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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World [Paperback]

Robert Anton Wilson
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June 1990
Throughout human history, thoughts, 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. Some say it's materialistic, others call it scientific and still others insist it's mystical. It is all of these--and none.

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"Robert Anton Wilson is one of the leading thinkers of the modem age." -- Barbara Marx Hubbard, Committee for the Future

"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

"Readers with open minds will like his books." -- Psychological Perspectives

"What great physicist hides behind the mask of Wilson?" -- New Scientist

"Wilson is a Quantum leap!" --Israel Regardie

About the Author

Novelist, teacher and former Playboy editor, Robert Anton Wilson is the author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy; the Illuminatus! trilogy (with Robert Shea); the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy; the Historical Illuminatus series; Sex, Drugs & Magick; Prometheus Rising; TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution; Coincidance; Email to the Universe; and many other works.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: New Falcon Publications; 2nd edition (June 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561840718
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561840717
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 5.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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93 of 105 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars And the definition of "is" is? April 30, 2001
Format:Paperback
Maybe this is what Clinton was referring to in his infamous linguistic/legal moment before the Star Inquisition. All joking aside, this book is a MUST read for anyone wanting to start getting rid of the semantic spooks in their psyche. This undefinable book of wisdom that weaves a coherent thesis out of such diverse topics as semantics, psychology, physics, model agnosticism and subtle humor makes clear better than anything out there just how much our perceptions and behavior are controlled/influenced by embedded language biases. Just learning to write in e-prime (english without the word "is") makes the book a worthwhile experience. Quantum Psychology opened me to a whole new way of thinking and perceiving, and that is something I can say but very few other books. I truly had no idea the robotizing effect language has on our behavior and perceptions--its not a discovery you can be "told"--you must experience it through the exercises in this book. You owe it to yourself to check this one out.
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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wow, this is one hell of a book. If you are familiar with Robert Anton Wilson, and have not read this book yet, you will love it. Robots, I mean humans, are programmed by our language that we use, our beliefs, and models of the universe, thus limiting us in understanding life and each other. We often tend to categorize or file everything, everyone, and every situation into certain prejudices. Aristotelian logic puts everything into yes/no, this or that, good/evil, one or the other. Wilson talks about 'maybe logic', as well as general semantics (Alfred Korzybski), dismantles hard 'science', and links quantum theory with our neurological brain patterns. This book, along with the exercises may help you break free of most conditioning, and expand to your mind to infinite possibilities of interactive perception.
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71 of 83 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Do us All a Favor and Read This Book July 18, 2004
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Three important words: "read this book." Three much more important words: "Do the exercises." Some readers may have already encountered the main principles of this work, either in other books by RAW or by studying general-semantics; I still think it a valuable epitome of some very useful ideas. If nothing else, I think it would reduce the number of Internet arguments that start with "As you could plainly see if you had simply READ what I WROTE ..." which would certainly rank as an improvement in MY world.

I approach anything with "Quantum" in the title with a skeptical eye, as I feel the current fashion for explaining everything from ghosts to the impossibility of artificial intelligence by reference to quantum uncertainty, quantum coupling, etc., could use either a strong dose of real physics or just a good long rest. On the other hand, many people still live in the clockwork universe of Newton or even the commonsense world of Aristotle, years after the work of Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Goedel, "etc.," revealed the cracks in the foundations of classical and naive physics and mathematics, so anything that raises awareness of these changes in the intellectual climate will have some good effects down the line.

I once referred to general-semantics as "21st Century Zen Epistemology," which might fit _Quantum Psychology_ as well. RAW has laid out a series of observations and a program of exercises that can, quite simply, make your mind work better, unless you are among the one in a scadzillion who has already completed the work.

Please don't fool yourself on this point! Read the book anyway.
Do the work. Do us all a favor, first of all yourself.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bob's book written in E-Prime.
A bit more serious that his usual fare, but still a great read. Wilson applies the models used in Quantum Mechanics to frame analogies with Perception Psychology and human... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Doctor D
4.0 out of 5 stars Friend Suggested
A friend had been suggesting for years that I read this, I have and got to say it is one of the hardest thing I've ever read in my life. Read more
Published 2 months ago by tabi
4.0 out of 5 stars where are the french theorists?
i wish he would cite Barthes, Foucault, Bergson, or Derrida, but so far (little over halfway thru) he doesn't really mention any literary theorists, which seems like an oversight... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Young Lady Dede
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind meta-programming hacks
This was the eighth book by Robert Anton Wilson I read within the last year, so this review could be said to also be a perspective against his other works such as Illuminatus! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Chauncey Gardiner
5.0 out of 5 stars Should've Read It Awhile Ago
This is absolutely one of the best books I've ever read. I've read many books in the areas of psychology, science/quantum science, philosophy and spirituality over the last ten... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Luke N. Bovee
3.0 out of 5 stars Wilson's ideas are worth considering
If you're familiar with Wilson, then the angle he takes in this "scholarly-lite" text will not surprise you. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Geoff Gander
5.0 out of 5 stars Potentially life changing
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. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars interesting but somewhat dated
I think that interdisciplinary work such as this has a much higher level of appreciation than in 1990 when the first edition of the book appeared. Read more
Published on January 23, 2011 by Michael George
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent manual for consciousness change
Robert Anton Wilson presented a here a relatively simple map of the eight circuits of human consciousness. Read more
Published on December 12, 2009 by Kenneth B. Updike Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Not so smart you can't afford to be smarter?
This book maybe the best example of how to think to get rid of foolish assumptions and certainties. I guess that would bother some that are not willing to accept their own... Read more
Published on March 8, 2008 by J. Peterson
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