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What's Chava Possum Up to Today?: Consciousness

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Yesterday, I finished a brief but illuminating book about consciousness called Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris, a 110-page layman’s approach to what it means to be “conscious”. Intuition, memory, free will, decision-making, meditation, time, identity, perception, matter— Harris touches on it all. But it’s panpsychism that has captured my attention the most because it allows for a limitless understanding of consciousness.

Commentary: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

White people/European colonizers punish Indigenous communities for EVERYTHING they do, not because what they do is wrong, but because those practices don’t fit our agendas and quests for power. Now; however, that white people have realized that psychedelics have immense potential for healing (and profitability), we want to control them again, but this time with FDA approval. ⁣

Commentary, For ReadersChava PossumJuly 20, 2020Michael Pollan, How to change your mind, Psychedelics, Consciousness, LSD, Shrooms, DMT, Mental health, psychedelics and therapy, colonization, How to change your mind review, Indigenous