QPT: Meditations of Process Oriented Thinking
Are you ready to transform not just what you think, but how you think?
In a world grappling with unprecedented complexity—from climate change to organizational innovation, and personal relationships to global cooperation—our traditional "noun-thinking" often falls short. We tend to categorize reality into fixed objects and rigid choices, even when dealing with dynamic processes like communication, which we might mistakenly label a "problem" rather than a flow that can be enhanced.
"Process-Oriented Thinking: A QPT Approach" introduces Quaternion Process Theory (RM-QPT), a systematic approach inspired by quantum physicist David Bohm's profound insight: reality is fundamentally about process, not objects; it's more verb than noun. This book invites you to join a quiet revolution, aligning your mind with the flowing, evolving nature of reality itself.
Through twelve carefully crafted chapters, you'll discover:
- How to think in flow rather than fixity, experiencing thoughts, emotions, and experiences as dynamic processes. This immediately boosts mental flexibility and creative capacity.
- How to work with paradox rather than against it, transforming tensions into sources of creative energy.
- How to access hidden intelligence by sensing and interacting with the "implicate levels" of experience, gaining insights traditional rational approaches miss.
- How to transcend limiting perspectives, recognizing your viewpoint as one among many and holding multiple perspectives simultaneously.
- How to reason beyond traditional logic, combining analytical thinking with intuition, creative recombination, and dialectical reasoning for breakthrough solutions.
- How to think collectively beyond individual limitations, tapping into intelligence no individual can achieve alone.
- How to participate in emergence, recognizing and consciously engaging with the spontaneous arising of new phenomena.
- How to use language to create reality, understanding that words participate in generating what they describe, rather than merely describing it.
- How wisdom naturally emerges from an integrated practice of all these capacities.
What makes this book different from other thinking skills books is its comprehensive approach:
- It fosters a fundamental shift in how your mind operates, rather than just applying techniques on top of existing thinking.
- It provides a complete, coherent framework where every concept connects to every other concept.
- It includes practical notation to make abstract concepts concrete and workable.
- It bridges ancient wisdom with modern science, offering a practical synthesis.
- It emphasizes practice over theory, with exercises designed for immediate experiential learning.
This isn't just a book to read; it's an invitation to a personal transformation. You don't need any special background, only curiosity and a willingness to experiment. The concepts will become clear through practice. As you embark on this adventure, you're not just learning new concepts, but participating in an ancient yet cutting-edge exploration of consciousness itself. The process begins with your very next thought.