Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xii
Prologue one bright may morning 1
3 May 1953: Hollywood Hills
1 Cactus mysteries 13
2000 bce-present: Andean South America
2 The devil's root 31
1519-present: Mexico
3 Making medicine 51
1880-93: Oklahoma, Texas, Detroit, Berlin
4 Brilliant visions 77
1895-98: Washington DC, Philadelphia, Leipzig, London
5 Higher powers 101
1899-1918: London, Missouri, New York, Taos, Oklahoma
6 Der meskalinrausch 129
1919-28: Vienna, Heidelberg, Chicago, Côte d'Azur
7 Profane illuminations 147
1929-36: Warsaw, Bucharest, Paris, Berlin, Mexico
8 M-substance 169
1936-52: Oklahoma, Taos, London, Hamburg, Baseh Saskatchewan
9 The doors blown open 199
1953-59: California, Wisconsin, Mexico, Paris, Atlantic City, Oxford
10 Tripping with mescalito 225
1960-2014: New York, California, Texas, Arizona, Las Vegas
Epilogue under a comanche moon 247
7-8 October 2017: Oklahoma
Endnotes 257
Bibliography 275
Index 288