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Let me describe the first psilocybin trip I had.

I made a tea and I was at my home in New England. I walked through my garden and at the peak of

the experience I felt that consciousness, subjectivity, was spread over all the species that I encountered.

In other words, all the plants seemed to be conscious in some ways to have a point of view.

The leaves were returning my gaze. I walked through the garden and made my way to a little

building that I built where I write. And there are two trees that frame the view. This very

elegant white oak and this kind of stumpy white ash. And I realized for the first time that these

trees were my parents. The white ash was my father and the white oak was my mother. And it was like,

why didn't you ever know that before? I had this kind of almost ecstatic passion through the garden.

It never looked more beautiful. It never been more alive. And it had this sense of being animated.

You know, we're normally the subject observing objects. But here we were all subjects. I was being

observed as much as I was observing. It's a hard thing to describe to someone who hasn't had

the experience. And we tend to go right to this place of hallucination where we're having a complete

visual fantasy. Psychedelics are not full-blown hallucinations. I mean, I knew where I was. I knew what I

was looking at. But what I was looking at had completely changed in its affect and its weight and its

meaning. Michael Pollan, son of trees, author of How to Change Your Mind, a book that's all about

the science of psychedelics. Oakland just became the second city in the United States to essentially

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