This fascinating, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small group of their friends is a wild journey filled with exotic experiences and scientific explorations. In search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they explore the Amazon basin and encounter a variety of unusual characters, including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate-like mantises from space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the form of poultry, and translinguistic matter. They discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.