Videos

Michael Pollan on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, July 21, 2022

Michael joins Stephen on his show for the second time to promote the paperback of This is Your Mind on Plants. Watch the interview here.

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SXSW 2019—Michael Pollan and Tim Ferriss

April 1, 2019

A renaissance is underway in the scientific study of psychedelics, both as a mode of therapy for mental illness and as a tool for understanding the mind. Tim Ferriss takes up these issues and more in a conversation with Michael Pollan.

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The Power of Awe

April 1, 2019

Michael joined Roshi Joan Halifax, Dacher Keltner, and Soren Gordhamer on a panel at the Wisdom 2.0 conference.

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Real Time with Bill Maher—Michael Pollan: Psychedelic Science

Real Time with Bill Maher, June 23, 2018

Professor and author Michael Pollan joins Bill to discuss his latest book: “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

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Michael Pollan speaks with Michael Lerner

May 11, 2015

Michael Pollan speaks with Michael Lerner about new research into the healing properties of psychedelics.

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Mindful eating with Oprah

March 30, 2015

Oprah speaks with bestselling author Michael Pollan about our evolving relationship with food, what it means to eat with a fuller consciousness and how having a heightened awareness of the food that goes into our bodies can improve our physical and spiritual well-being. Watch the video here.

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Magic Mushrooms and the Healing Trip

February 20, 2015

In a companion video to Michael’s New Yorker article about the resurgence of psychedelic therapy, Eddie Marritz, a cinematographer and photographer in remission from small-cell carcinoma, speaks of his experience with one of New York University’s psilocybin research studies. Watch it here.

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