Binding: Paperback
Description: An exploration of humans symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societies; and the politics of tobacco tea coffee opium and alcohol. Why as a species are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? Can altered states reveal something to us about our origins and our place in nature? In Food of the Gods ethnobotanist Terence Mc Kenna's research on man's ancient relationship with chemicals opens a doorway to the divine and perhaps a solution for saving our troubled world. Mc Kenna provides a revisionist look at the historical role of drugs in the East and the West from ancient spice sugar and rum trades to marijuana cocaine synthetics and even television illustrating the human desire for the food of the gods and the powerful potential to replace abuse of illegal drugs with a shamanic understanding insistence on community reverence for nature and increased self - awareness. Praise for Food of the Gods Deserves to be the modern classic on mind - altering drugs and hallucinogens. The Washington Post Terence Mc Kenna is the most important and most entertaining visionary scholar in America. Tom Robbins The culture's foremost spokesperson for the psychedelic experience Those who know and enjoy Joseph Campbell's work will almost certainly appreciate Mc Kenna. L. A. Weekly An eloquent proposal for recovering something vital a sense of the sacred the transcendent the Absolute before it's too late. Larry Dossey M. D. author of Meaning & Medicine Recovering the Soul and Space Time & Machine
Title: Food Of The Gods
Author(s): Mckenna Terence
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780553371307
Pages: 311 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction