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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

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

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.

Scientists couldn't explain it until Terence McKenna proposed a radical theory. He believed early humans transformed into conscious beings not through fire or tools, but through eating a forbidden fungus growing in animal dung across Africa.

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Something happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago, something evolution can't explain.

1:04.8

In just a few thousand generations, our brain nearly doubled in size. No other species

1:10.6

has experienced anything like this.

1:13.0

And we didn't just get bigger brains.

1:16.6

We got enhanced abilities, increased intelligence, better eyesight,

1:21.7

faster reflexes, and the most amazing ability of all, consciousness.

1:26.7

And somehow, all of that happened fast, too fast for a scientific explanation.

1:33.7

But in the 1990s, an outsider offered an answer.

1:37.2

His theory was simple and immediately dismissed.

1:40.7

It contradicted everything the scientific establishment believed about the emergence of human consciousness.

1:46.0

He said the cause wasn't the discovery of fire or language or the use of tools.

1:51.0

He said all of those abilities were the result.

1:54.0

He said early humans transformed from primitive hominids to the most advanced life form on Earth because they added one simple thing to their diet.

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