Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space

by Robert Masters, Jean Houston

Here is the key instruction book to the mind games...exercises of education, ecstasy, entertainment, self-exploration, powerful games of growth. Masters and Houston, both human-potentials researchers of considerable experience and the authors of the 'Varieties of Psychedelic Experience,' describe and instruct the reader-player in the mental exercises they have developed scientifically to alter, explore, and regulate human consciousness. Almost anyone can play.

The product of the authors' extensive researches at NY's Foundation for Mind Research, the mind games' message is hopeful: that the powers of the human being are sufficient to deal with the problems that confront us; that man is not something that has to be surpassed, but something yet to be realized. Mind games is a yoga for the West...one that draws on the findings of contemporary psychological, psychiatric, and other investigations of consciousness and latent capacities and their productive applications. There are no drug-induced practices involved...

Mind games can teach anyone to use what the authors call the 'mind-brain system' more effectively; the games can improve sensory perception, magnify or accelerate mental processes, and retrieve forgotten or inhibited faculties.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Games

246 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I definitely want to give the games a go after reading through the book as they are guided meditations that will expand creativity. I looked on YouTube for someone who might have recorded the guided ‘games’ but no such luck. I shall update review after doing the games.

[Sarskilledmygoldfish]

Per John Lennon's recommendation.

[Sofia Penabaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book (the original; I'm not sure about this edition). I have acted as a guide, and the people who I led were very appreciative and seemed to gain a lot out of it. However, it is a challenge to try to use it by oneself, and thus, I feel that it is not as accessible as it could be. I encourage people to try to use it in groups of friends to develop creativity and further mental capacities. I believe it presses into the spaces that keep us from further understanding reality, pushing the boundaries of what we come to believe is reality. In this way, I would also caution that if it is used by the wrong people, in the wrong situations, and not with care and love, it can be harmful. I would contraindicate its use by people who are currently under severe emotional stress. Connect with the boundless love of the Universe anytime you feel the need to, and you will be safe in that warm embrace.

[David]

MIND you, i merely read this & didn't experience ANY of the 'games.' i think i'm a poor candidate & the Games are very elaborate - they'd take a MONTH to do (quickly), & DOUBLE that, normally. one needs a good 'guide' & experienced persons. -good read; but inconclusive results

[Lehcim Nosre-dna · Rating 5 out of 5]

You could start a mind club with this book and take over the world.

[Tamsin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of fun activities to try with friends.

[Christopher Lien · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing, I agree. Start a mind games club and take over the world.