Tim Ferriss

I always just had that feeling.

And you can explore that through a purely scientific...

physicalist lens, right?

You don't have to get out there.

You don't have to be running around the full moon swinging a dead cat over your head with a hawk wing, right?

Like, you don't have to get into pure Wu territory to ask some questions about things.

And then I would say later,

I was always interested in mythology.

And my mom got me this crazy book, I think it was on the remainder table, called A Lycanthropy Reader.

And A Lycanthropy Reader was a historical collection of essays on the mythology and belief of shape-shifting.

which you see in pretty much every culture, right?

Whether it's like North American, Plains Indians, or Siberia, or wherever, right?

And there were chapters in there about the use of different plants.

So, mandrake, belladonna, henbane, et cetera.

by quote-unquote witches or werewolves, right?

Who would basically go on these incredible psychotropic journeys and then come back with stories of shape-shifting, which are still very common in the Amazon, by the way.

This belief and these types of stories.

I mean, they might call them skills or powers, right?

I mean, dieting certain plants is intended to help you with some of this stuff.

So...