Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about:… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image