Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere

Index

347 A Abbot, Edward, 57 Aequorea victoria jellyfish, 244 ahimsa, 260 Alba, 236, 243–45, 249–50, 328n12, 329n13 alcohol, 32, 99, 216, 254 Alexander, Christopher, 162 algorithm, 6, 18, 40, 48, 66, 101, 181, 187, 204, 230, 232, 286, 291, 293; and cannabis , 240–42, 246; computer, 29, 50; and Philip K. Dick, 49–50, 296; rhetorical, 137, 220, 268; and Stephen Wolfram, 80, 229; writings as, 53 aliens, 20, 41, 52, 192, 227–32, 265, 300 Allot, Robin, 119, 233 Alpert, Richard, 23, 102, 110, 177, 186–87, 309, 310, 315 Amanita muscaria mushroom, 45, 58, 132, 149, 150, 315 Amazon, 40, 125, 176, 267, 312; and the author, 3, 196, 198, 201, 255, 274; and ayahuasca, 3, 38, 97, 199, 201, 204, 206; rain forest, 148; and Richard Spruce, 201, 204; and William S. Burroughs, 97, 206 angiosperms, 14, 58, 59, 68, 70, 84, 89 Apollo space program, 9, 10, 74, 87–88, 339 Aristotle, 29, 121, 163 artificial life, 164–65, 178 asthma, 99, 126, 255 Atman, 51, 79, 222, 285, 286, 290, 293 attention, 22, 38, 80, 94, 98, 112, 118, 123, 134, 145, 203, 206, 210, 252, 273; and Aldous Huxley, 64, 69–71, 84, 94, 123, 157; and artificial life, 164–65; attractors , 37, 94, 123, 162, 211, 224, 266, 293, 301, 323–24n12; and the author, 42, 196–97, 255, 277, 282, 290, 299, 301; captured the, 79, 84, 86, 146, 154–55, 157, 216–17; and Charles Darwin, 130, 137–43, 147–48, 155, 249; close, 145, 147, 148; and the collective, 26, 143, 159, 275; competition for, 37, 64, 155; and confusion, 42, 49; and consciousness, 63, 142, 148; discipline of the, 23–25, 72; and DNA, 175–76, 253; and flowers, 59, 94, 169; focus of the, 42, 80, 84, 102, 112, 119, 140, 141, 149, 153, 159–60, 170, 174, 266–69, 288, 293–95, 313; and Global Consciousness Project, 157, 323–24n12; and the noösphere, 83–84, 141, 175, 323–24n12; orientation of the, 77, 265; and psychedelics, 24, 57, 85, 89, 111, 120, 134, 169, 218, 237, 267–69, 294, 301, 330n12; reader’s, 37, 56, 57, 64, 96, 133, 221, 292; and sexual selection, 37, 138–43, 146–48, 249; sink, 89, 160, 170; tuning of, 37, 39, 132, 266, 269; vortex, 39, 98 ayahuasca, 17, 25, 36, 73, 216, 318n15, 319n22; and the author, 3–4, 40, 41–42, 98–99, 196, 223, 235, 252–59, 271–75, 277, 290, 306; brewing of, 38, Index 348 Index 199–200, 326nn1–2; and the McKennas , 125, 206, 207–8, 209, 212, 255, 282, 305, 326n1; and rhetoric, 38, 41; and Richard Spruce, 201–5, 206; and visions, 51, 171; and William S. Burroughs , 97–98, 200, 206. See also yage B bacteria, 12, 13, 32, 59, 128, 134, 148, 164, 275, 276, 290; humans as adjuncts to, 252–53 Bak, Per, 149. Banisteriopsis caapi (B. caapi), 3, 27, 200, 202–4, 209, 227, 313, 315. See also ayahuasca “Bardo Thodol,” 23, 100–103, 112, 115, 217–19, 259 Bateson, Gregory, 50, 68, 144–45, 149 Beal, Dana, 280, 288, 289, 292, 293, 330 Benjamin, Walter, 106–7, 134 bicycle, 45, 182, 255, 276 biology, 32, 63, 113, 163, 228; evolutionary , 59; human, 7; molecular, 22, 38, 175–77, 191, 261 bioluminescence, 39, 243–44, 249, 328n12 bioprospecting, 15. biosphere, 82–83, 125–26, 148, 163, 253, 272; man indivisible from, 7; and the noösphere, 83–85, 96, 141, 143, 175, 276 The Biosphere (Vernadsky), 82 biotechnology, 39, 174, 176, 177, 236, 243, 249, 306 bird deity, 42, 173, 302 Blake, William, 23, 25, 96, 178, 309 Bohm, David, 146, 156, 160, 161, 162, 291, 297, 311; and hologram, 283, 286; and mindedness, 159; and music, 145, 158 Borges, Jorge Luis, 56 Botticelli, 69, 70. Brahman, 51, 78, 222, 285, 286, 291, 293 Buddha, 162, 275, 283; Dharma body of, 64 Burch, Mark, 219, 220, 319n24 Burroughs, William S., 96, 200, 306, 312– 13; and Allen Ginsberg, 97, 134; cut-up technique of, 98, 134–35, 186, 270; and Naked Lunch, 135, 321n9; and the Third Mind, 206, 257; and virus of the Word, 186; and yage (ayahuasca), 85, 97, 98, 134, 135, 206 Bush, George H. W., 297 Bush, George W., 6–7, 260 Bwiti, 280–81, 293 C cannabis, 107, 158, 249, 329n13; as cash crop, 19; cultivation of, 39, 259; hybrids of, 236–46, 307; prohibition of, 38, 260; sex of...