Angel

Very thought and feeling provoking

Revisado: 03-18-25

Just something meaty to chew on.
I especially enjoyed the author coming in at the end in his own voice and breaking the fourth wall, to make a person connection, with his voice and his thoughts on it.

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Finally an honest book for honest folks.

Revisado: 01-26-21

Honestly I haven’t related so much to a memoir in a long time, if ever.
Being too honest is a big problem for me. If we lived in an honest world, it’d be different, but alas everyone is lying about most things.
Few books are this honest, some would call it brutally honest, but I as a super honest person think this type of honesty as more graceful and kind, than brutal.
I do many of the same things the author does, but was amazed and impressed how he figured himself out and others and gamed the system what folks said and what folks really wanted. Also he articulated his Hero’s journey so deftly, he understood not only himself, but what the audience needed.
What a great love story, I was so sad when it ended. It was so lovingly and sharply told, as was all.
People are confusing and the opposite rule was quite ingenious. This could be a handbook for honest folks to deal with a world of comforting lies. I’m sure this book will help many and I hope more books like this will be written.
Otherwise I found myself laughing with him and always agreeing with his sound logic.
I kept wondering if maybe he was on the autism spectrum, but was delighted that was not mentioned, otherwise it is kinda a handicap being super honest.
I love how it was read, especially when the narrator laughed along a little with the funny parts, as if he was reliving them again.
The question is to be or not to be honest. No one likes super honest about everything, but how else will the world really know you? I guess it all depends on how much you value truth over happiness. Happiness is often mostly lies, while truth is often annoying or worse heartbreaking. Fact is that few can handle the truth and those that can aren’t made better for it, and perhaps live sadder lives for seeing the obvious, that few others perceive. Ignorance is no doubt more blissful.
Anyhow super grateful for this, dare I say BOLD Reflection? Which says, This is me, warts and all, this is not the person that wants to be liked or loved, but needs to be understood. Shine on you crazy Diamond.

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Tropic of passion

Revisado: 01-05-21

I love it. I’m happy he did the voice. I also love Tropic of Cancer, and feel much like he once did, but didn’t get laid as much.
As a write, it speaks to me deeply. I love his fever for words, his passion for life, his quest to be raw.
He is the Henry Miller of our times. He writes with great virilely about sex and being young and wanting to get high.
The love story is so sad and it’s all so well told. The end is crushing and amazing.
I couldn’t want more in a book. Grateful some can tell it so well.

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Think Again!

Revisado: 10-02-18

I love books that reveal us to ourselves. I imagine this book would be on the top shelf of the Buddha's or Socrates Shelf.
In an age where folks seem drowning in informations tailored to their unique bullshit lives, this book cuts the shit and gets to the heart of the matter.
We are big fat liars. It is of the upmost importance we know this, so we can better navigate all the folks lying around us, pretending, living make believes lives.
If you are a fan of the truth and myth busting, this is the book for you. If you want to wake up to the reality around you, this book will help set you free.
It's one of my favorite books of the year, along with, How Emotions Are Made and 21 Lessons for the 21 Century. It's the Golden age of knowledge and also of ignorance. You can decide to live an inauthentic and robotic life, or you can get in the drivers seat and see through your own self serving deceptions and others.
Otherwise do whatever's clever when one isn't so clever. Live a fictional life, or write your own Destiny.

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This book will turn more people on then Owsley.

Revisado: 05-17-18

In a word, Epic. YES! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Can i get a witness?

Verily I'll testify to my brother's and sisters, let them know the good word, with the good books. Let all gathered know, This is the book that was needed 50 years ago, but still it's timely, better yet ahead of it's time. I've read all Mr. Pollan's book and they just get better and more helpful, he's a visionary.

This is what the world need, facts about transformative experiences and guidance on how to change our minds. Society is stuck, living as primitive as cave people, destroying the planet like termites vampires, bumming each other out constantly. People in developed areas are sick, mental, lost. All they have is sour cream television and corn syrup addictions, caught up in tribalism, when they could be working together globally, universally. I don't know a better catalyze then magic molecules to change the physical structure of our lazy and obese brain and it's sad more of the world hasn't turned on, dropped out and tuned in, because we are too stuck in our small communities and narrow minds.

This books is it, the holy grail, the sweet sugar cane synthesist of heaven and earth. If Aldous Huxley, Albert hoffman and Timothy Leary had a love Child, it would be Pollan, thinking big, talking bigger and walking the talk. So many talk, talk about big ideas, they make elaborate theories, but mostly at a distance, in the end being pretty conventional and groundless. Not Pollan, he followed his curiosity boldly down the rabbit hole, he pushed pass fear and doubt and emerged at the other side transformed. Sure he should of done it when his mind had more plasticity, but better late then ever. He does the psychonauts greatest hits, with mushrooms, Toad, Aya, getting the best guidance from the most experienced luminaries. What a guy. He thought about it deeply and sought it, because he compelled by all data, the 6 decades of soul liberating facts from folks experimenting, getting to know and shape their own minds, the fluidness of their feelings, the glow in everything.

I can't recommend this book enough, if only the last page was a sheet of acid, then it'd be the perfect book, otherwise This is the best book on self help/discovery around. Nothing will heal you're misperceptions and self deceptions better then psychedelics. Many conservatives in power have been afraid of it and everything else, and demonized it devilishly, but it was also a lie. It was all a lie, what those in power told us and most of us did not care to question it, to find out for ourselves, too afraid of cosmic consciousness and a humbling experience.

It's a trippy life, but not a trippy book. It's pretty straight forward and packed with everything one would ever need before they packed to go on a trip of a lifetimes. There's so many great metaphors, facts, antidotes and quotes, most new to me, which is pretty rare after reading so many books about it.

This is the only book on tripping one will ever need. Get it. Got it. Good God have mercy.

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Master story teller

Revisado: 06-14-17

It was nice she made it an audiobook, that she read it. It had many complex ideas about her homeland. It was very human and heartbreaking.
Otherwise it didn't move me much. She's a revolutionary at heart and this came from the heart, but unless you are from India it might be hard to get too involved in the plot.
Also it's nice to see she finally let her other famous novel become an audiobook, but too bad she didn't narrate that one, because who knows better then the author the real feelings of each line?
I like her nonfiction work better at this point and look forward to more of it. She is one of the greatest writers and activist of our times.

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To the moon and back to back action.

Revisado: 07-17-15

It was awesome. Worth the wait. Seems to be the first in a series. It delivered, just like player one.
It was sad that after he found his dad was alive after 17 years, he died a couple days later fighting the aliens, who weren't aliens, just a coalition of 8 other super-intelligent beings banning together for peace and testing other advance Civs with war. At least he's dad got to sleep with his mom one more time and he got a little brother at the end. It ends with us almost blowing ourselves up and them allowing them to join the fancy coalition.
Can't wait for the next one.

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