<p>This adventure in science and imagination, which the <i>Medical Tribune</i> said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences", leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, <i>The Cosmic Serpent</i> reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it. </p>