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- Pamela PaulInterview
Humanity just needs to read more now, period. But I’ll recommend a couple of books I read in the past year that enriched and enlightened me: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. And for pure pleasure and escapism, read some Wilkie Collins if you haven’t already.
- Rana FloridaInterview
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan because what better thing to try to understand than the mind itself.
- David Heinemeier HanssonInterview
I’m also reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan about the history and lessons of psychedelics. I never did drugs in my youth (besides a single encounter with marijuana), and to be honest, I kinda regret that! I think there’s something deeply fascinating about the altered states of consciousness that drugs…
- Lindsay VarnumInterview
I have several I’m anxious to sink my teeth (or eyes) into. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Davis. I think these three artists continue to have a potent feminist influence on society today and I’m interested to know what Angela Davis thinks about it…
- Ann KringInterview
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan – he is such a great writer and I enjoy all he writes. The topic of mind-altering substance (e.g., LSD, psilocybin) will be useful for my textbook that covers…
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