Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2023-01-27
Books mentioned on #652: Famed Explorer Wade Davis — How to Become the Architect of Your Life, The Divine Leaf of Immortality, Rites of Passage, Voodoo Demystified, Optimism as the Purpose of Life, How to Be a Prolific Writer, Psychedelics, Monetizing the Creativity of Your Life, and More
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Tim Ferriss discussed The Wayfinders by Wade Davis. Wade Davis discussed From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming, Dr No by Ian Fleming, The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs and others, The Palm and the Pleiades by Stephen Hugh-Jones, and From the Milk River by Christine Hugh-Jones.
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The Wayfinders
The Wayfinders by Wade Davis is an exploratory nonfiction book that examines endangered cultures, traditional wisdom, and the extraordinary navigational skills of indigenous peoples around the world.
Discussed“It was actually being gifted The Wayfinders by a friend of mine. And I suppose just as a way of setting the stage, if you wouldn't mind, could you explain the basic intent of that book and the lectures that preceded it?”
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From Russia With Love
Discussed“And it was either From Russia with Love or from Dr. No.”
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The Yage Letters
Discussed“And certainly the popularization of ayahuasca began with The Yagé Letters between William Burroughs —”
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The Palm and the Pleiades
Discussed“While Stephen was looking at the Yurupary cult in ayahuasca, and his book was published as The Palm and the Pleiades, Christine was hanging for all those years with the women.”
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From the Milk River
Discussed“And her book, From the Milk River, shows that the preparation of bitter manioc is in wrapped in as much cosmology, as much significance as ayahuasca.”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The Wayfinders was a book put together in a really wonderful tradition in Canada called the CBC Massey Lectures.”
“So the reason that book, The Wayfinders, it tells the story of the expeditions that we did to share this message across the world.”
“And so I pulled out a book of mine, One River, which happened to have a photograph in the frontispiece of one of the chapters.”
“And so I pulled out a book of mine, One River, which happened to have a photograph in the frontispiece of one of the chapters.”
“But I'll tell you in my book, Magdalena, about the Great River of Colombia, there's a story of my good friend William Vargas...”
“And jumping ahead, it was when I wrote The Serpent and the Rainbow that things clicked. I said, 'Oh, that's what I am. I can write.'”
“And since then, I've taken ayahuasca largely to sort of remember what it was like when I was writing One River.”