The world is different. That psychedelic can tell about consciousness, death, passions, depression and transcendence. Pollan M.

When Michael Pollan was preparing to investigate the use of narcotic substances in the treatment of depression, dependence and anxiety, which is so difficult to overcome, he did not intend to create what happened is the most personal of his books. But having discovered that these substances are able to improve the quality of life not only of mentally ill, but also completely healthy people who barely restrain pressure from everyday life, he decided to determine the topography of his own consciousness and inscribed a lot from the first person. Thus began his journey through various altered states, during which he turns to the achievements of the science of the brain. Pollan also worked a lot in the archives to separate the truth about psychedelics from the common myths that dominated the notions of them since the 1960s, when the negative attitude to what had potential for science was lobbied.

This is a unique combination History, medicine and science with biographical episodes, exciting a description of personal experience, sending our understanding of the mind, personality and place in the world to the new line. Pollan's genuine theme of the “psychedelic traveler” is not only psychedelics, but also the insoluble mystery of human consciousness - as in the world that pushes us with suffering and pleasures, we can find meaning in our lives.