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Every book Rick Strassman recommended on podcasts
Rick Strassman appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience in September 2025 and June 2024 to discuss his research and perspectives on psychedelics. During his appearances, Strassman discussed and recommended significant speculative fiction that intersects with altered states of consciousness. He enthusiastically recommended Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, noting that he tries to mention the cool book as often as possible and explaining that it spans two billion years while covering nineteen different species of men. Additionally, Strassman brought up Philip K. Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch to illustrate a narrative involving a fictional competition between two different psychedelic drugs. These literary references highlighted Strassman's fascination with deep evolutionary timescales, expansive futures, and imaginative explorations of psychoactive substances, bridging his scientific background with classic visionary literature that explores the outer limits of human consciousness and reality.
Books recommended by Rick Strassman
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Last and First Men
"Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon is a sweeping science fiction novel written in the 1930s that chronicles the history of humanity across two billion years and nineteen distinct human species.
Recommended“Yeah, a very cool book I try to mention as often as possible is called The Last and The First and Last Men by Olaf Stapleton.”
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Discussed“it's called the three stigmata of palmer eldritch and it's about the competition between uh between you know two psychedelic drugs”
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Books Rick Strassman wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2385 - Rick Strassman | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2025-09-26 | 1 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1854 - Rick Strassman | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2022-08-10 | 1 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Oh, so this is a book I wrote 11 years ago. This prophecy. I haven't gotten that one before.”
“So, I wrote a book about it. Anybody's interested, Joseph Ley escapes death.”
“Is my DMT in the solar preface? Oh, yeah. It's right here. There it is.”
“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 that is you the basis of that autobiographical novel I wrote a few years ago oh you Joseph Ley escapes death”
“yeah a few years ago i was pretty sick for years in that joseph levy book and uh as i was recuperating i was reading concentration camp stories concentration camp literature”