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A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Terence Mckenna: Add a description of this character.
- Leary
- Lieberman
- Don Caesario
- Robert
- Strassman
- Wasson
- Steiner
- Walter Benjamin
- Eliade
- Huxley
- Bwiti
- Ginzburg
- Laura
- Douglas
- Artaud
- Levi-strauss
- Don Juan
- Jonathon
- Gurdjieff
- Allen Ginsberg
- Michaux
- Castaneda
- Burroughs
- Mark
- Hofmann
- Andrew Man
- Adam
- Crowley
- Neil
- Papa Simone
- Reich
- Harrison
First Sentence edit
"The Bwiti believe that before the ceremony, the neophyte is nothing," Daniel Lieberman told me on my first morning in Gabon, as we took a cab from the Libreville airport.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel Pinchbeck (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Broadway
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0767907426
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Broadway
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0767907426
Page Count: 336
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 291
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