This Is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan and Dennis McKenna

Libreria

29th July, at 7pm BST - Join Libreria Online for a  discussing about our relationship with what we call ‘drugs'.

Join Libreria, a bookshop by Second Home, as we welcome bestselling author Michael Pollan and ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, to discuss our relationship with what we call ‘drugs&#x27;. Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (2018) has transformed the conversation around the use of psychedelics in culture, law, therapy and science in the West.In his new book, This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael shares his personal enquiry into three mind-changing molecules: - a sedative, a stimulant, and a hallucinogen that any of us might well be growing in our gardens or drinking right now: morphine in the opium poppy, caffeine in coffee and tea, and mescaline produced by the peyote and San Pedro cacti. Food of the Gods, the landmark work on psychedelics by Terence McKenna, explores what altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature. First published in 1992, this odyssey of mind, body and spirit is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. Ethnopharmacologist and author Dennis McKenna, brother of the late Terence McKenna, has written a foreword to his brother’s recently reissued work exploring how this daring work of scholarship is more relevant than ever 30 years on.About the speakers:Michael Pollan is an award-winning author, activist and journalist. His international bestselling books about the way we live today – including How to Change Your Mind, In Defence of Food, and Food Rules – combine meticulous reporting with anthropology, philosophy, culture, health and natural history. Time magazine has named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He is the younger brother of the influential Terence McKenna. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

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