Sam Harris — Psychedelics, Meditation, and The Bigger Picture | Brought to you by Freshbooks (http://freshbooks.com/tim) and 5-Bullet Friday (https://tim.blog/friday).

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 creator of the Waking Up app, which offers a modern, rational approach to the practice of meditation. Sam has practiced meditation for over 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad. He holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA.

Please enjoy!

00:00 Start
08:18 What Sam has learned about fear
11:37 Mindfulness as an intervention
24:21 On changing one’s mind
30:27 Surprises from the past year
38:07 Sam’s recent mushroom trip
24:21 Navigating the different psychedelics
50:28 Can psychedelics kill you?
55:57 MDMA
59:42 On bad trips
01:02:32 Hopes for the future
01:05:32 Psychedelics and the messiah complex
01:11:21 Self-quarantine + psychedelics?
01:23:22 Finding relief during the pandemic
01:31:15 A valuable four-word sentence
01:34:20 Your stress is not a character flaw.
1:38:34 Stray bullets and silver linings

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