Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal pdf free download. Some revolutions begin with a gunshot, others with a party. This one kicked off1 on a Friday night in downtown Athens, in 415 BCE. Alcibiades, a prominent Greek general2 and politician, had invited a small circle of friends to his villa for what was to become one of the more infamous bacchanals in history. Hooded in the stolen robes of a high priest, Alcibiades swept down his marble staircase, recited a forbidden incantation, and produced an ornate decanter. Carefully, he poured a single shot of a dark liquid into each guest’s...