The Bad Trip Hypothesis: The dietary origin of our civilization, why it is the way it is and how to change it

What if our seemingly chaotic past contains a hidden fractal pattern? A repeating rule, visible from the very origin of our civilization all the way to the behaviors of our current artificial intelligence systems?The Bad Trip Hypothesis offers a fresh look at the history of our global civilization over the last ten thousand years by distilling vast multidisciplinary research into a single book. Originating in a life-long quest for understanding of his traumatic past, Filip Roth takes us on a journey through space and time to trace the one grain that may have started it all.A unified explanation covering:Personal experience. Based on author's own childhood in a gifted but emotionally unstable family, a radical new connection is made.Multidisciplinary research. From the Neolithic agricultural revolution to fractals and AI, The Bad Trip Hypothesis integrates previously disparate scientific domains into a single unified explanation supported by over 400 bibliography references.Mental health. Suggests the potential dietary factors behind the development of personality disorders (including narcissism) and the potential straightforward treatment.Origin of civilization. Traces the one grain through history and shows how this one plant might have been the key factor behind the development of our global society.Medical knowledge. Did we perhaps miss the key causal factors affecting the way how we diagnose various physical and mental health issues?Key figures. From Julius Caesar to Donald Trump, did driven individuals have something in common that "helped" them to get all the way to the top?Artificial intelligence. If we feed our human training data to a machine, do our mental diseases get transferred as well?Geopolitics. We are living in a world that seems to be getting more and more violent; can we perhaps change this trajectory and decrease the levels of violence rapidly and on a global scale? Read more