Michael Pollan is a writer whose books have topped the New York Times bestseller list time and time again. He teaches writing at Harvard and The University of California Berkley. In 2010, Time magazine name Michael Pollan one of the most influential people in the world. His books and essays have historically focused on our interaction with nature and this new book takes that theme to a whole other level. Its title gives you a great idea of what it's about: How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. No matter how many interviews you've heard of Michael Pollan talking about his new book, our interview will offer you a fresh perspective, things he has not previously discussed and things that you may not have previously considered. The very last concept discussed in Eric's conversation with Michael Pollan will for sure leave you thinking anew. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program. Our sponsor this week is Casper Mattress visit  www.casper.com/oneyoufeed and use the promo code theoneyoufeed for $50 off your purchase In This Interview, Michael Pollan and I Discuss...His book, How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and TranscendenceHow fear is a big motivator in people's action and inactionThat your obstacles are all between your earsHow consciousness is a big mysteryWhat the newest science tells us about psychedelicsThe way psychedelics affect us by allowing us to look at normal, everyday consciousness in new waysThe default mode network going quiet during a psychedelic tripThe ego, idea of self in the brain and our lifePsychedelics impact on the sense of selfThe experience of the dissolution of the egoThe mind-expanding power of mystical experienceThe theory of the entropic brainHow the brain works to reduce uncertainty and surpriseThe narrowing of consciousness by rigid thinkingThe stories our brains tell usInsufficient entropy in the brain perhaps leading to mental illnessesPsychedelics disordering the brainThe similarities between a tripping brain on psychedelics and a meditative brainAn ego-free state of consciousness through the use of psychedelicsThe mistake of seeing spirituality as the opposite of materialismThe opposite of spiritual being egotisticalThe ego keeps us from having a deep connection with everything around usHow psychedelics are "wasted on the young"That those in the 2nd half of their lives may benefit most from the use of psychedelicsThe importance of breaking the rigidity that growing older bringsHow psychedelics can help us make peace with our deathPsilocybin benefiting those facing imminent death with great fearHow psychedelics and a psychodynamic approach are not opposites"Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy"Positive trauma in the brainAdministering an experience rather than a drugThe importance of set and setting when taking a psychedelicHow a spiritual experience alone doesn't make a spiritual lifeThat ego is nothing but a contraction Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, nonprofits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. She is passionate about the advancement of racial justice and reconciliation and her words will most certainly move you to action. In her work, she shares her experiences as a black woman who "navigates whiteness on a regular basis". After listening to this interview and reading her book, your mind and heart will be broadened towards understanding and inclusion - regardless of where you are on that spectrum today. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program.In This Interview, Austin Channing Brown and I Discuss...Her book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for WhitenessThe importance and value of angerHow we can fight the monsters without becoming the monstersThat anger reveals something is wrongWhite fragility - sadness and angerNaming the things that can come in the way of a discussion, before the discussion happensRealising racial biasTransformation comes after a moment of realizationThe idea of "whiteness being normal"Books to read to gain an understanding of racial injusticeDisunity in ChristWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About RaceHow to look for opportunities to talk with others about topics of racial injusticeCheck out "Be the Bridge"The white confessional being a shortcut to true reconciliationSkipping the confessional story and moving straight to the action step you'll take nextWhat reconciliation means to herRacial justice and reconciliationRadical ReconciliationHow reconciliation should revolutionize the relationships we have with each otherThe celebration of blackness that is throughout the bookCultural misappropriation   Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The One You Feed we have Frank Turner.In honor of Frank's new record we are re-releasing one of Eric's favorite interviews. This was the 22nd interview of all time for The One You Feed.We will be back with a new episode next week.Frank was a singer in a hardcore band, Million Dead. When they broke up he started out on his own with an acoustic guitar. He has released  five solo albums, two rarities compilation albums, one split album and five EPs. His seventh studio album Be More Kind was recently releasedIn This Interview Frank and I Discuss…The One You Feed parable.The feeling that there is never enough time.The importance of friendship in feeding your good wolf.His role as a CALM Ambassador.Building a community around music.What punk rock meant to him as a kid.Staying connected to his values of openness and community as he gets more famousMusic as a refuge for those that don’t fit in.Music that he turns to to feed his good wolf.Writing the press release for John K Samson’s latest record.The challenges of alcohol and drugs.Getting older and the changes in identity that come with that.His love of dogs and his amazing “dog policy” at showsHis forthcoming record.Frank Turner LinksFrank Turner HomepageBuy Frank Turner music on AmazonFrank Turner on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please Support The Show with a DonationAdyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program.  