How The World Gets High: A Global Tour of Sacred Mushrooms, Amazon Vines, Mad Honey, Desert Toads and the New Science of Psychedelic Healing

Sacred mushrooms, Amazon vines, mad honey, a desert toad, and nine thousand years of humans deliberately changing their own minds - a natural history of how the world gets high.

In 401 BCE, ten thousand Greek soldiers retreating through the mountains of Turkey found beehives, ate their fill, and spent the next three days flat on their backs. Xenophon wrote it down. It is the oldest trip report in Western literature.

Nine thousand years ago, somebody painted a running man with mushrooms spro...