Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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

Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity’s enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism.

• “there's wonderful recent book Dominion by Tom Holland which is again the history of the influence of Christianity”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's wonderful recent book Dominion by Tom Holland”
  Philip Goff · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202501:35:02

  Said during "Exploring Consciousness and Non-Ordinary Religion, Panpsychism, and Heretical Ideas, Philip Goff". The episode features Philip Goff: Philosopher and academic who has built his career defending panpsychism, the view that consciousness goes all the way down to the fundamental building blocks of reality. Author of Galileo's Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case for panpsychism, explores consciousness and quantum mechanics, and shares his return to a heretical Christianity.