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

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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