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Barcode37821002431753
LocationMarshall District
TitleThis is your mind on plants / Michael Pollan.
AuthorPollan, Michael.
Call No581.6 POL
CollectionAdult 500

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International Standard Book Number 9780593296905
International Standard Book Number 0593296907
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 581.6
Personal Name Pollan, Michael.
Title Statement This is your mind on plants / Michael Pollan.
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Physical Description 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- Opium -- Prologue -- "Opium, made easy" -- Epilogue -- Caffeine -- Mescaline -- The door in the wall -- The orphan psychedelic -- In which we meet the cacti -- The birth of a new religion -- Peeking inside the teepee -- An interlude on mescaline -- Learning from San Pedro -- Drunk at the wheel -- Plan C.
Summary, Etc. "Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them. Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Psychotropic plants.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Opium.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mescaline.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Caffeine.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies.