Download Audiobook How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan in English

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New York Occasions E book Evaluation – 10 Finest Books of 2018A New York Occasions Notable BookThe number-one New York Occasions greatest vendor.An excellent and courageous investigation into the medical and scientific revolution going down round psychedelic medication – and the spellbinding story of his personal life-changing psychedelic experiencesWhen Michael Pollan got down to analysis how LSD and psilocybin (the lively ingredient in magic mushrooms) are getting used to offer reduction to folks affected by difficult-to-treat situations equivalent to melancholy, dependancy, and anxiousness, he didn’t intend to put in writing what’s undoubtedly his most private guide. However upon discovering how these outstanding substances are bettering the lives not solely of the mentally sick but in addition of wholesome folks coming to grips with the challenges of on a regular basis life, he determined to discover the panorama of the thoughts within the first particular person in addition to the third. Thus started a singular journey into the expertise of assorted altered states of consciousness, together with a dive deep into each the most recent mind science and the thriving underground group of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historic file to separate the reality about these mysterious medication from the myths which have surrounded them for the reason that Sixties, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a robust backlash towards what was then a promising subject of analysis.A novel and stylish mix of science, memoir, journey writing, historical past, and drugs, The way to Change Your Thoughts is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it’s the gripping account of a journey to an thrilling and surprising new frontier in our understanding of the thoughts, the self, and our place on the planet. The true topic of Pollan’s “psychological travelogue” is not only psychedelic medication but in addition the everlasting puzzle of human consciousness and the way, in a world that provides us each struggling and pleasure, we will do our greatest to be absolutely current and discover that means in our lives.