Grounded in shamanism, Tibetan practices, the ancient Goddess cults of Europe and elsewhere, and the author's shattering, true experiences alone in the desert, 2003 Channels is the first authentic book of Magic for moderns. Thus if you wish a good read that's popular in the mass culture, on the Sunday Times list and inundated with greebies and awful flying things, do not, do not, enter these pages.
—Terrence McKenna

Publisher's Press Release for 2003 Channels:
THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO YOUR IMAGINATION AND THE POWERS OF YOUR MIND. YOU WILL PASS THROUGH THE SCREEN OF TIME INTO THE OTHER WORLD.

It's 1987 and Tanya and Tommy Clark are bored. Their sitter flips on the TV–it's "The Cosby Show." But, good fortune smiles. Uncle Ned is visiting. Uncle Ned hates television and, as he sees Tanya and Tommy rapidly becoming absorbed into its addictive images, he knows "he must act fast or he will lose the children forever." Jumping on the coffee table, he gives a little speech:

"Lassies and gennelmens. Boysies and girlicues. Cats and catamarans. I am not here to bury telly-viz-shun. Ise here ta praise it. What all you think this world is anyway, huh? It's one gigantic television set. And, what's more, my fine fillies and philodendrons, you are all receivers."

No, it won't be the usual story today as Uncle Ned usually tells them. Instead he claims that he can teach them a Tibetan Buddhist process so that they can turn themselves into television sets--watch their own stories, amazing shows inside their minds.

Thus begins this amazingly original series of deeper and weirder and funnier and bizarrer and holier encounters with characters, forces, agents of the devil, trees, rocks, turtles, Hamlet and Ophelia, vomit and things too imaginable to describe. You will want to give this book immediately to all your friends, read it over and over because you can't believe this has happened to you, and find yourself laughing inexplicably during the day.

And here's the best part. The book isn't what it appears to be. It's an illusion, a come-on, a thing within a thing, a trickster hero. Because this book, really, is a manual for advanced knowledge, in a kid's book form. It will tell you all you need to know:

1. About Goddess religions, the Great Spirit and the Earth.
2. About shamanism–wizardry. About contacting altered states of consciousness. The powers of your mind. About contacting the energy through dance and music.
3. About how and why our world is now "insane." diseased, dying. About why it needs to be replaced, and about how we shall do it.

 

Author's Statement

"I've always loved those "children's stories that are really for adults," Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Candide, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, etc., because they pretend to be something they're not, for a reason. They all make use of an illusionary form and the illusionary form itself is a part of their plan. So, I was reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and I wondered: how about this? Could I write a screwy, absurdist, literary adventure of how two kids enter a television screen (instead of a mirror), have all kinds of wild adventures, start watching another TV screen ("the screen within the screen"), and enter that also? But I wanted to make it truly modern--stuff that Carroll, a 19th century mathematician in Europe, could never know. So I based it upon a Tibetan Buddhist process, threw in some Tantric sex, and had it climax with a narrative-stopping (time-stopping) dialogue with a shaman (the Wizard of Iyyd) in the middle of the desert. And that's what I really like about it. The dialogue not only carries magic beyond the storybook fiction of our literature, it creates a new level of reality synonymous with the shaman's world--wherein is revealed the true nature of things and the enfolding of history before our very eyes." Victor Greentree

 

READ "THE IYDD DIALOGUE"

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Some Famous Lines from "T & T" /Table of Contents / Excerpt 2:The Quiz Show

 

 

...the book that Victor Greentree calls "my personal favorite." Find out more...

Victor's Writings, What Others Have Said

Victor Greentree studied fiction with Herbert Wilner while getting his M.A. and worked with Lawrence Hart in his “action poetry” group. He has taught Creative Writing for many years for the University of California.

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT VICTOR GREENTREE'S WRITINGS

I've enjoyed your "Tanya and Tommy." . . . There certainly is an affinity here with the visionary [poet] [Kenneth] Patchen. A true seer.
.........James Laughlin, New Directions, publisher of Pound, Nabokov, Dylan Thomas

. . . a very personal blending of shamanistic, feminist and human potential themes.
.........Marie Cantlon, Proseworks, Boston

. . . definitely gifted as a writer. I would like to recommend him highly where imagination and creativity are valued.
.........Kay Boyle, novelist and poet

Delightful manuscript. I enjoyed it immensely.
.........Art Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle

What a beautiful morning I've just had dancing into/inside your book/flash/poem. Truth disguised as magic is still truth is noisy truth. Wonder of wonders, the earth is full of poets and verses fill the winds as roses fill the sea.
.........Jim Fadiman, PhD, founder, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology

The book has an intellect, art-intent, literary-feel that is all too often absent in higher consciousness things, as if the latter could exist without the former.
.........Terence McKenna, writer and historical theorist

2003 Channels or Tanya and Tommy in the Tube is published by COE Books &Media.
Victor Greentree; Trade Paperback; Retail is $27.88
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