Food of the Gods

A now deceased Terrence McKenna wrote a book under the title Food of the Gods about thirty years ago.  His theory was that apes on the plains of Africa came out of the forests to harvest psychedelic mushrooms and became human via this “food of the gods”.  This old friend of mine loved to shock people and was a relentless promoter of entheogenic plants so I always took this theory with a heaping spoonful of salt.  What I never doubted was the quality of food ingested to be an evolutionary, or devolutionary force.