Michael Pollan: "How to Change Your Mind" | Talks at Google
Michael Pollan has written 5 New York Times best sellers including Food Rules; In Defense of Food; and The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In this talk, he shares …
I’m very happy tech land is having trips. Maybe they will let go the postmodernist programming they were brainwashed in school.
I think government should stay out of this, let people have sovereignty over their own bodies and lives. For more info on this one should read or watch on YouTube Graham Hancock. He was writing about this I think before Mr. Pollan.
I found the 1967 Leary v. Lettvin debate video here on YT. It will be of interest only to completists; I find it nigh-unwatchable now, as it is so mired in the woo-woo hyped Occult Bookstore vibe of the 60's, with its subterranean smirk and ankh-pendant, not the clear matter-of-factness evinced here on the Pollan video. Say what you will about Timothy Leary, but he was DEFINITELY all about making himself a celebrity… a really hip, cool and attractively transgressive "society" figure, whispered about on CBS and Cavett and LOOK magazine and LAUGH-IN, et.al., and his droll antics are now looking rather desperate and threadbare in the cold light of 2019.
Michael Pollan has the brains and vocabulary (and temerity)… to give words to the indescribable. Bravo! It's your advanced "eclectic polymaths" of this world who are the most absorbing to listen to.
why so heavy prescribed?
Tom O'Neill's 20 years of investigative journalism on the Manson case, culminating in his recent book, has revealed incredible loose ends in the official narrative
Just looking at him you can tell he makes great meth. Hat must be under the podium.
DMT – he should have mentioned that being plant based. Psilocybin is not native to human body but DMT is as secreted by the pineal gland
Do consider doing Ayahuasca folks!
This is the most important book of the 21st century. It raises the awareness of psychedelics as a means to overcome our fear of death and dying. Since there is likely to be a very large amount of dying in the next decade, easing that transition will be "lifesaving" (the most important and meaningful action a person can take).
Michael "broke on thru to the other side" and it wouldn't surprise me if he can access it without psychedelics.
Reading The Botany of Desire at the moment. Terribly interesting book!
I thought the book was an entertaining and stimulating read, and he speaks in the same clear, funny, and interesting way. I am preparing for an ibogaine experience and his thoughts on there being no societal "container" for the psychedelic experience got me thinking about how I might create one for myself within my personal support structure. Good stuff.
I just read this book and it was wonderfully researched and I will read it again!!
He is talking alout of LSD but is mushrooms good for microdosing too? Cuz it seems easier
Yeeeah Yeeeeeeaah mr white yeeeeeaaaah PSYCHES!!!!
Good on google, and michael pollen get this word out!
boring. Inuits didn't use psychedelics coz it didn't grow in their environs This is true of many social sectors of society. for example many persons have never been exposed to shrooms but rather, shit like meth or crack. Had they been exposed to shrooms they may have had a different societal context developmentally speaking. so your reference to the Inuit absence of psychedelics is sad and reprehensible, and I will stop watching your video now. Your case-specificity has no insight into the underlying factors of reality but refers to a de-correlated instance that has no relevance to your argument. BYE! Michael Pollan will NEVER listen to you again.
‘Johnny Acidseed’? ‘Aceed’?
I did a mushroom shake. Very strong. Never had any life-changing realisation, just lots of colour and music sounds awesome.
Eckhart tolle and Abraham Hicks
It's relevant to mention that these studies by definition must choose people with a proper "psychic tone" ie, not choosing subjects prone to develop schizophrenia, to ensure the well being of the participants. Yet this has an important statistical effect, no harmful effects may appear on the sample. In other words, what I mean to say is psychedelics are not for everyone, there can be harmful effects and we need to study them, know them. Someday in the future, perhaps these problems we face now can be solved working with the help of psychedelics, but science can get us there
Engaging speaker
AYAHUASCA.
Fuck Google!
Interesting no doubt, however, too much head—"drop" into the heart/gut and that is the real trip sans LSD
Why am I setting aside my professional time for someone to proselytize drugs… and safety(double questions mark)??
