The Psychedelic Renaissance, with Michael Pollan
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Michael Pollan is the author of a seminal new book on the science of psychedelic therapy, and the award-winning writer of bestsellers such as Cooked, and In Defence of Food. Does this mark a watershed moment in the mainstream acceptance of psychedelics? He sat down with Rebel Wisdom's founder - journalist David Fuller, during his visit to London.
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David Fuller's report on psychedelic therapy from 2008: vimeo.com/9987...
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We need a Michael Pollan M E A N I N G W A V E now more than ever.
"To the extent that you can transcend your ego, you will have spiritual experiences. It's just about your experiences. There's plenty of wonder without stipulating a beyond. Now I feel more comfortable in that camp. Spiritual person. There's plenty of wonder right here in this room."
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Amazing interview, great work as always... and Michael Pollan, what a journalist, what a man... Thank you!
Amazing interview. Great conversation between the two of you. Really thankful for Michael Pollans and many others, who already have respect from the population, that are standing up and sharing their thoughts and research on these medicines. 😊😊😊
Great catch. Congratulations on getting him for an interview.
Thanks. I think the best thing about this renewed interest in psychedelics as a therapeutic tool, is the idea that it can be used to help break down (or, perhaps, 'melt'??) psychic barriers in the patient. The worst thing about it (from a professional / scientific / corporate perspective, is that the therapist themselves has absolutely no control of which barriers are broken down, or how quickly (or, indeed, if any are at all). And that means that not only is there likely to be resistance from many big-machine scientists - who can't (or won't try to) find some way to quantify such mundane things as dosage - but the therapists themselves are going (at some point) to realize that - if they have no control over the experience - they become almost trivial to the process; de facto ancillary facilitators of a process that's in the hands of the patient themselves. Nevermind that this is already true in conventional therapies; it takes away that illusion of central control that many therapists secretly have; that sort of, "I provide a service that can only be had behind the doors of professionals like myself; you need me" attitude. There will be resistance at the levels of: 1) the larger scientific community (because they can't apply the basic rubrics of bottle-washing, button-counting reductionist "science" to it); 2) the corporate world (because - like marijuana - they can't apply their super-size corporate corner-the-market-to-the-exclusion-of-real-competition-or-choice to something that can grow in someone's back yard (or window sill)) - in other words, they can't figure out how to get filthy stinking rich off it; and 3) the therapists themselves (because - like so many things in this age of so-called "decentralization" - the individual will overtly and quite publicly be in charge of their own therapy). The therapist will be reduced to an "officially approved dosage administrator" and a "tour guide for LSD trips". Again, nevermind that that's effectively what they already are (minus the LSD trips, of course). The problem here is a conflict of models; the old-school, welcome-to-the-machine, corporatized, bureaucratized, "we'll tell you what your opinion is and you'll like it" model vs the new "I, as an individual, actually matter, and not only can, but should decide what's best for me; and furthermore, I can connect with like-minded individuals through the new media of smartphones & the internet, and we can - together (in groups from 2 to 2 billion) make our own decisions, thank you very much" model. The real danger we face now is that neither liberals nor conservatives want the new model to have any success, as it is clearly a threat to their collective power base. We'll be lucky if totalitarian fascism doesn't result, in a concerted effort to stifle this new brand of individualism. But I'm afraid it's already started. They're rattling your cage as hard as they can, right now. Be careful out there, kids. tavi.
From what I can see, corporations ruin anything that once had soul. They don't understand soul and are lacking spirituality so by their nature they strip soul away from things. I love and appreciate your videos and interviews. Keep up the good fight.
Wow, I hadn't realized you'd done a Michael Pollan interview!
You're incredibly professional, and I enjoy watching your work. Keep it up, man. You're making the world a little better each interview -- or at least not making it worse.
I'm not sure what happened with the reverb, but that's my only complaint about this interview.
Cheers.
The brain is the most compelling research target. People think we don't know that much but if you actually look into what the actual hypotheses are, it's extraordinary. Look up Being No One, Thomas Metzinger, for example.
Awesome upload as always, Rebel Wisdom.
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Rudolf Steiner and many others who are versed in the spiritual traditions and evolution of humanity are very clear in their view that the development of the ego over time was so that we could move into the spiritual world with our Will, thinking, feeling AND egoic structure intact. If one knows how to open the door consciously with will, one knows how to also close the door behind them with will. The spiritual world is full of malevolent forces as well as benevolent ones. If we don't fully understand, respect and research the ancient traditions regarding spiritual entities and how they move between world's and what their agenda might be, then we are fully open to their manifestation and activity in our lives, potentially outweighing the good the psychedelic substances might achieve.
If you can, you guys should interview Dan Siegel on his and others work in Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Take drugs,not too much, mostly good ones.
W. O. R. D. Embrace them, they are tools for life. Know thyself 🙏
“....Mostly psychedelics”
Okay. So I'm a little younger than Pollan, but not by much. How do I have this transformative experience? How do I find a guide? How do I facilitate this process without getting in trouble with the law while also using a trained guide?
I think Pollan is onto something with "psychedelics are wasted on the youth."
I know that i absolutely never had an actual ego death till my mid 20s, all my experiences before were very surface experiences like he said "just getting off of the sensory information" and i absolutely did not use Lucy respectfully.
Great interview.
Awesome work guys.
I’ve used ketamine as a meta programmer recreationally a few times. You can really get the notion that you’re pulling your own strings and making lasting changes to your mind. It’s very good for OOB experiences too.
I've been enjoying Pollan's interviews on this subject and look forward to reading his book but I do think he's underestimating the potential to exploit these powerful substances for personal greed. Maybe psychedelics are not meant for large scale distribution.
Fabulous interview.. 👍
keep up the great work
8:12 wise words
Consciousness is fundamental to the universe. Just like we realized spacetime had its own degrees of freedom independent of matter and is in fact "below" matter and is primary. Consciousness is likely primary and maybe "below" spacetime with its own degrees of freedom independent spacetime. This view is scientifically and mathematically consistent.
Love the content guys
What happens when someone bipolar and/or schizophrenia use mushrooms, lsd, dmt and pot and nitrous on a weekly basis?
I love hearing about other people's dreams
Anybody notice the logo in the intro is a pyramid with a black sun?
28/8/23 ... 🍃🍂
The Academic IS the Corporate. Which any mainstream academic, like Timothy Leary, knew.
common knowledge among Tavistock based cia assets.
So "getting there" is transcending the ego? 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.'
Renaissance is rebirth is baptism is Mother.
Spiritually speaking (gender aside), matriarchal wisdom can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).
Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.
As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).
Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.
In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld, her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.
Mary Magdalene's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as head to tail (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12:3)
To carry the Ankh was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.
Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society.
A whole temple was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. ua-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/v-deo.html
"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba
Egos are dangerous to dictators.
Go Forage...
If the guy talking has gone through an ego death experience, I can hardly fathom the size of his ego before that
He doesn't seem to have an inflated ego at all. What are you referring to?
BeyondSideshow second that. He comes across as a very balanced and insightful person.
I don't think he went through an ego death at all, but he seems pretty fair and opened minded.