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Michael Pollan has spent more than thirty years investigating the places where human culture and the natural world collide — on our plates, in our gardens, and inside our minds. A Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley and Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction at Harvard, he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics in 2020. Time Magazine named him one of its 100 most influential people in 2010, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.
His early books rewired the way Americans think about food. The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006) traced four meals from soil to table, exposing the industrial food chain’s hidden costs. In Defense of Food (2008) distilled his research into seven blunt words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Both became New York Times bestsellers and shifted public conversation around agriculture, nutrition, and food policy.
More recently, Pollan turned his attention to altered states of consciousness. How to Change Your Mind (2018) chronicled the renaissance of psychedelic science and became a Netflix documentary series. This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021) examined humanity’s ancient relationship with caffeine, mescaline, and opium. His forthcoming book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, extends that inquiry further, asking what consciousness itself is and where it comes from.
