How to Change Your Mind What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Throughout his work, which includes classic books like The Omnivore's Dilemma, about why we eat the way we do, and How to Change Your Mind, about the science and use of psychedelic drugs, Pollan has waded into questions about the inner workings of the mind.

So, this new book, what inspired it? What got you to, I mean, you've kind of explored consciousness a little bit with your psychedelic book, yeah. How to Change Your Mind.

The other was, I had an experience in my garden in Connecticut ... I decided it would be interesting to find out. And I consulted a couple people, scientists, and said, what do you do with an insight like that? And they said, well, you tested against other ways of knowing, including scientific ways of knowing. And that led me down this really interesting path, exploring plant intelligence and plant consciousness.

Michael Pollan is a very respected journalist. Like, what is he talking about? He's running a book about psychedelics called Change Your Mind.

You have Michael Pollan's great book on the psychedelics, How to Change Your Mind.

So then I started going down the rabbit hole and I read Michael Pollan's book, you know, How to Change Your Mind. And he's a great guy. And I said, wow, there's a there there. There's something interesting.

the thing that made the difference for me was in 2017, I read Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind.

One example being Michael Pollan's bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind, What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence.

How to Change Your Mind, my book about it was in 2018. And at that point, there were lots of people who were using psychedelics but would never talk about it publicly.

That shit fucking sucks. Not fun. That's the worst. That's this problem with Tom at with Michael Pollan's book was he wrote that as like his experience

If you want to write a book about like what it's like to take acid do it ten times in the course of two years yeah, don't go do it once take a lower dose than you should have

Did you took mushrooms like twice? Yeah, and then he trashed Timothy Leary

In 2018, I read Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind. I went through it like a bag of peanuts.

On Purpose launched in 2019 and his book that I loved came out in 2018. I'm speaking about the one, the only Michael Pollan, an award-winning journalist, best-selling author known for reshaping how we think about food, nature, and how we experience the world around us.

And psychedelics and meditation both have a way of kind of smudging the windshield of our consciousness, you know.

they told me that I had to, it was like, I wasn't allowed in the industry until I'd read your book, right? How to Change Your Mind.

in How to Change Your Mind, I tried LSD and psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT and all these things that were really scary and hard for me. But this was harder. Giving up caffeine for three months really was a stretch.

I think that there's a lot of Information there that we need to look at because I think there's some value there and I think the rejection of hallucinogens from a therapeutic Perspective a perspective was done for the wrong reasons

Michael Pollan's book

Michael Pollan's series on his book, Changing Your Mind, on all kinds of psychedelics. I thought it was beautifully done.

It's on Netflix. No kidding. It's really good.

They managed to show a trip in a way that was interesting. I don't know how they did it.

I thought the book was great.

He had other books, The Omnivores.

The book I was reading on the plane actually is like, I think it's called How to Change Someone's Mind.

How to change your mind is Michael Pollan.

It's not that. How to change someone's mind or how minds change. David McRaney.

I always recommend Michael Pollan's work. He's got the documentary How to Change Your Mind and a similar book.

no it is a great book we've read it he's a great science writer he's somebody who clearly showed me that psychedelic drugs in particular are not casual and are literally the opposite in many cases which is that the casual use of them like yeah festival culture and all that stuff definitely exists but whenever you're talking about it in a treatment facility on a wide scale it's absolutely something that in a controlled setting uh and which he emphasizes routinely in his book so please go and read michael pollin's book on this how to change your mind i highly recommend it

no it is a great book we've read it he's a great science writer he's somebody who clearly showed me that psychedelic drugs in particular are not casual and are literally the opposite in many cases which is that the casual use of them like yeah festival culture and all that stuff definitely exists but whenever you're talking about it in a treatment facility on a wide scale it's absolutely something that in a controlled setting uh and which he emphasizes routinely in his book so please go and read michael pollin's book on this how to change your mind i highly recommend it

that's exactly what he says in the book set in setting matter

no it is a great book we've read it he's a great science writer he's somebody who clearly showed me that psychedelic drugs in particular are not casual and are literally the opposite in many cases which is that the casual use of them like yeah festival culture and all that stuff definitely exists but whenever you're talking about it in a treatment facility on a wide scale it's absolutely something that in a controlled setting uh and which he emphasizes routinely in his book so please go and read michael pollin's book on this how to change your mind i highly recommend it

Michael Pollan's 2018 book How to Change Your Mind, catalyzed popular interest but general awareness was just catching up with the science.

A book that came out right as we were writing the pilot was How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan, who is talking about the use of, you know, um, psilocybin and LSD and MDMA, uh, as a way to treat PTSD, to treat depression, to, to, uh, treat anxiety.

After Michael Collins book, how to change your mind and some stuff Tim Ferriss was sharing.

But after that I decided like I had to kill something and eat it like just so I knew exactly where my food came from

I had recently read Michael Pollan's book about psychedelics and some groundbreaking research that had been going on around psychedelics and addiction.

I remember reading in Michael Pollan's book that it's essentially like a snow covered mountain.

There's a guy named Michael Pollan who wrote a book called Changing Your Mind, and he basically each chapter is he did a different hallucinogen.

One was ayahuasca, one was ketamine, one was psilocybin. And he basically says the key to all of these is set and setting.

So your set is your mindset. Like if you're stressed out and you're worried about shit, that's not the time to take it.

Whether you need to meditate or take a long walk or just get yourself right before you do it.

And then setting is, like I said, nature, being around people that are positive and have some fucking paints around or you get creative.

There's a guy named Michael Pollan who wrote a book called Changing Your Mind, and he basically each chapter is he did a different hallucinogen. One was ayahuasca, one was ketamine, one was psilocybin. And he basically says the key to all of these is set and setting. So your set is your mindset. Like if you're stressed out and you're worried about shit, that's not the time to take it. Whether you need to meditate or take a long walk or just get yourself right before you do it. And then setting is, like I said, nature, being around people that are positive and have some fucking paints around or you get creative.