Terence McKenna – 228 Trialogue The Evolutionary Mind 1998

“The development of current brain size is not the reason that there has been this explosion of technical
innovation recently. Brain size hasn’t changed much for 100,000 years.” -Rupert Sheldrake
“It’s much more likely that for most of human history it was not man the huntER but man the huntED. … It
wasn’t until about 50,000 years ago that there was an improvement in hunting technologies all around the
world, whereby human beings could indeed become fairly effective hunters. But for most of the three and a half
million years of hominid history it was man the huntED.” -Rupert Sheldrake
“The shaman is a person, a designated member of the social group, who can mentally change into an animal,
who can become so animal-like that other members of the social group are appalled and draw back.”