The Toad and the Jaguar: A Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary Medicine Bufo alvarius and 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine - Softcover

Metzner, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1954925174 ISBN 13: 9781954925175

Publisher: Four Trees Press, 2022

Synopsis

In this monograph, I relate findings from more than 30 years of experiences and observations with this substance, in various user groups and individuals, both in the US and in Europe. I use the term underground in referring to the explorations with these substances, in the sense that they were hidden - out of respect for the restrictions and prohibitions of mainstream culture.

These are ethnographic field reports: first-hand observations from an underground sub-culture, accompanied by the experiences of a selected number of participant-observers. It is important to recognize that in research with these and other so-called psychedelic or entheogenic substances, one cannot limit the observations and reflections solely to their physical and psychological effects. As most of the people cited here emphasize, the experiences with these substances at times can go far beyond their physical and psychological effects into the deepest and highest dimensions of our existence, both the cosmic and the spiritual.

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A Field Report of Underground Research on a Visionary MedicineBufo alvarius and 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine

Edition details

• Publisher: Four Trees Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954925174
• ISBN 13: 9781954925175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90