How to Change Your Mind - Summarized for Busy People: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence: Based on the Book by Michael
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Michael Pollan wanted to research LSD and psilocybin and how it could provide relief to people suffering from conditions that are difficult to treat such as depression, addiction, and anxiety. This didn't intend to be his most personal book but, because of how these substances could improve the lives even of the people with mental health problems, Pollan began to explore the landscape of the mind from his own experience.
This began an adventure into the altered states of consciousness backed by the latest research on the brain and an underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan switched from historical records in order to separate the myth from the truth that have been around since the 1960s—which set a backlash against psychedelic evangelists from the originally promising field of research.
A perfect blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind serves as a participatory journalism that gives a gripping account of the world of understanding the mind, the self, and our place in the world. Pollan's "mental travelogue" not only looks into psychedelic drugs but also the puzzle of the human consciousness and how it could set us in suffering and in joy—while doing our best of find the meaning in our lives.
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HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
Summarized For Busy People
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Based on the Book by Michael Pollan
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TABLE OF CONTENT
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
BOOK OVERVIEW
ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PROLOGUE: A New Door
CHAPTER 1: A Renaissance
CHAPTER 2: A Natural History
CHAPTER 3: History
Part I: The Promise
Part II: The Crack-Up
CHAPTER 4: Travelogue
Trip One: LSD
Trip Two: Psilocybin
Trip Three: 5-MeO-DMT (or, the Toad)
CHAPTER 5: The Neuroscience
CHAPTER 6: The Trip Treatment
One: Dying
Two: Addiction
Three: Depression
EPILOGUE: In Praise of Neural Diversity
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BOOK OVERVIEW
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan talks about microdosing or taking enough LSD to change your mind. His extensive research shows the two most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century—and this is the time when two organic compounds went into the human culture. The first was LSD and the second, the atomic bomb. These are two distinct explosions
that changed the course of history.
The book gives you a tour of the resurgence of psychedelics including LSD, psilocybin, Ayahuasca, and 5-MeO DMT. Pollan’s research aims not to persuade the society to trip out
again but rather, to look at the history of psychedelics’ misunderstanding. There is a reason why we need psychedelics in order to relieve the distress that comes with addiction, depression, and anxiety.
The history of psychedelics shows the various research in the past and how panic and the grandiosity of Timothy Leary caused this to be suppressed in the mid-sixties. Research never went away, so, scientists are now using psychedelics to discover the mysteries of the brain and consciousness through modern brain imaging technologies. Pollan interviewed