Altered States

Paddy Chayefsky
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Edward Jessup, a neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School, relentlessly seeks the origins of human consciousness and, with the aide of an isolation tank and a hallucinogenic drug, regresses farther and farther into a proto-human state
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