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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse.
Psychedelic plants seduce us to interact with them, building an ongoing interdependence: rhetoric as evolutionary mechanism. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noosphere, or thinking stratum of the earth. The realization that the human organism is part of an interconnected ecosystem is an apprehension of immanence that could ultimately benefit the planet and its inhabitants.
To explore the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution, Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Immense! Introduces FPS, First Person Science, to PsYchedelic Lingo. A really amazing review of the recent Psychedelic Era since around 1943 or so. Albert Hofmann's first conscious LSD trip-notes reveal the necessity of self-use to properly assay these chemicals on human consciousness. This feature of Consciousness Research blew up on everyone with the Harvard brouhaha around 1962. Fifty years later this Tour de Force of erudition is an apology to Timothy Leary and Love Letter to Leary and Aldous Huxley, et al. How often have their books ever been reviewed if ever? This is from Doyle's rhetorical semiotic linguistic perspective... the major psychedelic pioneers are newly explained. A primary text of the most mind -blowing and mind-manifesting order. Over 10+ years in the making...don't miss it!