Why this book?
- To understand the role of mental schemas in everyday choices and behaviors.
- To connect personal reflection with Iran’s social and cultural questions.
- To encounter a language that moves between philosophy, sociology, and lived experience.
- For readers interested in self-knowledge, the meaning of life, and conscious living.
About the book
Mind and Everything: Schemas for Living is a work about the human mind and its relation to the surrounding world. In this book, Maqsud Farasatkhah does not treat the mind merely as the site of individual thoughts, but as a field where personal experiences, cultural habits, social history, and existential questions meet.
The central concept of the book is the “schema”: mental and often unconscious patterns that take shape over the course of life and affect the way we see, judge, feel, and decide. The author seeks to show that recognizing these schemas can become a way of stepping back from unconscious repetition and moving toward a more aware form of life.
The book continues Farasatkhah’s familiar concerns with Iranian society, religion, culture, history, and the possibility of critical dialogue. Rather than offering prescriptions or final judgments, he invites the reader to question, pause, and rethink their relation to the world.
Mind and Everything is suited to readers interested in the philosophy of life, self-knowledge, social psychology, and the questions facing the Iranian human being in the contemporary world. More than a specialized academic text, it is an invitation to clear and calm reflection on how we think, how we live, and how we might become more conscious.