Hawaii’s Wild Side
…mountain ranges ascending in great steps, each offering its own stunning interpretation of the color green. Though the peaks are banked in scary black clouds, an entirely different, much more…
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Putting Down Roots
…neat pyramids of soil stood next to equally neat inverted pyramids cut into the ground. They didn’t show boulders the size of office safes. More rocks came out of my…
What do we know about the risks of psychedelics?
…other psychedelics because of emerging evidence of unique effects of LSD. 8) Case reports of mental health problems following psychedelics are often comparable to case reports of mental health problems…
Interview with Michael Pollan
…engaging as the facts are alarming. ‘In Defense of Food : An Eater’s Manifesto’ is a carefully constructed polemic, a cri de coeur for more sensible eating. It’s short, snappy…
It’s Not the End After All
…or no, nature might still be worth fighting for. “Hope, Human and Wild” is a useful and surprisingly optimistic book that proposes to leave behind “the increasingly sterile debate between…
A Flood of U.S. Corn Rips at Mexico
…2003 report by the Carnegie Endowment says this flood has washed away 1.3 million small farmers. Unable to compete, they have left their land to join the swelling pools of…
Book review: ‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’ by Michael Pollan
…corporations on the public’s diet. We have seen the slow retreat from the kitchen — even while interest in TV food shows has grown — as a primary contributor to…
How to Change Your Mind: Michael Pollan on How the Science of Psychedelics Illuminates Consciousness, Mortality, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
…ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” More clinical experiments followed at UCLA, NYU, and other leading universities, demonstrating that this psilocybin-induced dissolution of the…
Review: The Trip of a Lifetime
…experiments open up as many public questions as private epiphanies. Pollan is the perfect guide through this sometimes controversial territory; curious, careful and, as his book progresses, increasingly open minded….
Take a hit of acid and call me in the morning
…to solve problems and make quick judgments but that also sometimes lead us astray. There are of course several ways to cultivate this openness of mind, notably meditation and prayer….