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People take psychedelic drugs for a number of different reasons.

The folks who head to summer trance parties, for example, usually aren’t using them in the most scientific manner.

Fair enough – sometimes, it’s just a helluva lot of fun.

Greater scientific attention has been focused on the use of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline in recent years.

Proper research on the use of psilocybin to help people suffering from depression is gathering steam (including in South Africa), with impressive results from decades-long studies coming out of the US.

The New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan’s 2018 book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, was also a landmark moment in the move to better understanding their scientific uses.

Now that book has been adapted by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney into a four-part documentary series, How to Change Your Mind.

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While the book is divided into six chapters and an epilogue, the series will be divided into 4 50-minute episodes. Each of the episodes will focus on a different mind-altering drug: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline.

Pollan serves as the viewers’ guide in this journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance, not forgetting the barely recognized historical context, to explore the potential of these substances to provide healing benefits and change minds as well as culture.

Let’s not give too much away before we’ve had a look at the trailer:

To add further oomph, the docuseries is being directed by Emmy-nominee Alison Ellwood and two-time Academy Award-nominee Lucy Walker.

How to Change Your Mind will hit Netflix on July 12.

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