About Us

About Quantum River World

Quantum River World was founded in 2015 in Huntington Beach, California by renowned professor, speaker, bestselling author, and philosopher Eric Zhender. Drawing on his extensive knowledge, wisdom, and lived experience, the organization was formed as a small, family-run team dedicated to publishing and sharing his work.

Eric Zehnder was the last mentored student and live-in page of the great Yale University theologian Dr. Roland Bainton, as well as student of the incomparable language theorist Dr. Paul Holmer, and has written over 25,000 original, largely never-before-seen quotes. Mr. Zehnder has cultivated powerful quotes and extensive wisdom and insight regarding language and spiritual empowerment for over thirty years while he was part of his family’s construction business.

Only in recent months, noticing the exponentially increasing degradation of language and corresponding decline in health throughout human society, has Mr. Zehnder felt it was time to share his work through Quantum River World - which has gone almost entirely unpublished until now. 

Our mission is to empower individuals to use language as a tool for shaping their own stories, inspiring meaningful change, and playing a more active role within their communities. Through thoughtful ideas and purposeful dialogue, we encourage people to engage, reflect, and connect in a world that has become increasingly divided and isolated.

At Quantum River World, we believe language has the power to bridge gaps, spark insight, and foster understanding—one conversation at a time.

FAQ

1.  Is quantum river world a publishing company, or something else along those lines?
 
Quantum River World is a multifaceted media company which emphasizes upper bandwidth language in sharp contrast to the dominant lower bandwidth language which dominates digital media and much public discourse. Publishing and collaborating with those who also value upper bandwidth language and the river of conceptual language which informs all higher creativity is a key part of what we do, but it is not all that we do. Put another way, we are everywhere language is. 
We represent a “Kodak Moment” in publishing – the idea that EVERYONE PUBLISHES. Everyone -including every enterprise - has an audience of some kind or another, and thus everyone has a community they can build and maintain. Your community is likely not getting much upper bandwidth language but instead it is inundated with lower bandwidth language and more than ever a sense they are merely numbers in an algorithmic malaise. Quantum River World can help you and help your people reverse the effects of lower bandwidth toxicity. 
 
2.  What are quantum-inspired thoughts?
There is a Quantum River in the quantum space behind space, and it is filled with conceptual language. It is a river of both great new language and great new understanding of language which is rooted in universal principles. Great writers, poets, musicians and creative visionaries regularly access this river and in doing so, connect themselves and their audiences to upper bandwidth language. The thoughts we have when we interact with the Quantum River are quantum-inspired thoughts - thoughts which exist in upper bandwidth language - and upper-bandwidth thoughts lead to upper bandwidth mindsets which lead to upper bandwidth health. 
With careful observation, one can also recognize thoughts originating elsewhere; lower bandwidth thoughts which are mired in lower bandwidth language. 
 
 
 
3.  Are you looking to add better written quality, to help improve health? How does that work health-wise?
Elevating language use includes the written word, but let’s remember language between human beings was at one time strictly oral, and the attention-giving aspects of interpersonal in-person communication - “in real life” as it’s referred to today – is much more likely to access higher bandwidth language due to the mutual exchange of energy required in genuine three-dimensional human interaction. The increased reliance on electronic devices – without so much as a human voice to convey emotion or attention – as communication intermediaries has plunged society into lower bandwidth language.
Think of language as the keys on a piano. The further apart the individual keys, the more difficult it is to effectively communicate a tune or convey meaningful and intentional language. We end up settling - just getting basic information across, as the keys become too disjointed to make a meaningful melody, let alone a fundamental harmony. Richness evaporates. Human isolation and disconnection escalate. In both the words themselves and the methods in which our current society conveys them, lower bandwidth language is pulling apart the keys with which we communicate on our linguistic piano, and we are suffering greatly. 
Getting us back to upper bandwidth language, which includes a concerted effort to restore “in real life” interactive language use as well as collaborative efforts to build upper bandwidth language communities with a wide range of audiences, will bring the keys of our linguistic piano back together - reversing the isolation, disconnection, and all the mental and physiological health problems which go with them. 
 
 
4. What is lower-bandwidth language?
 
Lower bandwidth language is non-conceptual language, that is – language without largely without context, often associated with a blur of far too many images to hold meaning. Digital media is overwhelmingly full of lower bandwidth language, and most digital algorithms particularly on social media platforms (of all varieties) favor lower bandwidth language because they favor engagement over meaningful concepts. But lower bandwidth language is not unique to the technological age. Lower bandwidth language is a strategic tool employed by the deconstructionist school of thought – those who sought to undermine the fabric of western civilization by undermining the language itself and the very definition of words – which has its origins in the nineteenth century. One could even argue that lower bandwidth language used as a deliberate practice is as old as creation; that it was lower bandwidth language the serpent used to trick humanity out of its inheritance in paradise. 
 
5.    What made you want to embark on this project?
I was born with a great love of language and believing that language was the mother of culture and in its highest and best form, language would bring out the best in humanity while the sabotaging and manipulative use of language brings out the worst in humanity. I was also deeply inspired by the leadership of college basketball legend Coach John Wooden, who inspired such excellence in his use of higher bandwidth language with his teams, he won 10 national championships in twelve years – including an incomparable 7 in a row. It was through Coach Wooden that I realized the undeniable success one can have by using upper bandwidth language with all the attention and energy-giving elements. 
 
Over two decades ago after prayer and fasting devotion where I visited the Grand Tetons, I compiled a collection of four thousand unique and powerful sayings, mostly in the form of quotes and entirely in the form of concentrated language. One of my quotes is “anything concentrated is power” – which I often use to describe my mission in upper bandwidth language, as those four words apply to language as well. In fact, if one is to believe God said “Let there be light, and there was light” it is safe to say language was the ORIGINAL concentration of power, and language even predates existence. But I did not feel, even after compiling those quotes and concentrated writings along with thousands more which followed, it was meant to be released – until now. 
 
6.   What inspired this journey and what are your goals?
 
My personal passion for language and a strong sense in recent years that the time to essentially release this storehouse of concentrated upper bandwidth language of which I have been a steward for decades, is now. It’s not that I did not sense the rapid ascent of lower bandwidth language through digital media and artificial intelligence for some time, it’s that I believe the timing is right for me to introduce the urgently needed counteraction. 
Also, I have long since wanted to build a great enterprise that is simultaneously a culture creator and community builder, all with the express purpose of restoring upper bandwidth language and by extension, the very health of every member of society which is otherwise unknowingly suffering under an ever-increasing weight of lower bandwidth language. My three-generation family business as home builders in Huntington Beach, California is not presently active in building homes, and I feel strongly I’m to carry on that building tradition into the “hybrid world building” I just described – creating culture and building communities which emphasize higher bandwidth communication.
 
7.   What do you look for in a collaborator on books? What kind of talent?
 
Our collaborators can be anyone who 1. has an audience with which they would like to pay special attention to as well as build a community around 2. has at least a rudimentary understanding of and shares our concern for the need to revive the use of upper bandwidth language vs the ever-dehumanizing dominance of lower bandwidth language. The only talent we would need from a collaborator is a talent for telling a story or conveying meaningful thoughts.
 
8.    What is your educational background?
 
Eric Zehnder was the last student mentee and live-in page of the great Yale University theologian Dr. Roland Bainton, as well as a mentee of the incomparable language theorist Dr. Paul Holmer. These unique and personal experiences with two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, both considered unparalleled visionary professors in their fields of study, shaped Mr. Zehnder’s own vision as he blends theology and language to address the unique challenge of lower bandwidth language dominance in current society.