We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psy

Shows how African shamans have used ibogaine for hundreds of years to communicate with ancestral spirits • Includes an interview with shaman Mallendi, initiat