Bury the Chains

This book by Adam Hochschild was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jack Kornfield. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, exercise & strength, 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.

An account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins.

• “there's a wonderful book called bury the chain which is about the ending of slavery in the British Empire starting with this handful of men”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's a wonderful book called bury the chain”
  Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202402:56:42

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield". The episode features Elizabeth Gilbert and Jack Kornfield: Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls. Jack Kornfield is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, one of the key figures who brought mindfulness practice to the West and author of 16 books. A 10th-anniversary super-combo episode pairing Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, intuition, and saying no with Jack Kornfield on meditation and compassion.