Death! Dread! Meaning! In the latest installment of “Books You Haven’t Read,” Eric leads Trevor through a discussion of some excerpts from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot on awaiting executions, having epileptic seizures, and doing good in the world.

Full text of The Idiot available for free below; we discuss Part 1 Chapter 5 (p. 73), Part 2 Chapter 5 (p. 324), and Part 3 Chapter 6 (p. 580).

https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-idiot.pdf

References:

“The Unreality of Time” by J.M.E. McTaggart - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time

Are Space and Time interchangeable?

https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_relativity_spacetime.html

How long does the head remain conscious after beheading?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/decapitation-survive-speak-anne-boleyn-henry-viii-conscious-brain-a8886126.html

DMT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine#:~:text=N%2CN%2DDimethyltryptamine%20(DMT,ritual%20purposes%20as%20an%20entheogen.

Dostoyevsky’s epilepsy - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/for-dostoevsky-epilepsy-was-a-matter-of-both-life-and-literature

Counterpoint - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint

Terrence McKenna Wired article = https://www.wired.com/2000/05/mckenna/

Neurons changing their DNA - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/landmark-study-shows-brain-cells-revamp-their-dna-make-new-proteins-perhaps-sparking#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20seen%20hints%20that,than%20the%20cells%20around%20them.

Existentialism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDvRdLMkHs

The Stranger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel)

Intro Music - "Sum Over Paths" by Eric Mulhern

Bumper and Outro Music - "In the Embers of Existence" by Eric Mulhern