How to Change Your Mind

Going to count this one for the Read Harder Challenge category “a book of social science.” The discussion of the “new” science of psychedelics, their relative safety and effectiveness, and their potential to improve well-being is fascinating. For this purpose, though, there is the notion that the world was changed and influenced by these substances in the 1960s and early 70s, not to mention their longstanding use in the rites and rituals of some cultures.