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... of Africa and to adopt new styles of life in the grasslands, uh, new diets, trading in vegetarianism for being omnivores, trading in, uh, a lif...

...were fruit eating, they ate some percentage of insects composed their diet, they had a pack signaling repertoire that was fairly complicated by ...

... human evolution and indeed in evolutionary models in ... emphasis to diet when we talk about natural selection of an animal species we tend to ...

...es. But for a very long time, the presence of psilocybin in the human diet pharmacologically interrupted that maladaptive behavior and created a...

... species, you know that most animals tend (12:30) to specialize their diet. Insects are famous for this. If you find a caterpillar and you want ...

...ution of our species was tertiary mutagenic constituents of the human diet as we made the shift from a specialized fruit eating diet to an omniv...

...ially dangerous or toxic monoamine that might be taken in through the diet. So it's very interesting to pharmacologists to hear that there is an...

... spiritual development as looking for the answer: is it Taoism? Is it diet? Is it tantra? We look for the answer, and I think we have become so ...

...ing their gate and learning to walk on the surface, by changing their diet and learning to include meat, and they, and by refining the symbol-pr...

...ut grass, but cats, hunting cats have a great deal to say about their diet, because a top carnivore to be successful must in a certain sense thi...

...errupted for about 100,000 years by the psilocybin in the paleolithic diet. This behavioral style of male dominance was chemically interrupted b...

...ons to, uh, a sensitivity to the presence of vitamin-C or zinc in our diet, or all the rest of this malarky, we are the prevaricators of this si...

...oreal vegetarian lifestyle we came under great pressure to expand our diet and the - i believe that the great unstudied factor in human evolutio...

...ns about the impact of biogenically active and psychoactive amines in diet, specifically in the diet of early hominids in Africa, suggesting tha...

... ancestors came under nutritional pressure they began expanding their diet. This was the moment when we became, uh, partially carnivorous, when ...

...rt, yearning… probably was the inclusion of psychedelic plants in our diet during that episodic moment when we went from being fruititarian cano...

...cal neotony, which was reinforced by, uh, mutagenic influences in the diet, is carried over into culture as a cultural characteristic. Have you ...

...ciousness — either through taking plant hallucinogens or manipulating diet or through flagellation and ordeal or by some means — perturbs consci...

... individual's personality is, uh, often largely a reflection of their diet. There has not been a human culture, uh, that did not bear upon it th...

...in to descend from the trees and to hunt in packs and to shift from a diet of, uh, canopy fruits and berries, and roots dug from the ground to a...

...t banish interior demons. These are demons of knowledge, the wrathful dieties are the knowledge dieties, and the knowledge that they hold is the...

...have... TM: Over a million years... ED: You know, not just drugs, but diet, temperament, genetics... TM: And now this. All these various things....

...ea that it was stimulated by psychedelic compounds in the early human diet – and I’ve ridiculed this idea to you before – the idea that human be...

...rooms and the primates and all that, really what’s being said is that diet is the key. That foods are very important and this is what they’re sa...

...nd years ago on the plains of Africa this, the expansion of the human diet, the restless search for new food sources that led our primitive ance...

..., and than you, yourself, had before you admitted this item into your diet. Well, you know, this is a self-reinforcing situation on a scale of t...

...lved into a pack-hunting creature of the grassland with an omnivorous diet, and omnivores by their very nature expose themselves to a very large...

...de any attempt to discuss the impact on human evolution of changes in diet, which were, uh, uh, swift and unusual in this evolving grasslands si...

...mplex programming problem, if it's an issue of historical research or diet or anything else, there are 50 or 60 people just waiting to talk to y...

...minance in our species was suppressed chemically by psilocybin in the diet. It was still there [Terence coughs] hard-wired in the genes, but che...

...long as two hundred thousand years, the presence of psilocybin in the diet and the environment suppressed ego and so a human relationship to the...

...rom outer space or not, the presence of psychedelic substances in the diet of early human beings created a number of changes in our evolutionary...

...rcing of linguistic signaling has to do with the present in the human diet in that early stage of these mushroom, uh it's known that the mushroo...

...as you see them here, philo- sophical discourses. There was stress on diet and purity; asceticism was typical of the Hermetic approach. In Gnost...

...ith my position on this. I think that psilocybin in the earlier human diet interfered with the ordinary primate tendency to form gender-based hi...

...ved for about 100,000 years in human beings because of an item in the diet. Essentially, they were self-medicating themselves into a slightly di...

... for that. So my thing has always been, whether you present me with a diet, a social arrangement, a sexual conundrum, a work of art, my criteria...

...ons, yoga, Tantra, Buddhism, Zen, whatever. Alternative approaches to diet – vegetarianism, macrobiotic, so forth and so on, and alternative app...

... nature, perhaps a hundred thousand years, psilocybin was part of our diet and our rituals and our religion. And though those individuals taking...

...n the feedback loop from the presence of hallucinogenic plants in the diet asks the question, “How can we get the plants that we can't grow?” an...