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Stealing fire: how Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are revolutionizing the way we live and work


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Stealing fire: how Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists are revolutionizing the way we live and work

Author

Steven Kotler

Edition

First edition.

Year of Publication

2017

Publisher

Dey Street Books

Pages

293

Language

en

ISBN

0062429655, 9780062429650

ARI Id

1668556902215


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Introduction. The never-ending story; Accidental Prometheans
Part one: The case for ecstasis
What is this fire?. The switch; The high cost of Ninja assassins; Google goes fishing; Hacking ecstasis; The mind gym; The altered states economy
Why it matters. The ambassador of ecstasis; Selflessness; Timelessness; Effortlessness; Richness; Wicked solutions to wicked problems
Why we missed it. Beyond the pale; The pale of the church; The pale of the body; The pale of the state; Pipers, cults, and commies
Part two: The four forces of ecstasis
Psychology. Translating transformation; The bell tolles for thee; Mad men; Taking the kink out of kinky; Good for what ails you; Altered states to altered traits
Neurobiology. Outside the jar; I can't feel my face; The AI shrink; Precognition is here (but you knew that already); The birth of neurotheology; OS to UI
Pharmacology. Everybody must get stoned; The Johnny Appleseed of psychedelics; This is your brain on drugs; The hyperspace lexicon; The molecules of desire
Technology. Dean's dark secret; Things that go boom in the night; The digital shaman; Enlightenment engineering; The flow dojo
Part three: The road to eleusis
Catch a fire. The sandbox of the future; When the levee breaks; Disrupting the brahmins; High times on Main Street; Nothing new under the sun
Burning down the house. The atomic donkey; He who controls the switch; Spooks to kooks; Soma, delicious soma!; Ecstasy wants to be free
Conclusion. Row your boat or fly your boat?; An afterthought
A quick note on inside baseball.
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