New from Tim — Interview with Henry Shukman and "The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship"

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Here’s what I’ve published in the past seven days or so...

I’m also including today’s announcement coming from the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

📢 What I’m celebrating —
Today is the launch of my collaboration with author Michael Pollan: The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship. This has been in the works for a long time!

🎧 New podcast episode:
Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway (Brought to you by Allform premium, modular furniture; Pique Tea premium tea crystals (pu’er, etc.); and You Need A Budget cult favorite budgeting app.)

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📢 What I’m celebrating —
Today is the launch of my collaboration with author Michael Pollan: The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship.

I couldn’t be more excited to support the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Journalism Fellowship. If you want to bend the arc of history, longform and investigative journalism is one of the best contemporary tools that we have. The Cambrian explosion of psychedelic medicine brings with it both incredible promise and incredible complexity. Dedicated journalists are needed to help separate fact from fiction, hold people accountable, and much more. Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the perfect person to spearhead this ambitious fellowship, and I am very grateful to be involved.

Mark your calendars, the application form to apply will go live on December 1st.

Here is the official description: “The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers journalists reporting grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 to report in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business, and culture of this new era of psychedelics. In addition to underwriting individual stories, the Fellowship aims to establish and nurture a new generation of journalists covering the frontlines of this rapidly changing field. We’re looking for big, underreported, narratively compelling stories placed in rich political, economic, scientific, and cultural contexts. We are committed to supporting journalists from diverse backgrounds and of all nationalities.”

🎧 New podcast episode:
Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway

Henry Shukman (@mountaincloudzencenter) teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has an MA from Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews and has written several award-winning books of poetry and fiction.

Henry’s essays have been published in The New York Times, Outside, and Tricycle, and his poems have been published in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Sunday Times (UK), and London Review of Books. He has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, UBS, Esalen Institute, Colorado College, United World College, and many other venues. He has written of his own journey in his memoir One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.

Henry has also recently created a new meditation program, Original Love, which aims to provide a broad, inclusive path of growth through meditation.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. The transcript of this episode can be found here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

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