Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-05-09
Books mentioned on #2319 - Rick Doblin
Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Rick Doblin recommended The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. Joe Rogan discussed The sacred mushroom and the cross by John Marco Allegro.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse is a complex philosophical novel set in a futuristic province that explores the synthesis of all human knowledge, art, and science through a highly intellectual pastime.
Recommended“There's a book that I'd um recommend for people um by Herman Hess, and it's called The Glass Bead Game. Magister Ludy, the glass bead game. And and it helped Herman Hess win the Nobel Prize for literature.”
Where to get it
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro is a controversial scholarly study that posits early Christianity originated from ancient fertility cults centered around the sacramental use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Discussed“The the aminated mascaria one though I always go back to the sacred mushroom in the cross because that was what John Marco Allegro believed was the early days of Christianity.”
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