Attracting the attention of experimentalists and prohibitionists, scientists and artists, alchemists and hyperspace emissaries, the psychoactive compound DMT is a unique story unto itself. Until now, this story has remained untold. Mystery School in Hyperspace is the first book to delve into the history of this substance, the discovery of its properties, and the impact it has had on poets, artists, and musicians.

DMT has appeared at crucial junctures in counterculture history, and in the narratives of William Burroughs, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna. It has guided the inception of the Grateful Dead, and has been evident at Nevada's Burning Man as spiritual technology supplying shape, color, and depth to a visionary art movement. The growing prevalence of use is evident in a vast networked independent research culture, and in its impact on fiction, film, music, and metaphysics. As this book traces the effect of DMT's release into the cultural bloodstream, the results should be of great interest to contemporary readers.

Exposing a great many myths, this engaging cultural history reveals how DMT has had a beneficial influence on the lives of those belonging to a vast underground network whose reports and initiatives expose drug war propaganda and shine a light in the shadows.