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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?

2. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?

3. What tree did the woman eat from?

4. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?

5. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the numbered paragraphs so important to humanity?

2. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

3. What has happened to communication techniques throughout evolution?

4. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

5. What is shamanism?

6. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

7. What was Eliade's motive for exposing shamanism?

8. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

9. What would a culture that shifted back to being plant based be beneficial to today's culture?

10. What are considered tools for the exploration of the human psyche? How are psychedelic shamans being considered as of recently again?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss narcotic tourism. Do you think this is a practice that should be acceptable? Why or why not? Should people be allowed to consume a narcotic in another country, despite it being illegal in their home country? Defend your position with at least three main arguments and refute an argument against yours.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss McKenna's idea to introduce a two hundred percent federal tax on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. What might these funds be allocated for? How could the government benefit from such a legalization? How does cannabis legalization alone promise to net the government far more in taxes than alcohol and tobacco combined? What information supports that theory?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss an Archaic Revival. Does McKenna suggest that human beings should return to the dark ages? Why or why not? Does what McKenna suggests make sense and in what ways?

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