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BOOK EXCERPT: The Ego Trip: The promise and peril of the modern psychedelic boom
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A charismatic doctor claimed to have rediscovered the ancestral roots of ‘toad medicine’ and became the face of a global psychedelic movement. But in his wake he left a trail of destruction that embodies the maladies of our spiritually desolate age.
- A charismatic doctor claimed to have rediscovered the ancestral roots of ‘toad medicine’ and became the face of a global psychedelic movement. But in his wake he left a trail of destruction that embodies the maladies of our spiritually desolate age.
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- BOOK EXCERPT: The Ego Trip: The promise and peril of the modern psychedelic boom
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