This is Your Mind on Plants: Michael Pollan in conversation with Monty Don | 5x15
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Human beings have relied on plants throughout our evolved history - to alter consciousness, to stimulate, to calm and to radically alter the way we see the world. For this unmissable 5x15 event, award-winning author, activist and journalist, Michael Pollan joins us to talk about his groundbreaking new book This Is Your Mind On Plants in conversation with gardener and broadcaster Monty Don who for years has been leading us down all kinds of garden paths to show us why our relationship to the natural world is vital to our wellbeing and culture.
This Is Your Mind On Plants explores our deep relationship with three very different plants from which we derive opium, caffeine and mescaline, and what they can do for us. Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos, in this personal journey of exploration and participation in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs. He finds there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can.
To discuss this unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Michael will be joined by the brilliant Monty Don, who has written candidly about depression and how gardening can help to restore a sense of wellbeing. Michael himself has experimented with psychedelic drugs and has written extensively about how they are being used in treatments for depression and addiction. Between them they will shine a fresh light on a subject that holds up a mirror to fundamental human needs, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.
Michael Pollan is an award-winning author, activist and journalist. His international bestselling books about the way we live today - including How to Change Your Mind, In Defence of Food and Food Rules - combine meticulous reporting with anthropology, philosophy, culture, health and natural history. Time magazine has named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. He lives in the Bay Area of California with his wife.
Monty Don OBE is a well-known gardening writer and broadcaster. He lives with his family, garden and dogs in Herefordshire. His books include the Sunday Times bestseller Nigel, The Jewel Garden, Paradise Gardens and Japanese Gardens with Derry Moore, which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Awards. His most recent books are; My Garden World and American Gardens.
Chaired by Rosie Boycott, food campaigner, co-founder of 5x15 and author of Our Farm.
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In awe and appreciation that I can sit in on an in depth conversation between two of my favorite people!
53:30beautifully explained. This is such an excellent discussion
knowledge is the key ! thank you both for this insight!
Really interesting discussion, especially around psychedelics as often the subject is avoided.
Thanks for this. V much looking forward to the book!
Excellent- thank you!
Excellent discussion, thank you. I am a lifelong gardener and teacher and really enjoyed your takes on our connection with nature.
Wow 🤩 gardening in Hawaii digging men who ponder and articulate like this. Xclr the poisonous mushrooms 🍄
I have a beautiful Silene Capensis (African Dream Root) in my garden at the moment which flowers like clockwork each evening, and then the flowers kind of die off overnight... and then it produces more the following evening :)
How can one work for Michael Pollan? What degree do you need me to get? I respect plant medicine too much, I want to be involved
Study biochemistry and botany
@Mbaide Esther 🌾*okay, Esther* chk next wk or, now? no insta!🙃
Sociable plant *questions* & presently danked🍃. Fk ketamine!
~a chat w my neurologist, 2 days ago... *"try"*
*take care, Esther* =)
being addicted to caffeine is like being addicted to sugar, which is to say that is an illusion.
you know if you smoke dope (meth) it only takes 1 hit. you'll be flying for a good 12+ hours. compared to 6 mugs of coffee a day, it is a lot more sustainable n green *_-
Hello, my name of Michael Pollan and I’ve run out of things to write about vegetables, so I’ve decided to become the K-Mart version of Timothy Leary. I can spout all the ridiculous catch-phrases about psychedelics from the 1960’s because the people born after that have never heard them, and a lot of the people from the 1960s are dead and won’t shout “What, this nonsense again?” I have full confidence I can pull this new career off. People are always looked for some alleged expert to give them permission to do what they shouldn’t be doing.
Right...and what are you bringing to the table ? Oh wait, whining and complaining. Great, Thanks! 😎
@@FEEBO2025 hey, someone has to point out the phonies.
What an antagonistic narcissistic remark. Maybe your big Pharma meds.
@@marG520 I doubt you know the definitions of most of those words you used.
@@christinacascadilla4473 he is sharing with the world the potentially powerful therapeutic effects of psychedelics, for which the evidence is mounting, in an engaging and passionate way. What's there to dislike, really?
No lettuce ? No Spinach? No homemade yogurt? No...chamomile????? Oh give me a break.
Thank you Rosie for bringing these two big people together and for your great interviewing.
Michael, loving áll your offerings.
Coffee is quite acidic though - alkalinity being a key to a healthy bod.
fall asleep, with plenty dreams, on coffee
Monty, delighted to see you in this "place".
Good old British habit: when the Romans, as observed by Asterix and Obelix, invaded Britain, they found no-one to fight at 16:00 hrs... the Brits had disappeared into the fog for their
cuppa 😉
Our gardening establishment being very conservative... oh so true! ; i wish the RHS would stop selling poisons, or King Charles would strip them of the "royal" epithet... unless "royal" intentions are just this: to toxify these beautiful lands (ahem).
🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚
Caffeine also expedites the effects of painkillers (particularly NSAIDs) to control headaches/migraines.
Looking forward to reading! The Omnivore's Dilemma opened my eyes as a college student and I have been interested in Pollan's work ever since.