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Quantum psychology
how brain software programs you and your world
First published 1990 · 250 pages
A playful, mind-expanding toolkit for hacking your own perception of reality and breaking free from linguistic traps.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting down for a cup of coffee with a brilliant, slightly mad philosopher who is determined to pull the rug out from under your reality. The pace is brisk and conversational, firing off ideas at a rapid clip that leaves you both dizzy and exhilarated. It cultivates a mood of expansive, trippy disorientation, playfully dismantling the linguistic and cultural programming that dictates how we perceive the universe. The prose is witty and subversive, actively using language to demonstrate the very traps it describes. It is an absolute delight for psychonauts, deep thinkers, and anyone who enjoys the sensation of their mental polarities being reversed, offering a profound sense of cognitive liberty by the final page.
- Mood
- trippy
- intellectually stimulating
- expansive
- disorienting
- Tone
- playful
- irreverent
- provocative
- conversational
- subversive
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the illusion of objective reality · linguistic programming · cognitive liberty · paradigm shifts · epistemological doubt
- The writing
- Conversational, witty, and deliberately subversive, the writing employs linguistic tricks and thought experiments to short-circuit habitual thinking.
- The arc
- The reader is guided from a state of comfortable certainty into a dizzying, playful disorientation, ultimately arriving at a liberating sense of cognitive freedom.
- Who it's for
- Psychonauts, armchair philosophers, and anyone who delights in having their fundamental assumptions about reality playfully dismantled.
Content notes
- existential themes
- epistemological disorientation
About the book
Throughout human history, values and behaviors have been colored by language and the prevailing view of the universe. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, non-Aristotelian logic and General Semantics, the scientific view of the world has changed dramatically from just a few decades ago. Nonetheless, human thinking is still deeply rooted in the cosmology of the middle ages. Quantum Psychology is the book to change your way of perceiving yourself--and the universe--for the 21st century.
Review: "Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity. I was astonished and delighted." --Philip K. Dick, author of Blade Runner
Description from Open Library.
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