How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

“It was like a holiday away from the prison of my brain. I felt free, carefree, reenergized.” “It was like the light switch being turned on in a dark house.” “You’re not immersed in thought patterns; the concrete coat has come off.”