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Michael Pollan on altered states of consciousness

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Michael Pollan
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Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics

Nearly every culture throughout history has used chemicals that alter consciousness for spiritual exploration. In the 20th century these drugs caught the attention of scientists. Psychedelics, as they were named, proved effective at treating intractable illnesses like depression and addiction.

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Alison Gopnik
2019
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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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The Intelligent Plant

In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.

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Michael Pollan
2013
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most...

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Michael Pollan
2019
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan—Review

Pollan’s illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs reveals that their mystical and medical benefits are indivisible.

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Oliver Burkeman
2018
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The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.

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Michael Pollan
2015
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Michael Pollan Speaks About Coffee and Tea

Michael Pollan posits a theory about the ways our culture makes distinctions between the plant drugs we celebrate and the ones we demonize.

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Michael Pollan
2010
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This Is Your Mind on Plants

Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience.

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Michael Pollan
2021
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Capitalism’s Favorite Drug

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.

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Michael Pollan
2020
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How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | Talks at Google

Michael Pollan has written 5 New York Times best sellers including Food Rules; In Defense of Food; and The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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