The Most Mind-Blowing Book You've Never Heard Of

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I’m constantly on the lookout for ideas I can turn into new ways of thinking or being or doing. Most of them don’t have any appreciable or consistent effect, but every once in a while I stumble onto something profound.

Psychedelics and IFS therapy… these have been profound stumbles into insight.

Stumbles that led nowhere include hypnotism, affirmations, 20 years of talk therapy, biofeedback, antidepressants, lucid dreaming, eating an apple a day, cold showers, subliminal tapes, health spas, recreational drugs, and alcohol. Some of them are fun and harmless, but insight? Nuh-uh.

And now, I’ve stumbled onto a marvelous, unsettling, and profound book that has left me vibrating with energy — one that nobody has ever heard of. Yes, I’ll tell you the title eventually, but I want to tell you a story first.

I hadn’t seen my friend Stefan* in a decade. We used to work together, but he was let go from our company under implications of impropriety. He also had a drug habit and an alcohol habit. A bit of a mess, my friend Stefan, but he was a brilliant marketer, fun to be around and a genuinely good person. He suddenly re-appeared in my life three weeks ago.

“Hi Sanjay, do you still throw your annual Super Bowl party? I’m in town for a few days doing some e-commerce consulting and thought I’d join you!”

I said, “Sorry Stefan, not this year, but let’s meet up for a drink.”

We met at my bar, and for a guy with the bad habits he had, he looked pretty damn good. He proceeded to tell me, “Yeah, I cleaned myself up. No more drugs, no more alcohol. I work out. I make a million dollars a year consulting for companies like Meta doing digital marketing. Life’s pretty good, man.”

Huh. Way to go Stefan.

We chit-chatted, exchanged recent life updates, and eventually got up to leave the bar (where we were drinking sodas). He made a final comment, “Sanjay, you should read this book. It’s called Some Dumb Book (not the real title).”

I said, “Stefan, I’m not going to read that book. It sounds dumb.”

He replied, “No no, it’s not what you think. It’s about quantum mechanics and the nature of reality.”

“Oh!” I said, then smiled and nodded. “I love that stuff. Sure, I’ll read it!”

I bought the audiobook the next day and began listening. First seven chapters, the book is just repeating things I already know. I’m annoyed. Chapter eight, hmm, interesting. Chapter nine.

What the fuck? Is he for real? This can’t possibly be true. Blew. My. Mind.

The basics are this:

1. We live in an illusion. The world isn’t real, it’s a projection created by our consciousness.

2. You’re the only person in your universe, everyone else is part of the illusion.

I already considered both of these likely, based on my experiences with psychedelics and reading I’d done on quantum mechanics. But so what? If we’re not equipped to see beyond the illusion, what difference does it make?

But what if you could see through the illusion? Poke holes in it?

“Neo, there is no spoon.”

There is scientific evidence that nothing is real in the way we think it is. Below subatomic particles, according to the best theories we have, everything is probabilities and energy fields that only collapse into distinct particles when they are observed. So everything we experience may be a projection of consciousness, and parallel universes may exist as different projections of different conscious observers.

Now, imagine you — yes, you — created this entire universe for yourself. Like entering a maze in an amusement park, you’ve imposed these constraints for the fun of it, to create a challenge, an adventure. Why else would you do it?

Now, let’s take it further. Imagine a brilliant sun — your higher self — shining above a layer of clouds. The sun is always there, always radiating, but you can’t see it because of the cloud cover. The trick is learning how to poke holes in the clouds, letting more light through, until one day the clouds dissolve entirely and you merge with that higher self.

This is a profound shift — where you step through the illusion and start playing life instead of suffering through it.

Practical Application

The beauty of the book is that it proposes a four-step process to alter elements of your projected reality — essentially, a way to eliminate anything negative or constraining in your life.

Outlandish.

The thing about outlandish claims is they’re so easy to debunk. I stopped listening to the book and focused on the nearest negativity in my environment, a bag of Doritos in the passenger seat of my car. I had just promised my wife I wouldn’t eat any junk on the way home because dinner was waiting.

But that sweet jalapeno cheddar bag of joy was calling to me.

I used the four step process to eliminate the craving. And the bag disappeared from my perceived environment. It reappeared in my peripheral vision 40 minutes later as I was pulling into my driveway.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the Doritos.

I’ve been repeating the exercise several times a day for the past two weeks, always with remarkable results. I enjoy workouts more. I don’t mind traffic jams. I have more patience with colleagues and friends. I don’t mind cold weather. I’m enjoying running my restaurants more than ever.

I soon found myself wondering, ‘why don’t more people know about this?’ I had never heard of the book or the author before. The internet has a few positive comments from readers, but there’s no broader public discussion like there is for the woo-woo concepts presented in The Law of Attraction or The Secret.

So I booked a coaching call with the author. I had to see if his own life was as good as it should be given the concepts in the book. Short answer, he was the real deal. The book promises inner peace and a life of abundance and he seems to be living that life.

During the call, he let me know that his own thinking has evolved since he wrote the book and he has a five day video course you can take that eliminates the need for the four step process altogether, although the process still works.

I immediately signed up for the course, and I’m about halfway through 30 mind-blowing hours of video. I would have waited to assemble my thoughts before writing this article, but I couldn’t resist talking about what I’ve already learned.

I could give some more powerful specific examples, but frankly, you need to read or try this yourself. Maybe it will work for you, maybe it won’t. I’m a pretty credulous (some would say gullible) guy and I’ll try any belief on for size if it can be tested and falsified.

The process works. Negativity and constraints disappear, leaving only clarity, choice, and action.

What’s at the end of this game? Full connection to your higher self.

You don’t have to believe me.

I might not even be real.

But if you continue down this path, fasten your seat belt. It’ll be the ride of your life.

1. The book is Busting Loose from the Money Game by Robert Scheinfeld.

2. Taking psychedelics definitely helped me believe in a higher power.

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