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