Christian Rätsch is widely known as an ethnopharmacologist, ethnobotanist, and drug expert; as a Mesoamericanist, rainforest researcher, Maya specialist, aphrodisiac expert, and even as a Richard Wagner enthusiast. And of course, as "Der Rätsch." The weighty encyclopedia of psychoactive plants, published in 1998 by the Swiss AT-Verlag, is considered a standard work. For the first time, this illustrated book from the Swiss Nachtschatten-Verlag sheds light on a completely unknown creative side of Christian Rätsch. Only a few have seen his precisely captured (not for sale) visions in shimmering colors. Sixty selected images (from 1970 to the present) provide insights into his soul landscapes and document essential themes of his research drive. From Germanic mythology to the Maya; from the Stone Age to the plants of gods, goddesses, and shamans. A commemorative publication.