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Day: 25 December 2021

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

December 25, 2021 / Anxiety disorders / PTSD, Book reviews, Books, Consciousness, Depression, End of Life Anxiety, Research, Safety / Leave a Comment / By

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. Michael Pollan. The Penguin Press. ISBN: 9781594204227

A highly accessible and enjoyable read through the history of psychedelic research and use starting in the 1960s up to the present day. Pollan applies his quintessential experiential journalism approach to various psychedelic substances – starting off hesitantly, as he weaves through the research and has several personal experiences, Pollan becomes a measured advocate for the power psychedelics have to change our minds and more.

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The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys

February 2, 2022 / Book reviews, Books, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Research / Leave a Comment / By

The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys. Stanislav Grof. MAPS. ISBN: 9780998276595

Written in an easy, understandable tone, this comprehensive work is a tour de force works its way through the worlds of psychology and psychotherapy, Holotropic Breathwork, maps of the psyche, birth, sex, and death, psychospiritual rebirth, the roots of trauma, spiritual emergency and transpersonal experiences, karma and reincarnation, higher creativity, great art, and archetypes.

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When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

December 25, 2021 / Ayahuasca, Book reviews, Books, Sociology, Spirituality / Leave a Comment / By

When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance. David Pinchbeck. Watkins Publishing. ISBN: 9781786780799

Focusing specifically on Ayahuasca, the authors look at the economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental impact that this plant is having on society, both good and bad. This is the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon.

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