Mindapps

An exploration of “mind design” technologies and practices--mindapps--that boost intellectual capacity and enable new ways of thought and action.

Mindapps reveals how these technologies transform the patterns of our mind-body complex and help generate new ideas by enabling access to new mind states. The book examines the singlestate fallacy--the myth that useful thinking only occurs in our ordinary awake mental state.

Thomas B. Roberts explores a wealth of mindapp practices and techniques, including microdosing with psychedelics, yoga and martial arts, hypnosis, breathing techniques, lucid dreaming, rites of passage, biofeedback and neurofeedback, and transcranial brain stimulation.

Just as we can write and install apps in our electronic devices, we can construct mindapps and install them in our brain-mind complex. And, just as digital apps add capabilities to our devices, mindapps can expand our mental powers and creative abilities, allowing us to intentionally redesign our minds.

Roberts uses psychedelics as the prime example of mindapps, exploring different kinds such as meditation, other psychoactive plants and chemicals, sensory overload and deprivation, and many more. He also considers the future of mindapps, the potential for new mindapps yet to be invented, and how installing multiple mindapps can produce new, unexplored mind states.

Drawing on decades of research, Roberts shows how psychedelics in particular are “ideagens”--powerful tools for generating new ideas and new ways of thinking. Uniting the many forms of mindapps into one overall Multistate Mind Theory, he demonstrates the many mind-body states we are capable of.

Mindapps not only allow us to design and redesign our own minds but also offer benefits for artistic performance, mystical and spiritual experience, and scientific research by improving creativity, open-mindedness, problem solving, and inner-brain connections. Reformulating how we think about the human mind, Mindapps unveils the new multistate landscape of the mind and how we can each enter the world of mind design.