Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Author's Search for Inner Space -- Prehistory of Eurasia -- Some soma Theories -- Buddhism-A Brief History -- Investigations -- Amṛita -- Rāhu, The soma-Thief -- Initiations and Siddhis -- Peacocks -- Parasol Deities -- Wheels and Bumps on the Head -- Tibet -- Heir to Indian Buddhism -- Unlikely Food -- Goddesses and Their Trees -- ḌĀkinĪs -- Conclusions -- What Are We to Make of All This? -- Plates -- Appendices -- The Three YĀnas
The Five Great Meats -- Chu-len -- Pill Ingredients -- A Large Dose of Psilocybin -- Historicity -- Did it really happen? -- References -- Map -- Plant drugs -- Glossary -- Tibetan terms -- Illustration credits -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- Author's Bio
