Tongue: A Cognitive Hazard
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Product details
- Publisher : Evergreen Press
- Publication date : November 19, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 172 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1735141666
- ISBN-13 : 978-1735141664
- Item Weight : 5.9 ounces
- Reading age : 15 - 18 years
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.39 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank:#760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Customer Reviews:3.83.8 out of 5 stars(32)
Tongue: A Cognitive HazardTop reviews from the United States
- Jarrod AndersonMesmerizing, Daring, And Shockingly FreeingI did not expect a paperback to get under my thoughts, but Tongue did exactly that. From the first few pages, it felt less like “reading” and more like having my inner monologue quietly taken apart and rewired in real time.
The language in this book doesn’t just describe feelings, it provokes them. Waves of fear, awe, tenderness, and strange calm all seem to arrive at once, as if the sentences are walking through every locked room in the psyche and turning on the lights without asking permission. It hits every strong emotion and somehow leaves them all standing side by side, not fighting, just exposed.
What surprised me most is how safe it felt even at its most unsettling. There is a softness running through the sharpest pages, an almost surgical precision that cuts away confusion but never touches your basic sense of okay-ness. Instead of feeling invaded, there’s this weird, blissful relief, like finally exhaling after years of holding your breath without noticing.
By the time I realized what was happening, my relationship with words themselves felt different. Thoughts slowed down. Explanations stopped feeling necessary. There’s a clean, spacious freedom in my mind now, an openness that doesn’t demand a narrative to justify it. The book never lectures; it acts on you, line by line, until you suddenly notice you’re standing outside the cage you thought you lived in.
If you’re willing to let a book touch your operating system instead of just your opinions, Tongue is astonishing. It is freeing, safe, blissful, and disorientingly beautiful, a linguistic hazard in the best possible sense.
Thank you, Chase. - Scott L.Absolute rubbish - feel very let down with this "book" and the authorI very much enjoy the author's YT channel and I had high hopes for this book. I had thought that it would elaborate on how language is hard wired into the human mind. I believed (incorrectly) that this book would offer some techniques to hack these hard wired language links. Instead, what I found was a group of nonsensical paragraphs of random sentences.
Really, this book feels like it was written by someone on an acid trip. I read the first 3 1/2 paragraphs and it was unbearable. I thought that maybe it would get better later in the book so I jumped ahead and read a few pages of each paragraph. Much more of the same: random nonsensical sentences that have no meaning to me, do nothing to explain the mind-language connection, and give me no insight or instruction whatsoever.
Some examples of the randomness of this book:
"Close an eye.
With the other, look at the word river.
Now let your bloodstream imitate it."
A little further down the page (79):
"Feathers.
Pause. Listen. Even silence is comparing itself to something."
I just randomly opened a page above and here (p. 124):
"shh
shhhhhhh
sound of a vowel drowning
sound of a thought coughing up teeth"
I suppose that this book is more a collection of obscure poetry. I don't see any lessons or directions in it at all.
I'm very disappointed. - MPNZA Mind-Bending Masterpiece That Frees the Self From Its CageTONGUE is unlike anything I’ve ever read. It doesn’t just challenge the mind - it liberates it. From the first page, the book dismantles the familiar machinery of language, revealing how words quietly shape our thoughts, our identity, and even our sense of reality.
Reading it feels like peeling back the skin of consciousness and meeting yourself underneath.
This book shows, with startling clarity, how easily we become trapped in the stories we inherited. By breaking apart the structures of language, TONGUE breaks apart the internal cages built from sentences, assumptions, and self-narratives. What’s left is something deeper and more authentic—a glimpse of the self before the mind learned to confine it.
The writing is hypnotic, unsettling, and strangely beautiful. Every page twists perception, disrupts thought, and opens space for new awareness. It’s not just a book; it’s a cognitive event, one that continues to echo long after you close it.
If you’re looking for a reading experience that will expand your inner world and reveal the essence of who you are beneath all the noise, TONGUE is a rare treasure. Bold, brilliant, and transformative. - EtremelyEVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOKA very interesting book. Presented in a persuasion style format, meant to free and deprogram your brain from parasitic thought control processes. IT IS MEANT TO BE READ AND ABSORBED NOT UNDERSTOOD. The concept is simple, read the entire book, but don't try to understand it from a logical perspective as it will mostly make no sense to some readers. I personally, did vaguely understand by keywords used what the process was doing. It unlocks the unconscious part of the brain, which DOES understand , beneath the realms of logic. If you simply read the book without trying to understand it, IT WORKS, on an unconscious level.
- Aaron SalkoA diagnostic abolition of white plates.The epitome of cognitive friction.
I’m not sure what I just read Chase, but I’m sure that you didn’t write this with the intent for the reader to understand. Rather, I believe you wrote it to confuse, bewilder, and provide a methodology to break the mind of labels and prove the parasite theory to be a diagnostic abolition of white plates. (If you know, you know) - Brenda BurgerBrain twisting, clean good sweep!It’s difficult to describe this book because there’s truly nothing else like it. Reading Tongue feels as if my brain has become a wet rag being wrung out—twisted just enough to squeeze years of debris out of my thinking.
Now that I’ve absorbed what this book has revealed to me so far, I’m far more vigilant about the words that leave my tongue, the thoughts that enter my mind, and the ones I consciously allow to take up residence. Some thoughts now pass through like foot traffic on a busy sidewalk; others linger for a moment; only a rare few are invited in and given a place to stay.
Thanks for the clean brain sweep, Chase.
This book is only for the brave. I love it!