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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) The rise of communications.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Our sheer numbers.

2. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?
(a) In aboriginal reserves.
(b) In Third World countries.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

3. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Animal breeding.
(c) Domestication.
(d) Livestock.

4. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The optical impulses.
(b) The linguistic impulse.
(c) All of these.
(d) The auditory impulse.

5. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?
(a) All of these.
(b) The Tassili n Ajjer.
(c) The Tasili n Agger.
(d) The Tasilli n Ajjer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

2. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?

3. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?

4. What is produced by language?

5. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

2. What psychological shift left European civilization at a disadvantage?

3. Up until what point did shamanism lose its grip on humanity?

4. Why does cattle being a major motif in the Soma cult make little sense if Wasson is right?

5. What was noted physiologically with the evolution of language?

6. How does Western society regard healers? How is this a problem?

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

8. The knowledge of what mystery was lost and what was the affect on humanity of this loss?

9. What two group activities acted to draw the hunter gatherer and tribal people closer together that modern civilization disdains?

10. What is shamanism?

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