81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is a writing professor, a longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and author of many best-selling books -- his latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

What We Discuss with Michael Pollan:

• How psychedelics have been used throughout human history across almost every culture in the world.
• What psychedelic compounds have in common and how they interact with the human brain on a molecular level.
• How psychedelics are being used in modern medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments including PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, OCD, anxiety, and dependence on alcohol and nicotine.
• What it means to expand your subconscious and change your conscious states of mind.
• Why psychedelic insights are so powerful and perspective-changing long after their physical effects have faded.
• And much more...

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