The author of "Food of the Gods" traveled around the world experimenting with psychoactive plants, becoming a connoisseur whose contribution remains essential to understanding, among other things, the mystery cults of the Greco-Roman world. Terence McKenna builds his case on the work of pioneers in the field such as Robert Graves which proceeded the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. Can you imagine if the counterculltural era of the '60s was characterized only by liberal sexual attitudes and not psychedelia? As someone who had to live with bad acne, it's tiresome when the emphasis is always on sex, setting up our society for failure with dull-minded people wearing MAGA hats and giving a president-turned-dictator a mandate to create a nation of prostitutes.
I am not sure whether mushrooms influenced development of early homo sapiens, but they are without a doubt part of human culture and its mystical/religious behaviour. Magic mushrooms were depicted on several artworks of prehistoric or ancient civilisations, for example in wall paintings from Spain or Algeria.Generally all mind altering substances starting with alcoholic beverages such as beer or wine up to more profound such as mysterious soma, magic mushrooms, cannabis or Morning Glory seeds had undeniable influence on human behaviour, culture, religion and art.
One more point would be that effects of magic mushrooms don't end with sobering up. The experience the individual carry on is long lasting and in many cases life changing. The best example would be terminally ill patients who were given a dose of psilocybin and confirmed they reduction in fear of death and improved quality of life for at least 6 months.
I haven't been smoking magic mushrooms, but I have a crazy idea what happened. I imagine they lived at a time of decreasing resources and highly competitive small family groups for these resources. So to make the family group (small party 5-15 people) more competitive against the other small groups they came up with the idea instead of the males within the group fighting each other for mating rights, thus wasting energy and harming the group chance of survival. They decided to give mating rights to the one individual within the group who could win at a game that required intelligence. I have no idea what game they used, but one that gave the advantage to the smartest and thus the one with the biggest brain. This would explain the rapid increase in size of the brain until one (Homo Einstein) came up with the bright idea moving out of Africa. Genius. We have been on a downward intelligent trend since then with the magic mushrooms users (et. al.). Chess anyone?
There are neat aspects about the box beds, but one very big downside is that you get no fresh air or circulation. You'll be breathing your own carbon monoxide all night.
Are the aforementioned SI units (mm) and the British inch derived from and integral to cubit rods? The answer is yes. It is curious why mankind re-scripted this. I still can not grasp the missed interpretations of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and the biblical cubit analysis thereafter. They were comparing a cubit unit to that of our modern units currently held in the office of weighs and measures. Instead, if you took the standard inch unit block and the standard millimeter block housed there and added .00219” to the inch block, the millimeter would then calibrate to 25.455mm (√2 at 36 increments in a one inch unit). The shared mechanics of the modern yard, the Babylonian cubit rod, the millimeter, the inch and √right angle theorem. It is really that simple. The √2 hypotenuse is now the gateway to the square, diameter of its coincident circle and Plato's platonic shapes thereof. The area and volume in unison are harmonically exercised together in Pythagorean arithmetic. As a note, Pythagorean math is more so that of Egyptian mathematics, where Pythagoras studied cubits. Ancient wisdom held theorems were absolutely true from one scale. Cubit rods are a theory of everything that move toward a better description of nature.
The standard length of a digit/cubit would predict in parallel with that of an inch and a millimeter because a cubit rod hierarchy consists of all three. A cubit rod hierarchy is a trifecta of the three measures, not one.
This article is full of supposition. Just because a ring says servant of the king does not mean the King was Josiah. And, just because scholars believe that King Zedediah’s name was Mattaniah diesn’t mean anything since I’m sure there was more than one man named Mattaniah
Count me among the skeptics. In addition to the reasons pointed out in the article, most drug users are not very motivated. How can you advance when you’re lying around stoned every day?
You do realize that 300 million or so Orthodox Christians have never celebrated ‘easter’ nor do they follow the date of the Western calendar calculations for Pascha (the Paschal celebration of the Resurrection).
Besides, Pascha is never before or on the same day as Passover.
Our red eggs come from ancient times and have no association with bunnies.
We hardboil and dye eggs red. After Liturgy on Pascha...the red eggs are blessed cracked and eaten as we break a 7 week Fast.
The red is for the blood of Christ, the egg is a tomb and cracking the egg represents the resurrection!
