Pollan has one of the most inquisitive and accommodating minds in the higher journalism of our time ... Wide-ranging ... A big, generous, illuminating and beautifully written inquiry into the essence of our being-in-the-world, of being, simply, alive.
A fabulous and mind-expanding exploration of consciousness ... Lucid and impassioned ... The later chapters, which draw on everything from Buddhist thought to modernist literature, remind us of what is obvious if only we stop to notice: that our minds are constantly in flux, remoulding, shifting, flowing.
Despite Pollan’s diligent research, a comprehensive understanding of consciousness remains elusive. Yet the fact that we can ponder consciousness and theorize about it is mind-blowing.
