Conversations with Tyler
Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
59 minutes Posted Aug 15, 2018 at 1:14 pm.
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Michael Pollan has long been fascinated by nature and the ways we connect and clash with it, with decades of writing covering food, farming, cooking, and architecture. Pollan's latest fascination? Our widespread and ancient desire to use nature to change our consciousness.

He joins Tyler to discuss his research and experience with psychedelics, including what kinds of people most benefit from them, what it can teach us about profundity, how it can change your personality and political views, the importance of culture in shaping the experience, the proper way to integrate it into mainstream practice, and - most importantly of all - whether it's any fun.

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