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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World Paperback – 1 Jan. 1992

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Throughout human history, thoughts, values and behaviours have been coloured by language and the prevailing view of the universe. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, and non-Aristotelian logic, the scientific view of the world has changed. This book aims to change your way of perceiving yourself

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New Falcon Publications,U.S.
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1 Jan. 1992
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12.7 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm
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1561840718
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978-1561840717
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Falcon Publications,U.S.; 2Rev Ed edition (1 Jan. 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1561840718
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1561840717
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm

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Author of some 35 books including Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, and co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson (RAW or Bob) was a futurist, author, lecturer, stand-up comic, guerrilla ontologist, psychedelic magician, outer head of the Illuminati, quantum psychologist, Taoist sage, Discordian Pope, Struthian politician . . . maybe. Bob described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with different perspectives recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything." His "Maybe Logic" inspired the creation of the Maybe Logic Academy. Google "Robert Anton Wilson" for mosbunall info.

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The Berkeley mob once called Leary and me “the counter-culture of the counter-culture.” I’m some kind of antibody in the New Age movement. My function is to raise the possibility, “Hey, you know, some of this stuff might be bullshit.”

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Nat

Truly mind expanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2012

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This is one of the most intelligent and challenging books I have ever read. I can't tell you how long it took me to get through it. It's incredibly heavy, synthesizing as it does, a vast array of different ideas to come up with a perspective that is both profoundly illuminating and completely contradictory to accepted wisdom. If you're buying this it would help if you had a basic understanding of psychology and physics, or a lot of time on your hands! All of his ideas really need to be explored in your own life. Like all Wilson's books, this is about deprogramming beliefs in order to come to a greater understanding of the world. This can be a painful process if you have a lot of firm beliefs.I had to spend a lot of time thinking about some of his ideas and letting them sink in before I could accept them or even start to unravel their implications. Whether you accept them or not, he was an incredibly intelligent man and the ideas he sets out here warrant a great deal of examination.

Wilson argues that reality is subject to neurological relativity. That everything from our individual perceptions and thoughts about the world to the very idea of objective reality may be erroneous.But this isn't sophistry. It has a very clear and noble purpose, to get us to transcend our habit of making judgements about definite reality, so that we can grow intellectually and be more understanding of each other.

Unlike some of his books, he chose to adopt a "scientific" perspective in writing this. In other books he approaches the same ideas from a more trickster-like or mystical perspective. For this reason, this comes across as less subjective and I warrant will appeal to wider section of people, even if you interest is purely confined to the quantum/scientific elements of his thesis.

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Emmanuelle Goldstein

Layers of Development Like Orbitals of Electrons

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2011

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I loved the book and RAW (reported missing from this part of time; I sadly suspect he's really gone this time).

There was only one of his books that I found impenetrable/annoying/unpleasing and I have read most of them (The one where every bunch of words explodes and MIRVs repeatedly in one's mind, like a definition in a Turkish-English dictionary or a box full of capsules of scout ants; I don't recall its name and it's behind two stacks of books acquired since: not handy.). Maybe he used cut-ups.

Amazon says I bought Quantum Psychology in 1975, so it's been a while since I read it but only yesterday I caught myself saying "infophobic" under my breath about a baby on the bus.

RAW likens the developing mind to electronic orbitals (energy levels or quantum states of electrons), laid down in order as you move down the periodic table, but then adds a dialectical dimension, an axis, (maybe a spin quantum #) for at least the first three. Infophobia-Infophilia is like the 1S electronic orbital, the first to be filled. I am so glad that I turned out infophilic.

You might think of the model as being an inner set of the layers of the onion that EST (Erhard Seminars Training) workshops sought to strip down. However, wave-mechanical views of electrons are dynamic and probabilistic rather than the rigid shells of earlier electronic theory and the layers of real onions.

He acknowledges a debt to Timothy Leary but his atomic/quantum way of looking at how minds and personalities are put together, made of definite components, is a vast improvement upon those proposed by other psychologists/psychiatrists who try to boil us down to a will to power, sex drive, etc.. He also points out that we don't need to be stuck with our psychological configuration but can change it, maybe with a little help from our friends.

