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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your WorldQuantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World was written by Robert Anton Wilson and originally published in 1990.Some 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 and how it addresses many of the semantic (and resulting perceptual) “spooks” that common language lets in.It also covers, in a way that doesn’t end up as discontinuous as it might sound: 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 eight-fold consciousness theory of human consciousness which Prometheus Rising covers in much greater detail.Quantum Psychology is a practical approach to becoming mindful of both the relationship between our automatic responses and what triggers them, as well as the mechanism, itself, of those automatic responses.It offers a means to enable you to stay in your adult experience of what is in your present moment, and maintain rather than lose access to inner resources which your automatic responses cut you off from. You are able to notice the mechanism of your automatic response “trance” and exercise control over it. You are then able to respond more effectively, free of the emotional charge of past experiences.In advanced work, Quantum Psychology delves experientially into the realm of emptiness, exploring and responding to the diverse ways we defend ourselves against it, paving the way to the spaciousness that comes from freely allowing emptiness to be experienced.On this level therapy is not about problem-solving whatsoever, but is used as a vehicle to practice locating yourself in the “never-changing background” from where the problems that flow through the “ever-changing foreground” can be seen from an expanded perspective. From here life takes on greater meaning and offers deeper joy. ISBN 1-56184-071-8