Michael Pollan

It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mindis a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness.

The New Science of Psychedelics

How to Change Your Mind

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don't usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So then what is a drug? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and such fraught feelings? A unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively -- as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that's one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Presents a set of rules for eating wisely in accordance with a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, sharing guidelines for making grocery choices and dining out.

An Eater's Manual

Food Rules

A New York Times contributor and best-selling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma recounts the story of his culinary education and the roles of the four classical elements of fire, water, air and earth in transforming natural ingredients into delicious meals and drinks, in an account that traces his efforts to master classic recipes using one of the four elements.

A Natural History of Transformation

Cooked

Caffeine

The author of The Botany of Desire draws on his gardening experiences to explore attitudes toward nature and wilderness, environmental questions, and what gardening teaches about the borders between nature and culture. Reprint.

A Gardener's Education

Second Nature

The Education of an Amateur Builder

A Place of My Own

The author describes the process--design, footings, framing, roofing, windows, and trim--by which he created a space for writing

Cites the reasons why people have become so confused about their dietary choices and discusses the importance of enjoyable moderate eating of mostly traditional plant foods.

The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating

In Defense of Food

Delves into facts about food, life expectancy, and the global health implications resulting from food choicse made by people around the world, encouraging readers to consider their eating habits.

The Secrets Behind What You Eat

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Hepimiz arı ile çiçeğin dansını biliriz; bal yapmak için nektar ve polen toplayan arı ve arıya istediklerini vererek genlerini uzaklara yayan çiçek. Büyük resmi göremeyen arı muhtemelen bahçede kendisini özne, yağmaladığı çiçeği ise nesne sanıyor. Meselenin aslı ise şu; çiçek arıyı, polenini çiçekten çiçeğe taşıması için zekice kullanmakta. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Kabul edelim, bitikilerin bizi de aynı şekilde kullanabiliyor olması aklımızın ucundan geçmiyor. İnsan doğa ilişkisi üstüne yazılmış en etkileyici kitaplardan biri kabul edilen Arzunun Botaniği'nde Michael Pollan insanlarla evcilleşmiş bitkiler arasındaki çıkar temelli ilişkiyi büyüleyici bir şekilde sergiliyor. Dört temel insan arzusunu -tatlılık, güzellik, sarhoşluk ve kontrol- bunları tatmin eden dört bitki -elma, lale, kenevir ve patates- ile ilişkilendirip bu bitkilerin nasıl insanoğlunun en temel dürtülerini hoşnut etmek için evrildiğini gösteriyor. Ve sayfalar ilerledikçe görüyoruz ki, tıpkı bizim bu bitkilerden faydalandığımız gibi, bitkiler de bizden faydalanıyor bu karşılıklı oyunda.

Arzunun Botaniği

Come cambiare la tua mente

Was uns die neue Psychedelika-Forschung über Sucht, Depression, Todesfurcht und Transzendenz lehrt

Verändere dein Bewusstsein

Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso investigar por qué el LSD y la psilocibina (el componente activo de las setas alucinógenas) proporcionan un enorme alivio a personas que padecen condiciones de difícil tratamiento como el trastorno por estrés postraumático, la depresión o la adicción, no tenía la intención de escribir lo que es sin lugar a dudas su libro más personal. Pero al descubrir cómo estas notables sustancias mejoran la vida no solo de pacientes con problemas de salud mental sino también de personas que simplemente se enfrentan a los altibajos de la vida cotidiana, decidió explorar la cartografía de la mente tanto en primera como en tercera persona. Así comenzó una singular aventura que lo llevaría a la experimentación de la conciencia alterada, a la profunda inmersión en la neurociencia más pionera y al contacto con una prodigiosa comunidad subterránea de expertos psicodélicos. En esta ejemplar investigación periodística, Pollan revisa archivos históricos y documentos científicos para separar la verdad de los mitos, la propaganda y el pánico moral alrededor de estas drogas que se ha ido acumulando desde los años sesenta, cuando un puñado de personajes rebeldes catalizaron una poderosa corriente hacia lo que entonces era un prometedor campo de investigación. Sugerente, polémico y deslumbrante, una mezcla única de ciencia, memoria, historia y medicina, este libro es el resultado de un viaje a una nueva, emocionante e inesperada frontera de la percepción, de nuestra comprensión de la mente, del yo y de nuestro lugar en el mundo. El verdadero objeto de este «diario de a bordo» mental no son solo las drogas psicodélicas, sino el enigma en torno a la conciencia humana y a cómo deberíamos actuar cuando buscamos encontrar sentido a nuestras vidas en un mundo que nos regala al mismo tiempo momentos de placer y de dolor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the Sixties, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs, but the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both struggle and beauty, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.

Cómo Cambiar Tu Mente / How to Change Your Mind

We are indeed what we eat - and what we eat remakes the world. But we are only just beginning to recognise the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's eye-opening exploration of the American food industry. His astonishing findings will resonate enormously for people everywhere who care about what they put on their plate. The Omnivore's Dilemma brings a fresh perspective to the simple yet momentous question 'What shall we have for dinner?', which is overwhelming for any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the 'omnivore's dilemma'. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. Dealing with each of the food chains that sustain us (industrialised food, alternative or 'organic' food and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering or gardening) Pollan follows each food chain through from the ground to sitting down to a meal, tracing the provenance of everything consumed. The Omnivore's Dilemma is an uncompromisingly realised, eloquent, philosophical and absorbing book for anyone who thinks about where their food comes from.

The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World

Il dilemma dell'onnivoro

Naomi Klein

Tim Flannery

Timothy Morton

Jared Diamond

Amitav Ghosh

James Lovelock

Bill McKibben

Arne Næss

Aldo Leopold

George Monbiot

Wendell Berry

Greta Thunberg

Masanobu Fukuoka

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Terry Tempest Williams

Rachel Carson

Wangari Maathai

Edward O Wilson

Dai Qing

Green Ideas Slipcase

Eine Kulturgeschichte psychoaktiver Pflanzen

Kaffee Mohn Kaktus

Wie dankzij psychedelica in een andere werkelijkheid verbleef, zal dat nooit vergeten. Onderzoeksjournalist Michael Pollan beschrijft zijn eigen existentiële ervaringen en onderzoekt de grenzen van wat we begrijpen van de geest, ons bewustzijn en onze plek op deze wereld. Hij spreekt hersenonderzoekers en therapeuten over de nieuwste wetenschappelijke en medische ontwikkelingen rondom geestverruimende middelen en neemt ons mee in experimenten met psychedelische drugs als LSD, psilocybine en DMT, die zijn leven hebben veranderd. Psychedelica hebben sinds midden vorige eeuw een grote invloed op de sociale geschiedenis en het begrip van ons brein, en worden inmiddels gebruikt bij de behandeling van depressie, verslaving en angststoornissen – met indrukwekkende resultaten.

Wat psychedelica ons leren over bewustzijn, sterven, verslaving en depressie

Verruim je geest

Heijo Willem Alting

Beschouwing over de evolutie van planten en de rol daarbij van de mens, bezien vanuit de behoeften van de plant.

Michael Pollan

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