Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
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.
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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553371307 (0553371304)
Publish date: January 1st 1993
Publisher: Bantam Books (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...
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