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What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness

By Iris Kulbatski — 2020

Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.

Read on www.discovermagazine.com

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Dr. Robin Carhart Harris: Psilocybin and the Psychedelic State

Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Imperial College London, discusses research on Psilocybin and how psychedelics could be used in therapy to help with depression, addiction, and other problems of rigid thought patterns.

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Robin Carhart-Harris
2013
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality.

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Michio Kaku
2015
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Consciousness Explained

Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness.

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Daniel C. Dennett
1992
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential.

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Anna Lembke
2025
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How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world—and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures.

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2018
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before.

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Daniel Levitin
2025
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Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition

An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures―our brains. No reader curious about our “little grey cells” will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling’s brief introduction to the brain.

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John E. Dowling
2025
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How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan | Big Think

If your ego had a "location" in the brain, it would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.

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2019
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

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Jeff Hawkins
2025
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

What we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems.

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Dr. Guy Leschziner
2025
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