Rick Strassman MD is the author of the best-selling DMT: The Spirit Molecule and co-produced the highly-acclaimed documentary by the same name. These describe the first new American research with psychedelic drugs in a generation. He is also the author of DMT and The Soul of Prophecy, and co-author of Inner Paths to Outer Space. He has degrees from Stanford University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of California-Davis and San Diego. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. This is his first work of fiction.
A dark, disturbing, thought-provoking tale well told, as we would
expect from the author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule. The reader is
drawn through the story by a compelling need to understand the
eponymous Joseph Levy's very peculiar mind! Highly
recommended.---Graham Hancock. Author of Fingerprints of the Gods
Strassman delivers a sardonic and sometimes belly-laugh provoking
treatise on God, Life, Love, and Death, in shades of Joseph Heller
and John Irving. One could wallow in additional literary allusions,
but bottom line, this is a very funny, insightful, and, at times,
painful exploration of how humans, at least Joseph Levy, wrestle
with all that stuff to find cheating death's not the problem, it's
what happens when one tries to cheat life. As an added bonus, for
hypochondriacs and sundry pseudo-hypochondriacs, there's a generous
smattering of etiological references, that just might help you find
out what-the- hell's wrong with you, along the way. A thoroughly
satisfying and enjoyable ride. Climb aboard and hold onto your
hat.---Lewis John Carlino. Screenwriter and director: Resurrecton,
The Great Santini, The Fox, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, The
Mechanic, Seconds, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.
This book has it all. Humor, insight, a poignant glimpse at patient
care and the fragility of life, and one man's shattering odyssey
through the circus of existence. Buy this book and sail on swirling
wisps and eddies of perseverance, hope, causality, and
wonderment.---Dr. Cliff Pickover. Author of The Math Book, The
Physics Book, and The Medical Book trilogy Rick Strassman invites
us on a harrowing journey through the ordinary dangers we all face.
Our hero, Joseph Levy, retains a clarity, humor and perspective
through it all. This is a story that will leave us laughing at the
absurdity of life's twists and turns, while giving us a window into
the faith that endures through challenge.---Rabbi Shefa Gold.
Author of Are We There Yet? Travel as a Spiritual Practice A good
story told with much interior monologue, rich in issues such as
health, relationships, and anti-semitism. Replete with medical and
psychoanalytical overtones, and full of brilliant insights.---Ralph
Abraham, Professor of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz A post-modern tale
of Job, initiated by a toothache that spirals out of control to
psychedelic depths of pain and fear, love and transformation on a
pilgrimage to greater insight. Rick Strassman heroically offers
this autobiographical novel for all of us who suffer and will die
one day. Bravo!---Alex Grey & Allyson Grey. Artists, co-founders of
CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. I've never read anything like
it.---Merrilee Challiss. Artist, co-owner of BottleTree Café
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