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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?

2. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?

3. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?

4. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

5. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what regard do most Westerners hold magic and those that claim to be practitioners of it?

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

4. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

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

6. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

7. What is the difference between a dominator society and a partnership society?

8. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

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

10. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the shift from a goddess to god. What kinds of values were lost in the shift, according to McKenna? How might humanity benefit in reverting to that state of consciousness now? What kinds of behavioral patterns were changed when the deity changed?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss shamanic ritualized use of mushrooms. Should it be classified as a religion and therefore practicable by all? Why or why not? According to McKenna, what sort of 'divine experience' is possible on indole hallucinogens? Is this the worship of a false idol? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the book. What bias is presented in its layout? How does it display this bias in its representation? In what ways could the book have been given a more two sided approach? What would have been your opinion of it had this been the case?

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