The Cosmic Serpent
Author: Jeremy Narby Manufacturer: Tarcher Keywords: Popular Drugs ISBN: 0874779642
Book description A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences, " leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it. "The Cosmic Serpent is a…
Book review: HOW CAN NATURE NOT BE CONSCIOUS? The central idea of THE COSMIC SERPENT is that shamans have w way of communicating with nature at the molecular level when under the influence of certain drugs or in a trance state. This is a… In "The Cosmic Serpent", Jeremy Narby shares both his mental & physical journey concerning shamanism & the biochemical, neurological, and pharmacological information understood by the shamans of… |
