A few quick answers to questions about Genpo Roshi and a few other things…
A very quick post answering a few of your questions about Genpo Roshi, enlightenment, emotions, how to get Big Mind DVDs (and which one to get), whether Genpo and I will teach in Europe, or on the East Coast, how to get audio of these posts, etc…
Audio files for different posts are available as soon as I get the time to record them, which generally will be within a week of the written post. Sometimes, though, I have other pressing deadlines, or I have to go out of town, or something else happens that makes it difficult for me to record right away. Please be patient! I will record an audio file for MOST posts, but for a few (like this one) I won’t.
For those in Europe who want to see Genpo Roshi, he does teach in Europe quite often. In fact, I believe he has a trip planned in January. Check BigMind.org, or call his center (I believe you can find the number on the website). However, we have people coming from all over the world to our Los Angeles workshop–from Europe, New Zealand, and many other places.
There are two DVDs introducing the Big Mind process, and yes, you can do the process along with the DVD. The first is “Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed”, a 2-DVD set available at www.BigMind.org.
The other (which I actually think is better, though both are really good) is part of the Integral Life Practice starter kit, created by Ken Wilber’s brain trust, which I highly recommend and think everyone should own (the Big Mind DVD in this kit is of Genpo leading the process, not someone else). Because the ILP kit contains a LOT more stuff (quite a few other DVDs, all of which are VERY good, several CDs, and a lot of written material, plus support letters), it costs more than Big Mind/Big Heart Revealed. You can get an ILP kit at www.myILP.com.
Finally, I believe that one of the bonuses we’ve offered when you buy your next Holosync deeper level right now is a DVD of me leading the Big Mind process at a meeting of the Transformational Leadership Council. If you want to see some of the top transformational teachers doing Big Mind, you’ll find this one very interesting. Call Centerpointe at 800 945 2741 during office hours for information–I can’t remember which offer includes this DVD, but my support staff will know.
For those who wished you could see Genpo and me on the East coast, it’s very likely that we will do additional workshops together in various places around the country if this upcoming workshop in LA is a success (which it most certainly will be). You might also check Genpo’s website, since he does events all over the place, all the time.
Someone also asked about enlightenment and emotions, worrying that if you’re enlightened you somehow don’t have any, which is not true. Actually, the opposite is true–you feel everything much more deeply. This confusion probably comes from my comments about transcending your immersion in emotions in my post about Piaget’s developmental levels.
What I said was that if you are immersed in your emotions, then you ARE your emotions. In this situation, you’re caught in them, and you have no control over them. They happen unconsciously and automatically. Once you gain the awareness to observe your emotions, you HAVE THEM, rather than being them, and in doing so you gain control over them. They become more of a choice.
Emotions–all of them–are part of being human. The goal isn’t to stop having them. But if you are suffering an excessive amount emotionally, this is a sign that either your emotional life is unconscious (you have not successfully navigated the shift from immersion in emotions to the place where you “transcend and include” them, or some sort of trauma happened during that developmental stage.
The short answer is that an enlightened person feels all emotions–and allows all of them to be okay. Such a person is totally natural and spontaneous, and totally human. He (or she) sees emotions as part of the perfect dance of the universe–even the “bad” ones. At the same time, he does whatever he can to alleviate the suffering of others, including emotional suffering.
Though he feels everything fully, he does not identify with his emotions–in other words, he is not immersed in them, stuck in them. When he feels something, he does so with awareness, which includes the awarness that he is the entire going on of it all. From this perspective, emotions are but one little piece of the whole, so he just watches them without becoming caught in them.
An enlightened person knows who he is, and that emotions are something he HAS, not something he IS. He lets his emotions be okay, and because of his awareness, and because he sees them from a Big Mind perspective, they are balanced–not too much emotion, and not too little (the Goldilocks approach). They are not out of control, nor are they repressed.
This is an interesting and important subject, so I may expand on it in another post.
