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81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Psychedelics and Creativity

I know you'd said something in the book about OCD, which that was surprising to me because I guess when I think of things like OCD, I'm not really imagining the extreme situations. And there's a wonderful one man show by an actor comedian named Adam Strauss, a called the mushroom cure. And it's all about his OCD and how he used mushrooms to get over it or reduce its effects. But if you want a taste of that, he evokes OCD in a profound way. You need a certain looseness in cognition to be really creative to think outside the box.

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