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The influential electronic music artist on altered mental states, the importance of breathing exercises, and hazy IPAs by the sea

Neuroscience researcher Felix Scholkmann in Netflix’s How to Change Your Mind Photograph: Courtesy of NetflixThis series, based on a book by Michael Pollan, is a guide to the new science behind psychedelics that has emerged after decades of bans. These medicines have been a very important tool in my life – I made an album inspired by them – and I feel Pollan is a perfect bridge builder, approaching the subject in a rational and meticulous way. The series covers a lot of the same ground as the book, but you actually get to see and hear people whose lives have been transformed by medicines such as psilocybin, which can help with treatment-resistant depression and end-of-life care.

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