Have you heard of Terence Mckenna's Stoned Ape theory?
It says among the new items in the diet of grassland/jungle roaming hominids was psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of ungulate herds. The changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet would have been many, including the blurring of boundaries between the senses leading to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed the mushroom from the human diet, resulting in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to pre-mushroomed and frankly brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
Question: Do you have opinion on psilocybin's influence in the brains of the early humans?
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Have you heard of Terence Mckenna's Stoned Ape theory?
It says among the new items in the diet of grassland/jungle roaming hominids was psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of ungulate herds. The changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet would have been many, including the blurring of boundaries between the senses leading to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed the mushroom from the human diet, resulting in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to pre-mushroomed and frankly brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
Question: Do you have opinion on psilocybin's influence in the brains of the early humans?
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