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Defiance

the theories put forward will for sure entertain you a bit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2015

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Sometimes too radical views, no nuances, but nonetheless interesting take to read about. Either as a curiosity, either as a need to get another perspective, the theories put forward will for sure entertain you a bit. Or make you think, the same or the other way, it does not matter so much.
Not boring, but sometimes repetitive and stubborn. Which can also be fun.

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Shaber

As expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2018

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As expected

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2020

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Robert Anton Wilson at his best! Love this book & the little activities he has you do.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2017

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Love RAWs books & writing style. This 'is' around the 8th book of his I've read. I'm surprised its taken me this long to read it! I've studied in TA & love psychology! Better late than never, eh?

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Kuma

Very enlightening - gives great insight into the way our brains work!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2008

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The idea that RAW has plucked out of Quantum Physics and reformulated in the field of psychology is that we are limited by our ability to make observations when it comes to understanding deep reality. Our understanding of the world around us is limited by our senses and ability to interpret the information we receive in relation to the intellectual and cultural faculties we have - what he terms Reality Tunnels.

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JOJO

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2017

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What can I say, Old Bob the best

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Christos

Absolutely mindblowing

Reviewed in Germany on 14 April 2017

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When I first started reading QP, I had no idea what it was about. I found this book by accident on Amazon’s suggestions and I liked the description. Especially the line that drew my attention the most was “our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our language and prevailing view if the universe.”
Little did I know that I was in for a crazy ride. I was definitely confused in the first pages because of terms I’ve never encountered before, but soon the meaning of the book started becoming clear.
The book starts by questioning the certainty we have in our view of “reality” and our beliefs. Almost immediately the writer jumps into physics and the inability of modern science to prove the existence of any true and objective “deep reality”. One more small leap and we find ourselves exploring basic principles of quantum physics and their parallelism to way the human brain works.
We take a deeper look on how our brain works and how it has been programmed by social conditioning, our culture and finally the problematic structure of our language that creates barriers on us getting a more spherical objective view of the world. Problems like lack of empathy and eventually conflict arise from this dysfunction.
The book continues with more parallelisms between quantum physics and our thought process, in the sense that the observer cannot be left out of the “quantum equation”. The person who observes a situation (with their unique map of reality) will make a unique judgement of the specific situation. These principles are fundamental in helping us develop an increased sense of objectivity and empathy, improving vastly interpersonal relationships, handling our own emotions better, eliminating conflict and calibrating better in social situations .
We then look into concepts such as the “psychosomatic unity” according to which mind and body should be be seen as separate entities. The implications are huge when it comes to assisting modern medicine with the power of thought and better control of your emotional state for more effective healing. (Taking Mystery our of “Miracles”)
The book goes deeper and deeper, entering realms of theoretical physics, the nature of the universe(s) and philosophy, bringing up again the importance of the observer and touching subjects such as non-local and non-chronological correlations that are observed in the universe. (Time travelling implications? :v)
I now consider it one of my top choices and favorites and I definitely recommend it to anyone.
Don’t let my review scare you. Shit gets pretty clear once you start reading. Tip : Don’t skip reading the Fore-words since this parts includes a glossary of terms, that will make it way easier reading the book (i didn’t read the forewords and I regretted it).
Read it with an open mind and it’s guaranteed to give you an almost psychedelic, mind-purging experience.

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Jamil Moslih

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2021

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Just brilliant. My mind got the bashing it deserved. I need to write eleven more words to submit this review.

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Potentially life changing

Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2011

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What you get from this book and how significant a change it can produce is limited only by the extent to which your thinking changes. I did not fully understand all of this correlations between psychology and quantum physics, but there is much to take away regardless. His writing style really saves the book from being a boring mess of ideas only to be understood by those with advanced degrees. He truly brings the subject to within the reach of the average person.

Most important points, in my opinion:
[*] Aristoliean logic boxes us in. Next time someone tells you something "is" some way, ask them, "What do you mean it 'is'??" This logic of this or that (is or is not) creates problems because things in life are on degrees of levels greater than 2.

