#2385 - Rick Strassman

“A very cool book I found in a New Age bookstore that describes the difference between a grudge and revenge and envy and jealousy, offering subtle ideas about how to relate to the world.”

“It's about the origin of the coyote and why the coyote is everywhere now. And part of it is because of the persecution by the gray wolf.”

“A very cool book I try to mention as often as possible that talks about 19 species of man and spans 2 billion years.”

“When you first started those studies and you published dmt, the spirit molecule, did that have an effect on people taking you seriously with all your other work?”

“The Book of Enoch is just fully psychedelic. I mean, at least a lot of it is. Yeah, it's a psychedelic version of the Bible in some ways.”

“The speaker discusses being in the middle of the audiobook 'Empire of the Summer Moon' for the second time, which is about the Comanches and the war between the settlers and the Comanches.”

“Primo Levi was a chemist, very clinical, took notes, remembered things in a very kind of dispassionate, almost journalistic description the kinds of things people can go through.”

“I read this little novel by Aldous Huxley, Many a summer Dies a Swan. It's about these people who live forever by eating the intestinal microbiome of carp.”

“I watched the TV show what's it called? The man from the High Castle and got me interested in reading the novel by Dick.”

“Elie Wiesel, too. Yeah. Auschwitz and the end of Auschwitz, like near the end, the last month or two.”

“Oh, that's a novel by Dick. Very interesting.”

“There's a book called the Red Tent. Can I ask you about the lot? Like, How. How old was that story?”

“Total Recall was his, too.”

“I even wrote a book about it. It's potentially fatal diarrhea.”