Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug by Gallimore, Andrew R.
Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug by Gallimore, Andrew R.

Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug

For fans of the compelling critical and investigative style of best-selling authors Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku,...
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Author: Andrew R. Gallimore
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Language: English
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Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug by Gallimore, Andrew R.

Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug

$77.66
Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug by Gallimore, Andrew R.

Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug

$77.66
Author: Andrew R. Gallimore
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

For fans of the compelling critical and investigative style of best-selling authors Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku, the first detailed account of the history and science of the world's strangest and most mysterious drug - DMT.

DMT is the world's strangest and most mysterious drug, inducing one of the most remarkable and yet least understood of all states of consciousness. This common plant molecule has, from ancient times to the modern day, been used as a tool to gain access to a bizarre alien reality of inordinate complexity and unimaginable strangeness, populated by a panoply of highly advanced, intelligent, and communicative beings entirely not of this world.

In a story that begins in the Amazonian rainforests and ends somewhere beyond the stars, Andrew Gallimore presents the first detailed account of the discovery of DMT and science's continuing struggle to explain how such a simple and common plant molecule can have such astonishing effects on the human mind. The history of the drug involves many fascinating characters from the scientific and literary worlds -- including legendary ethnobotanist Dr. Richard Schultes; renegade beat writer and drug aficionado William S. Burroughs; philosopher and raconteur Terence McKenna; and the high priest of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, Dr. Timothy Leary. In the end, the story of DMT forces us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about the nature of reality and our place within it.

Author: Andrew R. Gallimore
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250357755

About the Author
ANDREW R. GALLIMORE is a chemical pharmacologist, neurobiologist, and writer, and one of the world's leading experts on psychedelics. He is the author of two books on the science of psychedelics, Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game and Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds. He lives and works in Tokyo.
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