This is the dramatic story of how Dr. Octavio Rettig Hinojosa a Mexican doctor with a crack cocaine addiction came to heal himself by employing an ancient treasure the Sonoran Desert toad. Dr. Rettig has traveled extensively throughout the world and shared 5-MeO-DMT, a secretion of the Sonoran Desert toad, with over 6000 people, eliminating chemical addictions, depression, anxiety disorders, insomnia, bronchitis, and trauma. Dr. Rettig s research has convinced him that the medicine of the Sonoran toad can be harnessed for healing, awakening, and raising consciousness and has been used by the high priests of the Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, and other Mesoamerican civilizations.
Part autobiography, part introduction to entheogens and visionary substances, The Toad of Dawn shares the personal history, use, and the bene ts of the toad medicine, and reveals how it can be used to initiate people on a spiritual path.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) / EDITOR(S)
# is a Mexican doctor who works with the sacred medicine 5MeODMT found in the secretions of the Sonoran Desert Toad (Bufo Alvarius). Dr. Rettig has worked with the Seri Tribe of Sonora, Mexico, to help treat methamphetamine addicts, reintroducing the use of the medicine to the local culture that had lost it. He has learned the ancient songs and rites of the Seri from 'Don Pancho', an elder Seri shaman, and has been authorized by the council of Seri elders to use this most powerful of shamanic medicines in the West. Dr. Rettig travels extensively throughout Mexico, The US, Australia, and Europe to give lectures and lead healing ceremonies. He lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Rak Razam is a founding editor of Undergrowth, Australia's leading alternative arts and literature magazine, and the world's leading experiential journalist, writing about and helping shape the emergence of a new cultural paradigm in the 21st century. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book
Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey and a frequent lecturer on ayahuasca and the shamanic revival sweeping the West. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
