In the summer of 1997 I set out with my friend and author Stuart Wilde to produce an album that would be “The next big thing since Herbal Ecstacy”.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley

As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him. So did the antidepressant pills he tried.