Be well.
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Thanks for posting a link to http://www.myILP.com.
Does anybody know their contact email?
May be someone who already have purchased the ILP package.
It looks like the link to the order page does not work properly.
Hi Bill – thanks for your comments about emotions. This is a really fascinating topic.
I was wondering where you see the role of emotions in a spiritually oriented journey? Some teachers place a great deal of emphasis on tuning in to one’s emotions as they are thought to be messengers from the soul/higher self. Am I right in interpreting your post to mean that placing great stock in the meanings of our emotions would actually steer us away from enlightenment by causing us to further identify with BEING the emotion, rather than realising we are HAVING the emotion?
Do you see ‘negative’ emotions as signals that what we are focussing our attention on something that we don’t wish to create? Similarly, feeling good as a signal that what we are focussing on is something we do wish to have in our experience? I find it really interesting to be asking these questions at the age of almost 40. Why didn’t we get “Emotions 101” in kindergarten!! Oh well, better late than never.
Many thanks for your thoughtful posts and podcasts,
Jacqui from Australia
I remember the exact moment at which I had a shift of consciousness from being immersed in my emotions to observing them. I was reading Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. In an instant, I got it. It took several years for me to clean out the muck that was stuffed down all those year. Once it was cleaned out (largely through meditation, crying and breathing techniques), I discovered that “I” was actually happy and blissful nearly all the time. In fact, even when releasing pain through tears or while feeling any emotion, it did not lessen my happiness. It was simply something I was experiencing. When I cry now, it’s very interesting. It is very intense and comes out in bursts. My shoulders shudder and I sob. This usually lasts for up to a minute. Then … it’s GONE. It’s released. Within a few minutes I am generally back in bliss. I think it’s because it’s energy in motion now, flowing through me and out of my body, rather than attaching to past accumulated pain and clinging to it. Who knows … all I know is emotions are radically different for me as an observer than one who was immersed in them. PS You still rock my world Bill Harris.
Elizabeth Grant
I recently received the “Big Mind” CD, I have to say that sadly I didn’t connect with it. I am a new member (2 months) of centerpointe and have been religious about my meditations. What brought me to centerpointe was a long journey towards a realization that I am have a highly intuitive gift and I have not yet mastered the control switch. I feel quite settled with who I am, all the variations of me and felt slightly irritated when watching that process for some reason. I didn’t identify with any aspect of it nor did I find it helpful for me… I am not trying to be mean in anyway because I believe in the program and in the journey.. I just feel disconnected from that process. Did anyone else feel the same?
“The short answer is that an enlightened person feels all emotions–and allows all of them to be okay. Such a person is totally natural and spontaneous, and totally human. He (or she) sees emotions as part of the perfect dance of the universe–even the “bad” ones.”
Are you reporting your experience or what you’ve been told?
Mine has been quite different.
This is from Bill Harris, for Deanna:
Deanna, your experience with the DVD is a sign that you had difficulty actually speaking from some or even several of the voices–that you had trouble really “being” that particular voice or subpersonality.
When this happens it means that the voice has been “disowned.” We disown voices because someone taught us that this aspect of us was wrong during our childhood, or because we had a traumatic experience that affected this voice.
One of the huge benefits of this process is that when we speak from a disowned voice, it heals that voice. If a person has a lot of anger, and they speak from the voice of anger, it tends to heal that anger, for instance.
On one of the DVDs there is a woman who won’t speak from the voice of fear because she was a cancer survivor, and she was told that fear would allow the cancer to win. She thought that speaking from this voice (acknowledging that she had fear, which she did) could be potentially life-threatening. Ironically, she wouldn’t speak from the voice of fear because she was afraid! She DID have fear, but wouldn’t allow herself to voice it. This is a perfect example of a disowned voice.
And, had she spoken from that voice–had she allowed herself to really get into the voice, and the fear–it would have healed the shadow she had with that voice.
