When Michael Pollan set out à recherche comment LSD et psilocybin (le active ingredient in champignons magiques) sont being used à provide relief à personnes suffering de difficult-à-treat conditions such as depression, addiction et anxiety, he did pas intend à write quoi est undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering comment ces remarkable substances sont improving le lives pas seulement de le mentally ill but also de healthy personnes coming à grips avec le challenges de everyday life, he decided à explore le landscape de le mind in le premier person as well third. Thus began a singular adventure into le expérience de various altered states de consciousness, along avec a dive deep into both le latest brain science et le thriving underground community de psychédélique therapists. Pollan sifts le historical record à separate le truth environ ces mysterious drugs de le myths cela have surrounded them since le Sixties, when a handful de psychédélique evangelists catalyzed a puissant backlash against quoi was then a promising field de recherche.

A unique et elegant blend de science, memoir, travel writing, history, et medicine, Comment à Change Votre Mind est a triumph de participatory journalism. By turns dazzling et edifying, cela est le gripping account de a journey à an exciting et unexpected new frontier in our understanding de le mind, le self, et our place in le world. Le true subject de Pollan's "mental travelogue" est pas just psychédélique drugs, but le eternal puzzle de human consciousness et comment, in a world cela offers us both struggle et beauty, we pouvez do our best à be fully present et find meaning in our lives.