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"Mental Architecture is an excellent book that starts slowly but ultimately intrigues the reader with the breadth of its imagery and concepts with an existential tone that makes it unique and engaging. The book is a mesmerizing maze of intricate relationships, symbolism and notions that will overwhelm you but in a good sense. Mental Architecture is not a friendly or easy read: it requires contemplative patience and a taste for slow conceptual evolution filled with many unanswered questions. This could be because it's very complicated, following several different themes involving multiple fields of inquiry at different periods of time, but there are serious rewards for the patient.
Mental Architecture examines the human struggle for self-knowledge and an understanding of the personal and societal path of human existence that has evolved over many decades. The book's primary theme revolves around enlightenment, understanding, and our personal interpretation of the world as we experience it.
Mental Architecture is anything but predictable, and it doesn't "spoon-feed" you answers. It's rich with nods to myths, mathematics, psychology, science, nature and history. References to everything from Piaget, Vygotsky, Galperin, and Erickson to Gödel make this the kind of book you'll want to pause and study numerous times just to see how these clues help you understand the bigger puzzle. The book reveals how ancient wisdom informs modern science and vice versa and introduces the concept that genuine mindfulness requires a four-leg approach that is physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Mental Architecture is a very worthwhile read, both for the excellent atmosphere achieved and for the ideas with which it is playing that gives rise to a process of seeking at all times to create a murky climate with which to be disconcerting for the reader at the same time that it is capturing their interest to know what exactly is being revealed to them. The book leaves you wondering what you just experienced but hungering for more answers. The book ultimately ends up asking more questions than answering them, so the reader can expect to be obsessed with this mind-bending book for a long while.
Mental Architecture reminds the reader that each of us has the capability to strengthen our mind, body, heart and soul to live and perform at an extraordinary level. The book encourages an integrated and holistic approach for optimizing health and human performance by melding ancestral wisdom with modern science that the reader can use to meet the myriad challenges we face in life. The attention to detail and love put into this book make it a "must read" for anyone looking for a deep and existential book that is definitely not for those times when you just want to "not think".
Howard Blumenfeld starts his impressive debut "magnus opus" by expressing his hope that Mental Architecture enhances the reader's perspective on the mysteries of the mind. I agree with the author that you will be able to meaningfully apply many of his novel and thought-provoking concepts to your daily life while you continue to seek out the answers to the questions that the world presents to each of us, individually and collectively."
Bob Myatt, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Mental Architecture examines the human struggle for self-knowledge and an understanding of the personal and societal path of human existence that has evolved over many decades. The book's primary theme revolves around enlightenment, understanding, and our personal interpretation of the world as we experience it.
Mental Architecture is anything but predictable, and it doesn't "spoon-feed" you answers. It's rich with nods to myths, mathematics, psychology, science, nature and history. References to everything from Piaget, Vygotsky, Galperin, and Erickson to Gödel make this the kind of book you'll want to pause and study numerous times just to see how these clues help you understand the bigger puzzle. The book reveals how ancient wisdom informs modern science and vice versa and introduces the concept that genuine mindfulness requires a four-leg approach that is physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Mental Architecture is a very worthwhile read, both for the excellent atmosphere achieved and for the ideas with which it is playing that gives rise to a process of seeking at all times to create a murky climate with which to be disconcerting for the reader at the same time that it is capturing their interest to know what exactly is being revealed to them. The book leaves you wondering what you just experienced but hungering for more answers. The book ultimately ends up asking more questions than answering them, so the reader can expect to be obsessed with this mind-bending book for a long while.
Mental Architecture reminds the reader that each of us has the capability to strengthen our mind, body, heart and soul to live and perform at an extraordinary level. The book encourages an integrated and holistic approach for optimizing health and human performance by melding ancestral wisdom with modern science that the reader can use to meet the myriad challenges we face in life. The attention to detail and love put into this book make it a "must read" for anyone looking for a deep and existential book that is definitely not for those times when you just want to "not think".
Howard Blumenfeld starts his impressive debut "magnus opus" by expressing his hope that Mental Architecture enhances the reader's perspective on the mysteries of the mind. I agree with the author that you will be able to meaningfully apply many of his novel and thought-provoking concepts to your daily life while you continue to seek out the answers to the questions that the world presents to each of us, individually and collectively."
Bob Myatt, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
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