Recently I came across a very interesting book by Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind, and a documentary based on the content of the book. It offers the author’s study and investigation on some psychoactive chemicals as a professional writer and journalist. The book and the documentary, especially the documentary, holds an agressive propaganda, which might be agreed or disagreed by the audience. Except for its political purpose, this work focuses on some controversial knowledge at first hand, which is quite valuable in the context of psychology and cognitive science in my opinion.
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