Biocentrism

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

Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory. At the same time, these findings have increased our doubt and uncertainty about traditional physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure.

• “there's a book called biocentrism that does a decent job of introducing thought exercises although i disagree with some of the things in the book it's an interesting read”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it does a decent job of introducing thought exercises... it's an interesting read”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202101:39:00

  Said during "Henry Shukman, Zen, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, and an Intro to Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Henry Shukman: An appointed Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and guiding teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in New Mexico. He is also an award-winning poet and author, including the memoir One Blade of Grass, and has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, and other venues. Zen teacher Henry Shukman tells Tim Ferriss how meditation, koans, and a spontaneous beach awakening reshaped his life, comparing them with ayahuasca.