How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan · 2018
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“One of my favorite books of the last five years.”
Twitter““Baruch asks, if I were to write a protocol for myself, what would it be to become enlightened? The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper. The reason for that is because this journey could… pic.twitter.com/oIYEgHKIj0”
“I believe it was Michael Pollan in his book, How To Change Your Mind about, you take somebody from a thousand years ago, put them in a time machine, bring them to Times Square, let them hang out for five hours, shoot them back. Can they describe what they saw? Not really. They could say that it was big, loud and bright, but other than that they couldn’t explain what a car is, they couldn’t explain what a building is, or a skyscraper, because the vocabulary hadn’t even been developed. That, to me, is the greatest example, albeit somewhat glib, of this idea of being ineffable. Which is, you and I can sit here and talk about it in shorthand, but it’s very difficult to explain to one of our friends who hasn’t experienced this.”
“Yes, have read both [Replying to: Hope the "Deviate" by @rbeaulotto and "How to change your mind" by @michaelpollan are on your list.]”