Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2014-03-18
Books mentioned on #470 - Amber Lyon
Amber Lyon is an Emmy Award-Winning journalist. She has recently been traveling the world working on Reset.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman is a fascinating non-fiction book detailing the author's groundbreaking clinical research into dimethyltryptamine as the first federally approved study of its kind on psychedelics in the United States.
Discussed“and Rick strasman who's a friend of mine and a really really interesting cool guy um who wrote The Spirit Molecule DMT The Spirit Molecule uh he did all those studies at a university New Mexico”
Where to get it
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha is a popular science book that challenges conventional views on human sexuality and monogamy by arguing that humans are naturally primed for promiscuity based on our evolutionary primate heritage.
Discussed“the guy who wrote um um sex at dawn brilliant guy who I do a podcast with once a month him and Duncan Trussell and I do a podcast”
Where to get it
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
John Marco Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross is a controversial and provocative study proposing that early religious traditions and Christianity stemmed from the ritualistic use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Recommended“next time you come in or if you can get it if you can find it you got to pick up John Marco allegro's uh the sacred Mushroom in the cross cross”
Where to get it
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth by John Marco Allegro is a controversial historical study proposing that early Christian traditions originated from ancient fertility cults centered around the sacramental use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Discussed“it's called the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Christian myth”
Where to get it
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Jack Herer's the Emperor Wears No Clothes
Jack Herer's the Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer is a famous historical and political exploration of hemp and cannabis prohibition.
Discussed“he was a Goldwater Republican and uh he uh he wrote a book called The Emperor has no clothes about uh about marijuana and the real root of the propaganda that allowed marijuana to become an illegal drug”
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