Michael Pollan.
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)
Pollan links psychedelics to loosening the brain's rigid self
Pollan argues LSD and psilocybin dismantle the brain’s self-narrating system and, under careful guidance, show real promise against depression, addiction, and death anxiety.
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About Michael Pollan
Michael Kevin Pollan is an American journalist, specializing in food, who is a professor and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where in 2020 he cofounded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program.
Everything about Michael Pollan →- Occupation
- writer, journalist, professor, non-fiction writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 6, 1955
- Website
- http://michaelpollan.com/