Luis Eduardo Luna

For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space--spiritual seekers, shamans, and psychoactive drug users--have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. Inner Paths to Outer Spacepresents an innovative examination of how we can reach these other dimensions of existence and contact otherworldly beings. Based on their more than 60 combined years of research into the function of the brain, the authors reveal how psychoactive substances such as DMT allow the brain to bypass our five basic senses to unlock a multidimensional realm of existence where otherworldly communication occurs. They contend that our centuries-old search for alien life-forms has been misdirected and that the alien worlds reflected in visionary science fiction actually mirror the inner space world of our minds. The authors show that these “alien” worlds encountered through altered states of human awareness, either through the use of psychedelics or other methods, possess a sense of reality as great as, or greater than, those of the ordinary awareness perceived by our five senses.

Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna’s childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author’s experiences with and reflections on psychedelics, philosophy, and scientific innovation. Chronicling the McKenna brothers’ childhood in western Colorado during the 1950s and 1960s, Dennis writes of his adolescent adventures including his first encounters with alcohol and drugs (many of which were facilitated by Terence), and the people and ideas that shaped them both. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss weaves personal narrative through philosophical ideas and tales of psychedelic experimentation. In this book, Dennis describes these inquiries with the wisdom of perspective. In his account of what has become known as “The Experiment at La Chorrera”— which Terence documented in his own 1989 book, True Hallucinations — Dennis describes how he had visions of merging mushroom and human DNA, the brothers’ predictions for the future, and their evolving ideas about society and consciousness. He also offers an intellectual understanding of the hallucinogenic effects of high-dose psychedelic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances. Dennis, now world-renowned for this ethnobotanical work, describes in Brotherhood his early interests in cosmology and astrology, his sometimes rocky relationship with his older brother and how their paths diverged later in their lives. Dennis describes his academic career in between touching accounts of both his mother’s and Terence’s battles with cancer. In the 10th Anniversary edition of Brotherhood, Dennis reflects on scientific revelations, climate change, and the social and political crises of our time. The new edition also features both the original foreword by Luis Eduardo Luna and a new foreword by Dr. Bruce Damer. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss is a story about brotherhood, psychedelic experimentation, and the intertwining nature of science and myth.

Under tusentals år har resenärer i den inre rymden – andliga sökare, schamaner och användare av psykoaktiva droger – återvänt från sina inre resor med rapporter om möten med främmande intelligenser. Inre vägar till yttre rymden presenterar en innovativ undersökning av hur vi kan nå dessa andra existensdimensioner och kontakta varelser från andra världar. Grundad på deras mer än 60 års sammanlagda forskning kring hjärnans funktion, avslöjar författarna hur psykoaktiva substanser som till exempel dmt gör det möjligt för hjärnan att kringgå våra fem grundläggande sinnen för att öppna en multidimensionell existensvärld där överjordisk kommunikation sker. De hävdar att vårt sökande sedan sekler tillbaka efter främmande livsformer har varit missriktat, och att de främmande världar som avspeglas i visionär science fiction i själva verket speglar vårt sinnes inre rymdvärld. Författarna visar att de ”främmande” världar som påträffas till följd av förändrade medvetandetillstånd hos människor, antingen genom användning av psykedelika eller genom andra metoder, äger en verklighetskänsla som är lika stor som, eller större än, den värld som det vardagliga medvetandet uppfattar med våra fem sinnen.