Norman Ohler

And her brain, attacked by Alzheimer, reacted stronger than my father.

He always says, I never feel anything.

from a microdose.

And you're not supposed to feel anything, but my mother suddenly picked up the newspaper, which she hadn't looked at for a year.

So on mushroom microdoses, she picks up the newspaper and starts reading the headline to us, which was about the Ukraine war.

And she'd never heard about the Ukraine war.

So when she had problems pronouncing the word Ukraine, because that was a new word for her, because she hadn't been part of the news cycle in about a year.

And this was because of the mushroom microdose.

So this book, how did it change my writing?

On an emotional level, writing...

taking LSD and then writing about LSD changed something in my family.

It improved the health of my mother.

That made me very happy, of course, very satisfied.

I think, for me, writing has two important parts, and one of them is the actual writing part, and that's the painful part that you talk about.

It's basically discipline...

Focus, it becomes harder and harder to focus because of the telephone.

There's a place in Switzerland, the Nietzsche House.

I go there as much as I can to write.

It's in Sils Maria.

It's quite high up.