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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: coglac on May 29, 2013, 03:15 pm

Title: Food of the Gods
Post by: coglac on May 29, 2013, 03:15 pm
Has anyone read this book by Terrance Makenna?  It is an amazing look at the history of mind altering substances including looking at refined sugar as a drug. I have never thought about it in this way. But he is right all the evils of the drug trade pale in comparison to the Barbarian practices that arose to feed the words hunger for sugar. I highly recommend reading this book.
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: moonflower on May 30, 2013, 12:06 am
i second your post wholeheartedly! excellent reading.
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: Nyaruko on May 30, 2013, 06:08 am
I'm a huge fan of McKenna. It's a shame that such a positive-minded and articulate person isn't with us any more.
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: jackofspades on May 30, 2013, 03:01 pm
I like him as well, only got into him a few weeks ago and havent read/watched a ton of his stuff until i get more time on my hands.
His theory on mushrooms was great.
I need to read more about the sugar thing, but seems good.
Does anyone have the time to put it on the forums haha? dont feel like heading to amazon.
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: Ashwinder on May 31, 2013, 12:35 am
Ah Terrance, fantastic man, will check this out when I reactivate me regular browser, sounds really interesting  :)
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: wheres wally on June 06, 2013, 10:49 pm
I'm a huge fan of McKenna. It's a shame that such a positive-minded and articulate person isn't with us any more.

true, a brilliant man. we are actually lucky he left so much material behind.
like he said, 'nothing lasts.. ..everything is on track'.

id also recommend alien dreamtime video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVNwNjmdkI
or the transcript  www.erowid.org/ culture/ characters/ mckenna_terence/ mckenna_terence_alien_dreamtime.shtml
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: DrChong on June 09, 2013, 11:48 am
An excellent book, but be wary of some of the claims he puts forth, as they're much more hypothethical than he'd have you believe. A lot of people in the psychonaut community consider Terence to be a sort of Jesus-figure (much like Tim Leary or Albert Hoffman), and he wasn't...he was just an intelligent guy who had some interesting theories about the relationship between entheogenic plants and humans.
Title: Re: Food of the Gods
Post by: joywind on June 09, 2013, 04:03 pm
Atheists and materialists HATE Terence Mckenna, so he must have been doing something right.