Today, it was announced that Emmy-nominated director Alison Ellwood, known for Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place and Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, History of the Eagles, and Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker, will direct Alex Gibney’s adaptation of Michael Pollan’s 2018 The New York Times best-selling book How To Change Your Mind.

The novel, which explores mind-altering drugs, the science of psychedelics, addiction, depression, death and transcendence, will be released in four parts on Netflix as docuseries on July 12. How To Change Your Mind was written in four distinct sections, each with a focus on a different substance, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline.

Gibney’s visual adaptation is set to explore the current psychedelic and medical renaissance, the history of the aforementioned substances and their potential ability to heal and change culture as well as minds.

According to Deadline, Pollan said of the adaptation, “The current renaissance in psychedelic research has been the most compelling and hopeful story I’ve covered in thirty years as a journalist. But it’s one thing to describe the powerful effects of these substances in a book, and quite another to evoke that experience, and its incredible potential for healing, on the screen, as the Netflix adaptation of How to Change Your Mind has masterfully done.”

The docuseries is produced by Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions in association with Tree Tree Tree. Along with Gibney, producers on the project include Pollan, Walker, Stacey Offman and Richard Perello. Co-executive producers include Isaac Bolden, Julian Cautherley, Alexandra Meistrell, Evan Lerner and Ellwood and Tharia Sheather are producers.

Jigsaw–which is backed by Imagine Entertainment–has created several documentaries, including Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and the Netflix series Dirty Money and Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

Gibney shared, “I was thrilled to help bring Michael Pollan’s book to the screen. It’s so important – a revelation about how some hallucinogens, once vilified, can lead to mindfulness. New science shows that these drugs can save lives and change our minds, helping us to live better lives.”

Other Pollan credits include This Is Your Mind On Plants, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire.

Watch a trailer for the series below: