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Every book Andrew Weil recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Andrew Weil appears on, in one place — not just one.
Andrew Weil’s most recommended books
- The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley
- Healing Back Pain by Dr. John E. Sarno
- Mind Over Back Pain by John Sarno
- The Mindbody Prescription by John E. Sarno
- Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert
- We Happy Few by Helen Howe
Andrew Thomas Weil is an American celebrity doctor who advocates integrative medicine. Appearing on several podcasts, Dr. Weil recommended books focused on health, psychology, and traditional practices. He recommended John E. Sarno's works, including The Mindbody Prescription, Mind Over Back Pain, and Healing Back Pain, citing them as essential resources for understanding that the majority of back pain originates in the mind as muscle spasms caused by stress and anxiety rather than physical injury. In addition to these recommendations, Dr. Weil discussed Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, noting how it served as an early influence and sparked his interest in psychedelics and his association with Richard Evans Schultes at Harvard. He also discussed Johannes Wilbert's Tobacco and Shamanism in South America while exploring his interest in traditional tobacco uses, and he referenced Helen Howe's novel We Happy Few to describe the elitist atmosphere during his student years at Harvard.
Books recommended by Andrew Weil
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay chronicling the author's psychedelic experiences and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Discussed“So I inquired about it and came across Aldous Huxley’s book, 'The Doors of Perception,' which was written a few years before. When I got to Harvard, I had the very good fortune to become associated with Richard Evans Schultes, who was the director of the Harvard Botanical Museum, and he had been one of the great explorers of the”
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Healing Back Pain
Healing Back Pain by Dr.
Recommended“sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain and his main belief which I totally agree with is that the majority of back pain is muscle spasm which originates in the mind”
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Mind Over Back Pain
Mind Over Back Pain by John Sarno is a seminal health guide that explores the psychosomatic roots of chronic physical ailments, particularly backaches, arguing that emotional stress triggers unconscious muscle contractions.
Recommended“sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain and his main belief which I totally agree with is that the majority of back pain is muscle spasm which originates in the mind”
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The Mindbody Prescription
The Mindbody Prescription by John E.
Recommended“sure he has some great books mind over back pain healing back pain”
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Tobacco and Shamanism in South America
Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert is a comprehensive ethnographic study detailing the ritualistic and traditional uses of tobacco among indigenous South American societies.
Discussed“after spending more time in south america and reading books i'm going to get the title wrong but it's something like tobacco and shamanism in south america i think it's johannes wilbur or johannes”
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We Happy Few
Discussed“I remember there was a novel written by a faculty wife at Harvard called, "We Happy Few". So there was always the sense that we were this elite.”
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Books Andrew Weil wrote
- Spontaneous Happiness
- The Natural Mind
- Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
- Health and Healing
- Huit semaines pour retrouver une bonne santé
- Natural Health, Natural Medicine
- Spontaneous Healing
Appearances
Other mentions (13: passing, ad reads, own books)
“You don’t have to wait a year; however, I have a book called Eight Weeks to Health. There we go with a program where you start by walking for 10 minutes a day and add five minutes each week. You're quite right that a big mistake people make is trying to implement global change, and then they give up.”
“I have a book called Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, which is a program. Each week, you know, you do something. Like you start by walking 10 minutes a day and each week you add, you know, 5 minutes to that.”
“My first book, The Natural Mind, which was about the importance of altered states of consciousness.”
“i wrote a book called spontaneous happiness which is about emotional mental health”
“you know uh my first book the natural mind alan watts wrote a blurb for it which was great”
“Definitely in the first book that I wrote in 1972 "The Natural Mind". I went back and read some parts of it and it really predicts what's happening now with psychedelics and the positive change that this can bring to our society.”
“I mean, they were things that I used in the past and on that book that I wrote "The Natural Mind" Alan Watts wrote a blurb for it. And one of the things he said was that, "When you get the message you can hang up the telephone."”
“I wrote a book in 1983 called health and healing I had two chapters and they're on placebos”
“I wrote a book in 1983 called health and healing I had two chapters and they're on placebos and what I wrote is that the the greatest problem is that we you know when we talk about placebos it's in phrases like how do you know that's not just a placebo effect”
“I wrote a book in 1983 called health and healing I had two chapters and they're on placebos and what I wrote is that the the greatest problem is that we you know when we talk about placebos it's in phrases like how do you know that's not just a placebo effect”
“well I have a book called spontaneous happiness which is about emotional wellness as a lot there about antidepressants first of all it don't work so”
“Well I have a book called spontaneous happiness which is about emotional wellness as a lot there about antidepressants”
“my first book the natural mind was published in 1972 it argued that everybody has an innate drive to alter their consciousness”