It was 915 mics of LSD to Neem Koroli Baba Ram Dass had special 305 mic white lightning that were specially made for him and yes he had 4 pills the old man didn't want the broken one lol but I've heard him tell that story a few times the other one was he had 300 mic pills and he took 900 mics he did that twice Ram Dass thought maybe he tricked him and threw them over his shoulder so years later they did it again
Aldous Huxley went out on 100 mics of LSD in 1963 same day JFK was killed
this guy knows a lot
Good advice to never fight your trip and just go with it.
Can that girl in the audience get the hell off of her phone? You have Michael Pollan in front of you. So incredibly rude.
The micro dosing with psychedelics and the placebo effect — is the same placebo effect found with Homeopathic "medicine" or even with chiropractic cures.
The doctors tend to have a huge Nocibo effect with their stupid uninformed comments than a placebo effect and this is a result of the way they practice medicine, the cover-your-ass-medicine.
So a friend of mine in the 90s had a water sensory deprivation tank, basically he had salt water and a bathtub with a lid on it… he used it several times a week… so one day his out-of-town visiting sister asks him innocently "don't you ever get claustrophobic in there??!! I could NEVER do that for more than five minutes!!" and from then he was unable to use it because he got CLAUSTROPHOBIC after that ONE suggestion…. that fucking nocibo effect idiot people have on others is incredible. That fat bitch with nervous ticks fucked it all up for him.
Howie Mandel sure does have some interesting hobbies
The first white guy with a question… shit dude scared of drugs much?
"How do you not kill a person coming off a trip?" Maybe by not already being psychotic??? Jesus christ…
Took mushrooms yesterday, no regrets! Amazing experience
There is no “self” in the mind. 9/10 of the brain is unconsciously driven and the different parts of the brain act as a committee. The self is constructed psychadelics help you to see that
Michael Pollan is one of the indispensible voices of our time.
I’m very happy tech land is having trips. Maybe they will let go the postmodernist programming they were brainwashed in school.
I think government should stay out of this, let people have sovereignty over their own bodies and lives. For more info on this one should read or watch on YouTube Graham Hancock. He was writing about this I think before Mr. Pollan.
What company is he talking about at 28:35?
bold topic
I found the 1967 Leary v. Lettvin debate video here on YT. It will be of interest only to completists; I find it nigh-unwatchable now, as it is so mired in the woo-woo hyped Occult Bookstore vibe of the 60's, with its subterranean smirk and ankh-pendant, not the clear matter-of-factness evinced here on the Pollan video. Say what you will about Timothy Leary, but he was DEFINITELY all about making himself a celebrity… a really hip, cool and attractively transgressive "society" figure, whispered about on CBS and Cavett and LOOK magazine and LAUGH-IN, et.al., and his droll antics are now looking rather desperate and threadbare in the cold light of 2019.
Michael Pollan has the brains and vocabulary (and temerity)… to give words to the indescribable. Bravo! It's your advanced "eclectic polymaths" of this world who are the most absorbing to listen to.
why so heavy prescribed?
Tom O'Neill's 20 years of investigative journalism on the Manson case, culminating in his recent book, has revealed incredible loose ends in the official narrative
Just looking at him you can tell he makes great meth. Hat must be under the podium.
DMT – he should have mentioned that being plant based. Psilocybin is not native to human body but DMT is as secreted by the pineal gland
Do consider doing Ayahuasca folks!
This is the most important book of the 21st century. It raises the awareness of psychedelics as a means to overcome our fear of death and dying. Since there is likely to be a very large amount of dying in the next decade, easing that transition will be "lifesaving" (the most important and meaningful action a person can take).
Michael "broke on thru to the other side" and it wouldn't surprise me if he can access it without psychedelics.
Reading The Botany of Desire at the moment. Terribly interesting book!
