Psilocybin mushrooms catalyzed the evolution of human consciousness and the doubling of the hominin brain over two million years.

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• Before Food of the Gods: The Invisible Landscape Editorial draft
• The Handbook That Changed Everything Editorial draft
• The Brain Tumor and the Last Year Editorial draft
• The Case Against McKenna Editorial draft
• Language as Reality: McKenna's Linguistics Editorial draft
• McKenna and the Noosphere: Before the Internet Editorial draft
• McKenna vs. Sagan: Two Cosmologies Editorial draft
• The Stoned Ape: Between Hypothesis and Myth Editorial draft
• The Dominator Screen: McKenna's Media Critique in the Algorithm Age Editorial draft
• The Ecological Drug War: What Prohibition Costs the Planet Editorial draft
• Ibogaine and the Veterans: McKenna's Afterlife in Policy Editorial draft
• Decriminalization Models: Oregon, Colorado, and What Comes Next Editorial draft
• The Right to Alter Your Own Consciousness Editorial draft
• The Mushroom Spoke: McKenna's Literal Claim Editorial draft
• Television Is a Drug: The Argument That Aged Best Editorial draft
• The Archaic Revival: Is It Happening? Editorial draft
• The Notion of Illegal Plants Editorial draft
• In Defense of the Stoned Ape (As a Question) Editorial draft
• The Stoned Ape: What the Evidence Actually Shows Editorial draft
• Passage: Television as Dominator Drug Editorial draft

Reading list for this book

• Reading list: Food of the Gods Reading list

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• The Stoned Ape NotebookLM source pack

Bridge pieces that use this book

• The Sacred Drug and the Dominator Drug: Hofmann and McKenna on Alcohol Bridge piece

Then vs. Now comparisons on this book

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• The Stoned Ape in 2025: Neuroscience Weighs In Then vs. Now comparison
• The Dominator Culture Argument: McKenna's Political Analysis Then vs. Now comparison
• Television as Dominator Drug: McKenna's Media Theory Then vs. Now comparison
• Psychedelics and the War on Drugs: McKenna's Prediction Then vs. Now comparison
• The Archaic Revival: Has It Happened? Then vs. Now comparison
• The Ibogaine-Veterans Coalition: McKenna's Afterlife in Policy Then vs. Now comparison
• The Illegal Plant Argument: McKenna's Constitutional Challenge Then vs. Now comparison
• McKenna's Ecological Argument: Psychedelics and the Environmental Crisis Then vs. Now comparison
• The Botanical Dimensions Archive: Did McKenna's Garden Survive? Then vs. Now comparison
• The Decriminalization Models McKenna Called For: Oregon, Colorado, and What Came Next Then vs. Now comparison

Claims from this book

• Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex Claim
• Psilocybin-containing mushrooms catalyzed human cognitive evolution through regular consumption by early... Claim
• Television is a dominator drug that produces passivity and compliance Claim
• The psychedelic renaissance represents a genuine cultural shift, an Archaic Revival in McKenna's sense Claim
• Ibogaine is the most promising psychedelic for treating opioid use disorder and PTSD in veterans Claim
• Psilocybin increases nature connectedness and pro-environmental attitudes Claim
• The human drive to alter consciousness is as fundamental as hunger or sex Claim
• Social media platforms are designed to exploit psychological vulnerabilities in ways that structurally... Claim

Other pages in this library that link here

• The Science of the Experience Course module
• The Cultural Reckoning Course module
• Decolonizing Psychedelic Research: Frameworks and Practices Teaching module