/lit/ - Literature

>>20121984
Man it's been a while since I got to post this

>>20121901
>the phony baloney /pol/ack tourist "tradcaths" shilling bakker were conned by a fedoratipper
not surprising that those morons would compare him favorably against Wolfe and Tolkien

>>8644431

I read it and enjoyed it. You don't have to agree 100% with him main theory to enjoy it and it includes a lot of other stuff that's interesting. I think his theory is plausible although if true it probably only played a minor role as certain points and wasn't a central driver of evolution.

I do agree though with the point that they allow people who use them the right way to change themselves to become more intelligent, creative, insightful, better social skills etc and that in an evolutionary sense this is a beneficial thing. I also agree with his view that psychoactive plants particularly the psychedelics have played a prominent role in man's life including during Classical Greece and that modern man's disconnect from them (for many people at least) is a major source of problems.

Only other book by him I read was "True Hallucinations" which wasn't worth the time spent reading it tbqh. It was basically a journal of a semi-interesting camping trip interspersed with a bunch of unsubstantiated nonsense about mushrooms-induced soundwaves changing DNA and similar crap. Understandably, him and his brother later distanced themselves from that book.