EAN: 9780141997339

THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS - MICHAEL POLLAN KA...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES  HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND 'It's a trip -
engrossing  eye-opening  mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide
... curious  careful  open minded' The Guardian Of all the many things humans rely on plants
for  surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate  calm  or
completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants 
Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium  caffeine and mescaline - and throws
the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and
participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs  while consuming (or in the
case of caffeine  trying not to consume) them  Pollan reckons with the powerful human
attraction to psychoactive plants  and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of
history  science  memoir and reportage  Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all
too often treated reductively. In doing so  he proves that there is much more to say about
these plants than simply debating their regulation  for when we take them into our bodies and
let them change our minds  we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can.
This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and
aspirations  the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.

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