The Divine Spark: A Graham Hancock Reader

This anthology is aimed at all those who are interested in the connection between consciousness, psychedelics and the development of humankind. Bestselling author Graham Hancock has been writing and speaking about this to audiences worldwide, including a controversial TEDx talk on ayahuasca and DMT, which some call the god molecule.

Graham Hancock leads the charge in this collection of the latest thinking on consciousness with a particular focus on the use of psychedelics to open up the realm of the supernatural. Leading minds including Dennis McKenna, Rick Doblin, and Rick Strassman illuminate the topic like never before.

Contributors include: Mike Alvernia, Russell Brand, David Jay Brown, Paul Devereux, Rick Doblin, Amanda Fielding, Nassim Haramein, Martina Hoffman, Don Lattin, Eduardo Luna, Dennis McKenna, Thad McKraken, Rak Razam, Gabriel Roberts, Thomas B. Roberts, Robert Schoch, Mark Seelig, Rick Strassman, and Robert Tindall.

At the level of scientific research I'm not sure how much further scope there is for physical probing of the brain... Yes, we can compare healthy and diseased brains, and we can map brains and arrive at fairly definite conclusions about the functions of different brain areas, and we can even digitally reconstruct neurons, but I suspect the real breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness are going to come from an entirely different direction.

That direction, controversially, has to do with psychedelics - which, as many of the contributors to The Divine Spark argue, offer spectacular potential for the investigation of the "hard problem" of consciousness. -- Graham Hancock, from the Introduction