I thought the book was an entertaining and stimulating read, and he speaks in the same clear, funny, and interesting way. I am preparing for an ibogaine experience and his thoughts on there being no societal "container" for the psychedelic experience got me thinking about how I might create one for myself within my personal support structure. Good stuff.
I just read this book and it was wonderfully researched and I will read it again!!
He is talking alout of LSD but is mushrooms good for microdosing too? Cuz it seems easier
THANKS WALTER WHITE <3 LOL
Tripping in Malibu watching this talk.
Check Doblin’s TED talk for bonus material 🙂 https://youtu.be/Q9XD8yRPxc8
perfect. the world needs to hear more about this.
Yeeeah
Yeeeeeeaah mr white
yeeeeeaaaah PSYCHES!!!!
Good on google, and michael pollen get this word out!
boring. Inuits didn't use psychedelics coz it didn't grow in their environs This is true of many social sectors of society. for example many persons have never been exposed to shrooms but rather, shit like meth or crack. Had they been exposed to shrooms they may have had a different societal context developmentally speaking. so your reference to the Inuit absence of psychedelics is sad and reprehensible, and I will stop watching your video now. Your case-specificity has no insight into the underlying factors of reality but refers to a de-correlated instance that has no relevance to your argument. BYE! Michael Pollan will NEVER listen to you again.
‘Johnny Acidseed’? ‘Aceed’?
I did a mushroom shake. Very strong. Never had any life-changing realisation, just lots of colour and music sounds awesome.
Eckhart tolle and Abraham Hicks
It's relevant to mention that these studies by definition must choose people with a proper "psychic tone" ie, not choosing subjects prone to develop schizophrenia, to ensure the well being of the participants. Yet this has an important statistical effect, no harmful effects may appear on the sample. In other words, what I mean to say is psychedelics are not for everyone, there can be harmful effects and we need to study them, know them. Someday in the future, perhaps these problems we face now can be solved working with the help of psychedelics, but science can get us there
Engaging speaker
AYAHUASCA.
Fuck Google!
Interesting no doubt, however, too much head—"drop" into the heart/gut and that is the real trip sans LSD
Why am I setting aside my professional time for someone to proselytize drugs… and safety(double questions mark)??
It was 915 mics of LSD to Neem Koroli Baba Ram Dass had special 305 mic white lightning that were specially made for him and yes he had 4 pills the old man didn't want the broken one lol but I've heard him tell that story a few times the other one was he had 300 mic pills and he took 900 mics he did that twice Ram Dass thought maybe he tricked him and threw them over his shoulder so years later they did it again
Aldous Huxley went out on 100 mics of LSD in 1963 same day JFK was killed
this guy knows a lot
Good advice to never fight your trip and just go with it.
Can that girl in the audience get the hell off of her phone? You have Michael Pollan in front of you. So incredibly rude.
The micro dosing with psychedelics and the placebo effect — is the same placebo effect found with Homeopathic "medicine" or even with chiropractic cures.
The doctors tend to have a huge Nocibo effect with their stupid uninformed comments than a placebo effect and this is a result of the way they practice medicine, the cover-your-ass-medicine.
So a friend of mine in the 90s had a water sensory deprivation tank, basically he had salt water and a bathtub with a lid on it… he used it several times a week… so one day his out-of-town visiting sister asks him innocently "don't you ever get claustrophobic in there??!! I could NEVER do that for more than five minutes!!" and from then he was unable to use it because he got CLAUSTROPHOBIC after that ONE suggestion…. that fucking nocibo effect idiot people have on others is incredible. That fat bitch with nervous ticks fucked it all up for him.
Howie Mandel sure does have some interesting hobbies
The first white guy with a question… shit dude scared of drugs much?
"How do you not kill a person coming off a trip?"
Maybe by not already being psychotic??? Jesus christ…
Took mushrooms yesterday, no regrets! Amazing experience
There is no “self” in the mind. 9/10 of the brain is unconsciously driven and the different parts of the brain act as a committee. The self is constructed psychadelics help you to see that
Michael Pollan is one of the indispensible voices of our time.