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(06-16-2022, 07:57 PM)thatguy Wrote: How to Change Your Mind
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I have this book in the stack by my bedside. Stacy read it but I have yet to crack it.
E1 LSD - He tries to ease us in with tobacco - that didn’t work for me. Nothing revelationary here for me - kind of a general historic review. The bicycle trip reimagined again, Leary, Ram Dass, Kesey, the Silicon Valley impact (Jobs & Brand). Pollan mostly seems to be trying to change the minds of people who haven’t done psychedelics. Maybe the non-experienced D00Mers will be moved. I suspect the rest of the bro-hood know this history well enough already. Some nice vintage video montages. It makes a big push for medical potentials and dabbles in microdosing trends.
It’s okay. We’ll see how the rest of this goes.
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E2 Psilocybin
This ep was better. I didn’t know the Oaxaca story and that was particularly interesting because Tara did a 2 month Spanish immersion there.
The trip representations are ok but don’t pierce the veil. It’s a animation / special effects showcase but not nearly as groundbreaking as it could’ve been. The trips are narrated by the tripper and they almost work but ultimately they don’t catch the trip lines of the experience.
The format is establish. Pollan gives a decent historical overview, there’s there’s some medical psych benefits, some talk about the history of the substance’s illegality and then Pollan samples a dose and describes it to more of that trip animation while he sasses poetic about it.
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3 MDMA - not as interesting as the previous so even though there were many things I didn’t know. I was amused at the discussion or MAPS because I worked with them for Zendo at Symbiosis. Odd group and right here in Mo Bay. Despite my griping about Pollan dosing at the end of the previous two eps, I kinda missed it in this one.
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4 mescaline
This one got heavy into Native American rights and appropriation, which was unexpected but appropriate. There’s a quick cameo of Jerry which I’m gonna call fan service.
Overall, I felt the series was okay. It was history, potential medicinal use, and some goofy trip cartoons that weren’t too trippy but maybe that won’t scare the uninitiated. I would’ve liked to have seen more distinction between the four drug trips but that would’ve taken some serious vision and more experience from the filmmakers. Having experienced all four (including peyote but smoked not eaten which is a very different trip I’m told) I would’ve liked to see more tonal shifts between each ep.
It has an agenda - to reframe drugs as medicines, and the evidence is mounting. That’s a bit overdone but I get it. Pollan is a better writer than a talking head/interviewer.
D00M recommended? I’m gonna say if it intrigues you, give it a shot. I would be fascinated to hear other opinions on it.
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