Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780553078688 (0553078682)
Publish date: February 1st 1992
Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (NY)
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Nature,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Spirituality,
Anthropology,
Psychology,
Plants
I find Terence McKenna's writing style extremely heavy-handed. Just as no one religion is good for everyone, so too, no one drug is "good" for everyone. The idea that taking hallucinogens is going to "lead us back to Eden" is simplistic and fundamentalist. It may for some, yes, but not for all. I ag...