Author Description

Hyperreligiosity is the ill-fitting grasp of the role of religion and God in one's life. It is the disability that can lead to killing in the name of God, or isolation from others in the name of religion. One often sees reports in the news about people who have done various criminal acts because they believe they were guided by God to do so. The tone of this work is at once both psychological and spiritual. The author was himself diagnosed as hyperreligious as a teenager so this book is a result of his personal struggles with it. He went on to start ParaMind Brainstorming Software in 1992 and has released other books in aesthetics and philosophy. He uses easy to understand psychological language to construct an analysis of the problem that also takes into account the positive aspects of religion.