Old Europeans worshipped nature as a female deity, lived in temple-based towns of up to 10, people, invented writing two millennia before the Sumerians, and were peaceful. The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. In his book, Eric Lerner argued that the Big Bang theory—which says the universe appeared for no reason Plasma cosmology says the universe is at least trillions of years old and possibly infinite in space and time.
See this in documentary form here. Rosalind Cartwright started researching sleep and dreams in the s. In her book, she argued that the mind, like the body, automatically and efficiently heals itself when we stop interrupting it with pharmaceutical drugs and other modern inventions. During a full night of undrugged sleep, the mind tells itself three to five interconnected dreams, Cartwright explained.
Each dream—each collaged, surreal story—becomes increasingly positive, so that the overall effect is calming and enlivening. Two weeks ago, year-old New York author Tao Lin made his Toronto debut, reading from his latest novel Richard Yates at Type Books, a book in which a depressed year-old named Haley Joel Osment embarks on a demoralizing relationship with a severely depressed year-old met over the internet, named Dakota Fanning, reportedly modeled on his own experience.
I watched Lin eat a big salad and several orders of onion rings at local vegetarian restaurant Fresh afterwards, after which, Lin agreed to meet with this reporter to conduct an interview that he suggested would be better if he ingested MDMA beforehand, given to him by a fan.
CL: Okay. And it does seem…more fun. CL: So when you did that reading in San Francisco a few weeks ago on mushrooms…you stopped reading after two minutes. I need to go home.
So I stopped and looked up, and when I looked up I gained control again and then it was fine. TL: And people who when talking to other people, would rather hear stories about the other person than like, argue about what the best book is.
TL: No, definitely, definitely not. Or just a necessary, like something has to be there. Like the nouns. TL: Yeah, yeah. TL: From everyone in media having gone through journalism school. TL: Instead of like, serious stuff. I heard about that story about the Mega Bus…like 20 people dying five times in the last few days. I think it makes for a more productive, less confusing discussion, because everyone can reference the same source material. When I started reading and writing, it felt right to just refer to autobiographical characters as the people they were based on, to treat both as the same.
But at some point I began to not like that. I began to want to keep the two separate, in part because it was more accurate and less reductive. I try to focus on the world the character literally exists in which is the world of the book. Does your work help you to understand life more? Do you still write to feel less lonely or have other goals surpassed that for you? I still write to feel less lonely. I also write to learn about myself, to learn about my relationships, to catalyze changes in my life, to join the conversation happening with authors over decades talking to one another through novels and short stories and poems and essays and memoirs, to communicate in depth and at length with friends and family, for financial reasons, for fun, to amuse and move myself and others, to do something in which I can use all of me, to do something creative and open-ended and long-term, to play around with language and ideas, to create new sentences and phrases and words, and to create culture as a means to replace other culture instead of complaining about that other culture or being absorbed by that other culture.
What types of strategies and routines do you employ to keep yourself disciplined and motivated as a researcher, reader, and writer? A long-term strategy I have for staying disciplined and motivated is to keep learning about the ways in which my mind and body have been damaged from trillions of dollars of advertisements, thousands of synthetic compounds, multigenerational malnourishment, an unnatural microbiome, and other things new to the human species, and to continue increasing my understanding of what I can do to heal myself gradually years and decades.
Focusing on this long-term strategy, I can rationally remain optimistic in a painful, confusing world. I did that consistently for 17 months. There were a number of days where I kept unwittingly getting too stoned to write or edit, but I used my notes to help me regain control and stop doing that. Can you say more about the relationship between the damage to your body and writing? What kind of damage are you referencing?
How does your work help you to recover and heal? Or what is the connection there that makes you optimistic? One form of damage is glyphosate. Glyphosate makes plants and microbes unable to make three amino acids, including ones that mammals use to make opioids and dopamine and serotonin and DMT. So, because of glyphosate everyone is deficient in endorphins and other opiates and dopamine and serotonin and DMT and other compounds.
With more endorphins, etc. One thing glyphosate does is it makes plants, fungi, and microbes unable to make tryptophan. How pronounced has your experience of personal improvement been since you started consciously avoiding glyphosate? How do you benchmark improvement?
So I try to view glyphosate as one out of many layered and interconnected things I consciously avoid. I remember reading that while you were writing Richard Yates you were drinking a lot of iced coffee and raw juices.
Then in an interview about Taipei you described a somewhat bleak seeming cycle of Adderall and Xanax. I wrote immediately after drinking caffeine for my first six books, though I would edit on paper while not on caffeine. Taipei was the first book that I used non-caffeine drugs on. I used mostly Adderall to help me write Taipei but also wrote on other stimulants and on opiates and benzodiazepines and LSD and others.
I felt terrible and depressed most of the time while writing Taipei , so I used drugs to move my mood up to a level in which life seemed interesting again for however many hours.
I used drugs just to increase my mood and energy and focus, basically, so that I would be able to work for an amount of time.
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