In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...Self-InquiryStarting with I am not _____Starting with all inclusiveness - I am _____Being open to being wrong about thingsExperiencing an "uncaused" sense of well beingSelf-transcendent valuesIt works best in life to ______When you have less internal conflict you treat the world in a different way than if you have more internal conflictRemoving the religious and cultural compass removes the moral north starWe reorient ourselves to comfort being the north starNothing mattering AND everything matteringThat Adya is oriented towards truth and loveActivities are neutral - it's what we bring to it that gives it meaningWhat is it about awakening that you want?What is meaningful moment to moment and day by dayAt every moment, we are giving expression to what we valueHow nothing shuts down awakening faster than judgmentThe spiritual persona of "I'm going to get out of this human game" or "I'm going to be here but not really be here"The importance of coming to grips with the human experience of imperfection......without turning it into an excuse for unwise behaviorBe aware of your human limitations and don't see them as "wrong"The problematic experience of existential unworthinessThe economic catastrophe of a collective human awakeningPlease Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please Support The Show with a DonationAdyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.our inner life. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program. In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...Eric's awakening experienceThe awakened state in perpetuityThe shift in perception that happens with awakeningThe paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having itWill gets you to the cushion and once there, it's important to let go of itDoes one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the studentHow people work with unconscious patternsHow you can't not be awakened - even if you don't feel it, it's thereEmotional conflictPaying attention to what's recurring in youAnything that's happened to us that was too big for us to remain conscious while we experienced it, gets trapped in our system - turned into some other emotion or it just gets stuffed and is now just there waiting for you. The universe is now asking, "can you experience this now?"Being fine with being sadLet everything be exactly the way it isHow dealing with life's experiences as they come transforms youA clinched fist vs an open hand metaphor"Let" vs "Let go"If you can't let it go, can you let it beFailure as part of triumphFailing your way through something consciously can cause a sort of transformationWhat it looks like to build a spiritual practiceDaily quiet meditation, Engage in some precise self-inquiry (a wonderment of "being")How spirituality is the direct investigation of YOUR experienceThe only way to get self-inquiry wrong is not to be ruthlessly honest about what's happening in your experienceThe fear of getting something wrongThink of your spiritual teacher kind of like a college professorPlease Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please Support The Show with a DonationMark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice in NYC and the author of many books about the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy. He's currently the clinical assistant professor in the postdoctoral program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. His most recent book, Advice Not Given; A Guide to Getting Over Yourself is what he talks about in this episode. His wisdom is so incredibly practical, applicable, and helpful. Ideas like whether or not naming your feelings would be a helpful strategy for you and how to work with clinging in its many forms - even the clinging to inner peace - abound in this discussion. Take a listen and enrich your inner life. Visit oneyoufeed.net/transform to learn more about our personal transformation program. In This Interview, Mark Epstein and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHis book, Advice Not Given; A Guide to Getting Over YourselfThe duality that we all struggle withFreud and the Buddha's nearly identical conclusionWhat it means to take personal responsibility for our selfish concernsThe clinging to that which gives us a sense of control over lifeThe clinging to that which nurtures our egoThe eightfold path of the BuddhaThe conversation with his terminally ill father that inspired this bookRight View - being realistic about one's self and the nature of thingsHow change and death is happening all of the time, moment to momentTrying not to try as it relates to meditation"Take the backward step" in meditationFInding balance in "right effort"Exploring the feelings that