i got a lot of letters from people and similar experiences, not necessarily with radios, but just really unusual, anomalous experiences. And then when yo're look in at that literature, there's a whole literature of ano psychological experiences that people have, and stunning. So for my listeners that have no idea what we're talking about, i wrote about this little transistor radio here, which belongs to my wife. It was a her grandfather's ah 19 77 philips zero seven spherial transistor radio. She inherited it after he passed away; she had been feeling kind of lonely. The day of our wedding, she was just in california. We took a moment in the back
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, natural history, agriculture, medical law and ethics, Charles Foster, in Being a Human, makes an audacious attempt to feel a connection with 45,000 years of human history. He experiences the Upper Paleolithic era by living in makeshift shelters without amenities in the rural woods of England. He tests his five impoverished senses to forage for berries and roadkill and he undertakes shamanic journeys to explore the connection of wakeful dreaming to religion. For the Neolithic period, he moves to a reconstructed Neolithic settlement. Finally, to explore the Enlightenment, he inspects Oxford colleges, dissecting rooms, cafes, and art galleries. He finds his world and himself bizarre and disembodied, and he rues the atrophy of our senses, the cause for much of what ails us. This glorious, fiercely imaginative journey from our origins to a possible future ultimately shows how we might best live on earth — and thrive.