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Bob Gebelein graduated from Harvard in 1956 with a BA in Mathematics. In 1955, he saw the threat of nuclear annihilation as proof of total systems failure, so he turned his back on the culture and set out to design a new civilization. Through psychotherapy, withdrawal from the culture, and dream analysis, he succeeded. In 1967, he discovered how "human nature" itself can be changed to create a new civilization. In 1985, he self-published “Re-Educating Myself: An Introduction to a New Civilization,” describing his search and the answers that he found.

He has earned a living by working about 20 years as a computer programmer and creator of software systems. His chosen home is Provincetown, Massachusetts, but he always has to go somewhere else for computer jobs. After retiring from programming in 1999, he spent eight years writing this book in a pristine country setting near Moose Mountain in a corner of Hanover, New Hampshire.

The Mental Environment (Mostly about Mind Pollution)

Bob Gebelein
Omdega Press (2007)
ISBN 9780961461119
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (3/08)

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Synopsis:Human beings as social creatures are immersed in a sea of other people’s thoughts, including all the books that have ever been read. In this mental environment there are inaccuracies, or “mind pollution,” created mainly by social pressures.

This book is a basic introduction to the mental environment and mind pollution — not just the obvious pollution of advertising and political lies, but going deeper than that, into the internalized social influences of family, peers, religion, and education.

It explains how the high status of physical science has steered psychologists away from the study of the mind, and presents a view of the mind with the “mental senses.” It describes methods of mind pollution — “unscientific methods,” misrepresentation, manipulation, and mental warfare — and factors contributing to mind pollution — bad logic, psychological problems, sorcery, domination, and status. It presents the perspective of a new civilization, and from that perspective points out inaccuracies in major belief systems of the present culture — the religious, the academic, and the New Age.