What book are you reading now?

[himself]

Well, I'm almost through. And I have to say, all these comments scientists and I occasionally get that we should be more open-minded to alternative theories/options out there, and that science doesn’t know everything yet, that things we can’t imagine being possible might well turn out to be true — such comments themselves being fully reasonable — even the most-open minded people wouldn’t be able to swallow down this nonsense without relinquishing their common sense and intelligence at the same time.

This is wack. It is not the case that I am not open-minded or willing to entertain seemingly far-fetched theories of the reality/universe. It’s that the people who argue for open-minded approach when it comes to (supposedly) paranormal phenomena write utter nonsense like this book. It's not possible to take something like this seriously.

This book is an account of paranormal and parapsychological examples -- personal, or third-person, past, or present -- first and foremost. It makes claims for psychokinesis and backs those claims up with examples from the era of Louis XV (just take a moment and let the implications of it sink in); insists that people have x-ray vision, talks about chakras, energy fields, remote viewing, reading people's minds, dreams, and thoughts, materializing objects out of nothingness, and the like.

I mean, it’s all just too good to be true. According to this author, you can see the future and the past. Future is set in stone, but don’t worry there are other holograms out there and you can change the future by just leaping from one hologram to another! There’s no way to go wrong here. You can materialize objects out of nothingness, you can ''remote view'' (see what another person who is in Paris sees, for example), you can predict the future, and see the past, you can even be invulnerable to physical assault e.g. in the form of having a block of stone dropped on you, you can read another person’s aura and tell what they’re thinking and feeling, or what they felt or experienced in the past, or will experience in the future.


I do agree that we don’t know it all, and we’ll probably never know everything there is to know about the universe. Keeping an open mind is absolutely fine, and necessary even, but no-one should keep their mind so open as to have the truth leak out of its grasp. And that is what the author has done.

I felt like my brain was getting dumber as I was reading this book. I don’t know everything about science either, but at least scientific texts make sense. This text did not make any sense at all. It's presented as a science book, or 'non-fiction'. But there is very little actual science in here.


I've read the opposition, and the opposition doesn't make any sense.

I looked him up. I can't find any info on his credentials (Having some sort of education in physics would be a start but, of course, it's not compulsory.) I don't know an awful lot about the topic of 'quantum mysticism' but I assume that people take very vague things that people said / believed centuries ago and claim that they must have had some innate understanding of quantum mechanics that we've lost touch with because we're bad people. Maybe that's not what this book is about (haven't read it) so apologies if this is irrelevant.

Does the book work as a piece of fiction?