How to Become the Architect of Your Life, Optimism as the Purpose of Life, Psychedelics, and More
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Wade Davis (@wadedavisofficial, daviswade.com) is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Wade holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller, later released by Universal as a motion picture. In recent years, his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, and the high Arctic of Nunavut and Greenland.
Wade is the author of 375 scientific and popular articles and 23 books including One River, The Wayfinders, Into the Silence, and Magdalena. His photographs have been widely exhibited and have appeared in 37 books and 130 magazines, including National Geographic, Time, Geo, People, Men’s Journal, and Outside. He was curator of “The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes,” first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. In 2012 he served as guest curator of “No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. He was curator of “Everest: Ascent to Glory,” Bowers Museum, February 12-August 28, 2022. National Geographic has published two collections of his photography: Light at the Edge of the World (2001) and Wade Davis: Photographs (2018).
His 40 film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for National Geographic. His most recent film, El Sendero de la Anaconda, a 90-minute feature documentary shot in the Northwest Amazon, is available on Netflix.
Wade, one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and recipient of 12 honorary degrees. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.
Please enjoy!
00:00 The Wayfinders.
11:06 The Earth's caretakers of Northern Colombia.
20:08 Coca and mambe.
27:59 Zombies, mysterious elixirs, and a sorcerer pimp.
43:53 The social implications of zombification and dangers of datura.
52:36 David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Evans Schultes, and living exploration.
57:16 Why helping young people is a top priority for Wade.
1:03:00 Pessimism is an indulgence. Choose optimism.
1:08:50 Rites of passage.
1:13:15 The night Wade had to light himself on fire.
1:16:32 The scar Wade doesn't regret.
1:19:53 Raising kids to be better citizens of the world.
1:27:37 Wade's own hero's journey.
1:31:08 Ayahuasca origin stories and uses alternative to healing.
1:44:57 The real tragedy of coca.
1:48:00 Dosed dogs, provocative gardens, and the cosmology of bitter manioc.
1:51:27 What psychedelics gave Wade earlier in life vs. later on.
2:04:41 How did Wade teach himself to write well?
2:17:59 Work points and outlining the course of a book.
2:28:02 Parting thoughts.
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There are those rare speakers that within 5-10 mins you know it’s going to be an excellent discussion! This is one of those! Truly fascinating chat!
As I sat here completely mesmerized by the conversation; I was in complete awe of the life experiences this man has had. For a moment I felt as if my own life was a failure in comparison, and then I realized it was just that. A comparison of life chart. Although experiencing vicariously thru another’s life doesn’t compare; it was the best 2 hours I’ve had in a while! Thanks so much for bringing us such a great guest.
This gentleman lived his life without being afraid to live it! He was not afraid of failure, he was not afraid of the unknown, he was not afraid of what others might have to say, if he was afraid he had the Courage to live it anyway! Inspiring to me! ✨️ He has great books out of his life well lived.
Beautiful, poetic and mystical conversation dripping with insights. The Terrence McKenna quote he alluded to has been my all time favorite “This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed”. ❤
Wow! I though I'd watch a couple of minutes. Now, 1 hr later I can't stop. It's fascinating. It's like listening to an audiobook.
I read The Wayfinders several years ago, and was most struck by the section on the Polynesian navigators and how they were able to read all the intricate waves and ripples of the waters to find their way through the oceans. Fascinating!
Listening to Wade Davis feels more than a honor, a full honorary degree, but as opposed to regular academic degrees, the one he awards us with isn’t tarnished full of hubris but embellished with profound cognitive humbleness.
@stefan1924
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Beautifully put
Brilliant. Wow! Part 2 please. I'm presently reading Magdalena ... yet another gorgeous book by Wade. 💙
@deekay7442
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Yes please line up a part 2 and 3. Quite a lot of material you got in this conversation requires a deep dive. Perhaps you could collaborate with Prof.Davis on a series. And love to have a session on writing alone, his work point approach, and other resources around it. This man and his work will shape the generations to come. Well done Tim. Love the way you put no limits on your guests.
