As a popular discussion of the meaning of ancient history for the modern world, this book compares to The Chalice & the Blade and Food of the Gods. Since it is popularly written, and heavily illustrated with the overtly pharmaco-shamanic art of the ancient world, it reads like a movie. But a movie with profound psychological and political relevance for the contemporary world, since it uses the words and pictures of our ancestors-the imagery in which we dream-to address contemporary issues.