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Book cover for How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938, shortly before physicists split an atom of uranium for the first time. Hofmann, who worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sandoz, had ...more
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Robert M. Sapolsky
“The implications of fetal environmental effects? Another route toward how lucky or unlucky you’re likely to be in the world that awaits you.”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Anna Lembke
“We as mental-health care providers have become so caught up in the practice of empathy that we’ve lost sight of the fact that empathy without accountability is a shortsighted attempt to relieve suffering. If the therapist and patient re-create a story in which the patient is a perpetual victim of forces beyond their control, chances are good that the patient will continue to be victimized.”
Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

William B. Irvine
“Others may have it in their power to affect how and even whether you live, but they do not, say the Stoics, have it in their power to ruin your life. Only you can ruin it, by failing to live in accordance with the correct values. The Stoics believed in social reform, but they also believed in personal transformation.”
William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Robert M. Sapolsky
“Let me state this most broadly, probably at this point too broadly for most readers: we are nothing more or less than the cumulative biological and environmental luck, over which we had no control, that has brought us to any moment.”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky
“Thus, essentially every aspect of your childhood—good, bad, or in between—factors over which you had no control, sculpted the adult brain you have”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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