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Food Of The Gods: A Radical History of Plants, Psychedelics and Human Evolution

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It does seem like we can learn something about human psychology and physiology by understanding drugs better, their effects, and their actual dangers. The explosion in the 1960s of psychedelic use will have certainly fueled a momentum which was already happening, which has always been latent in the human psyche, and will have had periods of flourish (cave-painting, Dionysian celebration, Renaissance art), and then repression (Protestant smashing of the stained glass windows and insistence on scripture over sacraments, Taliban destruction of Buddhist statues, ISIL destruction of Palmyra, and the rest). Some of the points are spot on, he includes television as one of the drugs invented in the 20th century.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you why this book is FUCKING AMAZING - so you'll just have to trust me. Deep-seated cultural biases explain why the Western mind turns suddenly anxious and repressive on contemplating drugs. Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was an American ethnobotanist, psychonaut and author noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics and subjects ranging from shamanism to the origins of language and civilization. Birds, raccoons, horses, and even wasps and butterflies are aware of the fleeting virtues that attend eating fermented fruit.The premise that spoke to me most was how our society has gone from a partnership model with nature to an abusive one.

through Homeric times people did not have the kind of interior psychic organization that we take for granted. This book is some 90% right on the money, I'm just not sure about part which correlates availability of psychedelics in an area with evolution of consciousness. I came home with 'The Archaic Revival', which introduced me to ideas such as the Logos (a rather more funky formulation than the Christian use of the word), the Mayan Calendar and prophecies about 2012.Like sexuality, altered states of consciousness are taboo because they are consciously or unconsciously sensed to be entwined with the mysteries of our origin—with where we came from and how we got to be the way we are.

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