Did mushrooms build the human mind?
The Boldest Claim in Psychedelics. In 1992, an ethnobotanist named Terence McKenna published a book with an idea so audacious that scientists have been arguing about it ever since. His claim: psilocybin mushrooms made us human. Not helped. Not influenced. Made. He proposed that the leap from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens — and everything that came with […]
