Food of the Gods The Search for the Original

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.

Terence McKenna, author and explorer, has traveled the world to work and live with shamans. He has added to their shared knowledge of rituals his own efforts to preserve the plants used in these ceremonies. Coauthor of The Invisible Landscape and Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide, Terence mesmerizes his many lecture audiences with tales of science and shamanism. He lives in Occidental, California, and is co-manager of a botanical garden in Hawaii for endangered tropical plants.

Introduction: A Manifesto For New Thought About Drugs

xiii

I. PARADISE

1

(94)

Shamanism: Setting the Stage

3

(11)

The Magic in Food

14

(17)

The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

31

(12)

Plants and Primates: Postcards From the Stoned Age

43

(14)

Habit as Culture and Religion

57

(12)

The High Plains of Eden

69

(26)

II. PARADISE LOST

95

(72)

Searching for Soma: The Golden Vedic Enigma

97

(24)

Twilight in Eden: Minoan Crete and the Eleusinian Mystery

121

(17)

Alcohol and the Alchemy of Spirit

138

(12)

The Ballad of the Dreaming Weavers: Cannabis and Culture

150

(17)

III. HELL

167

(54)

Complacencies of the Peignoir: Sugar, Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate

169

(19)

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco

188

(19)

Synthetics: Heroin, Cocaine, and Television

207

(14)

IV. PARADISE REGAINED?

221

(50)

A Brief History of Psychedelics

223

(23)

Anticipating the Archaic Paradise

246

(25)

Epilogue: Looking Outward and Inward to a Sea of Stars

271

(6)

Notes

277

(10)

Glossary

287

(6)

Bibliography

293

(8)

Index

301

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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

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