Episode 67 The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard

Reads and Weeds

Shelly hangs with Myc again to dive into the mind of William Leonard Pickard. Myc calls him an ENIGMA-defined as 'a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand'. I would have to agree. In the middle of reading this epic memoir that is at times magical realism and often an historical reference, I heard him speak at the inaugural Enthoefest. He was the most present soft spoken world traveling master chemist recently released from a life prison sentence psychonaut that I have ever met. His journey takes him out of prison to the monastery to Harvard to the sometimes dark and terrible and sometimes healing and beautiful drug behavior and policy that effects it all over the world and back to the largest LSD production lab bust in history. Well, it isn't boring. Also, reading someone's story through their own beautifully elevated consciousness and understanding is just so lovely.