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Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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What Does Spiritual Mean?

Psychodelic am allows us to see something that all children and most traditional people see, which is we're not the only thinking being. Am means having a profound connection with something larger than you. I had it with the plants in my garden and this piece of music. That sense of profound connection, that's what i think of as spiritual now. And there's nothing supernatural about it. You could say, while your plants weren't really conscious, but they are sentient beings. We are. The perception that you're surrounded by sentient beings is not supernatural. But our scientific world view has given us an incredible blind spot about dissentients around us.

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