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How to Change Your Mind
- Author
- Michael Pollan
- Narrator
- Michael Pollan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 17 May 2018
- Run Time
- 13 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan.
When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written and read a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs.
'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' - Washington Post
'An easy-going humane generosity ... mischievous self-regard ... as if Henry David Thoreau had had an encounter with Woody Allen and never been quite the same since' - Simon Schama
© Michael Pollen 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling
Washington Post
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An easy-going humane generosity ... mischievous self-regard ... as if Henry David Thoreau had had an encounter with Woody Allen and never been quite the same since
Simon Schama
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Details
- Author
- Michael Pollan
- Narrator
- Michael Pollan
- Duration
- 13 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9780141988993
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Social and cultural history, Psychology: states of consciousness, Regulation of medicines and medical devices, Neurosciences, Personal and public health / health education
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan. When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written and read a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. 'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' - Washington Post'An easy-going humane generosity ... mischievous self-regard ... as if Henry David Thoreau had had an encounter with Woody Allen and never been quite the same since' - Simon Schama© Michael Pollen 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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