How to Change Your Mind is a new Netflix Documentary series about the potential of using plant medicine and psychedelics for healing.

Main Title Sequence design and animation by Julie Gratz

Design and animation of psychedelic sequences by Julie are highlighted below! Animation, visual effects, and graphics throughout the series were executed by Julie Gratz, Nick Gibney, and Elastic.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline. With Pollan as our guide, we journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds as well as culture. How to Change Your Mind is directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alison Ellwood and two-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lucy Walker.

Series + Episode Titles

Each of the four episodes is based on a different psychedelic medicine, with it’s origins in a plant. The concept was inspired by old illustrated botanical guides.

Psilocybin Journey: Michael Pollan

Episode 2: Our fearless guide, Michael Pollan, finally experiences his own psilocybin journey towards the end of episode 2.

Psilocybin Journey: Kathleen

Episode 2: The journey of an amazing woman participating in a study for cancer patients.

LSD Mind Expansion Sequence

Episode 1: A brief animation to the voice of TImothy Leary, during a section explaining the work that he and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) did with LSD at Harvard. The style of this section is inspired by Ram Dass’s book, Be Here Now.