How to Change Your Mind
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Author Michael Pollan, shares his experiences on being a guinea pig for his new book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
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| 0:44.0 | It seemed to me these were the most beautiful leaves I had ever seen. |
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| 1:10.2 | But the leaves were also looking back at me, fixing me with this utterly benign gaze. |
| 1:15.0 | I could feel their curiosity and what I was certain was an attitude of utter benevolence toward me and my kind. |
| 1:22.0 | Do I need to say that I know how crazy this sounds? I do. |
| 1:27.0 | That was Michael Pollan reading from his new book How to Change Your Mind. |
| 1:32.0 | What the New Science of science of psychedelics teaches us |
| 1:34.0 | about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, |
| 1:36.8 | and transcendence. |
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