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  <title><![CDATA[Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution]]></title>
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  <default_description>For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. &quot;Deserves to be a modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens.&quot;--The Washington Post. Photos and illustrations.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Terence McKenna]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 23 10:26:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great-much more than a treatise on &quot;shrooms&quot; and dope. Have you ever thought about the mind altering power of purified sugar, the politics of coffee, and the parallels between these and what we consider to be more dangerous drugs like cocaine?]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 24 21:13:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 24 21:36:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you why this book is FUCKING AMAZING - so you'll just have to trust me. This guy is an ethno-biologist, meaning he studies the interactions of &quot;substances&quot; and world cultures (past and present), and how the two have influenced each o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16293914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2339675">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[psychedilc fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 24 18:30:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 02 22:23:10 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The mushroom king, if you've ever run into a real shroom fan, then they should know all about McKenna.  If you like shamanism, like I did at one point in my life, you will find this interesting.  Otherwise, it's just another book that i attempted to read.  It wasn't very good, even with my interest ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2339675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39740641">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 09 19:20:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 18:42:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book! The decision to close out 2008 with this book was made easier by my last McKenna review. In Food of the Gods, McKenna takes a historical look at the relationship between plants and human beings. This relationship is described in four parts: I. Paradise II. Paradise Lost III. Hell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39740641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49178896">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 13 13:59:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 06:46:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several years back while shopping at Goodwill, I came across a copy of 'Food of the Gods'  I knew of the book, but had not yet read it.  A $1.99 lighter, I left the store with my new book.  It was several days later that I began reading the book, open the first page to find that it was autographed b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49178896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38368432">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 05:33:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 18:45:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To my dismay, this book was not about food and diet as I expected. This book is more about the history of psychoactive drugs and societal attitudes towards mind-altering substances. The book introduces some really interesting and thought-provoking concepts, such as the notion that mushroom intoxicat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38368432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72831385">
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    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 18:13:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 28 18:15:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a radical history as the title anounces however there are so many quotes by scholar on the subject and historical places and worship practices that i found it to really change what i thought I knew about the past of human kind... it takes a special book to warp or rather correct my understan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72831385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61136053">
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read, but I think McKenna shines much more on tape than on the page. He's reiterated the main thesis of this book in live speeches countless times, and usually in greater detail, so for me that kind of renders Food of the Gods semi-useless to an extent.]]></body>
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    <review id="42596072">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 10 13:39:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rocketed through this book, brilliant read, despite the fact that half of it is a load of unscientific groundless tosh. Still,learned alot along the way. Excellent to read in a cramped archaic bus in the middle of the jungle.]]></body>
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    <review id="23365229">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of the conclusions that the author describes (human evolution to communicating creatures is due to the use of hallucinogenics, the government conspires to create spousal abuse by keeping alcohol legal, etc.) is not backed up with much scientific reasoning that actually makes sense (unless you a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23365229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48824783">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 10 12:32:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An intriguing overview of mankind's forever shifting relationships with consciousness altering substances.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="8529627">
    <user id="70227">
    <name><![CDATA[SeaGreen]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone who is addicted to sugar]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 01 13:27:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 01 13:30:47 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An essential read and look into how our culture is defined by substances.  You will go crazy over how SUGAR, an american staple, is brought to us strictly on the use of slaves.  The laws against many plants infuriate and have deeper implications and deeper roots than just &quot;they're bad for you.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8529627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42112173">
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    <name><![CDATA[ana*]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 11:29:22 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 11:30:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[mushies re-wrote consciousness...<br/>try it you'll like it...]]></body>
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    <review id="46280047">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually just finished this today.]]></body>
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    <review id="20291000">
    <user id="812952">
    <name><![CDATA[Evie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Thunder Bay, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 08 11:25:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book. It really made me think about something I'd never put much thought into before: the role of hallucinogenic plants in prehistory (beyond the obvious shamanic uses) and how psilocybin and other drugs have shaped our physical evolution as well as our culture. Well written and engaging. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20291000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43942769">
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    <name><![CDATA[Freakball]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 10:35:06 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[no comment]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[rules.]]></body>
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    <review id="5483561">
    <user id="237249">
    <name><![CDATA[Keleigh]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sacramento, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating study of the history of drugs, from chocolate and caffeine to DMT and magic mushrooms. McKenna knows his stuff, and doesn't venture into overzealous &quot;archaic revivalism,&quot; even when outlining his theory on the displaced link between psilocybin and the Edenic tree of knowledge....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5483561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="142862">
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    <body><![CDATA[this book has a wonderful description and background of natural drugs that have been outlawed by our government. i remember sitting on a bench in the broomall shopping plaza and coming to the realization that we humans are nothing but a virus to mother earth- and i felt so hopeless. but i was comfor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/142862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply one of the most lucid, base-covering, and dare I say plausible theories of human development and evolution i've ever come across. And if you try to describe it to anyone in conversation, they will look at you as if you are shooting raw  blood from your eye sockets. If it were high school curr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/312120">more...</a>]]></body>
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