Is There Evidence That Personality Change Can Help With Depression?

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I think it's the lightness of the word fun that i object to. And there was pleasure. There were moments of great pleasure of just being overwhelmed by the beauty of things. The sublime is a very good frame to understand it. It's a kind of awe that can be overwhelming. We do seek out awesome ence. But it's, if you did it every day, wouldn't be awesome. So dont look so excited you don't want to do it again.

Michael Pollan has long been fascinated by nature and the ways we connect and clash with it, with decades of writing covering food, farming, cooking, and architecture. Pollan's latest fascination? Our widespread and ancient desire to use nature to change our consciousness.

He joins Tyler to discuss his research and experience with psychedelics, including what kinds of people most benefit from them, what it can teach us about profundity, how it can change your personality and political views, the importance of culture in shaping the experience, the proper way to integrate it into mainstream practice, and - most importantly of all - whether it's any fun.

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Recorded July 20th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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