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I should probably add that it is much more likely that a drug that grows brain cells (ie: psilocybin mushrooms) would play a greater role in the development of the human brain over evolutionary spans of time. Whereas alcohol, proven to destroy brain cells, would likely not be involved in this process. In fact we might suppose that cultures that used alcohol tended towards decline, and this likely accounts for why alcohol has been prohibited in a number of eastern cultures, as well as by the Free-Masons and Protestants in America.

Terence explains clearly how Alcohol was a generally degraded form of the intoxicating mushroom cult of the near east. Grain could be cultivated and fermented by agricultural civilizations, while mushrooms could not be cultivated until very recently with the development of the microscope.