talking with the dead

[Doug Millison]

I thought of the seances in GR, and Pynchon's mention of L.S.D., when 
I read this today. It's from a post that appeared on the MAPS list 
(at http://www.maps.org/) :

In the Terence McKenna interview in the Summer 2000 MAPS Bulletin (from the
Entheogen Review, V3 #4) he observed:  "I mean biological death is 
the black hole for organisms.  All it means is, you know, when you go 
into that black hole, no information can be sent back."

This brought to mind Laura Huxley's 1968 account of her experience with a
"medium" who facilitated a "communication" with the recently deceased 
Aldous Huxley that might illuminate how the "winds do blow" in  T's 
black hole of death.   See
http://www.Mimbres.com/holp/holpath/hux_med.htm
for the relevant excerpt from _This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous
Huxley_ (soon to be republished and likely to be available at 
http://www.promind.com/).

I am curious about Terence's knowledge of this story and if he discounted it.

As a side note, Laura Huxley's encounter with Krishnamurti and their discussion
of the merits of LSD (in a pyschotherapeutic context) is excerpted 
from the same book at:
http://www.Mimbres.com/holp/holpath/hux_krishna.htm