Disinformation: Everything You Know Is Wrong. Vids - Mind Expanding Mission. Dedroidify. Dedroidify.com - Mind Expanding Mission. Jobs News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Same here. We evolved along with, and because of, our diet. There weren't any classifications of "illegal drugs" back then, and these things flourish in all sorts of conditions in the wild - it's hard not to imagine at least occasional consumption. Considering mankind's predilection to experimenting with consciousness, along with the unique effects of these substances (including euphoria), it was probably more than occasional. If these fungi were part of a diet over time, they'd likely have some effect on our development.
I just love the idea of psychoactive botanicals spurring hominid consciousness to a higher quantum state — the booster shot needed to make that leap forward in intelligence. SExpand Exactly! Speaking of dendrites, it amazes me how closely underground mycelial mats (a sample of one on the right) resemble the brain's neural network (and, too - on the left - an image of "dark" matter). Erowid. Timothy Leary, LSD, & the Sacred Sacraments | Yoism. Of course, when they say that, they are referring to the proscribed "drugs" that threaten them, not to the prescribed, mind-control "medicines" and mind-numbing drugs (like alcohol).
Maybe you need antidepressants because there is something to be upset about. And while the use of the prescribed drugs may be in the interests of those in power, maybe it is dangerous to use drugs that enable you to ignore a lousy situation that is rapidly getting worse. The prescribed, psychiatric drugs may be enabling dysfunctional, maladaptive behavior! Didn't they tell you that drugs are used as "an escape from reality? " There just might have been something vitally important and valid in Leary's message. Timothy Leary's How to Operate Your Brain: An Owner's Manual Timothy Leary's Declaration of Evolution Timothy Leary and the Naive LSD Revolution Visions of the Otherwise Wise Another Interview of Saint Timothy, at the End of His Life.