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

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Some of the points are spot on, he includes television as one of the drugs invented in the 20th century. At the metaphorical level, they had attained consciousness of themselves as individuals and of each other as “Other. 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.

The history presented is compelling, convincing and derived out of a unique insight into the world which few seldom attain. 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?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. In fact, there are many interesting theories throughout the book, the most famous of these being the "stoned ape" theory.

The ideas contained in his book reflect on every aspect of who we beleive ourselves to be as a species in every aspect of humanity. Ritual, isolation, and sensory deprivation are the techniques used by the Archaic shaman seeking to journey in the world of the spirits and ancestors. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.He further asserts that humans should be free to use mind-expanding substances, like those of our ancestors, and for many of the same reasons, if only we could break free from the power structures that prevent us from living our lives to the fullest.