{"id":15865,"date":"2020-04-30T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:07:27","slug":"whats-on-your-reading-list-david-gardiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2020\/04\/whats-on-your-reading-list-david-gardiner\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s on Your Reading List, David Gardiner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>We asked Associate Professor of Religion David Gardiner \u201cWhat\u2019s on Your Reading List?\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI have long been interested in the overlapping domains of psychology,\u00a0neuroscience, and religious studies. Michael Pollan\u2019s latest book,\u00a0\u2018How to Change Your Mind,\u2019 tells the fascinating story of research on the effects of LSD going back to the 1950s. Legal medical research was halted in the 1970s but has seen a new surge. In 2019, Johns Hopkins Medical Center received $17 million to explore therapist-supported use of LSD and psilocybin for maladies such as severe depression and addiction. Results show success unmatched by other therapies. Pollan cites neuroscientific hypotheses regarding how the brain regions most affected (the \u2018default mode network\u2019) seem responsible for maintaining a strong sense of self. He and I are in conversation about intriguing correlates in Buddhist psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked Associate Professor of Religion David Gardiner \u201cWhat\u2019s on Your Reading List?\u201d \u201cI have long been interested in the overlapping domains of psychology,\u00a0neuroscience, and religious studies. Michael Pollan\u2019s latest book,\u00a0\u2018How to Change Your Mind,\u2019 tells the fascinating story of research on the effects of LSD going back to the 1950s. Legal medical research was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2020","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2020\/04\/bookshelf-dgardiner_BUL-SPR20.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}