I would go back to the DVD, and this time be as willing as you can be to really get into and speak from each of the voices, and to do so as honestly as possible. If you do, you will experience a huge shift.
If someone has strongly disowned a voice–which is quite common–it can be difficult to give voice to it. This is where someone who is a master facilitor can really help. And, sometimes a person just isn’t ready yet to allow the healing to take place.
When a process that is working for others doesn’t work for us, it’s always a good idea to assume that it’s something we are doing, rather than blaming the process (not that I heard a lot of blame in your post). In all processes, there are two aspects–the process, and what we do with it, the responsibility of the process, and our responsibility to really enter into it.
When I have had trouble getting results from a process, I would sit with it, asking myself what I was missing that kept the process from working for me. In this case, I highly suspect that it is an inability to REALLY get into and speak from some of the voices.
Give it another try.
Be well. –Bill Harris
I have the ILP kit and have to admit that I didn’t really warm to the big mind process either. Well maybe I found some of the characters in the audience a little annoying! I’d like to hear from people who found it beneficial and life-changing (apart from Bill who is already up there) just to get another perspective on this unusual technique.
Yes, for many years i’ve studied and researched various spiritual teachers trying not to get cought in their “teaching” processes, but what i can say about Eckhart Tolle that he is that kind of “teacher” that tells everything the other teachers are telling but in a such way which you understand imediately, such simplicity that everyone can grasp.
On the other hand Genpo Roshi is more practical with his teachings BUT they have too such simplicity that anyone can grasp dwelling withing them.
To the whooping crone: and what was your experience?
In answer to the whooping crone…
“Are you reporting your experience or what you’ve been told?
Mine has been quite different.”
Hello,. I can’t answer for Bill and I will answer for myself. It has been the experience of both myself, others I have spoken with and the students I have lead through the process of experiencing, experiences of enlightenment. Even though I use other processes other than Big Mind/Big Heart I suspect this process will do the same as enlightenment has the tendency to include and it even includes exclusion.
To Your Best,
Doc Houston
Bill;
You’ve done a great job explaining the benefits of the Big Mind Process AND meditation.
I’ve used sound technology off and on since 1990 and recently joined your program. It’s nice to sitting again with your excellent tool for training my brain and helping to focus my attention.
I’m also training to be a Big Mind facilitator under Genpo Roshi’s guidance.
Accessing the transcendant “states of consciousness” with Big Mind is shockingly simple, and easy. It’s the most exciting form of meditation I’ve come across in 25 years of practice.
It does take repeated dipping into the ocean of the transcendant, over and over, till these tempory glimpses of enlightenment become permanent traits of being.
Thanks for your great work in synthesizing these tools.
Alan Davidson
I was at your first retreat in Austin. I loved it and at the end I said I had discovered, “I have no problems.” That has continued and now it concerns me that I am so “level” that I really don’t feel anything. I have been doing Holosync for nearly 4 years and now I am wondering if I should back off or move ahead faster. To cry again would be real joy. I will be in LA for that retreat with you and Genpo and hope to get more insite. I have read Big Mind/Big Heart and listened to the CD but only get it in theory – not in practice. I hear the words but I cannot say the words. Will the retreat help with making the connection?
I saw the word trauma and thought it would be appropriate to speak my own truth. Did I suffer childhood trauma? What I went through needless to say I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I’m 50 years old now and for the most part have lived up to her harsh words in every way conceivable. You will never amount to anything, there must be something wrong with you. Talk about chinese tourture. Thats what hurt the worst. The beatings and her seeminly uncontrolable rage made me seriously wonder if she wasnt the devil in disguise.
My biological father ran for the hills when I was only 1. There were many times when I wished and prayed to God that he would come along and rescue me. Even to this very day he has made no attempt to contact me. Although that was the case I have spoken to him and told him exactly how I felt. His final words were I hated doing that to you. I looked at him and said you have no idea what she did to me.
