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Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Terence Mckenna | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Release date: | 01 January, 1993 | | List price: | $19.00 |
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In response to "Ace Backwords" |
I'd just like to note that the implication Ace Backwords made in his review is very misleading.
As "Ace" so eloquently stated: "Then one day, McKenna was suddenly hit by a massive brain tumor from "a rare and strange form of brain cancer," and died shortly thereafter at age 53. And suddenly people weren't quite as excited about McKenna's theories regarding the injesting of exotic psychedelic drugs."
However, the doctors were asked at point blank about McKenna's drug use in relation to his tumor. The doctors reply was that they were in NO WAY related. In fact, they said, the marijuana he smoked should have actually shrunk the tumor! Furthermore, it has been proven scientifically that psychedlic mushrooms are safer than over the counter aspirin! In studies of LD50/ED50 (lethal dose in 50%/effective dose in 50%) in mice aspirin proved to be over 6 times more toxic to the body/brain than psilocybin, the active component in magic mushrooms.
The doctors said the tumor had nothing to do with the psychedelic drugs.
Also note that this book is absolutely astounding. A must read.
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| Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution - Terence Mckenna |
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Turn on, tune in, and drop dead |
| Terrence McKenna was dubbed "the Timothy Leary of the '90s" by no less than Timothy Leary Himself. Talk about damning with faint praise. For a while people were all excited about McKenna's exciting new theories regarding the injesting of exotic psychedelic drugs. Then one day, McKenna was suddenly hit by a massive brain tumor from "a rare and strange form of brain cancer," and died shortly thereafter at age 53. And suddenly people weren't quite as excited about McKenna's theories regarding the injesting of exotic psychedelic drugs. (P.S. See my rebuttal to the Michael Cashore review on the "True Hallucinations" site) |
| Terence Mckenna - Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution |
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Remarkable |
| If the basic principles described in this book were widely accepted, we would have solved our current crisis (that of mutual self destruction), and embraced life in all the infinite ways that we are aiming to achieve by virtue of tecnology. We'd all realise that through the power of mind we can travel into any time/place and that our supreme goal of deep space travel to other worlds could be satisfied without destroying ourselves by virtue of technology. |
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