How Psychedelics Can Expand Your Consciousness, With Michael Pollan

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Self-improvement, Education, How To, Tech News, News

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Michael Pollan has been writing about the the intersection of nature and culture for over 30 years. He may be best known as the guy who summed up his principles for eating thusly: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire. His latest book is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, upgrade listeners. If you enjoy the upgrade, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, won't you?
0:07.4	More reviews means that more people find the podcast, which means we can keep doing the show and keep finding fascinating guests to interview for you. All for you. We have big plans for this show, but we need your help. Five stars, please, thank you.
0:22.9	Go now.
0:23.9	Wait, listen to the show first, but then right after.
0:26.3	Go before you listen to the show.
0:28.2	Okay, pause, rate, review.
0:30.2	It's a good one.
0:30.9	Write some good things.
0:32.1	Then you can listen to the show.
0:33.6	It's a good show.
0:34.5	But you're not allowed to listen to it until you write the review.
0:37.4	Not allowed.
0:49.9	Hello, and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:56.7	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.
0:59.4	And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.
1:02.2	And today we're talking about psychedelics with Michael Pollan.
1:05.7	For over 30 years, Michael has been writing about the intersection of nature and culture.
1:10.5	He may best be known as the guy who summed up his principles for eating thusly.
1:15.1	Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
1:18.3	He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Food, the Omnivore's Dilemma, and the Botany of Desire.
1:24.6	His latest book is How to Change Your Mind,
1:27.7	what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lifehacker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lifehacker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.