Plants and language

According MacKenna, our species is largely the result of the exchange of

reciprocal influences with certain plants that produce strong effects on the mind.

This author hints out that some of the substances contained in them have a veryspecific influence on human capabilities. An example is psilocybin, an active agent found in teonanacatl and other fungi. It “causes a deep catalytic impact impulse in language”.

Individuals or human communities who consumed the fungus were able to

better communicate through language. Those who did not were at a disadvantage.

Substance-eating populations achieved a predominance over non-users.

Henry Munn argued in his work “The fungi of language.”:

“Language is an ecstatic activity of signification. Intoxicated by fungi, fluency, ease, appropriate expressions are such that one is astonished by the words that emerge. For the shaman, it is as if existence itself was expressed through it .. “

Amanita muscaria, a known fungus growing in temperate and cold forests

of Eurasia also causes reactions of intense activity and talkativeness.

The ingestion of ayahuasca (infusion of the Amazonian plant Banisteriopsis

caapi) produces a significant increase in sensory, visual, auditory and olfactory acuity

Both ayahuasca and the fly agaric teonanacatl adapt well to human physiology, are relatively harmless and not addictive. In both cases, the impact is very intensely psychoactive, but its side effects are rare and short-lived.

There are numerous plants with psychoactive properties similar to ayahuasca, fly agaric or teonanacatl. Their influence changes according to species, varieties and even the place where they grow. Some of these plants have been used as a source of knowledge for thousands of generations. It is likely that through them

social ideas and information were processed and shared by human communities since ancient times.

Many traditional societies focused their activities on ingestion or use of these substances. This led to special consideration and their consumption constituted an essential part of human religious and spiritual systems.

Following the terminology proposed by Jacques Mabbit, we will call them “Master Plants”.