Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-05-04
Books mentioned on #592: Dennis McKenna — An Ethnopharmacologist on Hallucinogens, Sex-Crazed Cicadas, The Mushrooms of Language, BioGnosis, and Illuminating Obscure Corners
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Tim Ferriss recommended The Mind of a Mnemonist by A. R. Luria, and discussed Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by Dennis McKenna. Dennis McKenna discussed Hallucinogens and Culture by Peter T. Furst.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by Dennis McKenna is a compelling memoir that chronicles the author's extraordinary life experiences, early plant experiments, and adventures alongside his brother Terence McKenna within the world of ethnopharmacology and psychedelic exploration.
Discussed“I thought we could start with a number of excerpts, highlights that I grabbed from The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, which chronicles many of your life experiences, adventures, and misadventures alongside your brother and the many other people in your life.”
Where to get it
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Hallucinogens and Culture
Discussed“The connection to LSD and language and I think even more so with mushrooms because you're probably familiar with an essay I think by Henry Munn that was published in a book called uh I think it was by Peter Furst called Hallucinogens and Culture. This was around 1970. There's a wonderful chapter in there called The Mushrooms of Language.”
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The Mind of a Mnemonist
The Mind of a Mnemonist by A.
Recommended“So, there are two resources I want to recommend. The first is a book that I first bought in I want to say late high school called The Mind of a Mnemonist. So, the mind of, as in mnemonic device, The Mind of a Mnemonist, A Little Book About a Vast Memory, and it's written by A. R. Luria. Or”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“one thing I'd like to mention, you've quoted a number of times from the Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss. People may be interested to know that there'll be a second edition coming out toward the end of the year. Oh, no kidding. I know you did. Yeah, they're going to reprint it. I've written a new chapter. So, it'll be”