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Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad by James Oroc. Martin considers this a fantastic read because it looks at the 5-MeO-DMT experience from a Buddhist and Hindu perspective. The Toad and the Jaguar by Ralph Metzner. A quick read on 5-MeO-DMT from a pioneer
Timothy Ferriss • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Neal Stephenson, who’s penned several of my all-time favorites, including Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Artist and choreographer Martha Graham put it this way: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
But Raichlen had in mind another candidate, a class of brain chemicals called endocannabinoids. These are the same chemicals mimicked by cannabis, or marijuana. Endocannabinoids alleviate pain and boost mood, which fit Raichlen’s requirements for rewarding physical labor.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
psychedelics once again. “In the big picture,” he told me the first time we met in his home office, “these drugs have been around at least five thousand years, and many times they have surfaced and have been repressed, so this was another cycle. But the mushroom still grows, and eventually this work would come around again.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Psychedelic use in ancient and modern times … the modern brain has 20k words, so a psychoactive has a “scrambling” effect. But, in the Stoned Ape Theory, imagine a tripping hominid with only a bank of 20 words. It would be a different experience. In some ways, it’s probably more extreme for a creature trapped in their own constructs of language.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.”
- Bill Hicks