In my country, psychedelics are illegal, but there’s a clear sort of agreement between government and narcos that benefits them both, meanwhile the people suffer. Nonostante la mole di testimonianze sia architettoniche, sia chimiche che biologiche apportate da quel matto assoluto di McKenna, le argomentazioni restano tuttavia fallaci, insufficienti, e l'ipotesi di McKenna resta più un'affascinante favola piuttosto che una teoria scientificamente valida. Broad, that we should do well to consider he suggestion that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. At the metaphorical level, they had attained consciousness of themselves as individuals and of each other as “Other.

He has added to their shared knowledge of rituals his own efforts to preserve the plants used in these ceremonies.Deep-seated cultural biases explain why the Western mind turns suddenly anxious and repressive on contemplating drugs. Especially parts about drugs which are not considered so hard core in today's society, or aren't considered drugs at all: tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar, TV.

An exploration of humans' symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies, the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societies; and the politics of tobacco, tea, coffee, opium, and alcohol. 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. Evolutionary logic dictates that in situations of food scarcity those animals able and willing to tolerate many marginal foods will be more evolutionarily successful than those that can accept only a limited number of items into their diet… there will be pressure on a given animal to broaden its definition of what are acceptable foods by broadening its tastes. Some of the points are spot on, he includes television as one of the drugs invented in the 20th century.For instance, he repeatedly claims that crack cocaine is more addictive and therefore more dangerous than powder cocaine, but as Dr.

The antiseptic properties of honey have made it a preferred medium among many peoples for the reservation of delicate foods. Plus whites have much more powerful imaginations and the ability to create both in and out of their heads. The only religions that are more than the traditionally sanctioned moral codes are trance, dance ecstasy, and intoxication by hallucinogens. The chapters about our future are hopeful, it remains to be seen how close we will go towards extinction before we hopefully get our shit together as a species. 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?

i enjoyed the open minded approach towards often not conventional forms of thinking and really enjoyed the in depth arguments made for each point. Some things he said were very incredibly based and other things made me think he took too many magic mushrooms. I came home with 'The Archaic Revival', which introduced me to ideas such as the Logos (a rather more funky formulation than the Christian use of the word), the Mayan Calendar and prophecies about 2012. The history presented is compelling, convincing and derived out of a unique insight into the world which few seldom attain. Have you ever thought about the mind altering power of purified sugar, the politics of coffee, and the parallels between these and what we consider to be more dangerous drugs like cocaine?