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The DMT Chronicles: Parmenides, Plato, and the Psychedelic
by Terence Turner
Publisher:
The Translinguistic Press 
Year:
2010 
Reviewed by David Arnson
1/31/2013

Overall this was a fairly interesting but extremely unpolished piece of writing. The numerous journeys on DMT that Turner relates often expand into philosophical reflections. The book is a revision of and expansion on a series of accounts previously posted to an Internet message board. It’s an idiosyncratic and unique account, with the author’s writing style and observations consistently veering back and forth from the awkward to the insightful. I did appreciate that Turner does not proselytize, and I found his honesty to be endearing. [ read more ]