She married 3 other times and blamed me for each of her failures. I recall a time when I was in 3rd grade where she had me going to a school shrink to find out what was wrong with me. Now thats a pleasant thought memory. I was hyperactive and a creative thinker, however my creativity didnt sit well with mom.
I recall a time a few years back when I actually took the time to sit and write out one specific event I had as a child. It was a very painful thing to relive the event but it was also very good to feel the pain and cry one of many thousands of tears I’ve cried over the years. Like I said I was very creative as a child. My sister and I were playing with the gunea pigs one day. I must have been in 3rd grade. Anyways I removed the slidding closet door and made a slide for the pigs. My mistake was leaving the bedroom door open. Mom peaked in and the look in her eyes told me to run. I ran and covered my head best I could while she went into a rage and beat me senseless.
It wasnt until I was a freshman in high school that I stood up to her. She tried to hit me one day and I revolted and warned her if she laid one hand on me I’d kick her you know what. From that moment on it was payback time.
She hated my friends, didnt matter who they were, so eventually I gravitated to being friends with people she could easily hate. When I was in 7th grade a new school, a mixed race school, not that that matters but the level of fear back then was quite high you see. It was a time of racial unrest. Rioting and firebombing, shall I go on? Anyways she accused me of being on drugs. I was just a kid for Gods sake, I had no idea what drugs were. Eventually I would know. I figured if I was going to be accused of something I may as well do it.
I used to think even God hated me, why else would he allow this wicked witch to do this? It was funny because the drugs made me feel something I never felt growing up, I felt happy and carefree. They also numbed my pain. It was like I was stuffing all those bad feeling so far down I would never feel that again. A part of me knew that wasnt the way.
I learned something from that experience though, actually many things, but one that comes to mind is I am adhd according to the world of shrinkology. It wasnt until I read Jan Tober and Lee Carols book Indigo children that I had finally revised my opinion of the head doctor community. Of course my son is like that too, and I encouraged him to look beyond the ignorance of the school system, not easy to do when a authority figure tells you otherwise.
In case your wondering I didnt raise my children like I was raised, I broke that cycle, but still had many scars to deal with over the years. Many things I wasnt capable of teaching my children, because I still had my own internal battle to deal with.
Anyways I could go on and on with many other details but I guess the one thing I wished for was help. Not the self help type of help either. I’ve studied that arena for 30 plus years now. Applied many of the methods too, still searching for freedom if you will for lack of a better term. But what I would love is for someone, out of the kindness of their own heart to take my hand and say look Thomas I love you, let me help you.
I have read a few times in Bill’s comments about people having traumatic experience’s during the early developmental stages in life. He also says that these experiences will control that person’s life until they take control of or rise above these triggers. In Bill’s blog today he says and I quote:
Emotions–all of them–are part of being human. The goal isn’t to stop having them. But if you are suffering an excessive amount emotionally, this is a sign that either your emotional life is unconscious (you have not successfully navigated the shift from immersion in emotions to the place where you “transcend and include” them, (or some sort of trauma happened during that developmental stage.)
This is where I am having my problems. I had a lot of trauma during the developmental stage’s of my life physically but mostly mentally, and I am having a very difficult time rising above the effects from this trauma. I feel like I am a child in and adult world and this is really starting to become a big problem in my life. All my life and it still happens to this day I feel like I am treated like a kid. I get the impression that I do not matter, that my input doesn’t matter, I feel like I am not respected. Whenever I talk about what I want to be, do, and have in My life I am told to stop dreaming and get a job. Like I can’t have what I want however everyone can have what they want.
