Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction to the New Edition xv
Part I The Visions 1
1 The Plant that Enables Men to See the Dead 3
2 The Greatest Riddle of Archaeology 11
3 Vine of Souls 27
Part II The Caves 55
4 Therianthropy 57
5 Riddles of the Caves 79
6 The Shabby Academy 113
7 Searching for a Rosetta Stone 135
8 The Code in the Mind 165
9 Serpents of the Drakensberg 197
10 The Wounded Healer 225
Part III The Beings 245
11 Voyage into the Supernatural 247
12 Shamans in the Sky 263
13 Spirit Love 289
14 The Secret Commonwealth 305
15 Here Is a Thing that Will Carry Me Away 317
16 Dancers between Worlds 335
Part IV The Codes 353
17 Tuning in to Channel DMT 355
18 Amongst the Machine Elves 365
19 Ancient Teachers in Our DNA? 391
20 The Hurricane in the Junkyard 405
Part V The Religions 419
21 The Hidden Shamans 421
22 Flesh of the Gods 451
Part VI The Mysteries 475
23 Doors Leading to Another World 477
Appendices 499
Critics and Criticisms of David Lewis-Williams' "Neuropsychological Theory" of Rock and Cave Art 501
Psilocybe semilanceata-A Hallucinogenic Mushroom Native to Europe. By Professor Roy Wading, OBE 521
Interview with Rick Strassman, MD 525
Notes and References 535
Index 601