Posted on 04/05/2020 12:27:49 PM PDT by wildbill
EVeryone knows the standard explanation of evolution but the rapid jump from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens has no satisfactory answers.
A more radical interpretation of these events involves the same animals, dung, and plants but also includes psychedelic drugs. In 1992, ethnobotanist and psychedelics advocate Terence McKenna argued in the book Food of the Gods that what enabled Homo erectus to evolve into Homo sapiens was its encounter with magic mushrooms and psilocybin, the psychedelic compound within them, on that evolutionary journey. He called this the Stoned Ape Hypothesis.
McKenna posited that psilocybin caused the primitive brain’s information-processing capabilities to rapidly reorganize, which in turn kick-started the rapid evolution of cognition that led to the early art, language, and technology written in Homo sapiens’ archeological record. As early humans, he said we “ate our way to higher consciousness” by consuming these mushrooms, which, he hypothesized, grew out of animal manure. Psilocybin, he said, brought us “out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.”
As human cultural evolution led to the domestication of wild cattle, humans began to spend a lot more time around cattle dung, McKenna explained. And, because psilocybin mushrooms commonly grow in cow droppings, “the human-mushroom interspecies codependency was enhanced and deepened. It was at this time that religious ritual, calendar making, and natural magic came into their own.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqLcdUo_RIQ
Tim Leary’s kid?
And then, suddenly, Pink Floyd lyrics started making sense.
Crackpot stuff.
‘Sounds like real crock to me.
If a stoner put it in his book in 1992 it must be true.
Repeating it on the Internet makes it truer.
This reminds me of the line that no one really knows who originally said it: The tragedy of atheists is not that they don’t believe in God, but that they will believe in anything.
it’s because they have to....the alternative it to realize they will have to answer for their disbelief...
Some people will always come up with rationalizations why they should do drugs...
stoned age PING
Like the druggies say...”reality is for those who can’t handle drugs, dude.”
So I guess in a way that proves that Genesis was right.
We really did gain our knowledge of good and evil by consuming a forbidden fruit growing from the tree of life. Euphemisms for sure, but something that still describes gaining consciousness by eating psychedelic mushrooms growing out of compost.
“As early humans, he said we “ate our way to higher consciousness” by consuming these mushrooms”
Close, but it was the consumption of MEAT that allowed human brains to develop.
And for those who know any vegetarians or vegans, you can CLEARLY see that the process is reversible.
If you can't, acceptance of the creation account become easy accept. And marvelously so.
Good luck with that.
Thanks a fool in paradise. Stoned Ape hypothesis, by a stoner.
I wonder why the rest of the animals eating "magic mushrooms" didn't develop consciousness, since they had so much more time to do it?
Out here we is stoned, immaculate!
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