Michael Pollan On: Reducing Rumination, Reclaiming Your Attention From the Machines, and MDMA-Assisted Therapy

February 25
1h 6m

Episode Description

Plus, making the mundane sacred, meditating in a cave, and lowering the ego walls.

Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. His latest book is A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness.

In this episode we talk about:

  • How to get over yourself
  • How to reduce rumination
  • How to lower the ego's walls
  • How to elevate mundane tasks
  • The value of what Zen practitioners call "don't know mind"
  • How to reclaim your attention from Big Tech (what Michael calls the "colonizers of consciousness")
  • The value of MDMA-assisted therapy
  • Michael's experiences meditating in a cave

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