A Path with Heart

This book by Jack Kornfield was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Willoughby Britton. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness, depression & mood, meditation & mindfulness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “my dad sent me A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield, and that became my Bible for the next, probably, decade”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that became my Bible for the next, probably, decade”
  Willoughby Britton · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 202300:03:13

  Said during "The Hidden Risks of Meditation, Dr. Willoughby Britton | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Dr. Willoughby Britton: Clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry at Brown University Medical School, director of Brown's Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, and founder of Cheetah House, a nonprofit supporting meditators in distress. Best known for research on meditation's adverse effects. Neuroscientist Willoughby Britton explains how meditation can backfire, the symptoms it triggers, and how to practice and recover safely.