Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 24, 2008  |  5 Comments

I’ve been re-reading the Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby. A highly recommended narrative about an anthropologist’s journey into the realm of ayahuasca cultures in Amazonia. It blew me away and the second reading is just as good.
Narby is an ethnobotanist, and he makes the key observation that, while Western scientists have freely picked [...]