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