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

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The future development can be used for boosting health and longevity by improving the nourishment of the body with as much precious and not hallucinogenic elements of all holy and healthy herbs from around the world, a kind of organic wonder powder from dozens or even hundreds of everything the planet can provide. It flits back and forth between western society and shamanism, and their differences in the way of drug use. These things are hard to prove, but no doubt, some of early humanity liked to get high, just as many animals do, whether by accident or intention.

He is clearly down on our present-day reliance on alcohol, tobacco and TV and looks forward to a revival of the archaic period, where people, embracing a pluralistic, democratic spirit, will break through into a wider, better, more exciting and celebratory culture, in communion with a re-sacralised nature and awakened to buried dimensions of spiritual intelligence, whether in our own being, or that of elves, angels and so forth. Like fish in water, people in a culture swim in the virtually invisible medium of culturally sanctioned yet artificial states of mind. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. through Homeric times people did not have the kind of interior psychic organization that we take for granted. 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.Terence will present a pseudo idea, and then ramble off into barely related topics until you want to die. how can we explain the legal toleration for alcohol, the most destructive of all intoxicants, and the almost frenzied efforts to repress nearly all other drugs? Thus started a centuries-long conspiracy to suppress consciousness that continues to this day through corporate advertising and television. For a start, these things are naturally occurring in plants and in our bodies, plus, current and archaic societies have been using them for a long time. Much fresh seafood mixed with some vegetables and barely any red meat is something different than much carbohydrates, etc.

His other books include Food of the Gods, The Archaic Revival and, with Dennis McKenna, The Invisible Landscape. Because of the plant’s long association with the Arabs, Linnaeus, the great Danish naturalist and the inventor of modern scientific taxonomy, named the plan Coffea arabica. 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. As an odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written.The antiseptic properties of honey have made it a preferred medium among many peoples for the reservation of delicate foods. 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. Heroin flattens the image; with heroin, things are neither hot nor cold the junkie looks out at the world certain that whatever it is, it does not matter.