Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere PDF

Rating: (7 reviews) Author: Richard M. Doyle ISBN : 9780295990941 New from $63.00 Format: PDF

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". . . offer[s] unique insights into the pleasures and desires that animate our relationships . . . The diverse source material Doyle uses serves as a model for the kind of commons he celebrates. He offers wonderfully attentive readings of trip reports from famous users . . ." -Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, Women's Studies Quarterly

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This book inquires into the swarm of ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions provoked by psychedelic experience in the context of global ecological crisis.

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• Series: In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: University of Washington Press (May 20, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0295990945
• ISBN-13: 978-0295990941
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere PDF

Darwin's Pharmacy is an extraordinary book, which is simply overflowing with exciting new ideas about the co-evolution of psychedelic plants, the human mind, and the planet.

Penn State English professor Richard Doyle's book is a mind-stretching achievement, that views the literature on psychedelic drugs and plants through the eyes of evolutionary theory, and how our interaction with these mind-altering plants effects their selection in evolution, and ours, by symbiotically increasing one another's reproductive success.

Doyle synergistically combines a Darwinian perspective with what is known about psychedelic states of consciousness, and fruitfully builds upon the work of great thinkers and pioneers in the field of psychedelic research--such as Aldous Huxley, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, John Lilly, and Rick Strassman--taking us into whole new realms of thought.

Doyle's primary thesis is that psychedelic plants and human beings have been influencing one another's evolution over time, often in surprising ways. With their mind-amplifying powers, psychedelic plants seduce us into interacting with them. We help to propagate them, and they intensify "a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse." That is, they give us a lot to talk about, and, according to Doyle, psychedelic plants are also helping us to engage our minds with the "noosphere," what the late French paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin called the thinking layer of our planet.

So many novel and thought-provoking ideas are playfully explored and masterfully blended in this unique volume, that I can barely summarize them here.