The Encounter: Amazon Beaming Paperback – September 13, 2016

What can I say? This is one of the best non-fiction books I"ve ever read. Beautifully written, a page turner and a taste of the cosmos.

Very interesting..the concept of beaming...that we have an ability to communicate through universal collective consciousness.....Also this is a tragic glimpse into amazonian tribes trying to survive in their traditional culture against the violence of colonization and corporate profiteering

This is one of those books you open with limited expectations, and finally close with a sense of exhaustion, wonder and profound respect.Popescu deftly handles the netherworld between the civilized and the mystic. His hero Lauren McIntyre's encounters with the inexplicable, the deeply alien, and frankly dangerous shake you and leave you stunned and amazed. You'll end up thanking God for Cambio, his Virgil in this tour of a shadowy, troubling world. You'll curse McIntyre's occasional stupidity, you'll vicariously exercise your primal instincts as you plot stratagems for escape and survival. You'll wonder what it means to be human when everything that We depend on is brutally stripped away. And you will reel when you are confronted with the impossible that must be possible because it is actually happening. In short, Popescu plunges you into the most remote and terrifyingly foreign places, and asks, "How do explain this? How will you battle these alien perils and save your skin?" The book is comprised of two separate, yet oddly connected adventures: McIntyre's capture by hostile Amazonian aborigines, and his later search for the most distant source of the Amazon river. In each case McIntyre deliberately ventures into the most hostile locales a man could hope to find, and willingly takes on the dangers he knows he will encounter. As a photographic journalist he tries to record pictures and experiences, hoping to take us to places we could never get to on our own. And as our proxy, he seems to feel an unbearable weight of duty to first discover, and then relate the truth he has prized out of these distant, unreachable worlds. He clearly demonstrates that miles on a map, and projected days of travel are utterly, laughably meaningless on quests such as his. He treks not only through wilds that nature defiantly guards, he seems to travel back through time, to a moment very near the beginning of things. That Popescu has so movingly chronicled McIntyre's transit of terrain and soul is a significant literary accomplishment. That anyone could pick up this book and enter those worlds himself, is a palpable blessing.

I bought the book after seeing The Encounter, the play written and performed by Simon McBurney based on the novel.I was even more impressed with the play after reading the novel.The reading is an experience, sometimes gripping, sometimes boring, unsettling. While the book reports real world experiences it altered and refreshed my sense of the real world. I came a way with an altered consciousness, a sense of quiet, reminded of another way of listening.

A very well written book. This story is a journey back into time. If you're not open to exploring the odd or paranormal or maybe we should call it, "what used to be normal", you might not finish this book. I had recently read a book by an Oxford scientist about ESP and telepathy from a scientific perspective (I think the author was Rupert Sheldrake). This book had to do with both animals and people having these capabilities. I heard of this in other references as well so when I saw what "The Encounter/Amazon Beaming" was about I bought it immediately.This book first is an amazing survival-in-the-Amazon story. That alone is almost unbelievable. But what the main character Loren McIntyre encounters goes way beyond surviving in the wilderness of the Amazon river area. He encounters an indigenous person with telepathic capabilities but struggles terribly with whether it is that or is he losing his mind. This is a true story BTW, one delayed in being told due to the unbelievable nature. This book is written in a serious and sincere fashion.

At times I wondered how true it was...is it possible he just made it all up ?

Some amazing and unique adventures and experiences of Loren McIntire. So grateful to Mr. Popescu for recording and writing this as it would have otherwise been lost. I've read a lot of adventure books and this is perhaps my top one.

A little too much philosophy for my taste. The story could have been told in half as many pages.

Although the writing style is excellent, I feel misled about the book by having watched a small segment of "The Encounter" performed live on Youtube. I believed this would be an imaginative and profound book about an encounter with indigenous tribes in the Amazon, however when the author is presented with the opportunity to actually experience a central ritual that is common to almost all Amazonian tribes and thereby learn something about himself, he forgoes the opportunity! Instead, the book then deteriorates into a repetittive and rather dull story about finding the source of the Amazon, as if that is something profound to do in this day and age. Overall, a disappointment.

J'ai lu ce livre après avoir vu le spectacle de Simon Mc Burney, qui m'avait hautement impressionné.Le livre complète et élargi la vision du monde des indiens Mayoruna, vue à travers l'expérience d'un américain qui décrypte pour nous leur vision de l'univers et du Temps.

This story has affected me deeply. McIntyre's pursuits in discovery seem to shine a torch on truths simmering below the surface of everyday life, and with Popescu's delicate guidance I found myself an adventurer by McIntyre's side.Weaving through the cloying depths of the jungle and climbing the breathless heights of the Andes, if this had been a fictional account I would be no less enthralled. That McIntyre stumbles upon something deeper makes this journey all the more magical.I will be forcing this book on as many who will listen.

Incredible story of survival. Also Loren McIntyre had a kind of telepathic experience withthe head of a tribe which he could not explain and kept silent about for many yearsfor fear of being misunderstood as he was a scientist.Just how this telepathy had happened was and still is a mystery Fascinating. (There has just been a play on at the Barbican London about this journeycalled The Encounter)

An excellent first-hand account of total immersion into how the human mind and culture may have been before civilisation.