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- While scientists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and activists are all driving what’s often called the psychedelic renaissance, Pollan looms large as its most important journalist. But he’s far from alone.
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Jul 12, 2022 · In an interview, author Michael Pollan reflects on the psychedelic renaissance. His bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind, is now a new Netflix show.
- To LSD
W hat exactly happens to the brain on psychedelic drugs? A...
- To LSD
May 18, 2018 · Today, after several decades of suppression and neglect, psychedelics are having a renaissance. A new generation of scientists, many of them inspired by their own personal experience of the compounds, are testing their potential to heal mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction.
- Johanna Mayer
- LSD
- Psilocybin Mushrooms
- 5-MeO-DMT
To guide his LSD experience, Pollan chose a well-studied man named “Fritz” from the American West. In Fritz’s octagon-shaped yurt, Pollan took a psycholytic dose of LSD, allowing him to explore the psyche while remaining coherent enough to talk about it. Throughout the journey, Pollan never completely severed ties with his ego but experienced great...
Pollan’s psilocybin mushroom journey took place in a suburb on the East Coast guided by a woman named “Mary”. Before the experience, Pollan worried he might lose his mind to the hallucinations. Fortunately, Pollan said, “the serpent of madness that I worried might be waiting had not surfaced.” Instead, Pollan experienced ego dissolution and an awar...
To smoke “one of the most potent and fast-acting psychotropic drugs there is,” Pollan enlisted a 35-year-old Mexican therapist he calls “Rocío”. Rocío, who had previous experience administering 5-MeO-DMT as a drug addiction treatment, guided Pollan on what he described as a terrifying experience. “I was no longer there,” and yet “expanding to becom...
- Elena Schmidt
May 29, 2018 · Emily Witt on three new books about psychedelic drugs and their impact from Timothy Leary, Michael Pollan, and Tao Lin.
It's about how psychedelic drugs are having a surprising renaissance, being used experimentally in therapeutic settings to treat depression, addiction and the existential fear of death in...
May 17, 2018 · His new book 'How to Change Your Mind' explores what the renaissance of psychedelic research means for our society.
May 18, 2018 · In his seventh decade, however, Pollan has become fascinated by a new subject — psychedelic drugs. So when I meet him at his home in Berkeley, California, we talk at length not about organic...
