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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. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

2. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

3. Which mushroom will take the projection of male or female energy with equal ease?

4. When did the preparation of visionary Soma cease?

5. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would a culture that shifted back to being plant based be beneficial to today's culture?

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

3. How can the Stropharia cubensis mushroom be seen as both male and female?

4. In what ways is the shaman a remote ancestor of the poet and the artist?

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

6. What important factor did women bring to language?

7. What is shamanism?

8. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

9. What was Eliade's motive for exposing shamanism?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McKenna makes the argument that humans are pre-programmed to search out forms of intoxication. Do you agree or disagree with this assessment? What arguments other than those of McKenna do you have to support your position?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the ten points of McKenna's master plan in renewing the Archaic Paradise. Does this seem in theory like a good plan? Why or why not? How are some of these easier to implement then others? What would be the most difficult and why? What would be the easiest? Explain your answers thoroughly.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss an Archaic Revival. Does McKenna suggest that human beings should return to the dark ages? Why or why not? Does what McKenna suggests make sense and in what ways?

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