This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Discovering the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of uncommon characters-including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of chicken, and translinguistic matter-and uncover the missing link in the introduction of human consciousness and language.