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Michael Pollan
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. .
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Michael Pollan
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Second Nature: A Gardener's
Improving the soil improved the man.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
{Grof did extensive research trying to correlate his patients' recollections of their birth experience on LSD with contemporaneous reports from medical personnel and parents. He concluded that with the help of LSD many people can indeed recall the circumstances of their birth, especially when it was a difficult one.}
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Michael Pollan
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Our food system depends on consumers' not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring- to the carelessness of both consumers and producers.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
Jesse's curiosity about psychedelics was first piqued during a drug education unit in his junior high school science class. This particular class of drugs was neither physically nor psychologically addictive, he was told {correctly};
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Michael Pollan
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Second Nature: A Gardener's
Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
All he would tell me is that the experience, which took place in his meditation practice, acquainted him with "something way, way beyond a material worldview that I can't really talk to my colleagues about, because it involves metaphors or assumptions that I'm really uncomfortable with as a scientist.
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Michael Pollan
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The Botany of Desire: A
a .22 shell is used to fire stainless-steel projectiles dipped in a DNA solution at a stem or leaf of the target plant. If all goes well, some of the DNA will pierce the wall of some of the cells' nuclei and elbow its way into the double helix: a bully breaking into a line dance. If the new DNA happens to land in the right place-and no one yet knows what, or where, that place is-the plant grown from that cell will express the new gene. That's it? That's it.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
In recent years, "psychiatry has gone from being brainless to being mindless," as one psychoanalyst has put it. If psychedelic therapy proves successful, it will be because it succeeds in rejoining the brain and the mind in the practice of psychotherapy. At least that's the promise.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
Nothing in my experience led me to believe this novel form of consciousness originated outside me; it seems just as plausible, and surely more parsimonious, to assume it was a product of my brain, just like the ego it supplanted. Yet this by itself strikes me as a remarkable gift: that we can let go of so much-the desires, fears, and defenses of a lifetime!-without suffering complete annihilation.
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Michael Pollan
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In Defence of Food: The Myth
Today these four crops account for two thirds of the calories we eat. When you consider that humankind has historically consumed some eighty thousand edible species, and that three thousand of these have been in widespread use, this represents a radical simplification of the human diet. Why should this concern us? Because humans are omnivores, requiring somewhere between fifty and a hundred different chemical compounds and elements in order to be healthy.
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Michael Pollan
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How to Change Your Mind: What
And I remember Bill asking, 'What's going on?' "'I'm experiencing a lot of guilt.' Bill replied, 'That's a very common human experience,' and with that, the whole image of being hanged pixilated and then just disappeared, to be replaced by this tremendous sensation of freedom and interconnectedness. This was huge for me. I saw that if I can name and admit a feeling, confess it to someone, it would let go. A little older and wiser, now I can do this for myself.
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