All of this was going on in the Eastern Church’s before the Protestant Reformation.
You really need to broaden your knowledge of Christianity beyond Europe!
People with a point of view, in this case that the "Bible" has bee shown to be a usable "source" for histoirical or archeological reference, are a grave danger to accuracy and fact. That a seal bearing a partical name shows up in some vague context to a as yet unverified "reign" that the "Bible" references and mentions the same name provides no if any validity for that point. Religionists, whether Christian or Jew, are so eager to "prove" their point that they leap far ahead of sound research. Very poor work indeed.
It just goes to show that ancient man was smarter, than modern. just because we dont know how they did doesnt give modern men outside that culture to attribute it to a "Master Race" or Aliens. its obvious that modern people are degenerating mentally and physically. Some people have the nerve to call call these people primitive, when they cant figure out for themselves how they accomplished these feats. Then they have the audacity to attribute them to Aliens or Gods. Talk about primitive and superstitious! instead of using logic and critical thinking skills, they use the basic, low level explanation of " It Was Aliens" !!
Agree, but fails to mention the multiple manuscripts of the Biblical books, from within the lifetimes of the authors. The veracity of the Bible as an unchanged work is unparalleled in manuscriptory analysis
Xerxes is also the King in the Biblical book of Esther, who has a beauty contest, which Esther wins, to select a new queen. The period between the deposition of Vashti and the selection of Esther is the events of the Pelleponesian War.
Witchcraft accesses demonic spiritual power which is in direct opposition to God - therefore BAD. It is more correctly defined as the unauthorised use of spiritual power, the source of which is demonic, and always brings harm to the user.
The Greek version is Centuries later than the origin story from the ancient city of Babel. Semiramis, wife of Nimrod, is the archetype of the beautiful woman with many lovers. She was also called Rhea, Isis, and so on. Ancient Historians were scathing of the Greeks' lack of respect for history and invention of myths.
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"Most drug users are not very motivated."
The author of "Food of the Gods" traveled around the world experimenting with psychoactive plants, becoming a connoisseur whose contribution remains essential to understanding, among other things, the mystery cults of the Greco-Roman world. Terence McKenna builds his case on the work of pioneers in the field such as Robert Graves which proceeded the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. Can you imagine if the counterculltural era of the '60s was characterized only by liberal sexual attitudes and not psychedelia? As someone who had to live with bad acne, it's tiresome when the emphasis is always on sex, setting up our society for failure with dull-minded people wearing MAGA hats and giving a president-turned-dictator a mandate to create a nation of prostitutes.
Excellent article and comments. Hoppe to hear morre on this subject
I am not sure whether mushrooms influenced development of early homo sapiens, but they are without a doubt part of human culture and its mystical/religious behaviour. Magic mushrooms were depicted on several artworks of prehistoric or ancient civilisations, for example in wall paintings from Spain or Algeria.Generally all mind altering substances starting with alcoholic beverages such as beer or wine up to more profound such as mysterious soma, magic mushrooms, cannabis or Morning Glory seeds had undeniable influence on human behaviour, culture, religion and art.
One more point would be that effects of magic mushrooms don't end with sobering up. The experience the individual carry on is long lasting and in many cases life changing. The best example would be terminally ill patients who were given a dose of psilocybin and confirmed they reduction in fear of death and improved quality of life for at least 6 months.
I haven't been smoking magic mushrooms, but I have a crazy idea what happened. I imagine they lived at a time of decreasing resources and highly competitive small family groups for these resources. So to make the family group (small party 5-15 people) more competitive against the other small groups they came up with the idea instead of the males within the group fighting each other for mating rights, thus wasting energy and harming the group chance of survival. They decided to give mating rights to the one individual within the group who could win at a game that required intelligence. I have no idea what game they used, but one that gave the advantage to the smartest and thus the one with the biggest brain. This would explain the rapid increase in size of the brain until one (Homo Einstein) came up with the bright idea moving out of Africa. Genius. We have been on a downward intelligent trend since then with the magic mushrooms users (et. al.). Chess anyone?
There are neat aspects about the box beds, but one very big downside is that you get no fresh air or circulation. You'll be breathing your own carbon monoxide all night.
