The song of the Atharvans

This book is a new and scientific approach to the Vedas, an incursion into the minds of the Indian sages. Did they really use psychotropic plants to achieve the great mental heights and insights that they claim or was it self-induced through their practice of meditation. He has traced the path of the search for the mystical potion Soma from the heights of the Hindu Kush Mountains through the wastes of ancient Persia to the hills of Kashmir and even further north into the Mongolian uplands. Accepting the fact that all documentation on the subject is inconclusive he still adheres to the belief that such a substance did exist. This book is therefore not only a historical discourse on the origins of the Aryans but also a deep psychological probe into the state of man's mind.