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Andrew Huberman
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology; Host, Huberman Lab, Stanford University
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What Psychedelics & Meditation Reveal About Consciousness | Michael Pollan & Dr. Andrew Huberman

📅 Oct 05, 2026 Huberman Lab Clips 8 MIN 34279 VIEWS 12 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Michael Pollan and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss ego dissolution on high-dose psychedelics, how awe and meditation reach a similar state, and why consciousness remains unexplained. Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. Watch the full episode:    • What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us Ab...   Show notes: https://go.hubermanlab.com/XLRVeiP Timestamps 00:00 Redefining Collective Consciousness 00:52...

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  1. 0:00Is that what it's really about?
  2. 0:51Can you talk more about that?
  3. 7:08It's an awareness. Do I have that right?
Interviewer 0:00 ↗
How do you think about this collective consciousness thing? How perhaps should it be redefined? Is it about living in peace and harmony as a species with other species? Is that what it's really about? Because I think anyone that takes psychedelics or who has a positive hope for humanity, or both, wants that.
Andrew Huberman 0:20 ↗
Yeah. So that's been the dream of psychedelics for a long time, that they would diminish the ego and contribute to sort of pro-social feeling, a sense of connection. We're more alike than we're different. You know, it doesn't always work. We have cases of ego dissolution and we have cases of ego inflation with psychedelics. Some people...
Interviewer 0:51 ↗
Can you talk more about that?

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Huberman, A. (2026, October 5). What Psychedelics & Meditation Reveal About Consciousness | Michael Pollan & Dr. Andrew Huberman [Interview transcript]. Huberman Lab Clips. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3019991/

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Andrew Huberman. "What Psychedelics & Meditation Reveal About Consciousness | Michael Pollan & Dr. Andrew Huberman." Huberman Lab Clips, 5 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3019991/.

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@misc{huberman2026_3019991,
  author       = {Andrew Huberman},
  title        = {What Psychedelics \& Meditation Reveal About Consciousness | Michael Pollan \& Dr. Andrew Huberman},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Huberman Lab Clips. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3019991/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}