The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness
The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness
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Weil's first bestseller, the classic work on the principles of consciousness, offers a new model for solving the drug problem by acknowledging our intimate yearnings and offering an alternative.
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In The Natural Mind, Weil presents his research and opinion in a clear and effective manner. Regardless of your opinion on drugs, this book will give you insite into the world of drugs (both accepted drugs such as tobacco and alcohol and “illicit” drugs). It is an absolute mind-opener!
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This work explores the nature of consciousness. It isn’t a book about “the drug problem” but a book about how to understand our minds and the innate drive to alter consciousness that motivates many to use psychoactive substances.
The most impressive quality about Dr. Weil’s writing is his objectivity–he takes apart the notion of bias and shows the reader how to look at the world with new eyes. One of best books I have ever read.
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It is one of life’s unexpected pleasures to discover Doctor Weil’s original trail-blazing book on consciousness now revised and re-released. This book is a genuine countercultural classic. Along with millions of others, I have watched with interest as Doctor Weil’s writing career has progressed from his concern with drug use and consciousness into his current writings educating the American public as to the values of wholistic alternative medical practices. Yet, most of his new fans are unfamiliar with this earlier work. Remedy that one fast, friend! With the publication of this book in the 1970s Weil established himself as a singular and original thinker not bound by the traditional and nearly exclusively rational allopathic medical viewpoints promulgated in western medical education. In spite of his eminent credentials as a Harvard-educated physician, Weil debunks conventional wisdom as to drug use and the so-called drug problem. As Weil states in the book, contemporary society doesn’t have a drug problem so much as it has a consciousness problem, one exacerbated by the increasing use of rational thought as the exclusively legitimate path to knowing and understanding ourselves as well as the world around us. Instead, Weil counsels the reader as to how the act of recognizing the role of one’s attitude and personal intellectual/ mental approach to experience can positively or negatively affect the nature of one’s perceptions, experiences, and consciousness. His viewpoints and insights regarding the relative properties and values of inductive versus deductive reasoning is worth the price of the book alone. Wow! I haven’t had this much fun anticipating anything since my lady friend came back from her sabbatical in London. Now we won’t have to haunt the old used books stores in search of old copies of Doctor Weil’s work. Enjoy!
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“The Natural Mind” has been selected for listing in “Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy.”
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I read this book years ago and I continue to get much out of his ideas. Discussions based on the ideas in his book are almost always guaranteed to spiral into engaging and revealing exchanges. For me, more useful than “Eight Weeks…”.
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An excellent book about the inner workings of the mind.This book is a must read for those who have read Dr. Weil’srecent books about health and self care.The natural mind lays the ground work for these latter books, and is as relevant now as when it was first written in the early seventies.
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I wouldn’t say that I’m an avid reader; I only read books that REALLY catch my attention. Well, this book did it, and I must say that Andrew Weil changed the way that I live life. As a medical student, I was able to understand the concept of drug abuse from a different perspective that could save many lives. As far as I’m concerned, it should be stocked in every college bookstore of this country.
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I first was introduced to this book when a medical student in l976 in Arizona. Presented is a very expansive look at all mind-altering substances used in all cultures, with new definitions of those socially acceptable and not in our own culture. This belongs on every library shelf. I very quickly learned to see the many new insights into behavior vis-a-vis effects of all substances on the mind. I happen to be a fan or Dr. Weil’s contraversial health information, but for those who have no interest, this material is fairly unrelated and more of a contribution to our understanding of culturally prescibed and proscribed mind altering substances. As an abstainer from cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and recreational drugs, I was better able to understand the behavior of the majority who do use the above. This is also an excellent book for parents of teenagers, to further understanding on this vital topic. We need, as a nation to rethink our policies on a lucrative industry which is not taxed due to not being legal and also to look at the consequences of youthful consequences.
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This book was shared with me by a college girlfriend who was taking a graduate Biology of the Brain course at the University of Iowa. I confess that I only read it out of love and admiration for her, as I expected only a dry, clinical text. But this book grabbed me with its honesty, its openness, and its accessibility. I found it impossible to put down as I explored a range of substances that I had only heard of, but often wondered what they were and how they worked. The book is written with soul, conscience, great depth of understanding, and honesty. I am grateful to her even today for sharing it with me. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to understand these substances which are all around us in our communities, like it or not.
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Excellent information from a learned man who has personally experienced what he is writing about.