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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

596: The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)

May 31, 2025 · 23m
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  • Human brain nearly doubled in size 100,000 years ago in just few thousand generations, change that should have taken millions of years and remained unexplained by scientists
  • Terence McKenna proposed radical theory that early humans transformed into conscious beings through eating forbidden fungus growing in animal dung across Africa rather than through fire or tools
  • Fungal consumption theory offers unprecedented explanation for rapid human consciousness awakening

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