…as to whether western science can survive the encounter with these things. And, you know, it's only been about 100 years. Louis Lewin went to Cincinnati and brought peyote back to Berlin in 1888 and began his extraction processes. It's been a hundred years…

…overpopulated and largely clueless global cultural dilemma. But interestingly, about 100 years ago, beginning around 1888, a German Chemist named Louis Lewin made a journey to the United States where he scored 100 pounds of peyote and took it back to Berlin…

…early years of the 20th century, the German Ethnographer Theodor Koch Gruenberg brought a lot of it back to Berlin and Louis Lewin and his group characterized an alkaloid which they named telepathine. But it was not realized then until, I think 1957 by…