Michael Pollan

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How are we to judge the veracity of the insights gleaned during a psychedelic journey? Is psychedelic therapy simply foisting a comforting delusion on the sick and dying? So queries Michael Pollan in his recent New Yorker  article, “The Trip Treatment.” Join The New School at Commonweal host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Pollan on the subject of new research on the healing properties of psychedelics. Co-presented by Point Reyes Books and The New School at Commonweal.

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About Michael Pollan: For the past 25 years, Michael has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. He is the author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, and of four New York Times bestsellers: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual; In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto; The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals; and The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Michael grew up on Long Island and was educated at Bennington College, Oxford University, and Columbia University, from which he received a Master’s in English. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer, and their son, Isaac.

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