FROM BILL: You may have some qualities of levels beyond where your center of gravity is, and you always have the capacity to exibit characteristics of levels you have been through. Your center of gravity, so to speak, is going to be in one place–you have one main way of making sense of the world, and that’s where you come from most of the time.

FROM BILL: A question for our support department.

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There are a few things I would like to take issue with after reading your last missive.

Well it seems to me you are at extreme odds with the “Secret” and I can’t really reconcile your beliefs with theirs. Clearly one has to put oneself in alignment with what one wants by actually doing something….but that doesn’t mean that no “supernatural” effect or agent is at work. The speed a which one can acheive or get what they want is miraculous if one uses the right mental and spiritual tools allied to some material effort. However most people who do not employ the “secret” or anything like it, fail to get what they want and fail to achieve. This is simply a matter of fact. (only 1 in 16 bussiness survive for 5 years for example). I am afraid that the idea that hard work, training and effort alone will gaurantee success is nonsense and patently so. However it is remarkable and “magical” how things fall into place when when employs “The Secret” in our endeavour.

However what really got my goat with your latest missive is the mention of the trickster magician Randi. He is not a scientist and his “reward” for proving the paranormal is a nonsense. His conditions are severe and if he isn’t convinced totally (God himself couldn’t convince this professional debunker) he won’t pay. He sets the rules and for example his attempt to test Homeopathy was crazy. He had made a dilution that was essentially weaker than than a drop of water in the ocean and then we are told that it doesn’t work. There are limits to everything. Actually various paranormal powers have been scientifically proven both in the USA, Europe and particularly in Russia. These are repeatable experiments but unfortunately few people ever want to follow up on the science and in the West we are up against the powers that be that don’t want us to know for a fact that such powers are in existance, it reduces their power and changes quite a few political ideologies of the western world. So we have professional debunkers like Randi running around. Of course a true master wouldn’t have the sligtest interest in proving things to Randi or in his million dollars.

Quantum physics tell us demostrably that the observer cannot be seperated from the observed and there is a a tendancy for the observerd to fulfill our expectation. Now this raises a very serious scientfic problem especially regards the paranormal. If the testors are antagonistic to these subtle abilites and effects they could very well be stopping them! Dont’ believe in Quantum Physics? Best dump your Tv, Computer, Mobile phone etc then because they work off Quantum Physics Science.

Consciousness clearly interacts with matter at very subtle levels. This is demonstrable in quantum physics. This of course brings into question the nature of reality itself.

Lets look at the brain. Recently tests have been done using imaging scanners on the brains of persons receiving stimulation to cause sensations, of taste, smell and imagery etc. It was found that the subject was aware of the taste or smell etc BEFORE there was a change in the brain! This indicates that the brain is not creating the experience but responding to it. Which raises a lot of questions and answers that I won’t go into here to a great extent.

Brain waves etc do not cause the sensations etc but are responses. Brainwaves are not thoughts but responses to thoughts and other things.

Look at Holosync, you can use holosync to create various brain wave patterns associated with various moods etc. Such as feelings of compassion. However unless you are very experienced using holosync, simply changing your brain waves to those of a Bodhisattva (Buddha of Compassion) won’t fill you with feelings of compassion at all. In fact you might not get any experience whatsoever. Again this clearly indicates that the brain waves are not the cause of the experience but the result of them. If you create brainwaves of compassion using holosync then you should eventually, after practicing, experience compassion. What I believe is actually happening is, Holosync is doing more than simply causing brainwave change, it is causing a resonance, an “idea” in the deep mind that ultimately results in the experience. Think of it like this. The purpose of life is to manifest your self through your body and transform it to the Suddha Devam (immortal devic body or Christ Body of Ascension). Years of meditation transform the body including the brain, so that it can be charged with the spiritual energies of the soul. What holosync does I believe is help one to transform the brain far quicker so that higher experiences can be gained. It’s not everything that is needed but I believe it can certainly help create the conditions at least in the brain that are required.

Finally I have to take issue with the idea that good and evil are perspectives and that a higher transcendent persons sees it that way. Good and Evil are absolutes. There is no way, murder, rape, torture etc can be reqarded as “good” or even neutral, requiring only our perception to make a distinction. Those things are Evil. We are ultimately spiritual beings and Evil is not an opinion. Evil is however limited and conditional on the chaotic nature of this universe, whilst Good is absolute, unconditional and is the ultimate extinguisher of Evil. If we say, well Murder, Torture etc are only evil if we say so, then we are insane. If ever that idea takes route then we are well on the road to hell and our societies will dissemble into chaotic hellish conditions. Are we not already seeing that in some places?

I loved the last part of your final statement in this blog “–and, to more easily move yourself to the higher levels, where the real fun begins.” …key idea here is “where the real fun begins”. I love it..feels like a gentle tickle in my heart that puts a smile on my face and love in my world.

Sandy

I find I disagree with Bill on the issue of Paramhansa Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi” and whether it, including the so-called “miracles”, represents a “pre-conventional” developmental stage, which is described by Bill as “very egocentric. It’s all about me. It’s very body oriented (as opposed to mind-oriented, as in the second perspective)”.

Most of the individuals in the book who perform what scientists would call “impossible” feats do not fit into this category. If they must be put into a developmental category according to the this paradigm, they would fall into the transcendental stage.

Although science can do amazing things, at its most advanced levels there are many things it can’t explain, whether in physics, biology, and particularly in matters dealing with consciousness. To deny the possibility of human beings performing the acts of consciousness and will described in “Autobiography of a Yogi” requires scientific evidence of that impossibility, not simply that scientists haven’t observed it and documented it. Why create limits before they are necessary?

That said, I’m not taking a position on whether the described events actually did take place, only on whether it’s appropriate to deny that they are possible. The materialistic bias of current science can be as restrictive as religions have been in the past–and are now, for too many people. For someone who believes something is impossible, guess what? It is impossible.

The “Autobiography” deals with science in a logical, open-minded manner. A quote from page 266:

“This conception brings us to the law of miracles.

The masters who are able to materialize and dematerialize their bodies or any other object, and to move with the velocity of light, and to utilize the creative light-rays in bringing into instant visibility any physical manifestation, have fulfilled the necessary Einsteinian condition: their mass is infinite.

“The consciousness of a perfected yogi is effortlessly identified , not with a narrow body, but with the universal structure. Gravitation, whether the ‘force’ of Newton or the Einsteinian ‘manifestation of inertia,’ is powerless to compel a master to exhibit the property of ‘weight’ which is the distinguishing gravitational condition of all material objects. He who knows himself as omnipresent Spirit is subject no longer to the rigidities of a body in time and space. Their imprisoning ‘rings-pass-not’ have yielded to the solvent: ‘I am He.’