How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Dependancy, Melancholy, and Transcendence (Kindle eBook) $2.99
Author Michael Pollan
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date May 15, 2018
Print size 474 pages
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“Pollan retains you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and warranted.” —New York Times
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book
A superb and courageous investigation into the medical and scientific revolution going down round psychedelic drugs–and the spellbinding story of his personal life-changing psychedelic experiences
When Michael Pollan got down to analysis how LSD and psilocybin (the energetic ingredient in magic mushrooms) are getting used to supply reduction to folks affected by difficult-to-treat circumstances resembling despair, habit and anxiousness, he didn’t intend to write down what’s undoubtedly his most private e book. But upon discovering how these outstanding substances are bettering the lives not solely of the mentally in poor health but additionally of wholesome folks coming to grips with the challenges of on a regular basis life, he determined to discover the panorama of the thoughts within the first particular person in addition to the third. Thus started a singular journey into varied altered states of consciousness, together with a dive deep into each the most recent mind science and the thriving underground group of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historic report to separate the reality about these mysterious medication from the myths which have surrounded them for the reason that Sixties, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a strong backlash in opposition to what was then a promising area of analysis.
A novel and stylish mix of science, memoir, journey writing, historical past, and drugs, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it’s the gripping account of a journey to an thrilling and surprising new frontier in our understanding of the thoughts, the self, and our place on this planet. The true topic of Pollan’s “psychological travelogue” isn’t just psychedelic medication but additionally the everlasting puzzle of human consciousness and the way, in a world that provides us each struggling and pleasure, we are able to do our greatest to be totally current and discover which means in our lives.
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