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

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These plants might contain the things that are able to reveal what lies beyond the impenetrable edge of the universe within which I exist.

Unfortunately, that theory, and likely many of the others McKenna presents, is nothing more than speculation unsupported by any real scientific evidence. 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. Humans are not "more" evolved, and we certainly are not on some cosmic path of spiritual enlightenment through evolution. There are more ways to crack open the egg of consciousness than he gives credit to in his book, and I wonder if he is leading people down a hippy cul de sac/dead-head end, rather than relativising drug use into just one possibility for entrance into the Age of Imagination which he prophecises.Currently, ive been listening to Terence McKenna's spoken words, and lectures a lot on Youtube and 'The Psychedelic Salon' Podcast.

I'm also not into how McKenna for a guy that thinks outside the box still blindly accepts the out of Africa theory for the origins of humanity. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and was an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. through Homeric times people did not have the kind of interior psychic organization that we take for granted. All later adumbrations of religion in the ancient Near East can be traced to a cult of Goddess and cattle worship, whose Archaic roots reach back to an extremely ancient rite of ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms to induce ecstasy, dissolve the boundaries of the ego, and reunite the worshiper with the personified vegetable matrix of planetary life. Fanciful ideas and interesting concepts, but at the end of the day chuck-full of new age psycho-babble.Having thus redefined "drugs" to mean things that he thinks have a negative cultural influence, he is more or less flatly anti-drug. The historical and health impacts of our seemingly harmless drugs of choice like caffeine and sugar cannot be overstated. To those who find themselves asking lifes more philosophical questions, think for themselves, have an interest within psychoactive substances, wonder where we come from and challenge the norm then this is a book for you. I would also query the pre-history that he talks about, as being a rough sketch of something much more complex and varied.

This seems to suggest that Greek wines were more akin to extracts and tinctures of other plant essences than they were to wine as we know it today. In any case, I've not experienced it as characteristic nor have I seen literature supporting the assertion. a field watch on the easting habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanis t Terence McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The second and third parts of the book focus on the restriction of psychedelic medicines, which is then followed by these plants being ignored and forgotten.How do natural substances and all those new food chemicals react with each other, let´s say a dietary mix of natural food with many ingredients, pure industry food with many additives and chemicals and some psychoactive substances out of both categories? It's as if Terence knows his ideas don't hold much water, so he throws in as many slightly related things as possible to make it look like he has a solid theory.