Sam Harris — Psychedelics, Meditation, and The Bigger Picture | The Tim Ferriss Show

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 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 400 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

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May 19, 20201h 50mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: May 19, 2020
Duration: 1h 50m
Channel: Tim Ferriss
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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 SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 400 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

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Tim Ferriss
host
Entrepreneur and author who hosts The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Sam Harris
guest
Neuroscientist and philosopher; host of the Making Sense podcast and creator of the Waking Up meditation app.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Tim Ferriss and Sam Harris, Sam Harris — Psychedelics, Meditation, and The Bigger Picture | The Tim Ferriss Show explores sam Harris on fear, mindfulness, psychedelics, and pandemic stress Sam Harris discusses fear as a necessary signal of salience and argues the real skill is dropping fear quickly once it stops being informative.

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