He begins taking the tincture orally during his deprivation tank experiments, with drastic, genetically altering effects. Inevitably, Jessup, now a professor, experiments with a sensory deprivation tank, travels to Mexico to participate in Ayahuasca ceremonies, and returns to the US with tinctures he acquired from elders involved in the ceremonies. Director Ken Russell’s first American film.Įdward Jessup (William Hurt, in his film debut) is a Harvard student studying schizophrenia, believing that other states of human consciousness are as real as waking states. The name “Cariline” is in ink on front wrapper, indicating that the script belonged to Carline Davis-Dyer, the film’s script supervisor.īased on the 1978 novel by Paddy Chayefsky, who also wrote the screenplay as Sidney Aaron. with revisions on colored paper dated up through 3/9/79. Printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, 120 pp.
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