MICHAEL POLLAN
Schedule
Wed, 27 Jul, 2022 at 07:30 am
Location
Newmark Theatre | Portland, OR
From Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants — and the equally powerful taboos.In his unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively — as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Pollan’s groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.
Price includes a paperback copy of Pollan’s This Is Your Mind on Plants. Books distributed at event.
Presented by Powell's Books
Where is it happening?
Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway,Portland,OR,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
