Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMichael Pollan: belief
15 Aug 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
“First of all, the chapter in Botany of Desire you’re referencing, I think, is mostly about cannabis, even though I quote Huxley.”
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- Michael Pollan
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- 15 Aug 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You’ve written that you tried some things earlier in your life. In Botany of Desire, you write about psychedelics. You sound actually somewhat negative. You’ve come to the point you’re at now, which is quite different. What is it you think you learned in between, putting aside anything having to do with actual experience? Intellectually, what is it that got you from one point of view to the other? I don’t know that I was anti psychedelic. First of all, the chapter in Botany of Desire you’re referencing, I think, is mostly about cannabis, even though I quote Huxley. Yes.…
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