I am 48 years old married and the marriage is not going to well never has. I think I married a mom. We have 1 child a son named Conor and he is in the middle of a few fights and even he said one day for us to get a divorce. I have no job and not interested in finding one, I have no real skills to speak of accept customer service skills. All I want to do is to stay home and do nothing. I do not know what to do. Everything I have tried to do to get ahead in my live never worked. I have tried and failed many times to start a home based business so I can be here for my son when he needs me. Every time when I have mentally realized that what I was doing was working my mind would shut me down like I am not supposed to live my life my way. Hence here I am at 48 and in my mind I have a pattern of failure and I feel like a loser with big dreams.
So I guess after all this complaining about how my life is no working how do I get it on track to get it working. How do I get myself focused, my mind focused and keep focused on the changes I need to do. How do I develop the belief within myself so I can live my life my way. How do I develop the will to keep going when I know my mind will come after me and do what it has always done, overwhelm me with shit to stop me from doing what I know I should do. I can feel it coming however I feel powerless to stop it. I need some help end this vicious cycle, I will have a very bitter and unhappy life if I can’t find a way to end this. I do not want to live like this anymore.
I have the Big Mind video, the ILP kit, and am on Holosync level 3. I think the Big Mind video is wonderful and I think it’s everything Bill says it is.
Terry
I can relate to a majority of what you just said except the part about being married. I just broke things off with a woman I was seeing for 6 years. Funny thing is I saw the red flags everywhere once I knew my heart was in it. I feel like a kid in adult world and sometimes I wonder about the adults out there. Its like they are asleep. More concerned with their own self intrests.
When I was much younger I used to know things and forever seemingly ask the question why. Not of anything in particular even though I really questioned the abuse. My first girlfriend’s mother was being abused by her husband and eventually he stabbed her to death. I got involved when he broke her arm with a baseball bat. I would have been there on the morning she was stabbed and I know I would have stepped in. Only God knows what would have happened but maybe it was divine intervention that kept me from pushing the issue the night before. I had nookie on my mind but let it go.
I guess that along with many situations like my earlier post left a bitter taste in my mouth when it came to authority figures. There was a priest who was fully aware of the situation who in my opinion failed miserably. Here I was only 18 and I wasnt afraid to get my hands dirty. I guess the reason I tell this story now is a part of me knows we are all brothers and sisters. So then I think we sure have a funny way of showing love towards our fellow beings now dont we?
I had to reply to Terry and Thomas. I won’t go into too many gory details of my childhood, but in essence, my father was an alcoholic who deserted the family of 5 when I was around 5. When his whereabouts became known 15 years later he promptly committed suicide. Meanwhile my mother had countless nervous breakdowns and the family would be split up and billeted out to whoever would have us while she was hospitalised. There was much emotional, physical and sexual abuse from the ‘caring’ families.
From the age of 12,when I was raped, I began suffering panic attacks, until they got so bad that at the age of 29, it was either seek help, or exit the planet. I sought help from Transactional Analysis therapists and that tided me over precariously until the next major crisis in my life at 47 – the death of my husband.
During my husband’s illness, I began meditating and a kundalini type experience during a session began the process of opening up my closed mind to the possibility of another reality to this painful, earthly, finite existence. 5 years later I remarried and life seemed like it was happening for me at last. Then within 21 mths he traded me in for a new model and this time I really hit rock bottom.
The best place I’ve ever been!
In the meantime, I had given up the meditation, I think I was basically scared by some of the experiences I’d had.
Just before the split I’d started working with my dreams on a dream forum on the net. I’d also dabbled in A Course in Miracles but put that in the too hard basket. I’d also been hearing about Holosynch but was put off by the advertising hype. One night I had a dream which convinced me that Bill Harris was a sincere and compassionate person and on the basis of that I started Holosynch. That was 5 years ago, and I have to say that the first 2 years were not pleasant. I had been pushing a lot down for 52 years.
I never used the support that Centrepointe offered because the dreamwork became the means through which I did the necessary therapy. 2 years after starting Holosynch, I picked up the Course again and that provided me with the spiritual and psychological framework that was perfect for me. I call Holosynch, dreamwork and ACIM my holy trinity of healing. All of them were necessary but if I had to choose just one that was beneficial above all others, it would be learning to understand my dreams. My dreams led me to the other 2.
