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Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, p.9:
... See more"Psychedelic shamans now constitute a worldview and growing subculture of hyper-dimensional explorers, many of whom are scientifically sophisticated. A landscape is coming into focus, a region still glimpsed only dimly, but merging, claiming the attention of rational discourse—and possibly threatening to confo
a feat of exploration that would win him the Patron’s Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.
Wade Davis • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
The large societies found in some other species, such as ants and bees, are stable and resilient because most of the information needed to sustain them is encoded in the genome.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
If Soma is Stropharia cubensis, then the tradition could be traced unbroken back to prehistoric Africa.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Have you had your DNA sequenced?
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
But recent traditions have emerged that break down creation systems like a virus, infecting complex patterns with artificial simplicity,
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
You may begin to imagine its genome as an instruction manual for an exquisite piece of nanotechnology crafted by some alien civilization.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Anthropological and archaeological evidence indicates that archaic hunter-gatherers were probably animists: they believed that there was no essential gap separating humans from other animals.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
“to be the student and beneficiary of all traditions, and the slave to none.”