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

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Again and again, and in various ways, we find Soma intimately connected with the symbolism and rituals related to cattle and pastoralism. 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?

To pretend that the right to the pursuit of happiness does not include the right to experiment with psychoactive plants and substances is to make an argument that is at best narrow and at worst ignorant and primitive. What could genetic engineering make possible, like combining the positive or mind-altering aspects in one single plant? His world view and perspective is one of someone who has great vision and insight into the workings of the human mind and condition. It's the same style of writing as a highschooler with a thin grasp of an essay topic and too much access to a thesaurus. These relationships have shaped every aspect of our identities as self-reflecting beings--our languages, our cultural values, our sexual behavior, what we remember and what we forget about our own past.If we're using drugs as an escape rather than a spiritual exploration, then we're not using them for the right reasons, in his view.

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. What we see, how we interpret what we see, and then how we present what we see, are three different things (and tricky, if not impossible, to tease apart the three). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.As an odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. This is the hidden issue that makes governments unwilling to consider legalization: the unmanaged shift of consciousness that legal and available drugs, including plant psychedelics, would bring is extremely threatening to a dominator, ego-oriented culture. The first step away from the symbiosis of the human-fungal partnership that characterized the early pastoralist societies was the introduction of other psychoactive plant substitutes for the original mushroom. 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?