Listen now (68 mins) | “There's a deep need for all of us to grow up, like we are now being handed tools of the gods, right? And so we have to grow up and we have to mature..."

Listen now (51 mins) | "What optogenetics does is it's an engine of discovery. It helps us identify what matters, what's causing things to happen in the brain. And we know now the cells..."

Listen now (65 mins) | “As you grow older, your brain is able to keep rewiring all the time. And so we have this impression that the flexibility of the brain decreases as you get older. But..."

Listen now (57 mins) | “So when we think about this, what is the aura? Many people have an idea of the aura as something that is around you and a lovely bubble or sphere of energy. Maybe you've..."

Listen now (52 mins) | "And so I thought, well, if this is true that somebody can access information that is not part of their usual sensory way of obtaining information, then..."

Listen now (58 mins) | "Because then it helps you see that, oh my gosh, I spend my entire life distracting from these primordial really uncomfortable feelings. And if I can bring them into the..."

Listen now (49 min) | “I often ask, ‘so how beautiful are you when you need something?’ I call this the beauty of needs. And it's amazing how many of us don't feel beautiful at all when we need..."

Listen now (63 mins) | “We need to be open to things that offend or transcend our worldview because they're clearly doing that for a reason..."

Listen now (60 mins) | “Historically, there's no such thing as a pure tradition. And I also think as human beings, we transcend these religions and we transcend these cultures. And so..."

Listen now (54 mins) | "And by the way, finding a partner in interstellar space in the universe would change our perception of the universe because right now it’s a cold and lonely place, full..."

Listen now (66 min) | “Where in your life where you're not saying yes, but there's a, yes. That wants to be said where there's some desire for self-expression..."

Listen now (48 mins) | "I do think in some cases having these memories appears to be a glitch in the system. That may be, even if we claim that people do reincarnate, that even if that happens..."

Listen now (65 mins) | "I yearn to participate in and provide sacred initiation process for men. And what does that even mean? Well, it means to be initiated into yourself..."

Listen now (54 mins) | "When people ask, well, what do I believe about these things? I say, I believe basically what I've seen in the laboratory, I'm driven by experience just like anybody else..."

Listen now (52 mins) | “You're going to find a lot of people doing their best, revealing how beautiful and strange we are, and how remarkable we can be..."

Listen now (63 min) | “We as a generational cohort are coming of age where we simultaneously have more awareness of life...and at the same time understand our existential precariousness..."

Listen now (77 mins) | “All growing up stages are the product of scientific investigation of the stages of growing up that people go through. And those are all defined in third person terms..."

While Michael Pollan’s How To Change Your Mind is arguably the most famous book about psychedelics in recent years, there are many others, including Acid Test, which is a biography of one of my personal heroes, Rick Doblin.