Food of the Gods

that this is not merely a lens for the inspection of the personal psyche, but a communication device for getting in touch with the world of the high shamanism of Archaic antiquity.

Could it not be that we are willing to pay the terrible toll that alcohol extracts because it is allowing us to continue the repressive dominator style that keeps us all infantile and irresponsible participants in a dominator world characterized by the marketing of ungratified sexual fantasy?

The virulence of addictions to synthetics like heroin and cocaine could not long escape the attention of the inheritors of the slave trade and the opium wars—international intelligence agencies and secret police organizations. These shadowy groups have an insatiable

In other words, the collectively designed cultural environment in which we all live is the objectification of our collective linguistic intent.

Perhaps this is the Overmind of the species, or a kind of “mind of the planet,” or perhaps we have been parochial in our search for nonhuman intelligence, and another minded, but radically different, intelligent species shares the earth with us. I offer these ideas in a speculative vein.

This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off the symbiotic relationship with the Gaian matrix of the

morphine set the pattern for the modern “hard

It is extraordinary that in the relatively short span of two centuries four stimulants—sugar, tea, coffee, and chocolate—could have emerged out of local obscurity and become a basis for vast mercantile empires, defended by the greatest military powers ever known to that time and supported by the newly reintroduced practice of slavery.

we must look at effects unrelated to the shared property of addiction to understand why dominator society has chosen to suppress one and exalt the other.