Ego Trip
A psychedelic guru, a magical toad and the dark side of the modern quest for transcendence.
''Entirely mesmerising . . . The Ego Trip is itself a trip'' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
''A one of a kind book. I loved it'' WILLIAM FINNEGAN
''Strange and wonderful'' SUSAN ORLEAN
In 2012, physician Octavio Rettig claimed he had revived a forgotten indigenous ritual: smoking the secretions of the Sonoran Desert toad...
A psychedelic guru, a magical toad and the dark side of the modern quest for transcendence.
''Entirely mesmerising . . . The Ego Trip is itself a trip'' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
''A one of a kind book. I loved it'' WILLIAM FINNEGAN
''Strange and wonderful'' SUSAN ORLEAN
In 2012, physician Octavio Rettig claimed he had revived a forgotten indigenous ritual: smoking the secretions of the Sonoran Desert toad...
