LEADER 05357nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910457825803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-295-80300-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056478 035 $a(EBL)3444388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546207 035 $a(PQKB)10263090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444388 035 $a(OCoLC)772499855 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10503231 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL810469 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056478 100 $a20110217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDarwin's pharmacy$b[electronic resource] $esex, plants, and the evolution of the noosphere /$fRichard M. Doyle 210 $aSeattle, Wash. $cUniversity of Washington Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-295-99094-5 311 $a0-295-99095-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Glimpsing the Peacock Angel""; ""1 The Flowers of Perception: Trip Reports, Stigmergy, and the Nth Person Plural""; ""2 Rhetorical Mycelium: Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts?""; ""3 Rhetorical Adjuncts and the Evolution of Rhetoric: Darwin's Impassioned Speech""; ""4 LSDNA: Creative Problem Solving, Consciousness Expansion, and the Emergence of Biotechnolog""; ""5 Hyperbolic: Divining Ayahuasca""; ""6 The Transgenic Involution""; ""7 From Zero to One: Metaprogramming Noise, with Special Reference to Plant Intelligence"" 327 $a""Epilogue: In Darwin's Dreams""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"" 330 $a"Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as "eloquence adjuncts" that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noo˜sphere, defined by V.I. Vernadsky as the thinking stratum of the earth, the realm of consciousness feeding back onto the biosphere. Sharing intelligence, connecting with the noo˜sphere and integrating individuality into its ecosystemic context offers powerful and promising ways to respond to ecosystems in crisis, and formed the backdrop of what Doyle dubs the "ecodelic" thought of the environmental movement. Yet current policies criminalize the use of plant-based psychedelics while simultaneously feeding a violent global black market for refined and chemically-derived drugs.In this tour de force of "first-person science," Doyle takes his readers on a mind bending journey through the work of William Burroughs, Kary Mullis, Lynn Margulis, Timothy Leary, Norma Panduro, Albert Hoffman, Aldous Huxley, Dennis and Terrence McKenna, John Lilly and Phillip K. Dick. Readers who take the journey that is Darwin's Pharmacy will experience extraordinary insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself. Richard M. Doyle is professor of English and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Beyond Living and Wetwares"Darwin's Pharmacy is a significant achievement, a brilliant, ambitious, original piece of pedagogy. I can't imagine anybody but Doyle who could control and mobilize in the name of a single vision the range and dizzying variety of the material on offer." -Brian Rotman, Ohio State University"Darwin's Pharmacy is a beautiful book-poetry in prose and modern music in print. It is a book for all readers who have ever wondered whether dreams are another form or a different part of wakened consciousness and reality. Doyle dispenses with dualism and parallelism, expanding wonder from dreams to ecodelic states and the possibilities and difficulties of communication about these states via language." -Stanley Shostak, University of Pittsburgh"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aGaia hypothesis 606 $aBiosphere 606 $aHallucinogenic plants$xPsychic aspects 606 $aHallucinogenic drugs$xPsychological aspects 606 $aConsciousness 606 $aSexual selection in animals 606 $aRhetoric$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aGaia hypothesis. 615 0$aBiosphere. 615 0$aHallucinogenic plants$xPsychic aspects. 615 0$aHallucinogenic drugs$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aConsciousness. 615 0$aSexual selection in animals. 615 0$aRhetoric$xPhilosophy. 676 $a570.1 700 $aDoyle$b Richard$f1963-$0908813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457825803321 996 $aDarwin's pharmacy$92032658 997 $aUNINA