18 August 2000
David Barratt
"...Altered states of mind are always a controversial subject; In Search of the Ultimate High by Nicholas Saunders, Anja Saunders and Michelle Pauli (Rider £12.99) is a serious and quite profound study of the use of psychoactives in the quest for spiritual experience. It discusses the use of drugs from mushrooms to peyote to LSD to ganja in native American religion, in the Brazilian Santo Daime, in Rastafarianism, shamanism, and many other religions, historical and present-day, right up tp today's rave scene. This is a sensible, thoughtful and responsible book, well worth a look if this is your scene."