Darwin on Physchodelics — The Stoned Ape HypothesisTerence McKenna is one of those people who

Darwin on Physchodelics — The Stoned Ape HypothesisTerence McKenna is one of those people who make life truly interesting.  A world traveler, writer, philosopher, speaker, mystic, and self proclaimed scientist, McKenna was best known for his expertise in growing and consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms.  Called by many admirers the “Timothy Leary of his age”, many others consider him to be a kook and crackpot (peashooter holds Timothy Leary in the same esteem as well).  After a particularly interesting trip on the hallucinogen DMT, he wrote a book called Alien Dreamtime where he details his personal contact with “self transforming machine elves”.  After consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Amazon, he apparently discovered a pattern in the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, which led him to create a mathematical formula with which he could predict the future.  According to his calculations, the end of the world will occur and mankind will transcend its humanity of December 21st, 2012, coinciding with the Mayan Calendar.Among his many unusual theories was a take on the theory of evolution explaining how Homo erectus evolved into modern day humans.  According to McKenna, around 100,000BC the tropical paradise in Northern Africa began to give way to desertification due to changing climates occurring at the end of the ice age.  As the Sahara Rainforest transformed into the Sahara Desert, our ancestors were forced to move from their traditional grounds in search of food.  Naturally, they would have followed herds of roaming cattle, where eventually they would have started consuming the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis, a hallucinogenic mushroom that naturally grows on cow dung.  The consumption of the hallucinogenic mushrooms “expanded” the mind of Homo erectus, leading to increased sexuality, increased thinking power, better focus, increased energy,  and a projective imagination.  As a result, human culture blossomed, soon leading to the development of art, science, philosophy, music, language, and advanced culture.  Thus, over several thousands of years of hallucinogenic mushroom consumption, Homo erectus evolved into modern day humans, with increased creativity and thinking power.  Groovy man!McKenna’s theory was later named the “Stoned Ape Hypothesis” by the theory’s detractors, which was pretty much every mainstream scientist in academia.  He published his theory with the book “Food of the Gods, and obvious play on Erich von Danikan's Chariots of the Gods. Today, citing that there is little proof to backup the Stoned Ape Theory, most scientists and academics consider it to be a piece of nonsensical pseuodoscience. -- source link

More pics about