we are otherwise afraid of through psychotherapyThe link between being with uncomfortable feelings and empathy to othersHow anything that's happening in the body or mind can be the object of meditationHow useful it is to name a feelingMaking a feeling "intelligible" by naming itHow useful it can be to find where feelings show up in the bodyWhen your mind is not aware of what's making you act this way (in addiction, compulsive behaviors etc) it's important to put the words on the feelingsWhether or not all emotions show up in the bodyHow clinging takes many forms - even the desire for inner peace"Don't chase her, let her find you."That our lives are made dull by our efforts to over control thingsPlease Support The Show with a Donation  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Please Support The Show with a DonationBarbara Bonner started as an art historian and then went on to spend much of her professional career in nonprofit management, fundraising and philanthropy. Most relevant to this show, Barbara is the author of two books; Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring Courage. In this episode, she talks about both, using beautiful poetry, powerful quotes, and illustrative real-life stories. If you've ever wanted to cultivate these two qualities in your life, then this episode is for you. If there's one thing Barbara does through her work, it's inspiring action towards both of these qualities in the lives of everyday people.RxBar 25% off first order www.rxbar.com/wolf promo codeWOLFNutrafol 100% drug-free hair growth, made in an FDA approved facility, first months supply for $10 www.nutrafol.com promo code WOLF  In This Interview, Barbara Bonner and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHer books, Inspiring Generosity and Inspiring CourageThe power of putting ourselves in the way of inspirationHow we're different at the end of a book than at the beginningReframing how we look at generosityHow generosity flows from a sense of abundanceHow a sense of abundance flows from being generousThat generosity and courage are action verbsThe fact that you should feel a pinch when you act generouslyThat saying the loving-kindness meditation can be generousWhat it means to lead a courageous lifeHow no one who was courageous seems to claim courageThe spontaneity of courageHow authenticity seems to coincide with courageThat you see a pattern of courage throughout people's livesPost-traumatic growthHow a strong childhood isn't necessary in order to lead a full lifeThe role of listening in generosity and courageHow important listening is in all of lifeThe correlation between generosity and couragePracticing generosity and courage and growing the ability to act on these qualities over timeHow to live a life of meaning you have to step forward"Do something every day that doesn't compute" - Wendell Berry Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please Support The Show with a DonationUlrich Boser is a best selling author and senior fellow with The Center for American Progress. He has been a contributing editor for US News and World Report and his work has appeared in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huntington Post. His latest book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything, will equip you with actual skills to get better at what some have called the ultimate survival tool: learning how to learn. This topic is relevant to literally everyone. To be alive is to learn and grow and change (whether we're aware of it at times or not!) so it's important to sharpen our skills in order to get better at getting better. What is discussed in this episode will confirm some of what you know about how people learn, challenge some beliefs you might have about this topic and teach you a few things in the process that will make you a better student of life. Bombas - enter offer code WOLF at checkout for 20% off your first purchase www.bombas.com/wolfIn This Interview, Ulrich Boser and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHis book, Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business or School - or - How to Become an Expert in Just About AnythingLearning how to learnGetting better at getting betterThe ultimate survival toolBeing actively engaged in the learning processMaking meaning out of somethingThe hypercorrection effectGiving our brain time to make sense of the information, reflectionHow critical it is to understand relationships between thingsVarying the circumstances in which we learn/apply informationHow it's easier to remember something new if you can hang it on to something oldA systematic approach to learning somethingValue: valuing what you're learningTarget: learning small pieces of info at a timeDevelop: practice & get feedbackExtend: elaborating on something, looking at it from different anglesRelate: analogies are the essence of thought, relating something to other thingsRethink: take time to process informationMetacognition: thinking about thinkingWhat are you going to learn and how will you know that you know it?How intertwined emotion and cognition areDigestible parts: learn less at a timeAt 90 minutes of learning, adults are kind of doneActive learning strategiesHypotheticals: what would happen if...Why it's important to stay away from crammingPlease Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Please Support The Show with a DonationTim Freke is a truly pioneering philosopher. His many books, talks, and