves_ CD on Apollo (1995)
• jangle pop track _It's The End Of The World As We Know It_ MP3 by REM off of _Document_ 12" (1987)

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