Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood

A little bit of acid, lots of weed, and too much Castaneda and I was ready to move from the magical realm of Middle Earth into a world that was much stranger than any involving hairy dwarves and white wizards … I sought a world where people took risks with their bodies and their minds, where music fed ideas and action, where sex was not a mysterious ideal but a tangible thing involving jeans and bra straps and saliva. I wanted to find Bifrost, the rainbow bridge that connects mortals to the gods … I didn’t quite know it yet, but what I wanted was rock and roll.
Too Much to Dream places the story of a young man’s drug addiction inside the larger history of psychedelics and popular culture. Bebergal’s story gives a personal face to the examination of our cultural history, offering a radical vision regarding the complex relationship between drug addiction, popular culture, and the religious experience.