“Parasites of the Mind” is K. Wilson’s best and most philosophy-rich novel. In form, it can be classified among the MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION—this is how many of its readers perceive the book even now.
This is a book about a scholar-archaeologist who discovers that the minds of all people on Earth form something unified, and that long ago certain parasitic hostile entities were embedded into this planetary Mind—feeding on the energy of human rage and hatred, and for that purpose provoking wars, revolutions, and other social catastrophes on Earth. This is a book about victory over the parasites of the mind and about the opening of a new chapter in human civilization—the transformation of the freed mind into a Superhuman.