PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books\"... a charming and idiosyncratic example of \'psychedelic boosterism\' ... Despite showcasing an impressive research bibliography, Trip is ultimately a highly personal series of detailed \'trip reports.\' It often feels more descriptive than analytical, driven by a compulsion to catalog and count ... Despite its sometimes evangelical tone, the reader finishes this research study-cum-memoir convinced that ingesting psychedelic chemicals does not by itself lead the user to new cosmological perspectives ... Fittingly, Lin does not cling to the specific ideas [Terrance] McKenna put forth but instead embraces his guru’s larger cosmic skepticism. This epistemological and ontological questioning is the book’s most refreshing aspect.\
