After the psycadelic book, not only did i get involved with the research community, but at berkeley, we a group of us, mostly scientists and me, founded a new psychadelic research center that's taking up a lot of my time these days. Does that feel like part of your journalistic work, or does it feel wholly distinct? The public education feels like part of my journalistic work. I mean, i top at it the news letter every week and spend time proposing topics. And so it's my editing hat, which i wear as a professor, im teach writing and as director of public education for the centre.
Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for New York Times Magazine, the host of Netflix's How to Change Your Mind, and the author of nine books. The latest is This Is Your Mind On Plants.
“I have found myself at two distinct points in my history having this transition from being the journalist, learning at the feet of these people, to becoming an advocate. And it’s an awkward role for a journalist, but at a certain point it would be kind of false to pretend you didn't have points of view, that there weren't directions in which you think the world should go. And the great thing about doing narrative nonfiction is that editors cut you a fair amount of slack at the end of a 10,000–word piece to say what you think.”
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