Prologue: Before drugs -- Part I. The new accelerator: drugs and mental enhancement. The elixir of life -- Prosthetic gods -- Part II. Beyond the veil: drugs and the limits of consciousness. A world ...
There is a delirious moment in the 1988 documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History when a back-lit hippie explains that consuming mescaline allowed Native Americans to see the world through the eyes ...
Before drugs were deemed to be a social scourge, they were part of a long tradition of experimentation practiced by scientists, artists, and average Joes, contends journalist Jay (Mescaline) in this ...