This book presents one of the most original versions of the origin of man and everything that is usually associated with his qualities - language, consciousness, culture. Extravagant, at the forefront of refined artistry, originality is an integral facet of the life and work of Terence McKenna. This man, marked by the speech of the Other flowing through him, belongs to a rare breed of visionaries among thinkers, who received from heaven the gift of blurting out the most incredible secrets. It seems that such an almost prophetic mission for the transmission of ultimate experience corresponds more successfully than other forms to the form of visions - multidimensional synesthetic spaces populated by objects of the senses, thoughts and insights that are beyond ordinary existence. Using McKenna’s own definition, he is a real shaman - one “who has achieved a vision of the beginning and end of all things, and who can convey this vision” (P. 34).