Read this article about the Stoned Ape Theory and wondered if that was true then put on a diet of psilocybin mushrooms the average monkey could become human too. If true that is amazing and humbling - so much for what it takes to be human. I like this excerpt from a 1774 essay on how we come to be human and no magic shrooms were insinuated
As in the womb we receive our original constitution, form, and every thing essential to our being, which we carry along with us into the light, and which greatly affect the succeeding periods of our life; so our temper and condition in the future life will depend on the conduct we have observed, and the character we have formed, in the present state. We are here in miniature, what we shall be at full length hereafter. The first rude sketch or outlines of reason and virtue must be drawn at present, to be afterwards enlarged to the stature and beauty of angels.
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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