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May 31, 2025

The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)

Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.Scientists couldn't explain it until Terence McKenna proposed a radical theory. He believed early humans transformed into conscious beings not through fire or tools, but through eating a forbidden fungus growing in animal dung across Africa.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeF3n-1sPJY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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