It’s episode 138 and the Sinister Sisters always keep an open mind. Can we get behind magic mushrooms and mushroom cults though? In today’s episode, leading asspert Sarah turns back the clock two million years and dives into the Stoned Ape theory. Did our Homo erectus cousins learn how to develop tools, establish language, and create art after discovering psychedelic mushrooms? Evolution - it’s not that simple!

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If you want to look into these topics yourselves, below are the sources used:

Food of the Gods by Terrance McKenna, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, the four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz,  https://www.booksfact.com/mysteries/ancient-astronauts-paintings-tassili-najjer-sahara-desert.html, https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/stoned-ape-return/, https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/stoned-ape-hypothesis.htm, https://www.samwoolfe.com/2013/05/terence-mckennas-stoned-ape-theory.html