What Michael Pollan has said about Ego dissolution
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 28, 2026
Michael Pollan, Journalist and author of How to Change Your Mind, has been quoted on Ego dissolution 2 times in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Pollan argues that consciousness can exist without a self, as meditators and psychedelic users experience.
“It turns out you can have consciousness without a self”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 20:07
Pollan says his psilocybin ego-dissolution experience gave him lasting perspective on his ego and that such experiences have value.
“So I think there's a value in having an experience of ego dissolution”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 1:01:46
Episodes
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanHuberman Lab · Sep 28, 2026 · 2 h 3 min
Andrew Huberman and author Michael Pollan discuss consciousness, plant intelligence, the microbiome, psychedelics, food politics and Pollan's experiment quitting caffeine.
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