escape? your flopping around like idiot fish on the drugs, not going anywhere. pray to the bugs

(09-22-2025, 08:29 AM)Sirius Wrote: escape? your flopping around like idiot fish on the drugs, not going anywhere. pray to the bugs

aren't you still flopping around that shithole town you like to complain about? show some mastery over your own life before you dump so hard on the half-assness of others. neither of you are wrong. we're all in this together, pal.

(08-17-2025, 05:51 AM)greymagick Wrote: Paul Stamets, one of the leading mycologists on the planet, has supported the McKenna brothers "stoned ape hypothesis", which is outlined in Terence McKenna's book 'Food of the Gods' (once said to be one of Joe Rogan's favorite books, if that matters any).

The theory outlines how our ape ancestors would have encountered psychedelic mushrooms growing in the grasslands of Africa, once we had to forage further out of the forests to live and find food.  The properties of psilocybin magic mushrooms are directly connected to our serotonin receptors in the brain, and McKenna's theory suggests that the ingestion of these compounds in our very early history is what led to the rapid growth of our brain out of biological history on the planet.

I have 8 dried grams of magic mushrooms waiting for me in my medicine cabinet.  I think of that as 2 separate journeys, 4 grams each.  1-2 grams just isn't enough to give you hallucinatory visions...

I am questioning that theory because I've just been researching our neanderthal and other evolutional branch connections and the sharing of DNA. The rapid development and growth of our brain has been attributed to becoming bipedal which determined our evolutionary anatomical changes.

The Evolution of Human Growth: From Bipedalism to Brain Development • ExploreAnthro.com

It's a great story though, but if I were trying to survive amid the hardships they had to experience, including being prey for large animals, I'd want a sharp mind at all times.

I am not saying that psychological warfare trolls exist on Deny Ignornace, but they might!  I know for a fact that they existed on Above Top Secret... If anyone is consistently stirring up shit, and seems to do it an awful lot, they are probably a troll.  I'm just sayin!

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/...tories.pdf

"What is a troll factory? In Internet communication, a troll is defined as a person who provokes disputes, e.g. by raising controversial topics or attacking other participants. However, a troll factory is an entity conducting disinformation propaganda activities on the Internet. This activity is often concealed under an inconspicuous name, e.g. public relations agency, Internet research centre, etc. The operations of troll factories are usually focused on the political or economic sphere. The aim of the operations may be e.g. attacking political opponents, unfairly attacking a competing company or other action indicated by the ordering party. Troll factories achieve their goals using, among other things, fake news and hate speech."

(09-22-2025, 09:06 AM)quintessentone Wrote: I am questioning that theory because I've just been researching our neanderthal and other evolutional branch connections and the sharing of DNA. The rapid development and growth of our brain has been attributed to becoming bipedal which determined our evolutionary anatomical changes.

The Evolution of Human Growth: From Bipedalism to Brain Development • ExploreAnthro.com

It's a great story though, but if I were trying to survive amid the hardships they had to experience, including being prey for large animals, I'd want a sharp mind at all times.

It's a very interesting line of research, to try to find out how we evolved.  The mushrooms might have contributed to the more linguistic and artistic aspect of what eventually became the human brain.  Apparently linguistic activities are common on high doses of mushrooms, and that religious imagery and geometric forms are also very common on all doses of mushrooms and other psychedelics.  Spirituality and artistic ability, as well as language, are what really sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom...

(08-17-2025, 05:10 AM)greymagick Wrote: Terence McKenna was a psychedelic explorer, philosopher and author who gained insights into the structure of time through the use of magic mushrooms and DMT.  Although he was one of the main proponents of 2012 prophecy, his "Novelty Theory" suggested time as having a spiral structure, that gained momentum as historical sequences of evolution moved towards more complexity over time, which then proceeded to happen at a faster and faster rate of speed.

He used a computer model of his novelty theory, which allegedly graphed historical time on Earth with the ebb and flow of "habit and novelty", with novelty and complexity eventually moving exponentially towards the point of infinity on December 21st 2012. 

Although we are now living in 2025, it seems thoroughly apparent to anyone paying attention to technological innovation, as well as overall situations happening on the planet in the current time, that things are accelerating furiously.  Novelty theory explains this.

Terence McKenna gave a final interview about this subject in Hawaii, shortly before his death in 2000, which was eventually released on the website Reality Sandwich.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEKhIk-8Gg]

Obviously he is wrong because it is a time cube

(09-22-2025, 08:40 PM)chr0naut Wrote: Obviously he is wrong because it is a time cube

Interesting that you needed an archive.org The Wayback Machine link to get to the now defunct site.  I have to interpret this as a joke.

In the future, we won't be allowed to do one-liners here, in which case you'd actually have to make a one or two paragraph comment about what you are referring to...

(09-22-2025, 08:46 PM)greymagick Wrote:

Interesting that you needed an archive.org The Wayback Machine link to get to the now defunct site.  I have to interpret this as a joke.

In the future, we won't be allowed to do one-liners here, in which case you'd actually have to make a one or two paragraph comment about what you are referring to...

I think if people couldn't use humour about fringe topics, this site would soon become a wasteland.

Humour is free speech, too, and it often addresses the otherwise most taboo of topics.

(09-22-2025, 07:14 PM)greymagick Wrote: It's a very interesting line of research, to try to find out how we evolved.  The mushrooms might have contributed to the more linguistic and artistic aspect of what eventually became the human brain.  Apparently linguistic activities are common on high doses of mushrooms, and that religious imagery and geometric forms are also very common on all doses of mushrooms and other psychedelics.  Spirituality and artistic ability, as well as language, are what really sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom...

That could very well be, that is, if they felt and actually were safe in caves from predators and with that luxury of safety they could then embrace the wild abandon of magic mushrooms' gifts. So obviously from their art and formation of language you pose a reasonable and highly probably theory. 

(09-23-2025, 07:07 AM)quintessentone Wrote: That could very well be, that is, if they felt and actually were safe in caves from predators and with that luxury of safety they could then embrace the wild abandon of magic mushrooms' gifts. So obviously from their art and formation of language you pose a reasonable and highly probably theory. 

There are many eloquent talks that Terence McKenna gave that detail the entirety of his "stoned ape theory".  I can't remember them all, but I listened to them multiples of times back in the day!  He wrote a whole book that lays out the theory, called 'Food of the Gods'.  It's probably on The Pirate Bay or some such torrent site.  He has an entire elaborate theory where he lays out how he feels the mushrooms impacted the early human brain.  It's very interesting.  

ETA: Evolving Times was actually one of the early lectures I remember where he details the stoned ape theory.  For a rainy day, here you go: