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Cover Page
Recommended by
James Cameron
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
How to Change Your Mind
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Jax Vullinghs
Girl, Woman, Other
A Place of Greater Safety
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Akshat Pande
How Innovation Works
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Nick Brown
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Cricket 2.0 — Inside the T20 Revolution

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How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan has an incredibly engaging and accessible style and in this book he takes you though an illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs. In aide of his ‘research’, he tries LSD, psilocybin and the crystallized venom of a Sonoran Desert toad (thankfully not all at the same time). As vivid as his description of these experiences are — the most interesting parts of the book are his discussion of the modern clinical benefits that psychedelics offer to the treatment of mental health issues (and the incredible progress that loads of startups are having in this area). It’s hard to read this and not feel gutted that this field of research that has the potential to save millions of lives was effectively shut down for almost 40 years by the moral panic that cropped up around LSD use in the 60’s.

Author

Michael Pollan

Recommended by

James Cameron

Subject

Psychology

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