Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-12-11
Books mentioned on #2241 - Rick Strassman
Rick Strassman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. His new book, "My Altered States: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Trauma, Psychedelics, and Spiritual Growth," is available now.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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My Big TOE
My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell is an ambitious theory of everything that attempts to unify consciousness, physics, and metaphysics through a comprehensive personal paradigm.
Discussed“I think that's in my big toe you know that that um The Theory of Everything book m not familiar with it Thomas Campbell is that no is that who wrote that yeah it's really good yeah I'm in the middle of that right now the big toe yeah um is very strange book yeah that's the name of the”
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Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods? is an alternative history book by Erich von Däniken that explores the theory that ancient civilizations were influenced by extraterrestrial beings.
Discussed“I've seen Chariots of the Gods like interviews with this guy it's very he's like all in on the idea that UFOs created all this stuff”
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The Book of secrets
Discussed“well it's sort of like a guide book for life like see if pull up his books I'll tell you which one it was the Book of Secrets he's got a Bento can you show me what they look like so I can see the covers it's got a bunch of books one would always wonder if it's one of”
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The 12th Planet
The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin is a controversial work of alternative history that uses unconventional interpretations of ancient Sumerian texts to propose that an alien race known as the Anunnaki colonized Earth to mine gold.
Discussed“first of all the the story of this the the Fantastic story is told by Zacharias hin so zecharias sitchin who wrote the 12th Planet and he wrote uh several other books”
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“yeah one of the ideas I put out in that 2014 book on the prophetic State uh the soul of Prophecy I propose that you know people respond ethnically or culturally differently to different endogenous uh you psychedelics”
“so I'd read like The Book of five rings like mamot Sashi I'd read a lot of psychology books”
“so that is you the basis of that autobiographical novel I wrote a few years ago oh you Joseph Ley escapes death”