Acid Dreams
Reportage & memoirThe long pause
How LSD travelled from CIA project to counterculture to Schedule I. The politics, documented.
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Reportage & memoirThe long pauseHistory, culture & policy
What it is
Terence McKenna advances a sweeping cultural-evolutionary argument that psychoactive plants and fungi shaped human consciousness and society across history. PMG includes it as a touchstone for the anthropological and historical framing around psilocybin and related substances. It is a work of speculative cultural history and personal theory, not clinical research, and its claims should be read as McKenna's interpretive argument rather than established science.
The record
- Author
- Terence McKenna
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- ISBN
- 0553078682
- Kind
- Reportage & memoir
- Subject
- History, culture & policy
- Era
- The long pause
- Links checked
- 31 Jul 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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