How to Change your Mind
How to Change Your Mind is a 2022 Netflix docuseries that explores the history and potential of psychedelics. The four-part series is based on Michael Pollan's 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Pollan narrates the series and connects each episode.
The series examines the following psychedelic drugs: LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, Mescaline.
Each episode covers the drug's discovery or synthesis, its history in the United States, and its recent resurgence in research. The series also explores how researchers, psychologists, and medical personnel are finding new uses for psychedelics.
Untethered Soul - Michael Singer
How to Change Your Mind is a 2022 Netflix docuseries that explores the history and potential of psychedelics. The four-part series is based on Michael Pollan's 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Pollan narrates the series and connects each episode.
The series examines the following psychedelic drugs: LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, Mescaline.
Each episode covers the drug's discovery or synthesis, its history in the United States, and its recent resurgence in research. The series also explores how researchers, psychologists, and medical personnel are finding new uses for psychedelics.
Fantastic Fungi
Fantastic Fungi is a 2019 documentary that explores the world of fungi. The film uses time-lapse cinematography, CGI, and interviews to explain the biology, environmental roles, and various uses of fungi. The film is narrated by Brie Larson and features interviews with Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan.
The film explores how fungi:
- Help balance nature by clearing away dead matter, creating new things, and creating connective tissue between all living things
- Transport nutrients to every plant on the planet
- Support and structurally hold together ecosystems
- Clear oil spills
- Help trees communicate
The film suggests that the answers to many of our problems could grow naturally and abundantly. It offers lessons that can be applied to our own lives and the world around us, such as:
- We are all connected to the natural world.
- Our actions have a profound impact on the health and well-being of the planet.
7 levels of the pyschedlic experience
This video attempts to establish a comprehensive intensity scale for measuring the 7 distinct levels of the psychedelic experience, in accordance with the terminology laid out within our Subjective Effect Index and in collaboration with various artists from the r/replications community.
