The Quantum Self is one of the rare books written by a woman on Quantum Physics, mostly on Quantum Philosophy. Danah Zohar is an American-British author and speaker on physics, philosophy, complexity, and management, and she was inspired to undertake this study by the experience of pregnancy, which extended her sense of self to include her unborn child. This in turn helped her repair a self that was injured by her own mother's frequent absence in her childhood.

In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life, our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to create a new model of human consciousness, the author addresses enduring philosophical questions.  Zohar shows how the vitality of the new physics combats the alienation and fragmentation of twentieth-century life, and replaces it with a model of reality in which the universe itself may possess a type of consciousness, of which human consciousness is one expression.