The Wisdom of Psychopaths What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

It's a great book. It's written by a doctor who studied psychopaths for his whole career.

Another phenomenal book is the wisdom of psychopaths, what we can learn from spies, serial killers, military and CEOs.

So many years ago, about 10 years now, I wrote a book called The Wisdom of Psychopaths, which became very controversial.

even Carl and even scholars who don't support the psychedelic hypothesis necessarily and I'm thinking of maybe Peter Kingsley who's also a great inspiration well nonetheless talk about the wisdom yes in the dark places of wisdom or his book reality he gets into Kingsley goes into great detail about these cave techniques and these incubatory techniques practiced by Pythagoras and his basement that he built for these techniques in Italy entering into these these states of trance the these cataleptic states of trance you know beyond time beyond space with this kind of apparently near death state this this was practiced by the likes of Pythagoras parmenides and pediclys the these priestocratics with or without drugs would enter into these states to commune with the goddess and bring back the things that we would call at least part of western civilization so I mean these the these states of non-arachinality you know I think this is relatively accepted by classes as Carl this goes back to ER ER dots the groups and the and the irrational a couple generations ago so I think psychedelics are just one twist on this Gilgamesh goes down to the bottom of the ocean like Pinocchio does and he brings back the herb of immortality but it's stolen it's I believe by a snake on the way back is that that's the case is that's the story there's that a shamanic story as well yes and so we go out to the edge of the world together wisdom but on the way back we lose it and we can't bring it back or we can only bring back fragments of it we're not capable of bringing back at all once you wake up it's hard to remember the dream