There *is* a way out of the deep mess that you think you are in (in actual fact where you are right now is just perfect, as hard as it seems to accept that when you are in it). If you aren’t doing Holosynch yet, stop procrastinating and do everything you have to to enable yourself to do it.
I would also highly recommend paying attention to your dreams – dreams are your guru, spiritual director, psychotherapist, best friend, etc, etc. Above all else they are very entertaining. If you don’t remember your dreams at this stage – pick any life situation and treat it as a dream – because that is exactly what it is.
A note to Thomas. That person you want to help you and love you is YOU. The outer person is merely a confirmatory reflection of the way you feel about yourself.
I’ve recently learned that Native Americans have a saying, “Elan Kumankw.” It means “We are all related.”
We are all connected by the “Great Spirit” or the energy which is in every object, every person and every place. Call it “God” if you like, or call it “Big Heart/Big Mind.” It really doesn’t matter what you call it. It really doesn’t matter whether you acknowledge it or “believe in” it. It IS. And IT is us. None of us is alone in our suffering or in our pleasure, because we are all connected (in it together!)
Feelings of isolation that occur as a result of the kind of trauma Thomas and Terry experienced are totally understandable. I don’t know why humans seem hellbent on divisiveness and suffering. (I’ve recently read a theory that it has to do with the “Big Bang,”the supposed catalyst for the formation of the galaxy. All this separated-ness is actually a way of coping with the trauma of that initial shock of the “One Energy” being blasted apart and fragmented…But I digress.) Ultimately, it doesn’t actually matter. What matters is that you are here, and I am here, and we all are connected, because we are all just pieces of the same thing.
Practically speaking, Terry, what you do with your life is your choice. To work or not to work, to earn a living and support your family in a way that is comfortable to you AND to them, or not, is a choice only you can make. But it is imperative that you recognize that there are consequences for your choices, and that your choices have consequences for your family as well as for you. I was brought up with a strong work ethic, so when my (now ex-) husband chose to stay home and do nothing whenever he was layed off from his job, eventually the consequence (following bankruptcy and many heated arguments)eventually was divorce. When I made the choice to move myself and my children to my “home state” to be close to my family(my support network if you will) the consequence was that he would choose to live on the opposite side of the country and never see his children. As you can imagine, the consequences of that choice on the psyche of a now 12-year-old boy are difficult to say the least. My son has wondered for the last 6 years what is so wrong with him that his own father will not visit him, or even live in the same town as he does.
All I’m saying is, you guys are not alone. We all have our stories. We also all have our responsibilities and our choices to make regarding whether we can set aside our own goals and wishes for the needs of the ones we love. I’m certainly not living the life I thought I would, but under the circumstances, I’m doing the best I can for my children. I also know that everyhting, good or bad, happens in time. There is a saying, “This too shall pass.” And that is probably the most “truth” anyone can speak. That and “Elam Kumankw” because we are all together in this life.
Keeping you all close in spirit. Namaste.
Oh, and Terry, DO the meditation with Holosync if you can find a way. It DOES help you t o focus your mind. And you can watch the Big Heart/Big Mind stuff on Youtube. It is a really very interesting way of separating distinct aspects of your personality to see where maybe you “got stuck” growing up and maybe where you need to develop your “internal map of reality” to get yourself where you want to be.
There’s 2 good tools. Your choice whether you use them.
Responsibility.
It is all about taking responsibility.
Nothing is going to change your life, not Big Mind, not Holosync, not Bill Harris or any other person for that matter. Only you can do it. All the external influences are merely tools or mentors.
I have learned a lot from Bill Harris through his courses and through this blog. This is the most valuable information I have gotten for him. It is my responsibility to create change in my life. Only I can change my life. The way to do this is by making decisions and taking action. He can not do it for me. He can only teach me how.
