How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind
Subtitle: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Author: Michael Pollan
Genre: Nonfiction, Science
Format: Digital Purchase
Publish Date: May 2018
Read: November 2024
Favorite Quote: You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It’s not something we generate; it’s something out there waiting to be discovered.
Synopsis: As a journalist, Michael Pollan set out to understand why addiction, depression, and terminal illness could benefit from psychoactive treatment. With the aim to discover how psilocybin and LSD work for patients, Pollan ended up on a personal journey as well as a professional one. He chronicles the facts, as well as his direct experience with psychoactive guides and compounds.
Why does this book beguile? If you’ve never tried a mind-altering substance, wouldn’t it be interesting to see how someone writes about it? How does one quantify the unquantifiable? How to Change Your Mind will likely change your mind about these psychoactive substances, how they are studied, and how they are applied clinically. I really enjoyed both the facts and the feelings from Pollan’s experience and this book definitely made me more curious about magic mushrooms, LSD, and the set/setting in which one experiences them.
Rating: 4.5/5
If you’re interested in this, read*: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley