High Society author-anton-van-der-schans This book is a stunning

This book is a stunning documentation of that new wave and of its historical antecedents

openly or secretly

their spiritual and sacred aspects

those that are mentioned in texts

informative but not unwieldy

High Society author-anton-van-der-schans This book is a stunningMind altering drugs have been part of virtually every human culture that has ever existed. Mike Jays narrative traverses the globe and ranges from prehistory to the present day, exploring the role of drugs from ayahuasca in the Amazon to coffee in early modern Europe, opium in China to the discovery of psychedelics. In the process, he shows how they have shaped cultures, kick started global trade, transformed our understanding of the mind, built