[Dancecult-l] Just wonderful lecture on the symbiotic evotion of plants w/ other species

[Evan Martin]

This might be somewhat off-topic but I think some of you might deeply enjoy
this delightful, lovely, lively lecture delivered at Berkeley by Michael
Pollan called: Cannabis, Forgetting and the Botany of Desire.
He touches on the way plants use ingeniously diverse methods of evolution
for controlling animals chemically through the animal's desires, and talks
about Andrew Weil's '4th drive' of humans to change consciousness,,, the
evoltuionary benefits of various altered states (such as the neurological
necessity of short-term and long-term forgeting) and manifold other
enthusiastic speculations.  He's a humanist preacher for hardcore
scientists, a gardening journalist turned mainsteam science writer with a
widely encompassing education in psychedelic and plant-path principles.
The lecture is a full hour so be sure to set aside some 'time' and watch
till the end.
(It's on google video so watch before it vanishes into the digital ether--)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5761349929232902971&q=botany&hl=en
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