I used to put all the responsibility on Holosync, Big Mind, books, mentors etc. I used to say to myself ” by the time I am at this x level of Holosync I will be fine. As if Holosync were going to make the decisions and take the actions for me.
As if no effort or pushing through uncomfort was required.
Taking responsibility for our lifes, including our feelings and emotions is the answer to our problems.
Jill I just want to say your posts show kindness and beauty of heart. I really enjoyed reading them. And Thomas and Terry, take a good look at what Jill said. I had a pretty tough time growing up and was not in a good state…Until I got into holosync. It is truly amazing, the real deal. It will help to change your life, and to have ultimately a choice about how you feel, what you do and where you go eventually. As Bill says “it worked for me, and I know it will work for you”. Never a truer word was spoken.
Peace and blessings,
David :O)
My husband and I are both on level 3 of Holosync and I has also purchased the ILP Starter kit about a year ago, but we had never listened to any of the CDs or watched any of the DVDs. Based on Bill’s recommendation, we watched the Big Mind session with Gempo Roshi. WOW! We each connected with it.
Today, while working in the yard, I summoned Big Heart. Every weed I pulled, I pulled with love. Seriously. It was amazing how much work I got done in such a short period of time and felt absolutely blissful and present the whole time. I am quite glad I watched the DVD and I’m sure I’ll watch it again.
To GLORIA,
For an incredibly trustworthy source on dreams try “Dreaming Reality: How Dreaming Keeps Us Sane, or Can Drive Us Mad” by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell (Paperback – 1 Dec 2006)
To CARLOS,
What you say is totally true. I am still “waiting” for some spark or ah ha to kick me into action. Perhaps I should trust what my heart says which is basically everything you said. I realize in listening to Bill’s LPIP lessons I’ve ‘filtered out’ the parts which would probably benefit me the most
Thanks
Here’s to taking action!
For Whooping Crone,
I have done ‘Big Mind’ with Genpo Roshi twice, once in SLC three weeks after Septmber 11, 2001 and ‘Big Mind/Big Heart’ at the Shambhala Mountain Retreat Center in Colorado in 2005.
It changed my life. I was what I call the ‘Godspace’ and know the boundarylessness, peacefulness, fearlessness and conditonless love that I am. I know that seekers will not find it until they stop seeking and just are. One of the most fun aspects of ‘Big Mind’ for me was to be able to conceive infinity. :)
‘Big Mind/Big Heart’ is realization that I already am, that I don’t have to meditate for 20 years or live in a cave or change myself. I am.
I was talking to my brother a few days ago and told him I want him to do ‘Big Mind/Big Heart’ with me soon. I am saving up to go to Shambhala Mountain Retreat Center to see what else I learn by doing it again. It’s the most elegant approach to glimpsing wholeness that I’ve encountered.
Namaste
I read through all of these posts with curiosity about ACIM. Then I happened to click onto the Oprah radio show site at Oprah.com to see that Marianne Williamson is doing shows on this topic this week. Is what she is doing the same thing you are all referring to above?
“whether Genpo and I will teach in Europe, or on the East Coast”
How about “WHEN Genpo and I will teach on the East Coast”! We’re freezing out here and missing out on all the good stuff you lucky west coasters have. Ya, make the East Coast thing happen! DC area would be great midway point….. Spike, DC
I found a testimonial from someone who has done the Big Mind process.
http://pods.zaadz.com/holosync/discussions/view/217829#227352
It is a long page so you’ll want to use your browser’s find feature (cntrl f) and use “Big Mind process” as the keyword.
The link is to a Zaadz (social networking) discussion of Holosync, and one member describes his existential angst phase and how he passed through it.
I would like to buy more CDs but you do not list this on your website. How can I find your newest CDs…your total listing. Rita Smith
FROM BILL: You have to go into the participants section of the website.