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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
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If there was one thing you could do to change how you think, feel, and act - would you do it?
If you feel stressed, anxious, depressed, or unfocused, then meditation can help you harness the changing nature of the brain in order to increase peacefulness and quality of life.
A practical, research-focused look at mindfulness and meditation that is proven to relieve stress, anxiety, pain, improve your awareness, and help you live a more peaceful life...
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Summary of Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind explores the benefits that psychedelics can provide, both for those suffering from mental illness and for those trying to cultivate new perspectives and habits. Before these drugs were prohibited, there was an extensive history of research into their effects in North America and Europe, and studies that utilize lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and magic mushrooms continue today.
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Have you ever wished you could reprogram your brain, just as a hacker would a computer? In this 3-step guide to improving your mental habits, learn to take charge of your mind and banish negative thoughts, habits, and anxiety-in just 21 days! A seasoned author, comedian, and entrepreneur, Sir John Hargrave once suffered from unhealthy addictions, anxiety, and poor mental health. After cracking the code to unlocking his mind's full and balanced potential,...
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How to Actually Change Your Mind: The Ultimate Guide to Changing Your Mind to Transform Your Life
The power of the mind is immense. It shapes our perceptions, influences our behavior, and determines our success in life. But what if our minds are holding us back? What if our thoughts, beliefs, and habits are limiting our potential for happiness and fulfillment?
The good news is that we have the power to change our minds. We can transform the way...
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Is change possible? Everyone who has tried and failed, wished they could be happier, or has been told they were too old to learn something, has wondered why we just seem to be stuck with ourselves. But this amazing and hopeful audio book shows us that it is not only possible for us to control our brains but also for us to rewire them. In late 2004, the Mind and Life Institute brought Western Scientists together with the Dalai Lama and other distinguished...
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Presents a twenty-one-day, three-step training program to achieve healthier thought patterns for a better quality of life by using the repetitive steps of analyzing, imagining, and reprogramming to help break down the barriers, including negative thought loops and mental roadblocks.
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What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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"Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with...
11) Psyched
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• A uniquely practical guide to a trending topic: Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind has sold 180k+ copies. Companies that are developing psychedelic treatments are shooting up in value. Psyched serves as a simple yet definitive guide to these trending treatments, explaining to a lay reader how they work and why.
• Seven psychedelic substances are explored in-depth including MDMA, LSD, ketamine, ayahuasca, peyote, iboga and psilocybin.
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The more we learn about psychedelics, the less we seem to understand them... In this engrossing, sometimes hilarious, always dramatic chronicle, a neuropsychologist deflates the hype, explores the limitless possibilities, and reveals a much-needed perspective about psychedelics, giving us a scientist’s first-person experiment with ten different compounds in ten different settings.
Once demonized and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are...
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A lifelong Peruvian shaman and curandero (healer) provides a rare, in-depth look into the world of Ayahuasca, a special medicine used in healing ceremonies by Indigenous South Americans for thousands of years that is taking the world by storm.
A mysterious and powerful plant medicine with curative powers that is drunk as a "tea" during a sacred ceremony, Ayahuasca has been known to change people's lives dramatically. But, what was once a healing...
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"Combining exciting new research on resilience and mindset, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, proves that undergoing stress is not bad for you; it is undergoing stress while believing that stress is bad for you that makes it harmful. In fact, stress has many benefits, from giving us greater focus and energy, to strengthening our personal relationships. McGonigal shows readers how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain's natural ability...
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A search for the truth behind the DEA's life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr.
Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall-and rise and fall again-of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the "Acid King:" William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a government informer, a foreign diplomat,...
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Assaraf and Smith know how to minimize risk and maximize success, and The Answer provides a framework for sharing their wisdom, experience, and skills with the millions of people who want to accomplish their own dreams in life. Using cutting-edge research into brain science and quantum physics, they show how readers can actually rewire their brains for success and create the kind of extraordinary lives they want. By teaching readers how to attract...
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If you want to change your life change your mindset, then read on...
Do you often wonder how a few people do the seemingly impossible things while most others struggle to just go through everyday life? What if you could harness the full potential of your mind and reach your goals faster by mind-set switch.
Imagine thinking like a genius and acting like top performers in your chosen field and achieving the life of your dreams.
Mindset Makeover will...
18) Unwinding anxiety: new science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind
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"New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind"--
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What if the source of your pain and unhappiness, is your unconscious, blueprint? Would you like to know how to quickly identify and change that internal blueprint so you could be more confident with better relationships? At work and at home?
The Face Within is an effective guide to smoothing your path through all areas of your life. It helps you to gain the absolute clarity, authentic confidence and inspired motivation you desire.
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What if there are an infinite number of universes all existing simultaneously?
What if we are traveling through these universes all the time without realizing it?
What if the answers to all your problems and all the world's problems ALREADY EXIST in other universes?
And… What if you could learn to consciously travel to these better universes at will?
How to Change Your Universe ties quantum physics and metaphysics together to present a MASSIVE paradigm...
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