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From the pen of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius Caro, to the banner of the 17th-century woodcut on the front cover , and from the traditions of some Native American cultures - we are advised that when confronting the unexplained it is best to consider it from several different perspectives. More recently, a similar concept was proposed in a 2004 essay by Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne , entitled " Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality. " Their thesis, that consciousness constructs its reality by ordering the information it derives from the external world through an array of physiological, psychological, and cultural filters, has now been considered by nineteen distinguished scholars who here present their commentaries from a broad spectrum of professional and personal perspectives.
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Terence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" Theory of Human Evolution
Perhaps the most intriguing of Terence McKenna's fascinating theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and human culture. To summarize: McKenna theorizes that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open -- following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way. Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. The changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet were many -- McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
Psilocybin mushroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psilocybin mushrooms are fungi that contain the psychoactive compounds psilocybin and psilocin . There are multiple colloquial terms for psilocybin mushrooms, the most common being shrooms and magic mushrooms . [ 1 ] Biological genera containing psilocybin mushrooms include Agrocybe , Conocybe , Copelandia , Galerina , Gerronema , Gymnopilus , Hypholoma , Inocybe , Mycena , Panaeolus , Pluteus , and Psilocybe . There are approximately 190 species of psilocybin mushrooms and most of them fall in the genus Psilocybe . Psilocybin mushrooms were used in ancient times, and were depicted in rock paintings. Many native peoples have used mushrooms for religious purposes, rituals and healing. In modern day society they are often used to evoke a "high", which is sometimes described as spiritual experience and is often euphoric in nature.
Psilocybe cubensis - Mycology Wiki
Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principle active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . The mushrooms are reddish-cinnamon brown to golden brown in color and they will turn bluish/purplish when bruised due to the oxidation of their psilocin content. Their caps are planar when fully mature, and their gills are adnate (horizontally attached to the stem) to adnexed (slightly indented at the attachment point) depending on the variety.
Mimosa tenuiflora, M. verrucosa and M. ophthalmocentra are perennial drought-resistant shrubs. They have fern-like leafed branches and produce DMT in their root bark.
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psilocybe cubensis