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review of michael pollan's latest book in the TLS

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  https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-is-your-mind-on-plants-michael-pollan-book-review-josh-raymond/ Horticulture | Book Review Seed no evil Psychoactive stimulants and the modern world By  Josh Raymond IN THIS REVIEW THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS Opium – caffeine – mescaline 274pp. Allen Lane. £20. Michael Pollan Michael Pollan knows a lot about plants.  The Botany of Desire  (2001) explored how four of them – apples, tulips, cannabis and potatoes – were bred to satisfy four basic human desires: for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. In  This Is Your Mind on Plants  he has turned his attention to three more, or rather, the psychoactive chemicals they contain: opium from poppies, caffeine from coffee and tea, and mescaline from the peyote and San Pedro cacti. Pollan is no stranger to the psychoactive, having tried several psychedelics of increasing potency for  How to Change Your Mind  (2017), culminating with 5-MeO-DMT, derived from smoking the venom of the Sonoran Desert

a bit of wellcome foundation journalism ...

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  https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YN7fFRAAACIAwYup?fbclid=IwAR2Dku76Wyno7G9DRlxaI1CdWSGB06vkT2JPuPDyp5Yel7T_rUsPT38eQfE etc etc ...  https://wellcomecollection.org/series/YNGfPhIAACIAkSRB

photographs ... portraits of shamans by Flore-ael Surun

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  https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/06/world/gallery/cnnphotos-shaman-portraits/index.html http://tendancefloue.net/floreaelsurun/en/series/chamans/#container

back to basel ... for dinner with john horgan, john halpern, and evgeny krupitsky ...

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  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tripping-in-lsds-birthplace-a-story-for-e2809cbicycle-daye2809d/

what are the effects of psychedelic drugs on other parts of the body ?

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https://psychedelicreview.com/whole-body-effects-of-psychedelics-part-1/

trance music ... in my opinion, a shade more to do with mass hysteria than with self-discovery ... and a little bit monotonous

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music

shaman's stick ( possibly, maybe ) from finland ...

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https://archaeologicalnews.tumblr.com/post/655349011736346624/possible-shamans-snake-stick-from-4400-years-ago