Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby brings anthropology and visionary experience together in The Cosmic Serpent. Drawing on his travels and research in the Amazon, he explores shamanic knowledge, pharmacology and recurring serpent imagery.

Narby proposes connections between these experiences and DNA and molecular biology. The book is an exploratory argument about knowledge and consciousness, not established genetic science or proof that hallucinogenic visions transmit information from DNA.