From: Michelle (michelle@barrymenasherealtors.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 14:25:21 MDT
[Archie Poo]
> To who ever wrote this I am curious: Have you ever taken any psychedelic
> drugs? Have you ever read any of the theories concerning the involvment of
> psilocin in the evolution of human beings. Some very respected
> ethnobotanists i.e. Terence McKenna would claim that Mushrooms are the
> catalyst that allowed the development of language in the human species. I
> recommend reading Food of the Gods.
> Besides all information that we process in our in our body is based on
some
> energy-chemical or chemical-chemical reaction so how is altering these
> interactions by introducing these substances any less "real" then some
other
> means of altering the physical and mental processes?
> The study of the similarity between seratonin and a few of the tryptamine
> halucinogens is fascinating.
I haven't taken hallucinogens except very mild ones - but I liken it to the
million monkeys eventually producing Hamlet idea. Even if they did, they
wouldn't _understand_ Hamlet.
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