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Gaugamela

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5. A variation of the "stoned ape theory," except McKenna thought the transformation

Sun Nov 6, 2022, 09:06 AM

Nov 2022

was due to psilocybin.

How did the human brain triple in size in just two million years?

According to the “Stoned Ape Theory” developed by Terrence McKenna and his brother Dennis McKenna, a community of proto-humans might have consumed the magic mushrooms they found in the wild. That act could have profoundly changed their brains.

“It was like a software to program this neurologically modern hardware,” explained Dennis McKenna in this clip from Fantastic Fungi:

https://fantasticfungi.com/the-stoned-ape/

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I was seriously stoned many years ago when I had this epiphany [View all] MichaelSoE Nov 2022 OP

We owe so much to weed for human evolution! LOL Emile Nov 2022 #1

Sounds about right to me Walleye Nov 2022 #2

TRUTH HAB911 Nov 2022 #3

Not to mention, why else would we have invented music? William Seger Nov 2022 #4

Right? 2naSalit Nov 2022 #6

This Stoner agrees YoshidaYui Nov 2022 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2022 #13

A variation of the "stoned ape theory," except McKenna thought the transformation Gaugamela Nov 2022 #5

Evolution! The apes with larger brains learned to pick the correct mushrooms. keithbvadu2 Nov 2022 #12

Then Oog's cousin, Teary Leary, accidentally invented LSD... rubbersole Nov 2022 #7

Tim Leary was a disciple of LSD. not the inventor... MiHale Nov 2022 #10

I read once about a medieval village in France where the baker accidentally made his bread one day panader0 Nov 2022 #14

Wanna bet they saw a bunch of ufo's that night. MiHale Nov 2022 #16

back then there wasn't much sex on the wrong brain but cannabis and psylocybin may be natural cures certainot Nov 2022 #8

Oh wow, man! Mr. Evil Nov 2022 #11

Desire births actions sanatanadharma Nov 2022 #15

"More than a handful" ggma Nov 2022 #17

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