Terrance Mckenna in his book "Food of the Gods" goes into explicit detail on his personal interpretation on the evolution of man. His idea is that the use of psychedelics actually played a large part in the discovery of self, as well as the development of spoken language. Mckenna goes on to discuss research done in which people were unknowingly given a small amount of psilocybin, the psychoactive chemical in "magic mushrooms". the results were that people actually had increased brain activity, as well as improved capacity for manipulating speech.
Mckenna is not alone in this conclusion, and many others believe that these mushrooms played a role in the early development of homo sapiens.
It is a known fact that many early indigenous people ritually used, and worshiped these mushrooms, and Terrance Mckenna went another step in suggesting the possibility of their use in human development.
Stephen Brock
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment