A Psychology for the New Age: Quantum Psychology

Bell bottoms, transcendental meditation, love beads, civilDNA, and hard-wired into our brains, is a brilliant learning
rights, protest marches: the 1960s, the Age ofprogram that knows how to produce personal growth
Aquarius, a time of radical social change that usheredat the level of transformation - with a little help from us.
in the "New Age." Time passed, and gradually, NewThis program gives us a simple way to heal our
Age ideas made their way into the cultural mainstream.psychological wounds, free ourselves from the past,
Among them is "spirituality," the notion that beyondimprove our everyday lives and evolve to higher levels
organized religion, people can directly experience aof consciousness, including achieving spiritual
metaphysical reality that is greater than oneself. Theenlightenment.
once "flakey" notion of personal growth, the idea thatWhat has long been known in the East as the Tao,
people have the ability to improve themselves, is nowwith the addition of Western science, has become the
big business. Also, we have come to accept that if weQuantum Path of personal growth. Following the
want to know what is really going on, we must viewQuantum Path involves the practice of two techniques
ourselves, our society, the planet and the universe, asthat are simple, but not always easy. Quantum
a whole, rather than simply examining their individualTechnique 1 frees us from the past, not by talking
parts.about our problems, but by communicating with our
You may be familiar with a children's puzzle that hasunconscious mind in the language it understands -
been around for a long time. The pieces consist of thepictures. When we do, the brain responds immediately.
individual states that make up the United States. WhenQuantum Technique 2 gives us the open mind we
the child puts each piece in its proper place, a pictureneed to accommodate an expanding consciousness
of the whole country emerges. From its New Ageby freeing us from the preconceived ideas we
roots, a new, holistic psychology has emerged, whichacquired from our cultural indoctrination, which is really
examines the individual parts of our human nature, anda form of brain washing.
then puts them together into one, comprehensiveIf you should choose to follow the Quantum Path, after
whole. The result is new insights into our human natureyou got over your initial surprise that rapid personal
and our ability to transform ourselves, the societiesgrowth is possible, you would soon come to accept
within which we live and the planet.the changes that emerge as normal, which of course
The "puzzle pieces" that make up Quantumthey are. Quantum psychology views such abilities as
Psychology come from Eastern philosophy andbeing courageous, thinking for yourself, having individual
Western science. The East contributes the knowledgepower and enjoying life, as being characteristics of a
and practices associated with yoga, meditation, karmanormal, mature, adult consciousness. Equally normal is
and reincarnation. Western science contributes thethat you would transcend the illusion of separation that
insights into the natural world that come from quantumcharacterizes everyday life and experience your
mechanics, complexity theory, systems theory andconnection to all things, such as the tree in your back
psychology. Fit all the pieces together and whatyard, the squirrel dashing across the road in front of
emerges is a psychological map that explains personalyour car and the person who stands in front of you.
growth and techniques that allow us to be our ownWhen your awareness expands to include the whole,
counselors, therapists and gurus.holistic, holy realm that exists just underneath the
One of the fundamental insights of quantumsurface of our ordinary lives, you would discover how
psychology is that our bodies are a lot smarter thanyou are a piece of the biggest puzzle of all - the
we have previously imagined and our expectations ofuniverse.
what is possible are way too low. Encoded in our