Mindshift: Excelsior Editions

An accessible, authoritative guide to the psychedelic renaissance, tracing its scientific breakthroughs, cultural shifts, and ethical dilemmas.

Mindshift offers a vivid and critically informed introduction to the dramatic revival of scientific, medical, cultural, and spiritual interest in psychedelics. Drawing on dozens of interviews with leading researchers, therapists, activists, entrepreneurs, and practitioners, Ido Hartogsohn traces how psychedelics have moved from countercultural taboo to medical frontier, spiritual practice, and commercial opportunity. Written with clarity, wit, and scholarly depth, these essays explore the hopes, tensions, breakthroughs, and blind spots of the psychedelic renaissance. At once accessible and critically alert, Mindshift is a guide to one of the most consequential developments in contemporary medicine, culture, and consciousness.