Michael Pollan and Monty Don - This Is Your Mind On Plants
Human beings have relied on plants throughout our evolved history - to alter consciousness, to stimulate, to calm and to radically alter the way we see the world. For this @5x15stories event, award-winning author, activist and journalist, @michael.pollan will talk about his groundbreaking new book This Is Your Mind On Plants in conversation with gardener and broadcaster @themontydon who for years has been leading us down all kinds of garden paths to show us why our relationship to the natural world is vital to our wellbeing and culture.
This Is Your Mind On Plants explores our deep relationship with three very different plants from which we derive opium, caffeine and mescaline, and what they can do for us. Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos, in this personal journey of exploration and participation in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs. He finds there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, 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.
Time 19:00 BST
