[Red Badger]

Every human society has had some form of mind altering substance in its knowledge base. Typically alcohol.

Even South American Natives in the jungles of the upper Amazon, have a way of making an alcoholic beverage by chewing the insides of a certain palm tree and spitting it into a hollow log and letting it ferment.

Inuit ferment fish heads.....................

[cgbg]

Alcohol is not the kind of “mind altering” substance that the theory is discussing.

[ifinnegan]

“ Every human society has had some form of mind altering substance in its knowledge base. Typically alcohol.”

So?

Anyhow, a book you might like is Intoxication by Ronald Siegel.

It’s subtitled “The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances.”