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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

by Terence McKenna · 1992

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s/t: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human Evolution

For the first time in paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. "Deserves to be a modern classic on mind-altering drugs & hallucinogens."—The Washington Post. Photos & illustrations.

Subject
historyphilosophyscienceanthropologypsychology
Genre
historical fictionfantasy
Themes
spiritualityaddictionreligionfoodnature
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 335 pages
Form
essays

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