Here goes a new playlist called "Books that have changed my life".
I'm starting by the last book I read, this one:
"How to change your mind" by Michael Pollan,
an actor I really admire.
He is also an American journalist that writes about food and eating habits.
He surprised every reader with this book,
in which he talks about psychadelics
and their new wave on Science
that is becoming strong.
And how those substances and drugs can help curing illnesses
like depression, alcoholism and other kinds of addictions,
psycho conditions in general
and how we can cope with death, especially those with terminal illness.
He gives lots of examples on these cases.
So,
that's the ideia of this book:
Shine a light to this new science
that actually began lots of years ago
but was neglected and is returning now.
Michael Pollan focuses on LSD,
psychedelic mushrooms
and on DMT.
He starts telling us the story of LSD,
in which a scientist was trying to find a new heart medicine
and ended up discovering this drug.
The substance went through his skin, maybe,
and started to hallucinate when he got home.
He needed to lie on the sofa and submit himself to those images and that madness he thought he had
It was the first trip a person ever had.
and it was the inventor himself.
It was in 40s.
He also focuses on psychadelic mushrooms
that have a substance called psilocybin...
is that right?
Exactly!
Psilocybin!
The most psychadelic mushrooms have been used for so many years
in Mexican culture, for instance.
A new Yorker banker went to Mexico to look for a psychedelic mushroom and took it to the U.S.
He also brings DMT into focus
which is this substance we produce in our pineal glands when we are born and die.
It's a natural body substance
but it's synthetically produced.
Not synthetically...
It's taken from frogs glands,
dehydrated
and transformed into dust
that is normally smoked.
He relates his own experiences with these substances:
his trips with LSD,
mushrooms
and with DMT.
It's really nice to read about his trips
because we normally can't describe these events.
It's difficult to find words to describe trips like those.
He genially does it.
He tells that why those drugs were studied during the 20s
due to their power in changing the way we think,
making us transcending
and seeing the through our world,
were prohibited.
Their studies were forbidden
both for medical and recreational use.
between the 60s and the 70s.
They were banned.
At that time in the U.S., you couldn't use neither for studies nor for recreational purposes.
They ended up being banned.
Several psychologists and scientists kept their studies in silence.
Recently, Science started to consider these substances as healing objects.
Trying no spoiler alerts, the book is basically about this:
how psychadelics can contribute to us,
to science,
to help us individually and collectively.
It's awesome,
all the trips he had I've also had.
It's a wonderful experience.
We obviously need to understand the context we're doing these things.
They're strong substances related to the expansion of our minds
It's worthy to read it to comprehend all of this process
and how they can help us live in peace
and love.
The famous "peace and love".
Subscribe, comment if you've read this book or have had an experience to share.
That's all!
See you next book!
