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Summary: Deliciously Disruptive
Review: Terence McKenna is a muse, a trickster, he is (or was)
an incarnation of the psychedelic. Now although this book is not devoid of facts, even Terence would (and did) admit that the theory that human consciousness sprang from the use of the hallucinogenic mushrooms is rather speculative. Nonetheless
Terence's strength is not science per se, but getting us to think
and rethink, getting us to break the routine of our normal worldview and look at our lives and life differently....breaking set.Thomas
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Summary: Essential Reading for Evolving Humans
Review: Terrance McKenna's masterpiece, the ideas and background to support them presented in this work makes you take a serious look at how things operate in todays society. The Food of the Gods is essential reading because of the wide range topics covered and McKenna's ablity to draw this information together and make point as to our origins as a species as well as pointing to the possible outcome.
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Summary: McKenna
Review: The late Terence McKenna, God/dess bless, considered Amanita muscaria as not the Soma of the Rig Veda, based on his experience with the mushroom. As it turns out, it probably is. He considers entheogens to have probably expanded the size of the human brain. Did the large-brained cetaceans take psychedelics, way before us? At any rate, the bard has bestowed a thought provoking read.
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Summary: potentiality of our race to grace
Review: thee gian mind is alive! this book tempts us to fulfill our relationship with the planet that keeps us. While psilosybin/human interaction accelerates our learning and evolving potential of a symbiotic relationship with the earth, ALL plants have information to share with us. They have THEE cure ov our ails and the answers to our FAQ's. You just need to listen....and open yer third eye.
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Summary: advanced powerful unortodox honest liberating a Xselent book
Review: this book firstly reaches down to the beginning of language thought and religion. it bases development on the"transcendual other" . Slowly it builds to the change of partnership into dominance.From pure primitive religion to the masculine christianity.then he speaks of hell and the synthetic world we live in now. And to sum up he tries to formulate solutions."GO GREEN OR DIE!"
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Summary: Best book I have read in a long time
Review: This is a beautiful, new and refreshing walk through on human evolution, I recommend this to everyone intersted in human life. I feel that McKenna has created a very interesting, expansive and easy to understand thesis on our lives and history, in which the most important point McKenna seems to be making is the need to "Change our Minds". The implications on dominator/ego socity, drugs, philosophy, psychology and science is what has given me a huge respect for one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. This is such a good book I feel it is a must read.
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Summary: Best book I have read in a long time
Review: This is a beautiful, new and refreshing walk through on human evolution, I recommend this to everyone intersted in human life. I feel that McKenna has created a very interesting, expansive and easy to understand thesis on our lives and history, in which the most important point McKenna seems to be making is the need to "Change our Minds". The implications on dominator/ego socity, drugs, philosophy, psychology and science is what has given me a huge respect for one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. This is such a good book I feel it is a must read.
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Summary: Excellent, but too much info for the Average Reader
Review: This is a fascinating world history told through the eyes of the last leader of the psychedelic community. McKenna argues that, before the onslaught of the current dominator-model of society, humans lived in happy partnership, united in their love for mother earth. The key to this society was the ingestion of magic mushrooms, a psychedelic plant that offers its eater a view of a benevolent, beautiful and inherently vegetable mind -- the necessary vision for life in a partnership model.McKenna makes a valid argument and the book is filled with very interesting ideas, though the middle section is bogged down with shred after shred of "evidence" pointing towards ancient mushroom use. This is a truly great book, though Archaic Revival is a much easier and enjoyable introduction to Terence McKenna and his outrageous yet convincing ideas.
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Summary: Great for the imagination
Review: This is a good book for laity who are interested in enthnobotany and sci-fi. The book has some facts and lots of opinions. If you want hard science go elsewhere.
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Summary: McKenna has a brilliant explanation for consciousness.
Review: This man is a genius! In Food of the Gods, McKenna postulates that monkeys on a diet of mushrooms, or dipping for insects in mushrooms, ate psychoactive chemicals that eventually played a major part in the evolution of human consciousness. He then goes on to examine mushroom spores and there ability to leave the planet and travel intergalacticly in deep space frozen hibernation before landing on another planet. He describes the mushroom as the perfect vehicle for intergalactic travel and the spreading of consciousness. SPACE MUSHROOMS! The rest of the book is all about mankind's evolution with psychoactive plants by his side. Although he did get some things wrong in this book it was still cutting edge for its time and remains one of the most important thoughts on the topic to date. The world will also miss the man after his recently passing into that higher realm of consciousness. Take this trip with Terence McKenna and expand your IQ.
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