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The first time I realized that my mind—this private, persistent engine of thought—could shift in ways I had never imagined. It wasn’t in a classroom, a lecture hall, or even a therapy session, but during a quiet evening of reading, when words described experiences so alien yet intimate that they made my own inner world tremble. Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind opens that door, inviting us to peer behind the curtain of consciousness itself, to confront the strange, luminous, and sometimes terrifying landscapes our brains can traverse. The book is part memoir, part science exploration, and entirely a meditation on the malleability of perception. Pollan takes us through the history, the research, and the personal accounts of psychedelic experiences—stories of awe, revelation, and transformation. But beneath the science lies a larger meditation: the mind is not static. Our patterns of thought, our anxieties, our entrenched habits, and even the deepest corners of our psyche are not ...