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This Is Your Mind on Plants
- Opium - Caffeine - Mescaline
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness 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.
In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This groundbreaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-08-2021
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another outstanding book from Michael pollan every easy to listen and intriguing as always
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- Matt
- 09-07-2023
Good but not what was expected.
Love Michaels writing but the content of this book does not match the title. This book seemed to be more a diary than ‘your mind on plants’.
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- Jeff Northam
- 01-10-2021
a story that needs to be told
I loved this book, and I feel the time is right for all to read this.
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- Jared Slight
- 14-09-2021
Remarkable Insights in to plants
Thoroughly enjoyed the story telling and facts about plants. Caffeine was especially great. Definitely worth a listen!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-08-2021
Bad sound quality
Great book, love Michael Pollan's work as always but the sound quality is pretty bad. Tried on multiple devices and speakers, there's a bad echo due to what must be had audio. Otherwise would have been 5 stars.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-2022
Fantastic
Beautifully written and read. I wish more authors read their own works - few narrators have the same passion for the words as the one who wrote them.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-2021
couldn't stop listening
Beautifully written and fascinating, I couldn't stop listening! The author's narration is great, even funny at times, and he handles sensitive subjects with care/compassion. The plants themselves are fascinating, but learning about our relationship with them, including the author's, was such an unexpected joy.
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- JayD
- 24-09-2021
Quite engaging
I’m generally not a fan of authors reading their own works, particularly American authors but for this book I think it’s necessary. Michael Pollan’s narration is very much like his writing - an informal style that carries the story along without being self-indulgent. Very engaging.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-08-2021
Informative and Enlightening
Michael Pollan is as captivating a narrator as he is an author. Highly recommended this fantastic read.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-2021
Interesting, personal, risky.
Loved how honest and open the author was with his DIY experiments. Also loved the stories backed-up by good science and cultural research.
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