Il cibo degli dei. Alla ricerca del vero albero della conoscenza
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"Il cibo degli dei" presenta una delle teorie più affascinanti e rivoluzionarie sulla nascita della coscienza e della cultura umana. Dai dimenticati altopiani africani fino ai recessi della foresta amazzonica, McKenna va alla ricerca dell'originale albero della conoscenza per ricostruire una storia dell'evoluzione dell'uomo basata sul primordiale rapporto che ci lega al regno vegetale. I funghi e le piante psicoattive non furono delle mere insidie lungo il cammino verso la civiltà, bensì degli alleati che i primi uomini scoprirono e di cui si servirono per salire la scala evolutiva: linguaggio, arte e religione - l'accesso al piano spirituale e trascendente - furono mediati e resi possibili dalla relazione arcaica e quasi simbiotica tra uomini e allucinogeni vegetali. McKenna affronta inoltre il modo in cui il desiderio umano di nutrirsi del "cibo degli dei" diventi, nel mondo moderno, una piaga sociale: alcool, zucchero, caffè e tabacco, fino ai derivati dell'oppio e alla cocaina, hanno reso la nostra relazione con le piante psicoattive un problema che non avrà soluzione. Solo l'esplorazione del nostro originario rapporto con il regno vegetale permetterà di recuperare la via della comprensione sciamanica, del rispetto della natura e della consapevolezza di sé.
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- Pagine: 370
- Data di uscita: 28-11-2019
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This book is trash. I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society. I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without reading it: - Leggi tutto
The book covers a very wide range of topics, from the description of legal and illegal synthesized drugs, natural drugs, history of drug use, and it´s influence on human evolution and history. Alternative ideas of how something might have developed are always interesting and in this case, two intere Leggi tutto
I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you why this book is FUCKING AMAZING - so you'll just have to trust me. This guy is an ethno-biologist, meaning he studies the interactions of "substances" and world cultures (past and present), and how the two have influenced each other; both
A lot of people write off Mckenna as a charlatan or performer, but having just discovered him, I'm impressed by his creative thinking and pathos. I encourage everyone to read him, I think his voice is necessary in a world where addictions run rampant and our understanding of ourselves has hit a trou Leggi tutto
This guy really likes drugs. A lot. He mostly just alternates between talking about how great drugs are, giving an overview of historic cultures and people who thought drugs were great, and developing an ideology around how great drugs are. Before I rip it to shreds, I'll talk about the good points t Leggi tutto
This book is great-much more than a treatise on "shrooms" and dope. Have you ever thought about the mind altering power of purified sugar, the politics of coffee, and the parallels between these and what we consider to be more dangerous drugs like cocaine?
I enjoyed every moment reading this book. Terence McKenna had an engaging narrative and a gift for language. But ultimately it just isn’t good science, and for that alone I can’t recommend it. McKenna was an anthropologist and, as he called it, an ethnobotanist—someone who studies the relationships b Leggi tutto
I did not care for this book. There were a few parts I did like, including a wealth of historical information about the use of psychedelics in various cultures throughout history, and some interesting theories about their role in the development of both ancient and modern religions. In fact, there ar Leggi tutto
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