| There is not so much evil in all this as you might suppose, and Providence will not permit the total destruction of that remnant of Philosophy which has escaped the lamentable shipwreck Truth has sustained.” (From Secret Sciences, 1670) Chapter 1: In the Beginning Goddess Created…. The fact that the Bible uses the term “God,” as in “God created” should tell us something right away. The book was clearly written by a man, not a woman. Woman creates, not man. There is no such thing as a “creator god” and there never has been until the advent of patriarchy. The only thing men create sometimes, is a mess and usually women are the ones who have to clean it all up. For too long now, the scale has been unbalanced, in favor of the patriarchy, and this book is a sincere attempt to correct that imbalance, in regard to religion, and even spirituality. This book, however, is not used to preach any such gospel. This book is about evidence. There have been a number of arguments put forth for years about why the bible could not be true, or how Genesis could not have happened this way or that. I’m going to stay away from all of that controversy and put forth information that is known or believed with a high degree of certainty as to its truth. The truth is that nobody can say what God said or God did unless they were there at the time. What do we know about the ancient history of the human race? Let’s start right there. Animals & Psychedelics Primates have a natural inclination to find healing herbs and plants. One such case is the chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Primatologists studying these apes noticed, in the dung there was a species of leaf that was never digested and so they tracked this down to a tree that exists a short distance from their primary habitat. It seems every few days the chimps would walk over to this tree and place the leaves in their mouths, before swallowing it whole. They would eat as many as thirty small leaves in this manner. Biochemist Eloy Rodriguez of the University of California at Irvine, then isolated the active ingredient from the Aspila, a reddish oil called thiarubrine-A. It was discovered by Neal Towers of the University of British Columbia that this kills bacteria in concentrations of less than one part per million and the chimps were consciously using this as a medicine or preventative. It was then realized that African people used Aspila leaves to treat wounds and stomachaches and it just so happens that out of the four species native to Africa, the chimps and the people both used the same three species only. Continued research by both Rodriguez and Towers have found roughly a dozen plants in use by the chimpanzee population for medicinal purposes of one kind or another. (1) |
Animals have been using psychedelics probably since they first learned to eat. Somehow animals have a sense of what they can and cannot eat, and they appear to enjoy the use of mind-altering plants, not just for food, but for the purpose of which they were put on the planet for, to get mammals high. For instance, Alchornea floribunda is used by gorillas and A. cordifolia is used by chimpanzees. A floribunda is a source of the drug alan, a visionary intoxicant used by several West African tribes. The tribal people claim to have discovered the use of this plant as an entheogen by observing gorillas after eating the roots. This is also how the natives of the Bwiti religion in Gabon, Africa, know how to use Iboka, the root from which Ibogaine is derived. Ibogaine is a very effective root to take for breaking addiction cycles and has been shown to help in putting an end to cocaine and heroin addiction. (2) Farmers and livestock breeders have often witnessed and been subjected to the whims of their animals who go looking to get high without “permission,” sometimes not returning for days. Mules, horses, cows, sheep, antelopes, pigs, rabbits and hens all seek out the plant called “locoweed,” also called “crazy-grass” or “crazy-seeds,” which represent about 40 different species of wild grasses. (3) Animals go crazy for locoweed and they have been caught stealing the sacks that farmers contain it in after cutting, to keep it from the animals, and they have also been caught overturning the wagons in which the sacks have been placed in order to get to the seed. Horses have been known to go crazy tripping and they dig up the roots to get to them while high, in a mania panic. (4) In Sumatra, tigers have been known to attack people carrying fermented durian fruit and then leaving the person alone, devouring the fruit instead. (5) Squirrels and chipmunks seek out and enjoy the fly-agaric A. muscaria mushroom, nibbling at it and becoming intoxicated as do ordinary flies, which get “drunk” from the juice of the water that sits on the surface of the cap and mixes with the mushroom, and they fall over, only to recover later on and fly away. When goats discover a cluster of psilocybin mushrooms, they stop eating other grasses entirely until the mushrooms are all consumed, then run about awkwardly, shaking wildly and displaying characteristics of an animal clearly intoxicated. (6) (1) Food of the Gods, The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, Terence McKenna, Bantam Book, 1993, p. 16)(E. Rodriguez, M. Aregullin, S. Uehara, T. Nishida, R. Wrangham, Z. Abramowsky, A. Finlayson, and G.H.N. Towers, "Thiarubrin-A, A Bioactive Constituent of Asilia (Asteraceae) Consumed by Wild Chimpanzees," Experientia 41 (1985) 419-20. (2) Samorini, Animals and Psychedelics, Page XII (3) ibid, page 18, 19 (4) ibid, Page 23 (5) ibid, page 29 (6) ibid, page 42 |