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Imagine Hangberg, but with psychedelic toads

Kimon de Greef, who cut his teeth at GroundUp, follows the trail of a Mexican toad guru in his new book

Kimon de Greef’s new book explores the consequences of the popularisation of a psychedelic toad. Author photo by Shaun Swingler
South African journalist Kimon de Greef has written another great book, titled The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence.
It follows his impressive debut Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld, written with Shuhood Abader. But unlike Poacher, which tells a deeply local story, The Ego Trip is almost devoid of South African ties. In fact, it might well be the most un-South African book by a South African journalist since Jonny Steinberg’s Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City.
Why read it then, as a South African? For one, it…

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