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How to Change Your Mind

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • 1h
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How to Change Your Mind (2022)
Author Michael Pollan leads the way in this docuseries exploring the history and uses of psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline.
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It showcases what psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.It showcases what psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.It showcases what psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.

  • Creator
    • Josh Adler
  • Stars
    • Michael Pollan
    • Erika Gagnon
    • Paul Daley
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    3.7K
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    • Creator
      • Josh Adler
    • Stars
      • Michael Pollan
      • Erika Gagnon
      • Paul Daley
    • 28User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Michael Pollan
    Michael Pollan
    • Self - Author, How to Change Your Mind
    • 2022
    Erika Gagnon
    Erika Gagnon
    • Self - Ceremonial Leader
    • 2022
    Paul Daley
    Paul Daley
    • Self - Scientist
    • 2022
    Kathleen Kral
    Kathleen Kral
    • Self - Study Participant
    • 2022
    Ann Shulgin
    Ann Shulgin
    • Self - Author, Mentor and Guide Therapist
    • 2022
    Bill Richards
    Bill Richards
    • Self - Psychologist
    • 2022
    Felix Scholkmann
    Felix Scholkmann
    • Self - Study Participant
    • 2022
    Sandor Iron Rope
    Sandor Iron Rope
    • Self - Oglala Lakota
    • 2022
    Manish Agrawal
    Manish Agrawal
    • Self - Oncologist & Researcher
    • 2022
    Lori Tipton
    Lori Tipton
    • Self - Study Participant
    • 2022
    Julius Not Afraid
    Julius Not Afraid
    • Self - Crow (Apsáalooke) & Oglala Lakota
    • 2022
    James Fadiman
    James Fadiman
    • Self - Psychologist
    • 2022
    Anselmo García Martínez
    Anselmo García Martínez
    • Self - María Sabina's Great-Grandson
    • 2022
    Peter Gasser
    Peter Gasser
    • Self - Psychiatrist
    • 2022
    Arlen Lightfoot
    Arlen Lightfoot
    • Self - Otoe
    • 2022
    Shari Taylor
    Shari Taylor
    • Self - Somatic Therapist
    • 2022
    Paul Stamets
    Paul Stamets
    • Self - Mycologist
    • 2022
    Rick Doblin
    Rick Doblin
    • Self - Founder, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
    • 2022
    • Creator
      • Josh Adler
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    9heytanaya

    I'd name this series How to Heal (Your Mind & Society)

    I really enjoyed this series. I felt each episode dealt more with the possible medical applications of various psychedelic agents and as a whole lead me to suggest a series title of "How to Heal (Your Mind & Society)" which yes is also, "How to Change Your Mind", as what the series might have to offer.
    9kevinodonnell-28212

    Just What The Mental Health Crisis Needs

    I found this to be a very hopeful and inspiring documentary, regarding the renaissance of psychedelic drugs for the treatment of the most critical mental illnesses. Research on four different drugs has been given the green light to resume after initial trials in the 1950s and early 1960s. These drugs are being proven to genuinely help with long entrenched maladies such as PTSD, depression and anxiety, providing real and lasting help to those so afflicted. Should be mandatory viewing for policymakers involved with overhauling America's mental health delivery system.
    8misskiratrinity

    Needs more neuroscience

    Really wonderful information, but I don't understand why they weigh so heavily on mysticism when we have a lot of scientific understanding how spirituality works. Our brains have a mechanism that is a bit of a slider switch between "self" and "no self". The more we live in fear, anxiety, focus, the more we trend towards "self" because it is precisely linked with survival - if you don't focus on "self" then you are less likely to survive in the wild. Psychedelics throw the switch the other way and make us forget about ourselves as individual beings, which much like religious experiences, makes us feel "one with all". It's not magic, it's an evolutionary mechanism. Wish they would talk more about the science we already have.
    10sveintraserud

    The key

    Psychedelics could very well be the key that saves us. Every "world leader" should gather for a ceremony, at least once a year, instead of quarreling at a distance over riches or lands no one really owns.
    8ejimie

    Bill W. and acid

    I watched the first episode, the one about LSD. In my younger daze I was quite well acquainted with the dreaded lysergic. I went to AA for many years and I heard about Bill W taking acid after he got sober. The TV show stated that he got sober because of his acid experience.....not so, he got sober 8 yrs before acid was invented. I heard he was looking for a cure for his long term depression so he tried acid.

    Other than the misinformation I enjoyed watching the episode.

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    • Trivia
      Timothy Leary, the pioneer of the psychedelic movement in the 60s, is Winona Ryder's godfather.
    • Connections
      Featured in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (2023)

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    • Release date
      • July 12, 2022 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Netflix
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • ثورة ذهنية
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