The Tim Ferriss Show
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.
Not Your Mother's Psychedelics - Featured Episodes
Renowned author Michael Pollan talks with Tim about his high-dose Psilocybin experience, and the new frontier of psychedelics.
#365: Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelicsa year agoTim 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”
#433: Sam Harris on Psychedelics, How to Cope During a Pandemic, Taming Anxiety, and More2 months agoTim 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.
#377: Psychedelics — Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and Morea year agoLearn 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.
#347: Stan Grof, Lessons from ~4,500 LSD Sessions and Beyond2 years agoTim 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.
#337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More2 years agoThe episode title says it all. Listen to Tim and Paul Stamets:
#340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World2 years ago#365: Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics | Brought to you by 99designs and Athletic Greens. "An overactive ego is a tyrant." - Michael Pollan Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley where he is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Science Journalism. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His newest book is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, which will be available as a paperback in May. And if you haven't yet, check out "Trip of Compassion", which is the most compelling movie I've seen in the last yea...
#433: Sam Harris on Psychedelics, How to Cope During a Pandemic, Taming Anxiety, and More
Sam Harris — Psychedelics, Meditation, and The Bigger Picture | Brought to you by FreshBooks and "5-Bullet Friday" "Nothing's changed but yet, on some level, everything has changed, and I feel like I'm in a spaceship where at any moment, the leak or the breach in the wall can be catastrophic. It's a very bizarre feeling, which I know everyone is sharing to one or another degree." — Sam Harris Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers. His work covers a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). Sam hosts the popular Making Sense podcast and is also the ...
#377: Psychedelics — Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More
This episode features a panel that I moderated in front of a standing-room-only crowd at theMilken Institute's Global Conference 2019. It includes a great overview of psychedelic science, investing opportunities, anecdotal personal benefits, legal challenges, and much more. I think it’s one of the more comprehensive panels ever done on the subject. Here are the participants: Matthew Johnson—Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Unit Ayelet Waldman — Author, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life Robin Carhart-Harris — Head of Psychedelic Research, Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London Christian Angermayer — Founder, Apeiron Investment Group and ATAI Life Sciences Please enjoy! *** If you enjoy the podcast, would you please considerleaving a shortreviewon Apple Podcasts/iTunes?It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to c...
#347: Stan Grof, Lessons from ~4,500 LSD Sessions and Beyond
"I realized people were not having LSD experiences; they were having experiences of themselves. But they were coming from depths that psychoanalysis didn't know anything about." — Stanislav Grof Stanislav Grof, M.D., (stanislavgrof.com) is 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. Previously, he was Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Currently, Stan is Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA, and conducts professional training programs in holot...
#337: Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More
Hamilton Morris(TW:@hamiltonmorris, IG:@hamiltonmorris) is a writer, documentarian, and scientific researcher who currently studies the chemistry and pharmacology of tryptamines at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His writing has been featured inHarper’s Magazine,Playboy, andVice, and he is the creator of the television seriesHamilton’s Pharmacopeia, which recently completed its second season, and it is absolutely one of my favorite series of the last five years. Hamilton is exceptionally good at explaining complex subjects simply and making science sexy, as you’ll discover in this episode. Enjoy! This episode is brought to you byInktel.Ever since I wroteThe 4-Hour Workweek, I’ve been frequently asked about how I choose to delegate tasks. At the root of many of my decisions is a simple question: “How can I invest money to improve my quality of life?” Or “how can I spend moderate money to save significant time?” Inktelis one of those investments. They are a tur...
#340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World
Paul Stamets (@PaulStamets) is an intellectual and industry leader in the habitat, medicinal use, and production of fungi. Part of his mission is to deepen our understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep taken on this path of life. Paul is the author of a new study in Nature's Scientific Reports, which details how mushroom extracts—specifically extracts from woodland polypore mushrooms—can greatly reduce viruses that contribute to bee colony collapse. Paul is the author of six books, including Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, and Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, and he has discovered and named numerous species of psilocybin mushrooms. Paul is also the founder and owner of Fungi Perfecti, makers of the Host Defense mushroom supplement line, and it is something I've been using since Samin Nosrat recommended it in my last book, Tribe of Mentors. Paul h...