Quantum Psychology

Summary

Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World is a book written by science-fiction writer Robert Anton Wilson, originally published in 1990.[1] It deals with what Wilson himself calls "quantum psychology,"[2] which is not a field within academic psychology.

Quantum Psychology
AuthorRobert Anton Wilson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectConsciousness, Psychology, Linguistics, Quantum mechanics
PublisherNew Falcon Publications
Publication date
1990
Pages208
ISBN978-1561840717
OCLC42893837

Some[who?] consider Quantum Psychology a follow-up to Wilson's earlier volume Prometheus Rising, mainly for the presence of practical exercises to demonstrate its concepts at the end of each chapter (this time intended for groups rather than a lone reader). It focuses primarily on the metaphysical and epistemological problems of Aristotelean reasoning and its use in everyday language, covering E-Prime (Wilson wrote the book in E-Prime) and how it addresses many of the semantic (and resulting perceptual) "spooks" that common language lets in.

It also covers psychosomatic healing and a possible explanation for it; non-local effects in quantum physics (Bell's theorem) and the theories of David Bohm; and a brief recap of the Timothy Leary eightfold consciousness theory of human consciousness which Prometheus Rising covers in greater detail.

References edit

  1. ^ The Guardian, 17 January, 2007
  2. ^ New York Times obituary, January 13, 2007

External links edit

  • Excerpt from Quantum Psychology