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Food Of The Gods
A Radical History of Plants, Psychedelics and Human Evolution
Food of the Gods explores the idea that psychoactive plants played a central role in shaping human consciousness, culture, language, religion, and creativity. McKenna argues that early humans encountered visionary plants such as psilocybin mushrooms, which acted as catalysts for neural expansion, perception shifts, symbolic thinking, and the mystical impulse.
The book proposes psychedelics as ancient tools of initiation — dissolving the ego, revealing the deeper field of awareness, and opening access to archetypes of death, rebirth, and divine communion.
Rather than portraying these substances as escapes, McKenna frames them as technologies of evolution — part of the human dialogue with nature and the invisible world.
The book proposes psychedelics as ancient tools of initiation — dissolving the ego, revealing the deeper field of awareness, and opening access to archetypes of death, rebirth, and divine communion.
Rather than portraying these substances as escapes, McKenna frames them as technologies of evolution — part of the human dialogue with nature and the invisible world.
Lineage Connection
Indirectly linked to shamanism, archaic revival movements, early ritual pharmacology, and global entheogenic traditions (Mesoamerican, Siberian, Vedic, African).
Author’s Roles / Archetypes
Visionary · Trickster-Philosopher · Anthropological Provocateur · Psychedelic Historian
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Related Books
LSD: My Problem Child
Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
In this autobiographical reflection, Albert Hofmann recounts the accidental discovery of LSD-25, the famous “Bicycle Day” experience, and his lifelong conviction that this molecule could reawaken humanity’s spiritual connection to nature. Hofmann explores LSD not as a drug, but as a doorway to the same sacred experience once cultivated in the Eleusinian Mysteries.