Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-241) and index.
Note
"This book provides a thorough overview of the ancient use of psychedelic drugs for ritual and spiritual purposes offering the interested general reader a useful single source of information on the whole subject area"--Author's preface to the 1997 ed.
Contents
A head of the times : memoirs -- Stoned at the bones : archaeologists go to pot : opium and cannabis in stone age Europe? -- The foggy ruins of time : other aspects of Old World psychedelia -- Tribal trippings in the Americas : high old times in the New World -- Drawing conclusions on the wall : patterns of the past, signs of all the times -- Epilogue : something is happening here-- but do we know what it is?
