My initiation: The king of the Bwiti -- Mad to be saved -- You want to cheat me? -- Touchers teach too -- I am the one you seek -- I see your grandmother -- Strange growths: Treacherous excrescences -- Profane illuminations -- Fun with fungi -- Night travelers -- Shamanism and the world tree -- Leave no trace: A cybernetic pulse engine -- Doctor Megavolt -- Great robot empires -- The temple of tears -- Shamanism and modernism: Walking in mysteries -- I am not here -- An orgy of vision -- A sea of spiritual protoplasm -- A handful of ashes -- The medicine: The purge -- My shamanic vacation -- Meet the snake -- All the energy in the universe -- LSD and the 1960s: The multiple million-eyed monster -- A pathetic clown act -- The light at the end of the tunnel -- Entheobotany: White blossoms -- The quality of revealing -- The fairy folk -- Why did you eat us? -- Thrown-away knowledge -- I smoked DMT -- Direct mystical transmission -- Do you take responsibility? -- Inconceivable new worlds: Not for human consumption -- New sensations -- Magical thinking -- Epilogue: The angel of history.