A review by quigonchuy
When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance by Daniel Pinchbeck, Sophia Rokhlin

2.0

Honestly, 2 stars seems high, but I did learn a bit about the history of psychedelics and the indigenous people in different regions and how they use them. Beyond that, this was waaaaaaaay too out there. From taking anecdotal accounts at face value, to stating untestable hypothesis, then declaring that since we "can't know" it may as well be true, it was hard to get through this book. Simply because we don't know something, or have incomplete knowledge on something, it doesn't follow that therefore it could be anything. This book mentions another dimension, sentient intelligent plant beings, animal spirits, alien beings, and the list goes on and on based on absolutely nothing testable or verifiable...it was hard not to cringe at so many of the statements in this book.