Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show. The Tim Ferris Show is often the #1 business podcast on all of Apple Podcasts, and it’s been ranked #1 out of 500,000+ podcasts on many occasions. It is the first business/interview podcast to pass 100,000,000 downloads, it has been selected as “Best of” Apple Podcasts for three years running, and readers of Fortune Magazine‘s Term Sheet recently selected The Tim Ferriss Show as their top business podcast. It has now surpassed 500M downloads.
Renowned author Michael Pollan talks with Tim about his high-dose Psilocybin experience, and the new frontier of psychedelics.
Tim talks with Sam Harris, Ph.D. (@SamHarrisOrg), the host of the Making Sense podcast (Podcast Notes) and creator of the Waking Up meditation app.“The thing about psychedelics is it can give you... an experience of states of consciousness for which there is no possibility of skepticism”
Tim talks about the benefits of Psilocybin: its apparent use in mitigating symptoms of depression and anxiety associated with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, its use at treating an addiction to smoking, and its ability to relax harmful beliefs and open a window for revision.
Learn from Stanislav Grof, M.D., (stanislavgrof.com), a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of “holotropic” states of consciousness, a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary states that have healing, transformative, and evolutionary potential.
Tim says that Hamilton Morris (@hamiltonmorris)- writer, documentarian, and scientific researcher who currently studies the chemistry and pharmacology of tryptamines at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is great at explaining complex subjects simply, and making science sexy.
The episode title says it all. Listen to Tim and Paul Stamets: