Dear Friends and Readers, This is Your Mind on Plants goes on sale today! It’s a relatively short book that explores three important psychoactive compounds produced by plants and used extensively by humans: opium, caffeine, and mescaline-- a downer, an upper, and what I think of as an outer—a psychedelic. As you know, I’ve long been fascinated by the human engagement with plants, and the desires they’ve evolved to gratify. One of those human desires is the desire to change consciousness, which is universal. Why do we have it? What is it good for? And how have plants figured out how to produce molecules with the power to change our minds?
New Book Out Today!
New Book Out Today!
New Book Out Today!
Dear Friends and Readers, This is Your Mind on Plants goes on sale today! It’s a relatively short book that explores three important psychoactive compounds produced by plants and used extensively by humans: opium, caffeine, and mescaline-- a downer, an upper, and what I think of as an outer—a psychedelic. As you know, I’ve long been fascinated by the human engagement with plants, and the desires they’ve evolved to gratify. One of those human desires is the desire to change consciousness, which is universal. Why do we have it? What is it good for? And how have plants figured out how to produce molecules with the power to change our minds?