Inspired by the Stone Ape theory of human evolution by the McKenna Brothers, in which it is argued that a community of apes might have consumed the magic mushrooms they found in the wild. That act could have profoundly changed their brains and allowed them to experience glossolalia in a different way.“It’s not so simple to say that they ate psilocybin mushrooms and suddenly the brain mutated, I think it’s more complex than that, but I think it was a factor. It was like software to program this neurologically modern hardware to think, to have cognition, to have language—because language is essentially synesthesia. Language is the association with apparently meaningless sound except that it’s associated with the complex of meaning.” -Dennis McKenna