This adventure in science and imagination, which theMedical Tribunesaid might herald a Copernican revolution for the life sciences, leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, TheCosmic Serpentreveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it.The Cosmic Serpent Chapter 1: Forest Television Chapter 2: Anthropologists and Shamans Chapter 3: The Mother of the Mother of Tobacco Is a Snake Chapter 4: Enigma in Rio Chapter 5: Defocalizing Chapter 6: Seeing Correspondences Chapter 7: Myths and Molecules Chapter 8: Through the Eyes of an Ant Chapter 9: Receptors and Transmitters Chapter 10: Biology's Blind Spot Chapter 11: What Took You So Long? Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Permissions and Credits Index Bibliographic IndexJeremy Narby, Ph.D.is the author ofThe Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. He lives in Switzerland.US