- New Age movement, Shamanism, Spiritual life, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
"While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Pinchbeck
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Broadway Books, Broadway, Flamingo
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007149612
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“"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.”
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