Stoned Ape Theory: Foreword by Kit Carruthers
You're very trippy Terence McKenna, you're very very trippy. You did good, for the most part you did good. You were trippy. Obviously you're just a hippie stoner ponderer, stoned wouldn't it be cool if pondering. We're going to have to clear up a lot of your work for the general public or it's gonna be hard to get people to believe in the DMT Elves. It seems you tried your hardest to take this one back, but, now you've already given the stoners something to think about, so, we'll take it down for you.
In the early days of man, we gained visual acuity, sped reproduction, dissolved our egos to the point of embracing social cohesion and became capable of developing language due to early use of psychedelics.
Visual acuity has a base in reality I don't need to bother with it you're fine, but... Dissolved our egos, implying that had we not done this it would have been... It would have been something that functions lower than this? We had to scramble through our evolutionarily path to the point that we managed to squeak by with this and had we not done that everybody would be so solipsistically closed off we would just wander off into the jungle and die? Can't figure out have sex. Can't figure out talk to people.
We didn't start doing drugs until long after the development of language. The bicameral mind is pretty brilliant, it isn't so out of this world to think it may just point out the perfect mushrooom, don't eat these ones eat this one. It's statistically impossible these mushrooms were around in such a precisely perfect manner all over the early development of our minds that it would have worked out in this manner.
Instinctual collective knowledge does click drug use, we do know that much. This one goes up the nose, this one gets smoked, maybe if you're just that in tune you'll understand this one requires an MAOI. We're pretty sure, pretty damn sure, we knew this one makes you a better hunter. However it isn't going to... State... This one is required to birth civilization, God's that obsessed, that obsessed with drugs.
It... Can't happen. It can't happen. We evolved in Africa, that's where it's easy enough to find the drugs, then from there we spead... And the... Thu implaaant... Has already started... Is already in thurr... So we language from the implant.
This kind of thing would require a genetic mutation, you decided to go with mental... consciousness mutation. Well. Yeah there's... There's those. But. They don't. They don't work like this they don't do this one. The physical properties... Go into the mental... consciousness... Make the language. No. Consciousness evolves as thought evolves, it goes through various periods of enlightenment, until we're ready to embrace proper spirituality. Regular use of drugs within the gene pool most certainly does alter the genetics, we know this with alcohol, I wouldn't mind if we stuck some psychedelics in our gene pool, we definitely need to stick some marijuana in our gene pool. The amount of psychedelic use required to MAKE THE BRAIN LANGUAGE FINAL... Well I'm afraid that's going to take about one hundred thousand years of collective exponential tolerance curve build until there's not one ounce of psilocybin left on Earth.
It's better, the implication here is that our brains evolved pre-hard wired, set by God to embrace language, much like fire, the wheel, it's within our natural instinct. I would just love to be trippy with you, we owe the base of our understanding to psychedelics. Unfortunately it's just... Look us drugs people, you can't do nothin' without drugs it don't work, look at us we're the only ones got our heads on straight.