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 brains 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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Its always good to make your escape from a dangerous situation. Glad you survived. Thanks for sharing.
I watched that movie with some Pink Floyd fans friends in Ft Riley around 1992 or so.
That is a question to ask drug promoter GEORGE SOROS.
psychedelics advocate Terence McKenna
a tool of George Soros
Soros has moved on from “legalizing” marijuana
to promoting government sponsored “safe” heroin injection centers
and the legalizing of psychedelic mushrooms
GOOD WORK, Soros
Two children hospitalized after eating THC candy from a food bank
NBC News ^ | April 4, 2020 | Nicole Acevedo
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-children-hospitalized-after-eating-thc-candy-food-bank-n1176721?cid=public-rss_20200404
At least five children ate candy containing high THC doses after the Utah Food Bank distributed it as part of their food donations, police said.
At least two children are hospitalized after eating THC candy from a food bank in Utah.
An 11-year-old and a 5-year-old were taken to a hospital Friday night after consuming Medicated Nerds Rope candy given to their families as part of a food distribution effort from a church working with the Utah Food Bank.
Roy City Police said volunteers at the food bank distributed more than 60 bags that contained three to four servings of the candy rope. Labels in the candy indicate that each one contains 400 milligrams of THC, the psychoactive marijuana component.
What a trip!
Far out, Catherwood.
Well, you’d have to read the post first and then maybe go to some additional material on the theory. But it explains in a more scientific way that the psychedelics led homo erectus to the munchies with more proteins, etc.
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