Download Audiobook Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence McKenna in English

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

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Terence McKenna hypothesizes that because the North African jungles receded, giving strategy to savannas and grasslands close to the tip of the latest ice age, a department of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest cover and started dwelling within the open areas past. There they experimented with new sorts of meals as they tailored, bodily and mentally, to the surroundings. Among the many new meals discovered on this surroundings have been psilocybin-containing mushrooms rising close to dung of ungulate herds occupying the savannas and grasslands. Referencing the analysis of Roland L. Fisher, McKenna claims the enhancement of visible acuity was an impact of psilocybin at low doses and suggests this may confer adaptive benefit. He argues that the results of barely bigger doses, together with sexual arousal, and in bigger doses, ecstatic hallucinations & glossolalia – gave selective evolutionary benefits to members of these tribes who partook of it. There have been many modifications brought on by the introduction of this psychoactive to primate diets. He hypothesizes, for example, that synesthesia (the blurring of sensory boundaries) brought on by psilocybin led to the event of spoken language: the flexibility to kind footage in one other individual’s thoughts by way of the usage of vocal sounds. About 12,000 years in the past, additional local weather modifications eliminated psilocybin-containing mushrooms from human diets. He argues that this occasion resulted in a brand new set of profound modifications in our species as we reverted to the earlier brutal primate social constructions that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.

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