Are the aforementioned SI units (mm) and the British inch derived from and integral to cubit rods? The answer is yes. It is curious why mankind re-scripted this. I still can not grasp the missed interpretations of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and the biblical cubit analysis thereafter. They were comparing a cubit unit to that of our modern units currently held in the office of weighs and measures. Instead, if you took the standard inch unit block and the standard millimeter block housed there and added .00219” to the inch block, the millimeter would then calibrate to 25.455mm (√2 at 36 increments in a one inch unit). The shared mechanics of the modern yard, the Babylonian cubit rod, the millimeter, the inch and √right angle theorem. It is really that simple. The √2 hypotenuse is now the gateway to the square, diameter of its coincident circle and Plato's platonic shapes thereof. The area and volume in unison are harmonically exercised together in Pythagorean arithmetic. As a note, Pythagorean math is more so that of Egyptian mathematics, where Pythagoras studied cubits. Ancient wisdom held theorems were absolutely true from one scale. Cubit rods are a theory of everything that move toward a better description of nature.
The standard length of a digit/cubit would predict in parallel with that of an inch and a millimeter because a cubit rod hierarchy consists of all three. A cubit rod hierarchy is a trifecta of the three measures, not one.
This article is full of supposition. Just because a ring says servant of the king does not mean the King was Josiah. And, just because scholars believe that King Zedediah’s name was Mattaniah diesn’t mean anything since I’m sure there was more than one man named Mattaniah
Feed some magic mushrooms to a chimp and see what happens.
Count me among the skeptics. In addition to the reasons pointed out in the article, most drug users are not very motivated. How can you advance when you’re lying around stoned every day?
You do realize that 300 million or so Orthodox Christians have never celebrated ‘easter’ nor do they follow the date of the Western calendar calculations for Pascha (the Paschal celebration of the Resurrection).
Besides, Pascha is never before or on the same day as Passover.
Our red eggs come from ancient times and have no association with bunnies.
We hardboil and dye eggs red. After Liturgy on Pascha...the red eggs are blessed cracked and eaten as we break a 7 week Fast.
The red is for the blood of Christ, the egg is a tomb and cracking the egg represents the resurrection!
All of this was going on in the Eastern Church’s before the Protestant Reformation.
You really need to broaden your knowledge of Christianity beyond Europe!
Curious by its absence from this article is the double entry box bed that Thomas Jefferson built into Monticello.
People with a point of view, in this case that the "Bible" has bee shown to be a usable "source" for histoirical or archeological reference, are a grave danger to accuracy and fact. That a seal bearing a partical name shows up in some vague context to a as yet unverified "reign" that the "Bible" references and mentions the same name provides no if any validity for that point. Religionists, whether Christian or Jew, are so eager to "prove" their point that they leap far ahead of sound research. Very poor work indeed.
It just goes to show that ancient man was smarter, than modern. just because we dont know how they did doesnt give modern men outside that culture to attribute it to a "Master Race" or Aliens. its obvious that modern people are degenerating mentally and physically. Some people have the nerve to call call these people primitive, when they cant figure out for themselves how they accomplished these feats. Then they have the audacity to attribute them to Aliens or Gods. Talk about primitive and superstitious! instead of using logic and critical thinking skills, they use the basic, low level explanation of " It Was Aliens" !!
Long, flowing hair (for concealment) and long, sharp fingernails and toenails (for protection) would serve an aquatic ape. But a tail would not.
Great writing and article!
Happy April Fools Day folks! Thanks for joining in the fun!
Agree, but fails to mention the multiple manuscripts of the Biblical books, from within the lifetimes of the authors. The veracity of the Bible as an unchanged work is unparalleled in manuscriptory analysis
Xerxes is also the King in the Biblical book of Esther, who has a beauty contest, which Esther wins, to select a new queen. The period between the deposition of Vashti and the selection of Esther is the events of the Pelleponesian War.
Witchcraft accesses demonic spiritual power which is in direct opposition to God - therefore BAD. It is more correctly defined as the unauthorised use of spiritual power, the source of which is demonic, and always brings harm to the user.
The Greek version is Centuries later than the origin story from the ancient city of Babel. Semiramis, wife of Nimrod, is the archetype of the beautiful woman with many lovers. She was also called Rhea, Isis, and so on. Ancient Historians were scathing of the Greeks' lack of respect for history and invention of myths.
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