![]() ![]() “I had been chasing my tail, stuck in a rut and missing the way forward. He decided, on his return to the UK, to reinvestigate Banisteriopsis caapi as a medicine. Jungles glide past and I see vast rivers of land accelerating past locked shorelines,” he writes. ![]() “Yellow and green iridescent zigzag spectra and indigo and argent helices are under my eyes, ultramarine charges come out of my arms. Lees takes the narcotic, which is made with a mix of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi and other plants. I wanted to see whether yagé could infuse my monochromatic research canvas and open up vivid new scientific perspectives,” he writes in the memoir, which has just been published by Notting Hill Editions. “Hallucinogenic molecules could open up frightening new vistas of exploration and if Burroughs was right, my trip to the Amazon would lead me to unimagined cures. In his mid-60s, he experimented with yagé himself and gained new insights that encouraged him to pursue new lines of research. In Mentored By a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment, Lees, a professor at UCL’s Institute of Neurology, writes of how in 2013 he followed Burroughs to the rainforest. ![]()
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