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"Don Lattin’s Changing Our Minds is far and away the best book on psychedelic use and research available today… Lattin not only fully describes the important trends in research, but includes valuable back stories of the major researchers, and why they have given so much of their professional lives to such risky endeavors. Now, when people ask me, is there one book I can read about the multiple dimensions of current psychedelic research,, I can say, Changing Our Minds will give you everything you need.”

—James Fadiman, PhD, author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys

“Changing Our Minds expertly explores the healing and spiritual journey catalyzed by psychedelic psychotherapy through the courageous voices of those who are pioneering the study of these treatments.

An essential read for those interested in the expanding field of psychedelic research for therapeutic and spiritual uses, this volume lands at a crucial time during the re‐emergence of psychedelic research as we approach the mainstream, scientific acceptance of psychedelic psychotherapy and the reintegration of the legal use of psychedelics into Western culture.”

—Rick Doblin, PhD, MAPS Founder & Executive Director

Author Biography

DON LATTIN is an award-winning journalist and who covers alternative and mainstream spiritual and religious movements and figures in America. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin covered the religion beat for nearly two decades.

Don is also the author of six books including "Changing Our Minds -- Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy" (2017), "Distilled Spirits -- Getting High, then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher and a Hopeless Drunk" (2012) and "The Harvard Psychedelic Club -- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age in America" (2010).

To learn more, visit his website at www.donlattin.com .

His most recent work, CHANGING OUR MINDS, chronicles a quiet revolution underway in our understanding of how psychedelic drugs work and how they can be used to treat depression, addiction and other disease. The stories behind this cutting-edge medical research and religious exploration reveal the human side of a psychedelic renaissance.

"Changing Our Minds" is the latest installment in a trio of books about the recent history and future prospects for finding beneficial uses for drugs and plant medicines like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and ayahuasca.

DISTILLED SPIRITS is a memoir/group biography that looks at how writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, opened new doors in Western religious thought.

It is a prequel to THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB, a national bestseller that won the 2010 California Book Award, Silver Medal, for non-fiction.

Don Lattin's other books are "JESUS FREAKS - A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge" and "FOLLOWING OUR BLISS - How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today." He is also the co-author of SHOPPING FOR FAITH – American Religion in the New Millennium."