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Michael Pollan on The Power of Plants

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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The Mystical Tone of Psychedelics

I was interested to hear you say that sometimes the mystical tone of some of the plant work, the plant basede work, a strains credulity. Because you're interested in ticism, riht in your work. Yes, so i i flirt with mysticism, but i am very grounded in the scientific world view. I get grief for this from certain people. But psychodelic experience, for many people, causes to lose faith in the materialist view of consciousness. And it's important to mention that that materialist view is not well developed at all.

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