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![black and white striped curving tunnel graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/pyschedelic_tunnel_1600.jpg?itok=KAjPEOzf)
An excerpt from the introduction to Michael Pollan's bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
![Amelia Earhart stands in front of her plane](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/amelia_1200.jpg?itok=ae_MuMgy)
As the biographer of Amelia Earhart, I had concluded that her plane would never be found in my lifetime.
![a color block drawing of donald trump](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/I%20Once%20Thought%20It%20Impossible%20That%20Our%20Democracy%20Would%20Fail.png?itok=ok18B0Ub)
I once thought it impossible that our democracy would fail. I now believe failure is not only possible, but happening.
![Dharma Wheel](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/dharma.jpg?itok=A4X4RA1b)
In my first term at Bennington, my mother died. I didn’t know it then but that was the beginning of my spiritual journey.