This article about an anthropology related book is a stub. Jeremy narby, phd, grew up in canada and switzerland, studied history at the university of canterbury, and received his doctorate in anthropology from stanford university. Click download or read online button to get the cosmic serpent book now. What made the experience of listening to the cosmic serpent the most enjoyable. Review of intelligence in nature by jeremy narby dreamflesh. So i knew what i was getting into, the content lived up to my expectations and so i was most pleased with that. Compared to michael hayes book, the hermetic code in dna, the author is humble, even self deprecating, carefully drawing the reader to the conclusion that somehow dna can communicate medical knowledge directly to a drugs expanded, human mind. Toxicmetabolic processes include osmotic myelinolysis, methotrexate definidion, and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
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