Marijuana actually boosts creativity if you know the art of directing your thoughts towards a target
It’s been over 230,000 years since man has reached this present level of evolution and cognitive capability and much of our advancement to date, many would argue, had been progressed through the use of mind-altering substances available at the occasional cow or elephant patty. In fact, if you look back across time, you will find that at this exact period in time, people are making less use of naturally derived mind-altering substances than at any other time in the history of man. In his thought-provoking “Food of the Gods, published in 1993, author Terrence McKenna, makes the argument that psilocybin mushrooms were widely available in most open grasslands and that it is singularly responsible for the rapid evolutionary growth of the human brain in what has become known as the “Stoned ape hypothesis. He believed that specifically, psilocybin mushrooms were the “evolutionary catalyst” from which sprang everything from language, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, language, and projective imagination.
Evolution of the human brain
This idea may be difficult to grasp at first but by understanding the evolution of the human brain, we can get a better idea of how a mind-altering substance can actually enhance our creative thinking skills. In other words, if you understand the processes the evolving brain has undergone over the past 50 million years since the emergence of primates, then the possibility can seem not so far-fetched.
It is not possible to determine when the possibilities emerged but if you go back to the first sentient life to have emerged some 3.77 billion years ago, at that time you had early sentient life with its own life functions and were able to interact with other cells in nature. It possessed various systems including digestive, respiratory, excretory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, reproductive, nervous system and an immune system which was the same but different from the systems we possess today as humans. Cognitive functions, however, at a basic level consisted of two primarijuana functions:
- Recep which is the function of using its available senses or receptors to experience its environment;
- Precept which is the process of determining a course of action based on the senses experienced.
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