Hugh Newman

But in this area, this is where they think they found, certainly this part of the world is where the first ever wine was produced, was in Turkey, was in eastern Turkey, southeast Turkey. And so you've got beer, you've got wine being produced.

And one of the other things that's being talked about a lot, which we're going to get into in our book, I know Graham Hancock's well into this, is the psychedelic use in Southeast Turkey, because there's evidence at Ratafek Cave, I think it's called in Israel. where they found evidence of alcohol production there, which is 14,000 years old, this site, by the way. It's even older.

And one of the other things that's being talked about a lot, which we're going to get into in our book, I know Graham Hancock's well into this, is the psychedelic use in Southeast Turkey, because there's evidence at Ratafek Cave, I think it's called in Israel. where they found evidence of alcohol production there, which is 14,000 years old, this site, by the way. It's even older.

And one of the other things that's being talked about a lot, which we're going to get into in our book, I know Graham Hancock's well into this, is the psychedelic use in Southeast Turkey, because there's evidence at Ratafek Cave, I think it's called in Israel. where they found evidence of alcohol production there, which is 14,000 years old, this site, by the way. It's even older.

And they found possibly ergot as well. So they're getting ergot kind of mold growing on the old kind of beer gruel, whatever it is, or the grains. Yeah. And that could have been happening at Gobekli Tepe because if they were brewing stuff there. And so they may have been accidentally taking a whole load of LSD with their beer gruel and tripping the light fantastic.

And they found possibly ergot as well. So they're getting ergot kind of mold growing on the old kind of beer gruel, whatever it is, or the grains. Yeah. And that could have been happening at Gobekli Tepe because if they were brewing stuff there. And so they may have been accidentally taking a whole load of LSD with their beer gruel and tripping the light fantastic.

And they found possibly ergot as well. So they're getting ergot kind of mold growing on the old kind of beer gruel, whatever it is, or the grains. Yeah. And that could have been happening at Gobekli Tepe because if they were brewing stuff there. And so they may have been accidentally taking a whole load of LSD with their beer gruel and tripping the light fantastic.

And to me, it's a logical kind of reality to that because you look at the abstract nature of some of the stonework.

And to me, it's a logical kind of reality to that because you look at the abstract nature of some of the stonework.

And to me, it's a logical kind of reality to that because you look at the abstract nature of some of the stonework.

Yeah, look what comes up. Oh my God.

Yeah, look what comes up. Oh my God.

Yeah, look what comes up. Oh my God.

That's what you see if you have too much ergot, probably. Yeah, right. Oh, my God. And anyway, but so you've got like, you know, so the little innovations, some of them could have been accidental. They could have accidentally discovered like powerful psychedelics growing on their beer. Growing on their food or their wheat or their beer or whatever.

That's what you see if you have too much ergot, probably. Yeah, right. Oh, my God. And anyway, but so you've got like, you know, so the little innovations, some of them could have been accidental. They could have accidentally discovered like powerful psychedelics growing on their beer. Growing on their food or their wheat or their beer or whatever.

That's what you see if you have too much ergot, probably. Yeah, right. Oh, my God. And anyway, but so you've got like, you know, so the little innovations, some of them could have been accidental. They could have accidentally discovered like powerful psychedelics growing on their beer. Growing on their food or their wheat or their beer or whatever.

Because ergot is what Albert Hoffman, you know, synthesized LSD from. It's unbelievable. And there's also mushroom symbolism throughout this area. Terence McKenna wrote about possible mushroom symbolism, possible use of cannabis at Çatalhöyük, which was the famous first city in the world for a long time until, you know, Göbekli Tepe's turned up. That's further west in Turkey.

Because ergot is what Albert Hoffman, you know, synthesized LSD from. It's unbelievable. And there's also mushroom symbolism throughout this area. Terence McKenna wrote about possible mushroom symbolism, possible use of cannabis at Çatalhöyük, which was the famous first city in the world for a long time until, you know, Göbekli Tepe's turned up. That's further west in Turkey.

Because ergot is what Albert Hoffman, you know, synthesized LSD from. It's unbelievable. And there's also mushroom symbolism throughout this area. Terence McKenna wrote about possible mushroom symbolism, possible use of cannabis at Çatalhöyük, which was the famous first city in the world for a long time until, you know, Göbekli Tepe's turned up. That's further west in Turkey.

It dates to around... Where's that at? 7,000 BC. It's near Konya. It's in sort of central kind of Turkey. Okay. And that... So there's quite possibly... They were really going full shamanic at this time. I think there's a strong case for that.