Perilous Passage - The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words

Perilous Passage is an account of Terry Wilson¿s lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, ¿He is the only man I respect.¿ The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin¿s death in 1986 and details the extreme psychic `Third Mind¿ eff ects known as `The Process.¿ Perilous Passage is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller that includes transcribed audio hallucinations, notes, cutups, interview format, and collaged material. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how Gysin¿s magic was passed on and is being carried into the future.

Summary

PERILOUS PASSAGE is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and carried into the future.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Wilson
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 16 to 90
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780907791423
• ISBN: 978-0-907791-42-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Historical fiction, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Shamanism, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Shamanism, paganism & druidry, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History and Archaeology