
Whilst living amongst Peruvian Indians anthropologist Jeremy Narby learned of their phenomenal knowledge of plants & biochemical interactions gained under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca Despite his initial scepticism Narby found himself engaged in an increasingly obsessive quest He researched cutting-edge scholarship in subjects as diverse as molecular biology shamanism neurology & mythology which led him inexorably to the conclusion that the Indians' claims were literally true to a consciousness prepared with drugs biochemical knowledge could indeed be transmitted through DNA itself