Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Food of the Gods Reissued because of the current interest in Ecstasy, this is McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He wonders why we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness, do they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature?
Full description- Publisher: Rider & Co
- Published: 06 May 1999
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects | Drug & Substance Abuse: Social Aspects | Mind, Body & Spirit | Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice
- ISBN 13: 9780712670388 ISBN 10: 0712670386
- Sales rank: 10,828
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A journey to some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon...a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire...a field watch on the eating habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanist Terence McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He wonders why, as a species, we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness. Can they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature? As an odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. And as a daring work of scholarship and exploration, it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment and a humane basis for our interaction which each other and with the natural world. 'Brilliant, provocative, opinionated, poetic and inspiring...Essential reading for anyone who ever wondered why people take drugs.' Rupert Sheldrake.