We are so lucky to watch such great Dialougs 💥
Wade David is the man! So interesting and so much wisdom. The real Indiana Jones 🤠
This was just wonderful! Medicine for the soul, nectar for the mind 💫 Thank you 🙏🏽🤎🦋
An absolute mind and soul tickler, this one. Loved every minute.
Thank you, Tim, for this awesome conversation! I've learnt that Wade Davis is a fantastic mixture of adventure, wisdom and intelligence.
Wade is the world’s wisest granddad. ‘Free to wander as he approaches the end of his life, we should all learn from how he climbed the flagpole.’
A really nice, intelligent, perceptive, and adventurous person 😄 more interesting than Indiana Jones
What an inspiring interview. Thank you wade Davis.
The title made me almost skip this episode (because it sounded so generic and predictable), but I'm glad I didn't. This was one of my favorite episodes in a long time. Please bring in some more of those adventurers!
Dr. Davis never fails to provide volumous and entertaining content. Thank you for bringing him on. Very much enjoyed this PC.
What a great interview, Mr Wade Davis is a great writer and with a lot of Fantastic Stories
One of the most enjoyable. Great work. Seemed so natural. 👏👏👏
Fantastic interview. Thank you Tim & Wade 👍
Tim, makeing this possible for ME, (F one yr older than this inspiring human). Is so appreciated. I notice the best ones are hard to steer, just gave them Back!! And yes we new time stamps. I don't know where else you are posting these....'our' esp my connectivity is dependent on precarious very 'unbrave'. Oxox
Wonderful conversation with Wade Davis, one of the most gifted and wisest thinkers in the social sciences. And I love the idea of the Youth Core!
very insightful, the bottom line is discipline comes from strong habits after all
What a great inspiring conversation. Thank you.
Absolutely fascinating, brilliant thank you both!
Absolutely fascinating.
Great work, great episode!
Thank you. ❤
We have to take action and being disciplined if we want to get results. Tim as always is such an inspiration ❤
@AnnTsungMD
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Exactly! Discipline is always the common denominator of successful people.
Gosh, this guest is a gold mine for cool stories.
Amazing podcast!
full of knowledge . good podcast !!!
Tim we need chapters
Tim, how do you find such gems? fantastic guest, amazing stories, great conversation
Fantastic!
Excellent
Tim. Your conversations are often great but please put timestamps and please use something to get rid of some of the bots in the comments.
@JamesDecker7
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Agree on the time stamps: for the bots you just gotta keep reporting them. Enough people report and they do eventually get banned. Granted new ones pop up but at least it can take a while.
Thank you for this wonderful interview. Coca is a powerful adaptogen and must be legazlized. If anyone reading this has the power to to move the dial on this prohibition, please take note.
I respect Wade Davis & value most of what he shared. However, We surely must strive to defeat evil & never just passively accept defeat against it; absolutely not! Keep a good attitude about defeats if they happen, but with more motivation to actually protect the innocent, destroy evil & have good prevail. While the applied definitions of Good & Evil may be debated in scholastic halls, I'm saying We simply must ensure that symbiosis wins, which will include eliminating parasitism.
that was f*cking amazing💫
OMG this is gold. "Surely you must have set your fingers on fire with lighter fluid when you were a kid?!" I think this is a generational-cultural thing, lol. I'm 49 and my peers did it, but I guess Tim didn't grow up in quite the same milieu. Zippo lighters were still a thing, but on the way out when I was a kid. We did have lighter fluid around, but mostly we did tricks with Bic lighters instead. Kids these days probably don't roll around town with the means to create fire in their pockets like we did. I haven't smoked for 11 years but I still have a Bic as part of my daily carry.
Wade Davis Ted talk
I bet this guy does a niiice Robin Williams impression.
Tim just a second bro I'm making a Keto muffin RX bar sandwich
If humans were meant to guide the natural world and maintain its order, we now have the data to do it.
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POV: when you stop watching 5 minutes in
I swear to god any moment we're going to hear a 'highly accredited intellectual' proclaim, "Thank God we resurrected the fetishized cult of the Noble Savage."