Michael Pollan

When I'm talking with the noetic quality and the, um, I'm talking about more abstract sort of concepts rather than more, not to say mundane, uh, mundane in, not in the sense of like boring, but in the sense of, you know, day to day sort of decisions.

Uh, but things like you know love is you know everything is love people have psychedelic experiences and they come back and they say what did you realize oh i realized everything is love people go okay that's all right it's like but no you don't understand i think it was in michael pollan's book actually say no you don't get it everything is love people go okay all right but that's what i like the noetic quality where you get that kind of a sense like i think there's um There's truth in...

Not that there's truth in that, but that is truth.

And there is philosophical argumentation that you can make to back that up.

So I think the phenomenological approach sort of places, you know, experience and the full physiological being, you know, sort of in context to see, well, okay, what, there's a remainder there because people are having psychedelic experiences and they, after the fact report, it's like, oh, like my ordinary sense of self was totally gone.

It's like, well, there was still something there.

There was the minimal self, otherwise you wouldn't be able to Tell me about the experience that you just had, you know, 20 minutes ago, if it's, you know, DMT, like Michael Pollan, or, you know, a couple of hours ago after a mushroom experience.

So that's the minimal self, just bare subjectivity.

And now it's to me, trees, I mean, besides, as you said, like their whole communication and their world that they live in.

And, you know, I just finished Michael Pollan's new book, which is about consciousness that title is escaping me right now, but.

you know, he, he gets into like plants and sentience and, you know, how there's some, there's definitely there, like they're aware of things, just not the way we are, you know, and it's just kind of in a different phase or a different respect.

But, uh, for me, you know, I see say, let's say specifically Redwood, cause it's so tall, like I just have this vision of it like being this connection between the earth and the roots and the ground and what's going on underneath in the darkness and the sky and the universe and sort of this sort of connecting rod between the two.

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You know, put your mind back to 2018.

This was the same year that Michael Pollan wrote his breakout hit, How to Change Your Mind, which for a lot of people was the thing that made them become psychedelic curious.

Maybe they had absorbed some of the negative messaging about psychedelics beforehand.

Not so sure about this.

And I think you do a really good job in this book of like peppering in context in a very interesting way.

Like this book is very good as a guide.

Obviously, people are going to be comparing it to, I mean, the one that comes to mind, obviously, is How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan.

But I feel like How to Change Your Mind is a little bit more for the uninitiated about the whole concept of psychedelics, people who might have some negative baggage associated with this.

Yeah.

I was scrolling the other night and I saw a interview with Michael Pollan.

And he said, which is really burnt into my frontal lobe right now.

He said, well, we seem to have found all these extra hours in our day to be on social media and a lot