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Published · transcript-backedMichael Pollan: belief
15 Aug 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
“I was very suspicious of spirituality. I’m very materialist in my outlook, I realized.”
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- Michael Pollan
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- belief
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- 15 Aug 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…So it was a kind of aspiration. You didn’t know what would be at the end of the path, but you felt you wanted to be at a somewhat different point. It was several things. It was journalistic curiosity, very important driver of this whole project. That curiosity is not necessarily about personal change. It’s just how we think. It was also realizing that there was something perhaps missing in my life that these people I was interviewing had, which was a much stronger sense of spiritual experience, spirituality than I had. I really saw that as an undeveloped dimension of my character and a rejected dimension of my character. I was very suspicious of spirituality. I’m very materialist in my outlook, I realized. I saw spiritual as a synonym for supernatural, and I don’t accept anything supernatural. Even now, you don’t believe in God.…
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