Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves

I waited more than a month for Fabmall to import this book for me, and the wait has simply not been worth it.

The book seems more like someone took Pickover's blog posts over the course of a year and printed them out. I have read 126 pages, and the single overriding theme of the book -- till now, at least -- is that people have weird experiences and see weird stuff because of a) consuming psychedelic drugs like DMT or b) being afflicted with certain brain syndromes. A typical quote:

Why do drugs and brain syndromes continually bring us back to elves that also appear to permeate the folklore of many cultures?

Well, let's see, could it be because

1. All humans are pretty much identical in terms of the way their brain functions


2. People over the millennia have been getting stoned using the same sh*t and therefore have the same experiences which have been passed down as folklore?

And what's with the cheap, titillating title?