An Interview with Joe Rogan
Writing by Chris on Monday, 30 of July , 2007 at 8:49 am
People know Joe Rogan from News Radio, Fear Factor, and the Man Show, but none of those showcase what you see when he does standup. I really recommend going an checking out his stuff. Everything from Lion Sex to the building of the pyramids is funny when he does it.
Psychedelic drugs and chemicals certainly seem to be an area of interest. You name-drop Oxytocin in your act, and your detailed discussion of DMT is a kind of web classic. Any other drugs our young readers should be trying to get their hands on?There’s a fascinating theory by Terrence McKenna. He believes that human evolution was accelerated by the consumption of psilocybyin [psychedelic] mushrooms. When the rainforest receded into grassland in Africa a million years ago, the hominids came out of the trees and started looking for other food sources. If you look at primates in Africa, they’re always flipping over cow dung to find beetle grubs, and these mushrooms grow on cow dung.
And if you ate these mushrooms, they would do a bunch of pretty interesting things that would tend to accelerate evolution. In low doses, mushrooms actually increase visual acuity, which makes you better hunter. They also make you hornier and give you consciousness-expanding experiences. It kills the ego, and it makes you look at life from an enhanced and much more objective perspective. Those things alone, point to one of the possible reasons the human brain doubled in size over a period of two million years. Which is the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record. The doubling in size of an organ over the period of two million years.
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