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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

✍️ McKenna, Terence
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🏛 Bantam 📅 1993 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780553371307

📝 Description: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. "Deserves to be a modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens".--The Washington Post. Photos and illustrations.

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This edition serves as a critical entry point for McKenna’s controversial theories on plant-human co-evolution. It is a dense theoretical work rather than a practical guide. However, for those fascinated by the intersection of botany, psychology, and cultural anthropology, it provides a provocative, if demanding, framework for understanding our relationship with the plant kingdom. It is best approached as philosophical food writing rather than instructional cookery.
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This edition serves as a critical entry point for McKenna’s controversial theories on plant-human co-evolution. It is a dense theoretical work rather than a practical guide. However, for those fascinated by the intersection of botany, psychology, and cultural anthropology, it provides a provocative, if demanding, framework for understanding our relationship with the plant kingdom. It is best approached as philosophical food writing rather than instructional cookery.

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