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The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem

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This book presents both pros and cons of drugs and drug use, and goes in depth into altered states of consciousness and why people seek them. It is not just a book about drugs, or a journal of the author's own drug experience. It is, rather, a compelling look at human nature. Dr. Weil provides many clear examples to support the magnitude of information this book contains. This book answered a lot of questions I had, and the author simply and clearly explains that a different way of thinking, an altered state of consciousness, is not a bad thing.

In a Natural Mind, Dr. Andrew Weil backs up his assertion, that people take drugs in order to alter consciousness, in an eloquent and brilliant way. This book changed the way I think about drugs. Everyone needs to read this essential piece of work. It was so profound and poignant, I just couldn't believe what I was reading. A classic!

The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness the natural mind by the way is a great look at how the mind is....what it is....the structure of the mind....an historical outlook about stream of consciousness and changing ones level of conscious understanding with emphasis on the process as being a a universal,mitre the fault,the cure,the pampering the life and death way of min and matte..body and microcosm macrocosm and body and soul....there is physical science and Svengali to be deplored by the more adroit...a modicum of injustice for a morsel of praise- more so then the herb and such....the colorful nature of the herb and stuff only suffers if you want to be silly about it.

I have always felt Dr Weil gave good health advice, mixing the best of conventional medicine with a lot of preventive health advice and tried and tested "alternative" therapies.

I was hoping to read an illuminating book on how we might solve the disastrous situation that the "war on drugs" has given us.

I was rather disappointed to find a book that seemed to describe his own drug experimentation, that implied that every person wishes to experiment as he did (choking themselves as a child !!???), and that relied very heavily on a rather vague concept of conciousness. It all seemed terribly self indulgent on his part.

I didn't feel that I came away any more knowledgeable about drugs or the drug problem.