How to Change Your Mind

noetic quality of mystical experiences, 41 –42, 69 –70, 275 , 285 , 305 –6 The Noonday Demon (Solomon), ...

passivity of mystical experiences, 72 peak experiences, Maslow’s concept of, 49 , 55 perceptions and sens ...

P. azurescens, 86 , 92 , 94 , 117 –21, 128 –34 in Pacific Northwest, 102 and Pollan’s azurescens experience ...

and mystical experience survey, 282 –84 with psilocybin, 254 –72, 284 recaps and reflections on, 250 –54, 269 – ...

psychotherapy, 2 –3, 186 , 351 , 369 , 406 psychotomimetic model, 145 –50 and CIA’s psychedelic research, 172 a ...

Leary’s impact on, 9 , 185 –86, 190 , 198 –99, 212 , 219 –20 and LSD therapy for alcoholism, 148 –52 and method ...

rituals for psychedelics, 404 Roberts, John G., 27 Roman Catholic Church, 2 , 109 Romantic scientists, 1 ...

The Secret Chief (Zeff), 225 senses and perceptions, 308 –9 sensory deprivation, 306 serotonin, 24 , 147 , 2 ...

and McKenna, 116 and mushroom conferences, 102 –3 on mushroom identification, 94 –95 mushroom stone artifac ...

teonanácatl (sacred mushroom of the Aztecs), 2 , 107 terminal patients, 78 –79, 338 –40. See also can ...

and mushrooms from southern Mexico, 2 , 59 , 101 , 110 –14, 114n and origins of religious belief, 106 , ...

About the Author MICHAEL POLLAN is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defens ...

The Inuit appear to be the exception that proves the rule, but only because nothing psychoactive grows where ...

David J. Nutt, Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs (Cambridge, U.K.: U ...

Theresa M. Carbonaro et al., “Survey Study of Challenging Experiences After Ingesting Psilocybin Mushrooms: Acute ...

Technically, a mushroom is the “fruiting body” of a fungus—its reproductive organ. Think of mushrooms ...

Pronounced sill-OSS-a-bee. ...

Complicating matters, Stamets first named his son for the bluish color that Psilocybes turn, then named th ...

Since 1984, Stamets has run a very successful company called Fungi Perfecti, which sells medicinal mushroom ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) injected fir trees with radioactive carbon isotopes, ...