Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa

This book by James W. Fernandez was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Hamilton Morris. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “a very rare book that you can find pdfs of online by uchicago anthropologists whose last name is fernandez it's called uh bouiti that's the name of the book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “that's a great text that's pretty much all that's out there in english”
  Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202101:41:04

  Said during "Hamilton Morris on Iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, the Power of Ritual, New Frontiers in Psychedelics, and More". The episode features Hamilton Morris: Chemist, science journalist, and filmmaker who writes and directs the documentary series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. He researches the chemistry, anthropology, and culture of psychoactive drugs and has studied them in more than 30 countries. Hamilton Morris and Tim Ferriss explore iboga ritual, 5-MeO-DMT toad sustainability, xenon anesthesia, and the ethics of the psychedelic boom.