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Podcast: Reads and Weeds
Episode: Episode 67 The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard
Description: 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 In the middle of reading this epic memoir that is at times magical realism and often an historical reference, I heard him speak at the inaugural Enthoefest.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...