Out of this work emerged one of history’s stranger movements: the epic quest to hack ultimate human performance—a giant, global, mostly underground, often DIY, 100-plus-year effort to decode the mysteries of the zone. Adventurers, artists, academics, bohemian outcasts, maverick scientists, credentialed scientists, the psychedelic underground, paranormal researchers, the military’s special forces, the Pentagon’s top brass, the CEOs of major Fortune 500 companies, all got involved. Yet out of this hodgepodge—for reasons that comprise the bulk of this book—action and adventure sport athletes have
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