CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

PROLOGUE ONE BRIGHT MAY MORNING

3 May 1953: Hollywood Hills

1 CACTUS MYSTERIES

2000 BCE–present: Andean South America

2 THE DEVIL’S ROOT

1519–present: Mexico

3 MAKING MEDICINE

1880–93: Oklahoma, Texas, Detroit, Berlin

4 BRILLIANT VISIONS

1895–98: Washington DC, Philadelphia, Leipzig, London

5 HIGHER POWERS

1899–1918: London, Utah, New York, Taos, Oklahoma

6 DER MESKALINRAUSCH

1919–28: Vienna, Heidelberg, Chicago, Côte d’Azur

7 PROFANE ILLUMINATIONS

1929–36: Warsaw, Bucharest, Paris, Berlin, Mexico

8 M-SUBSTANCE

1936–52: Oklahoma, Taos, London, Hamburg, Basel, Saskatchewan

9 THE DOORS BLOWN OPEN

1953–59: California, Wisconsin, Mexico, Paris, Atlantic City, Oxford

10 TRIPPING WITH MESCALITO

1960–2014: New York, California, Texas, Arizona, Las Vegas

EPILOGUE UNDER A COMANCHE MOON

7–8 October 2017: Oklahoma

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index