retreats have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Tim is the author of 35 books, the newest being Soul Story: Evolution and the purpose of life. As you listen to this interview, your ah-ha moments will grow in scope and scale throughout the conversation. He is a radical thinker and one of the great minds of our time. His big view of where we've been, where we are and where we're going will hit you as perhaps surprising, remarkably realistic and fundamentally inspiring. Listen and see for yourself. Molekule for $75 off your first order, visit www.molekule.com enter promo code WOLFIn This Interview, Tim Freke and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHis book, Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of LifeThe deeper level of evolution going on inside of ourselvesThe evolution of the psychePerhaps it's all one evolutionary journey: physical evolution, biological evolution and then an evolution of the psyche or soulWhat if rather than the concept of God creating the universe, we've evolved such that we've created a godMaybe God is where we're going towardsIn life - the deepest things happen at the endAn arriving of conscious onenessThe point of view that life in the world is getting better over timeCreativity is the heart of the universeThe great religions of the world were created at a time when people still thought the world is flat. We've moved on and so can our recognition of spiritualityThe ark of time pointing towards a better world nowRather than the passing of time, perhaps it's the accumulation of the past meeting the possible.The past meeting the possibleThe weight of the past that can limit us and pull us backParalogical thinking: both AND (not either or)Transcend and IncludeHow he teaches others to have the experience of "deep awake"Allowing vs. Pushing AwayBeing pulled towards the better while living in the presentBeing a spiritual being in an animal, human bodyCause and Effect, Meaning and Magic - all of the levels are interacting all of the timeThe power of realistic thinking that's inspirationalDeep Awake: being spiritually awake, you experience the oneness of life and that feels like loveWaking up doesn't mean we ditch our individualityThe form of consciousness that comes through our senses which are rooted in the bodyThe form of consciousness that is in the psyche and imaginationThe form of consciousness that questions itself and realizes that our essential nature has no form  Please Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Please Support The Show with a DonationCheri Huber is the author of 20 books and has been a student of zen for 35 years. She founded the Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, both in California, where she and other monks teach workshops and hold retreats. She is also a truth telling, light hearted delight to listen to. In this interview, she talks all about what is going on in our mind and how we can better work with it to produce a better experience in life. Her wisdom is so practical and so powerful. See for yourself in this transformative episode.Visit Bombas www.bombas.com/wolf and enter offer WOLF at checkout for 20% off the most comfortable socks in the worldIn This Interview, Cheri Huber and I Discuss...The Wolf ParableHer book, I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itHow the process IS the outcomeThat now is the only moment there isHow the quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionEverything comes into being, togetherShe doesn't believe that there's anything that ISN'T GodOur dualistic thinkingAll of the ways to refer to the egoThe unique ability that humans have to experience themselves as other than lifeThe ego is a survival systemBelieving we are not connected to lifeEverything is a verb! A gerundThe illusion of being separate from lifeMy ego is the no to life's yesAlways asking what's lacking, what's missing, what's wrong keeps the ego as the center of the universeHow we are deeply conditioned for negativityAwareness being able to watch the conditioned mindI hear it in my head, it sounds like me, it must be me, it's who I amApproach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itRecording and ListeningMake recordings of what's true, what I appreciate, what I loveHearing what's true for you in your own voiceTalking ourselves into a life that's trueHow we direct our attention is the be all and end all in lifeWe have these tendencies to see what's negative so we need to bring ourselves to what is true that isn't negativeWe transcend the conditioned mind, we don't resist itThe key is to turn your attention away from the negative voices not to change what they are sayingThe habit of going with the conversation in your head is so powerfulIf we can wake up out of it, we can decide to go somewhere else in our attentionHear Cheri Huber talk about her book,  I Don't Want To, I Don't Feel Like It: How resistance controls your life and what to do about itCheri Huber teaches that the process IS the outcomeCheri Huber explains what she means by this: your ego is the "no" to life's "yes"Do you believe that we are deeply conditioned for negativity or hardwired for negativity?Here's a tip: Approach the stuff that's going on inside our heads by imagining that it's somebody next to you saying itThe quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attentionPlease Support The Show with a DonationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.