#1068 – Michael Shermer

Books mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

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  Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
  by Michael Shermer

  religion

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  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
  by Jon Krakauer

  religion

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  Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
  by Jon Krakauer

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  Into The Wild
  by John Krakauer

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  The Book of Mormon
  by Joseph Smith Jr. (translator)

  religion

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  Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  by Lawrence Wright

  most mentioned religion

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  Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
  by Eben Alexander

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  On The Move: A Life
  by Oliver Sacks

  biography

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  Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Reprint Edition
  by Sam Harris

  meditation

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  The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
  by Aldous Huxley

  drugs

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  DMT: The Spirit Molecule
  by Rick Strassman

  most mentioned drugs

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  The Bible

  most mentioned religion

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  books by Dan Brown

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  The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
  by Geza Vermes

  religion

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  The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
  by John Marco Allegro

  most mentioned religion

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  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
  by John Marco Allegro

  religion

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  The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
  by Niall Ferguson

  history

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  A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
  by Lawrence M. Krauss

  space

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  Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
  by Robert Wright

  meditation

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  The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
  by David M. Buss

  psychology

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  Accidental Brothers: The Story of Twins Exchanged at Birth and the Power of Nature and Nurture
  by Nancy L. Segal & Yesika S. Montoya

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  Born Together―Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study
  by Nancy L. Segal

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  The Selfish Gene
  by Richard Dawkins

  most mentioned science

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  River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
  by Richard Dawkins

  science

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  (unspecified book)
  by Gary Taubes

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  The Primal Blueprint
  by Mark Sisson

  most mentioned health

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  The Secret
  by Rhonda Byrne

  motivation

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  12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
  by Jordan B. Peterson

  most mentioned psychology

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  The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  by Daniel Ellsberg

  military

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  The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
  by Oona A. Hathaway & Scott J. Shapiro

  politics

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Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Episode #1068

Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) is an author, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine and a monthly columnist for Scientific American.

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