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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World by [Robert Anton Wilson]

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Quantum Psychology offers a coherent and humorous description of how our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our use of language and our prevailing view of the universe. While Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries, non-Aristotelian logic and General Semantics have revolutionized our view of the world, the habits of daily human thought still sit deeply rooted in the thought patterns and linguistic conventions of the middle ages. Through an introduction to E-Prime (English without use of the verb “to be”), the Eight Circuits of the Brain Model, and the labyrinth of Quantum Mechanic's various views of reality, Quantum Psychology can help your brain improve your perception of yourself and the world.

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01J0X4GCK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hilaritas Press, LLC. (July 23, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 23, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5063 KB
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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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Robert Bloom

Might be the Most Constructively Intelligent Mystical Book Ever Written

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 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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JP Ferraccio

A must read, with a slight caveat.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021

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Your brain and your mind (two different things) will thank you for reading this. A slight bit of... not homophobia, exactly, but perhaps a clumsy lack-of-understanding of what being gay is and where it comes from, taints chapter 13. But even in a rich vein of gold, there has to be some dross. He seems to imply that sexual orientation is merely "imprinting." Tsk, Tsk. However, this is possible to overlooked, as one must overlook sexism in almost everything ever written.

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Sensei Rivera

A good book and prose by Mr

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018

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A good book and prose by Mr. Wilson. However, I would argue that he does not go into detail about how one's brain in programmed (software) by the world (so-called reality) as the book premises. He touches on many things, and it is a very interesting read, but take everything with a grain of salt. He is also easy to read as he is NOT bent on using many large locutions to underscore his extensive vocabulary, which is a haughty trait. Notwithstanding, I would have enjoyed it more since I was expecting him to correlate the human conditioning that we all go through as why there are so many maladies or afflictions that humans have; i.e., it is a side-effect of Conditioning, but he never mentions that; and weirdly, in his last chapter, it is numbered 23 and he quotes Aleister Crowley, who was a Satanist and help found the Church of Satan.

Gematria on or about the #23:

23 is like Nazi, Slave w/"s" exception, & Satanists in the English Reduction system
23 is like Lie in Jewish Gematria
23 is like In 1977, In 1995, In 1776, I Am, In, End, CEO, H2O, Fake, Made, Agama, Cane, W, & Hack in Simple Gematria
23 is associated outside of India with Eris, the Goddess of Chaos & Disorder
23 is representative of Discordia (religion) in which she is worshipped via rituals ("Chaos Magic")
Eris was the daughter of Zeus and Hera, brother of Ares, and she is known as Discordia, the Goddess of Strife, Discord and Chaos
Eris was the instigator of the Trojan War; & she is written about in the Illiad
23 means Duality, Charisma, Communication and Society in Numerology
23 is the lowest Prime # compromised of 2 consecutive Primes
23 Chromosomes in each human Sperm and Ova
 Symbolism  Represents “the principle of organization 3, acting on the differentiation of the world in spirit and matter in Numerology At the moment of his assassination, Caesar was stabbed 23 times. The circulation of the blood through all the human body takes 23 seconds. The number of articulation in the human arm is 23. The 23 axioms of the geometry of Euclid. The 23 days of the “physical” cycle in the biorhythm. The ovule and the spermatozoon are composed both of 23 chromosomes. Anniversary of marriage: weddings of clock.  Occurrence  The number 23 is used 14 times in the Bible, the 14 times in the OT. The words leprous, dragon and blasphemy are used 23 times in the Bible.

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Mitchell A. Sanders

Rare attempt to enlighten how reality is mutable and language shapes it - with practice exercises.

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2017

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Creative re-wiring of the brain set of essays with exercises. This work stems from Korzybski General Semantics non-Aristotelian research and leans heavily on re-evaluating the interplay between English language, the mental map language itself creates and Quantum Theory understanding of how the "real" world works. One chief reason I read this book was because it is on of the very few written in E-Prime. Good stuff that relies on some of Timothy Leary's research and other physicists and writers.

This approach to re-wiring of the brain is all but lost to the few radical thinkers that evolved out of the 60 and 70 that did lots of mental exploration from LSD.

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J. Peterson

Not so smart you can't afford to be smarter?

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2008

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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 ignorance and do something about it. This book appears to be the best I've read by the author so far, having also read Promethus and Cosmic Trigger, though they all were on similar levels of genius. Sure, there are no exact formulas or prescriptions that will work for everyone, but if nothing in this book works for you then you most certainly have missed the whole point of the exercise of reading in the first place. Not only was Bob a great writer, but he merely reflects his love for reading through not just writing but concrete examples of consciousness stimulation. That maybe worth the price of admission alone, just to enjoy the guy's particular oscillation of thought patterns and waves that he decides to clarify or help the reader tune into serve only to enhance better understanding of not just his point but anybody attempting to make sense. A sorely missed man but he will live on and only grow in appreciation as time evolves and his ideas resurface for many years to come.

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wendy felstead

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 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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Emmanuelle Goldstein

Layers of Development Like Orbitals of Electrons

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 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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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2020

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

Mr. Tim Varley

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2015

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Great - made me laugh out loud on a train

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