[*] The influence of our expectations on cures and remedies and how brainwashing and/or altered states can help cure us, and how we can be made sick just by accepting another's belief that we are.

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[-]How words get in the way of communicating ideas while at the same time allowing us to express ourselves. The basic idea is that words can and will never replace the actual experience. We end up with a shallow dull representation based on the verbalizer's experience. Hearing or reading about something amounts to relying on the interpretations of the world of others. (But perhaps sometimes someone else's interpretation can be richer than ours anyway?)

[-]How we create our own world based on what we expect. We basically cherry pick from an immense amount of sensory data because we have to. By changing what we expect, we can forever change our lives.

[-]How the structure of our language creates problems. For instance, "mind" and "body" are two separate words, as were "space" and "time" before Einstein coined "spacetime." These innocent assumption and linguistic implication that mind and body are separate entities because they are two separate words cause confusion, for most of now realize an effect on either one affects the other. We are left to analyze more of our language to find hidden barriers to understanding.

More very interesting topics I'd like to share from my experience:

[-]How cancer was cured with a drug that was raced to patients because, somehow, it works better the "newer on the scene" it is. And, how that same drug, once discovered ineffective for some, became increasingly ineffective for others, and how it eventually "stopped working." He gives the example of one man who jumped out of bed with excitement upon finding out his cure arrived and how he actually came to have had an observably smaller tumor. Later, upon finding out the medicine he was given "didn't work," he crawled back into bed, eventually dying.

[-]How before antibiotics, medicine from a doctor for treating infections was based purely on faith. Today, only 20% of medication are randomized, double blind, and placebo controlled. So, what accounts for the efficaciousness of the other 80%? Hmm. Expensive 'snake oil'?

[-]How memory is mood-dependent. We're more likely to recall happy memories when happy. More likely to recall sad ones when sad. More likely to recall memories from altered states while in or close to those altered states (including sleep, meditation).

[-]We all have at least four personalities (and up to around 8), which actually register uniquely on EEGs that measure brainwaves. This might explain our own and others' confusion. We switch back and forth between these depending on our environment. This to the extreme results in a 'disorder' we have all heard of, but this as described in the book is well recognized as normal for all of us.

So, I consider it worth my time to have read it, even though I didn't fully understand the implications of how it relates to physics. There are a few things in this book that I will remember forever. I also plan to read more of this books having thought highly enough of this one.

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Robert Bloom

Might be the Most Constructively Intelligent Mystical Book Ever Written

Reviewed in the United States on 25 September 2020

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This might be Robert Anton Wilson's masterpiece. If you want to radically grow as a human being (and become exponentially smarter along the way), this is THE book. Bob dances across disciplines masterfully -- almost recklessly -- and, aside from a few adjectives that some 21st century readers might find "problematic", it's flawless. And if the dogmatists whose reality tunnels demand outrage can let their guards down a bit, they might find a universe more malleable than they previously thought possible.

There's so much to say that nothing I say here could possibly do this book justice. Read it for yourself and keep it in your life -- re-reads are an absolute must. If you wanted one book to "understand" science, art, philosophy, and mysticism, this is it.

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Kindle-Kunde

Hervorragend, Fulminant und „Erleuchtend“

Reviewed in Germany on 15 November 2017

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Es ist sehr schade das es dieses Buch nach mehr als 23 Jahren immer noch nicht in deutscher Sprache gibt. Denn die Informationen in diesem Buch sind sehr erhellend und erleuchtend. Ich hoffe es findet sich bald ein Verlag der dieses Buch in deutscher Sprache heraus gibt. Aber, obwohl mein Englisch nicht besonders gut ist, lässt sich das Buch relativ gut lesen. Mit einem Übersetzer kann man das was man nicht versteht schnell übersetzen. Robert Anton Wilson beschreibt in diesem Buch die tieferen Zusammenhänge zwischen der menschlichen Psychologie und der Quantenphysik. Der Beobachter schafft das Universum. Schrödingers Katze. Woher wissen wir, was wir wissen. Das nicht lokale Selbst, usw. Einfach verdammt gut.

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