The world is different. That psychedelic can tell about consciousness, death, passions, depression and transcendence

Michael Pollan is the author of the bestsellers “Dilemma of Omnogent”, “The Philosophy of the Food” and “The Bible of Nutrition”. Professor of Harvard University and Higher School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of the New York Times Magazine, the winner of the Vashburn Prize awarded by the Boston Museum of Science, for the contribution to the popularization of knowledge and a number of prizes in the field of journalism.
A comprehensive and bold investigation dedicated to the revolution in the field of science and medicine related to psychoactive substances. < BR /> When Michael Pollan was preparing to investigate the use of narcotic substances in the treatment of depression, dependence and anxiety, which is so difficult to overcome, he did not intend to create what happened is the personal from his books. But having discovered that these substances are able to improve the quality of life of not only mentally ill, but also completely healthy people who barely restrain pressure from everyday life, he decided to determine the topography of his own consciousness and inscribed a lot from the first person, not only from the third. Thus began his journey through various altered states, during which he turns to the achievements of the science of the brain. Pollan also worked a lot in the archives to separate the truth about psychedelics from the common myths that dominated the notions of them since the 1960s, when the negative attitude to what had potential for science was lobbying. And science with biographical episodes, exciting a description of personal experience, referring to the new line of our understanding of the mind, personality and our place in the world. The true theme of the “psychedelic traveler” Pollan is not only psychedelics, but also the insoluble mystery of human consciousness and how in the world that pushes us with suffering and pleasures, we can find meaning in our lives