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Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us.
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Eat Your View!
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So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth. Leary was all too often willing to say out loud to anyone in earshot what everyone else believed but knew better than to speak or write candidly. It was one thing to use these drugs to treat the ill and maladjus..
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What is striking about this whole line of clinical research is the premise that it is not the pharmacological effect of the drug itself but the kind of mental experience it occasions--involving the temporary dissolution of one's ego--that may be the key to changing one's mind.
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Michael Pollan |
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Psychedelics are for those of us who aren't so innately gifted.
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There is so much authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures.
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In this and so many other ways, it seems, the Hopkins psilocybin experience is the artifact not only of this powerful molecule but also of the preparation and expectations of the volunteer, the skills and worldviews of the sitters, Bill Richards's flight instructions, the decor of the room, the inward focus encouraged by the eyeshades and the music (and the music itself, much of which to my ears sounds notably religious), and, though they m..
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Charnay's journey at Hopkins solidified her commitment to herbal medicine (she now works for a supplement maker in Northern California); it also confirmed her in a decision to divorce her husband.
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He writes in his book that mycelia--the vast, cobwebby whitish net of single-celled filaments, called hyphae, with which fungi weave their way through the soil--are intelligent, forming "a sentient membrane" and "the neurological network of nature."
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Savannah gave little thought to her habit during the journey, except toward the end when she pictured herself as a smoking gargoyle. "You know how gargoyles look, crouched down with their shoulders hunched? That's how I felt and saw myself, a little golem creature smoking, pulling in the smoke and not letting it out, until my chest hurts and I'm choking. It was powerful and disgusting. I can still see it now, that hideous coughing gargoyle,..
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They can print more money," he liked to say, "and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can't print more land."
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Michael Pollan |
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A single unmowed lawn ruins the whole effect, announcing to the world that all is not well here in utopia.
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Michael Pollan |
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we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.
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Michael Pollan |
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Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety. He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as "fraternal twins": "Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination,..
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