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Dr. Andrew Weil on how psychedelic-assisted therapy couples with integrative medicine practices

6 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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A short interview excerpt from a YouTube video in which Fleet Maull asks Dr. Andrew Weil about his early psychedelic experiences. Weil states that those experiences were foundational to his philosophy of integrative medicine, especially regarding mind–body interactions and how mental changes can affect physical health.

I would imagine your career was strongly influenced by your own early experiences with psychedelics. I think your maybe your first experience was with mescaline very early on. I wonder if you could just say a little bit about how maybe that shifted your perspective or took you in the direction that your career ended up going.
Well, I would say that my experiences with psychedelics have been foundational to the philosophy of integrative medicine that I developed, particularly to my understanding of the relationship between the mind and the body and the possibility of changing things in the physical body by changing things in the mental sphere.