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A World Appears: A Journey into ConsciousnessTheir words
a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
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Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional EatingTheir words
Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.
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Food, Inc. 2Their words
filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
15 July 2021
From one piece The Intoxicating Garden 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I'd happily trade that for a greater measure of horticultural freedom. To me, the very idea of a criminal plant seems wrong.
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Using plants to alter the textures of consciousness is a practice as old as our species, an essential part of our relationship to the natural world.
9 July 2021
From one piece How Should We Do Drugs Now? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Most of the harm caused by habitual illegal drug use comes from its prohibition rather than the drugs themselves.Their words
Many, if not most, of the harms of the practice stem from its prohibition.
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Many people (myself included) are surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of people who take hard drugs do so without becoming addicted.
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Addiction may be less a disease than a symptom - of trauma, social disconnection, depression or economic distress.
5 February 2021
From one piece The efficiency curse 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People are not separate individuals protected by money and geography, but deeply interconnected.Their words
One belief that the pandemic has helped to shatter is that we are separate atoms, able to protect ourselves with money and geography.
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Monoculture farming is efficient but vulnerable, while polyculture farming is more resilient.Their words
It turns out that "efficient" monocultures are vulnerable, but polycultures are resilient.
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In times of crisis, resilience counts for more than efficiency.
12 May 2020
From one piece The Sickness in Our Food Supply 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The president and America's meat eaters, not to mention its meat-plant workers, would never have found themselves in this predicament if not for the concentration of the meat industry, which has given us a supply chain so brittle that the closure of a single plant can cause havoc at every step, from farm to supermarket.
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A country's food system is shaped by agricultural and antitrust policy choices, not by a free market.Their words
our food system is the product of agricultural and antitrust policies-political choices-that, as has suddenly become plain, stand in urgent need of reform.
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There will always be a tradeoff between efficiency and resilience (not to mention ethics); the food industry opted for the former, and we are now paying the price.
15 March 2020
From one piece Review: Capitalism’s Favorite Drug 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Climate change will make coffee one of the crops most immediately threatened by rising temperatures.Their words
Climate scientists estimate that at least half of the acreage now producing coffee-and an even greater proportion in Latin America-will be unable to support the plant by 2050, making coffee one of the crops most immediately endangered by climate change.
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Caffeine's stimulating effect on humans is an evolutionary byproduct of a plant's own defensive chemistry.Their words
The chemical compound that the plant makes to defend itself against insects happens to alter human consciousness in ways we find desirable, making us more energetic and industrious-and notably better workers.
12 June 2019
From one piece Where I Stand on Magic Mushrooms 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Smart political strategy requires deciding not only what to fight for but when to fight for it.Their words
Smart politics is a matter of not only choosing what you want to fight for, but also of deciding when to fight.
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The prohibition of cannabis has been the foundation of the drug war, and led to the incarceration of thousands of people, many of them people of color.
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Unsupervised use of psilocybin carries risks of a different order than unsupervised use of cannabis.Their words
The risks of unsupervised psilocybin use are considerable, and of a different order than the risks of cannabis.
10 May 2019
From one piece Not So Fast on Magic Mushrooms 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ballot initiatives are not the smartest way to establish a legal place for psychedelic therapy.Their words
My worry is that ballot initiatives may not be the smartest way to get there.
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A psychedelic trip can, in rare instances, trigger a psychotic break in people vulnerable to serious mental illness.Their words
in rare instances, a psychedelic trip can set off a psychotic break.
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Psilocybin is a remarkably safe drug, with no known lethal dose and no addictive potential.Their words
In some ways, psilocybin is a remarkably safe drug - there is no known lethal dose (something that can't be said for many medicines sold without a prescription) and it is nonaddictive.
15 May 2018
From one piece My Adventures With the Trip Doctors 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Psychedelics have lower toxicity and less addiction potential than other psychoactive compounds.Their words
Compared with other psychoactive compounds, psychedelics have low toxicity and are nonaddictive.
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the psychedelic experience is not foreordained by the chemical but rather is "constructed" in the mind from an unpredictable mix of expectation, memory, the contents of the unconscious and a variety of environmental factors.
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Psychedelic experiences give people a radical new perspective on their lives that lets them let go of old habits.Their words
The psychedelic experience appears to give people a radical new perspective on their own lives, making possible a shift in worldview and priorities that allows them to let go of old habits.
3 May 2018
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