The psychedelic experience of ego dissolution might offer a kind of nuclear option for getting unstuck and provoking radical change.Michael Pollan
The qualities that render psychedelic substances so useful to humans also render them powerful tools for understanding the mind and mental illness.Michael Pollan
The kind of thinking in a dream isn't very linear or narrative; it's a little loopy. That is the psychedelic experience, too.Michael Pollan
Traveling above the radar of ego, beyond the reach of selfhood, the voyager has the chance to apprehend something that ego usually screens out: the sheer strangeness of the world-in-itself.Michael Pollan
Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy.Michael Pollan
It wasn’t until I started forgetting nature that I began to have trouble thinking straight.Michael Pollan
Certain of these plants, like certain of our dreams, have a lot to tell us.Michael Pollan
Your emotions become less familiar, as does your very personality. Such fundamental shifts in one's perspective can lead to a dramatic restructuring of priorities and values.Michael Pollan
The mind is vaster, and the world ever so much more alive, than I knew when I began.Michael Pollan
This kind of event could shake the snow globe of your mind, disrupting its settled patterns and allowing them to resettle in configurations.Michael Pollan
Time and space, and self, were not only reimagined but reinvented. They became things I could see rather than concepts I invest myself in.Michael Pollan
The true importance of psychedelics lies not in the experiences they occasion but in how they can make us feel and think about the world and ourselves when those experiences are over.Michael Pollan
The biggest changes often come from the deepest suffering.Michael Pollan