Food of the Gods

<b>Deserves to be the modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens.--<i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/><b>Ethnobotanist Terence Mckenna hailed by Tom Robbins as the most important--and most entertaining--visionary scholar in America explores humanity's symbiotic relationship with spirits tobacco marijuana opium psilocybin and more from prehistoric times to today.</b> <p/>Why as a species are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? Can altered states reveal something to us about our origins and our place in nature? <p/>In <i>Food of the Gods</i> Terence McKenna's research on man's ancient relationship with chemicals opens a doorway to the divine and perhaps a solution for saving our troubled world. McKenna provides a revisionist look at the historical role of drugs in the East and the West from ancient spice sugar and rum trades to marijuana cocaine synthetics and even television--illustrating the human desire for the food of the gods and the powerful potential to replace abuse of illegal drugs with a shamanic understanding insistence on community reverence for nature and increased self-awareness.