From the Bookshelf of The Joe Rogan Experience Library…

[close] During the Q&A portion of his 2009 comedy special, Talking Monkeys In Space, an audience member asked Joe Rogan what his favorite book is. His answer was Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna (you can listen to his complete answer below). McKenna was an ethnobotanist and psychonaut who greatly influenced Rogan’s views on psychedelics and consciousness. In Food of the Gods, he explores the role that plants, drugs and altered states of consciousness have played throughout human history. Fans of the podcast are no doubt familiar with the ‘stoned ape theory’ linking human evolution with the use of psilocybin mushrooms, which McKenna proposes in the book. His underlying message is that humans need to revive their historical relationship with psychoactive plants in order to avoid destroying the planet and themselves.