How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Discussion Prompts)
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence By Michael Pollan
How to Change your Mind, is a fascinating account of the revolutionary drugs used in Psychedelic therapy. It is about a revival movement in their use for treating terminal illness, addiction and depression. A non-fiction account, written by Michael Pollan, who is an established author in the literary world. He writes relatable material about scientific innovations. He describes some of the history behind the hallucinogen type drugs and takes some real life ‘trips’ into the world of LSD and other hallucinogens. This book is rated by the New York times and other literary establishments. Michael Pollan is upheld as one of the hundred most influential people by the Times Magazine. Despite confessing he was probably an awkward choice as an author for this genre of book, he has produced a non-fiction book that stands out as convincing and worth reading.
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• Discussion aid which includes a wealth of prompts and information
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Food writer Pollan (Cooked) shifts his focus to other uses of plants in this brilliant history of psychedelics across cultures and generations, the neuroscience of its effects, the revival of research on its potential to heal mental illness and his own mind-changing trips. For an entire generation, psychedelics were synonymous with Harvard professor-turned-hippie Timothy Leary and his siren call to "turn on, tune in, drop out." But, Pollan argues, that freewheeling attitude quickly turned into a "full-on moral panic about LSD" that "doomed the first wave of research." By the 1990s, the body of knowledge about the successful use of LSD to treat alcoholics in the '50s and '60s was buried, and medical interest only revived in 2010 with studies on treating cancer anxiety with psilocybin. Pollan writes movingly of one man whose "psychedelic journey had shifted his perspective from a narrow lens trained on the prospect of dying to a renewed focus on how best to live the time left to him." Today, renewed interest has sent scientists racing ahead with trials of psychedelics to treat addiction and depression, and curious seekers like Pollan into experiments with these substances. This nuanced and sophisticated exploration, which asks big questions about meaning-making and spiritual experience, is thought-provoking and eminently readable.
