81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:05.2 | Today we're talking with Michael Pollan, author of How to Change Your Mind with the new science of |
| 0:09.8 | psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence. |
| 0:15.6 | Heavy duty title here. Today we'll discuss psychedelics and how they're changing lives and indeed |
| 0:21.1 | the entire practice of medicine. Now before you get your sensibilities offended, you'll want to |
| 0:25.6 | listen to this. Michael Pollan is a very in-depth researcher and he didn't take this stuff lightly. |
| 0:31.0 | His findings will absolutely surprise and hopefully enlighten you, see what I did there, Jason. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll also discover what it actually means to expand your subconscious and change your conscious |
| 0:40.5 | states of mind. It's not just for tie-dye wearing hippies anymore and we'll learn who can potentially |
| 0:46.1 | benefit from the use of psychedelics, from quitting smoking, to lowering anxiety, |
| 0:49.9 | intraminal disease, and coping with end of life. There's a lot of amazing discoveries in this one and |
| 0:55.5 | today's discussion is really something outside the norm and I know you'll enjoy it. Of course, |
| 1:00.0 | we also have worksheets for today's episode so you can make sure you solidify your understanding |
| 1:04.4 | of all these key takeaways here from Michael Pollan. That link is in the show notes at |
| 1:08.4 | jordanharbinger.com slash podcast. Now here's Michael Pollan. Let's talk about psychedelics. |
| 1:15.0 | What do you think? Yeah, sure. Let's define psychedelics first of all because I don't |
| 1:19.6 | even know if a lot of people listening really know what that is. They go, yeah, I've heard of |
| 1:23.4 | magic mushrooms, I've heard of LSD. That may be the limit of some people's experience when it comes |
| 1:27.8 | to this. Sure. Well, there's some debate over how broadly to define psychedelics and I run into |
| 1:34.7 | people who kind of define them as psychoactive plants and drugs in general. But the definition that I |
| 1:41.3 | liked and relied on in the book is a class of so-called classic psychedelics that all operate on the |
| 1:48.4 | same receptor sites in the brain, seroton 2A receptors. They're tripdemines, most of them, not all of |
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