Well said Tony.

I'd also throw in Terence McKenna's work on DMT and the common hallucinations experienced by many test subjects both through his personal experiments, through major US universities and even during the CIA's. ( info at end)

That there would be common hallucinations threw a curveball at the Freudians, who believed far more strongly in the individual's unconscious history rather than on the Jungians, with their focus on upwellings from the collective unconscious...latent or buried if you will under our ancestors' shared experiences.

Oh yes, and what did the test subjects often call the sentient creatures they encountered? Beings which often held up mandalas or diagrams of impossible machines that somehow worked.

Elves.

McKenna called them the Tykes.

Now, as far as empirical data, as far as the 'bones' or archaeological evidence unearthed to support the existence of these DMT beckoned beings, of course there is none.

And before DNA became an archaeological tool, such speculation was relegated to the WOO trash bin.

But since we are only beginning to understand the role of our DNA and what aspects of our genetic lineage are activated, how dare we conclude that some of our real ancestors were not giants or dwarves or trolls and that our collective mythology, through archetypes or cautionary tales or not, has a genetic recollection of them.

Bravo on pointing out the necessity of polite dialogue. That's how ideas are shared and how discourse replaces diatribe.

See:

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of...https://www.goodreads.com › book › show › 51660.Fo...

In Food of the Gods, McKenna takes a historical look at the relationship between plants and human beings. This relationship is described in four parts: I.

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