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

2. What is interesting to note about Soma?

3. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?

4. What is a synonym to creode?

5. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John Pfeiffer observe about Upper Paleolithic art?

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

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

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

5. What are considered tools for the exploration of the human psyche? How are psychedelic shamans being considered as of recently again?

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

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

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

9. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What kinds of suggestions did McKenna make that offers the potential to reshape the way people look at their environment? How could this disrupt the current way of life? Would this be a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion? Why do you hold this position?

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