Tag: psychedelics
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Psychedelics and the glow of truth
Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, one of my favorite narrative nonfiction books, tells the story of four common plants and the human impulses they satisfy: the apple (sweetness), the tulip (beauty), marijuana (intoxication), and the potato (control). His new book is How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. Probably because I’ve never done…