The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching

A great read, that will lead the reader on a voyage of their own.

Further study: The Timewave theory has since been scrutinised by expert mathematians:

Matthew Watkins found errors in the theory:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/autopsy.html

John Sheliak worked with Watkins objection and found that the theory could be corrected, and indeed it became even more accurate!
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/sheliak/


Hmm...   September 15, 2004
 11 out of 21 found this review helpful

It's hard to say just exactly what this book is about. Best to give it 3 stars and sit on the fence.

As for you, dear reader of my review, I think you should contemplate the purchase of this tome only when strongly recommended by someone you dearly trust, and if mind-altering drugs are a topic you are interested in researching deeply.

I'm sorry I cannot be more helpful, except to say that it is obvious the authors are themselves lost in the entire narrative, somewhere between LSD and Mescaline.

Oh, one more thing to add. I don't know if it's just this edition or what, but every single page of this book has somewhere in the margin a wavey line that is meant to represent brain activity. It's a really annoying decoration that hinders my enjoyment of the read.


recommended reading before 2012   February 7, 2003
 20 out of 23 found this review helpful

this book comprises 3 parts: an investigation into shamanism, schizophrenia and the holographic principles of memory; scientific psychedelic experimentation in the Amazon of such theories; and finally relating ancient Chinese principles (the I Ching) to novelty throughout the universe.
An amazing book filled with mind-blowing theories and frequent genius insights... the authors are incredibly intelligent whether you take their inspirational thoughts at face value or not.
Highly recommended.


Entheogens: Professional Listing   May 7, 1999
 1 out of 28 found this review helpful

"The Invisible Landscape" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy."e


A wild trip shows the I Ching encodes reality changes.   April 1, 1999
 12 out of 16 found this review helpful

Terence McKenna and his brother relate their experience with a South American psychoactive plant, and the mind-blowing (mind-blown?) 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.'