Wilfred-Leonard Bastiani
Dear readers.This book is about ’Deep Democracy’, but then in the way it should be. The concept was invented by Myrna Lewis and her late husband Greg while living in South Africa. What most publications fail to tell is that Edward de Bono was there too; teaching the children the concept of 'Lateral Thinking' and 'the 6 Coloured Hats', a funny game to learn children about the several thinking styles among people. He studied and experienced with his concepts for a very long time since the middle of the 1980-ties.However nothing is mentioned about it many decades later, as if the concept ’Deep Democracy’ was a solistic project on its own comprising methods and tools invented by Myrna Lewis herself. They look more as modifications based on De Bono’s original ideas. Then there is Arnold Mindell. He wrote several books within his DDX label and some of his books were to be the foundation of e.g. the Dutch ’Deep Democracy’ community. This specific book 'Quantum Mind' - the edge between Physics and Psychology - however deals mainly with technical and detailed information based on Mathematical Quantum Physics during forty-three chapters over and over. In a way the book completely useless since at least eighty-nine per cent of the people can’t comprehend this ’material’ at the first place including most anthropologists and secondly it avoids all deeper and proper explanations regarding Human Nature in a psychological and philosophical way although its subtitle suggests otherwise. This little book 'Mystic Mind' proves the complete lack of useful applications regarding the content of Mindell’s (more than) 600 pages book 'Quantum Mind', almost completely irrelevant regarding the concept of ’Deep Democracy’ although his books were recommended by the ’Deep Democracy’ community.Since 2014 as a first moment of contacting the Dutch initiators they shared ’Deep Democracy’ with the world based on their holy study ’Anthropology’ only and applying the concept of Lewis as ’the Voice of the Minority’ besides ’Inclusivity’ and ’Tribality as the two basic key words, this writer was excluded ever since because his enormous wisdom about Human Nature. Further investigations of mine clarify that none of them was really innovative and no one had hardly studied anything else but Anthropology. However they claim that ’Deep Democracy’ approach can save the world based on its splendid concepts and their highly developed trainers and consultants. Read and shudder, this book is about the
