The ‘Magic Mushroom’: Intergalactic Intelligence or Flesh of the Gods?

The ethnobotanist and philosophical mystic, Terence McKenna, is perhaps best known for his controversial theory of anthropogenesis: the facetiously titled ‘Stoned Ape Theory’. The basic outline of this theory is that pre-human hominids entered into a symbiotic relationship with hallucinogenic mushrooms precipitating a cognitive revolution, out of which ‘self-reflection…