A response to all your comments about my last post about The Secret…
First of all, I do thank you for all your posted comments. I read them all, and I wish I had time to answer all the questions and respond to all the comments you made, but I just don’t. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to get all my other work done (and that work is designed to create more ways to help you grow). Hopefully, as I discuss development more deeply–we’ve just scratched the surface–all of this will become more clear and most of your questions will be answered.
I do answer a few of your comments below, though, so keep reading.
First, let me say that pretty much every negative or critical comment I read assumed something I didn’t say or mean, and then shot it down. There’s really no reason to defend against a criticism of something I didn’t say in the first place. I guess I have to get better at saying what I mean in a way that cannot be misunderstood. Before you rant about what I’ve posted, you might take a step back and ask yourself if I actually said what you are arguing against.
What I’m trying to say about the developmental process is really quite simple. Many, many researchers have found that people (and societies) move through developmental stages–cognitively, morally, spiritually, in terms of ego development, in terms of their values, and in many other ways. In each new stage, a person has a wider and more all-inclusive perspective, in which they see (and have conscious choice over) more than they could see or consciously choose at the previous stage. What they were immersed in before, they can see and exercise choice about from the new perspective.
In this sense, higher developmental stages are more resourceful, and they involve a greater ability to see other points of view, other perspectives. People move to a new and broader perspective, however, only when the old perspective doesn’t work. The environment changes, and to deal with it, they have to grow into a new way of thinking, acting, and seeing.
For those of you who cling to magical explanations of the world, life, and so forth, and who argue so strongly for your view–I wish you well. I don’t know what else to say. I’m not trying to get you to give up your point of view–UNLESS, of course, you’re having a hard time functioning well in the world. In that case, you might want to examine whether or not believing in magic is holding you back.
For those who assumed that by “not believing in magic” I was somehow offering a dry and lifeless view of things, where all the joy is gone from life (indicating that I’m a desperate and sour human being living in a tortured hell), all I can say is…WHAT? Are you kidding? Existence, being human, being in this universe, and all that goes with it is 1000% awe-inspiring, amazing, overwhelmingly incredible. The universe, once you get your IDEA of it–and your IDEA of who you are–out of the way, is entirely, infinitely love. And I don’t mean this metaphorically, I mean it literally, because that’s they way I experience it. I didn’t always experience it this way, but I certainly do now.
My world is one of bliss, and I invite all of you to jump in, because the water’s FINE.
And you can jump in. Keep using Holosync, and keep doing whatever else you’re doing to grow and expand your perspective. As you do, infinite love as the ground of reality will become more than just a lovely idea, I promise. You ARE infinite love, and you deserve to experience yourself as such.
Only your mind, and your ideas of who you are and what the world is, stands in the way. Stop confusing your ideas of who you are with the reality of who you are, and it happens.
In a metaphorical sense, you could say that the feeling of awe and love about being human in this universe is “magical”–if by magical you mean, ”delightful, awesome, joy-inspiring.” What I’ve been referring to, though, is something entirely different.
The kind of magic I’m down on involves thinking (or hoping) that the laws of nature can be suspended so you can have something you want but can’t figure out how to get, but without actually doing anything to generate it or deserve it. (Magical thinking with children is a bit different–it’s just a matter of not yet seeing how things work, such as thinking that the moon is following you as you ride along in a car, because that’s what it looks like to a child. They don’t know enough to realize this isn’t possible.) As someone said in their comment to me, magical thinking is all about “me” whereas post-conventional thinking (and beyond) is about “us”.
The idea that there is no such thing as something for nothing is the real meaning of the Law of Attraction–things are always balanced. You get back in equal measure, in one way or another, what you put out. Hoping to get something for nothing is a sign of magical, pre-conventional thinking.
A few of you referred to using “magic” to get parking spaces. I’ve parked my car thousands of times over the 41 years I’ve been driving. Somehow I always seem to get a parking spot. As I drive by all the other parked cars, I notice that those people also ended up with parking spots (there they are: parked). Amazing! (I think I can remember one time when I literally could not find a place to park–not because my mojo left me, but because all the spaces were full.)
So, when you’re looking for a paking spot, did all those people who already have one use magic to get it? Or were there just fewer spots than cars at that moment? And if you’re looking for a place to park (while you “put it out to the universe” that you’ll get one), do you finally find one because you used your mind to make someone’s car disappear from their spot, so you could have it? Does this seem a little bit me-oriented? Or maybe your call to the universe made someone leave their spot before they really wanted to, just so you could have it?
If this is what you think, this IS magical thinking (it’s also very self-centered thinking–should you have someone else’s spot just because you used the right magic charm?). Look, people, either there’s a spot available, or there isn’t. And, as anyone who drives can tell you, there nearly always there IS a spot, so finding one isn’t proof of magic. It’s the result of driving around until you find it.
Big sigh…
I could say something similar about “synchronicity,” the idea that it’s magic if you meet just the person you need at just the right time, or it’s magic if someone calls you just when you were thinking about them. There’s a very logical explanation for why you often meet the person you needed to meet, or why you find the resource you need, just when you need it. This happens because you had your attention focused on the need, or on finding such a person.
So, when you came across him (or her), he or she stood out like a sore thumb. If you hadn’t been looking, you’d have met the same person, but the meeting would have been unremarkable. As I said, focusing your attention on what you want alerts you to people and resources that might help you get it. This is just one example of how focusing your mind works to generate actions that lead to the result you want. Trust me, you would have run across the same people or things–you just would have overlooked them.
And when someone calls when you were thinking about them, this is a coincidence. Think of all the times you’re thinking about someone and they don’t call. You probably think of other people during the day hundreds of times, without receiving a call. Yet some of you jump on the times when someone coincidentally does call as “proof” of some sort of magical Vulcan mind-meld.
Another sigh…
If you’re counting on this type of magic to functionally get through your life, you’re not going to do too well. Look, the only reason I bring any of this up in the first place is that I get many letters from people who are madly “putting it out to the universe” and (of course) getting no results. They write to ask me why it isn’t working. These people are having trouble making money, getting a decent job, attracting friends, having a relationship that works, and so forth. It’s sad–and unnecessary–to live this way. Life does not need to be a struggle.
The real problem is that such people (for various reasons) haven’t learned the basics skills of the conventional level of development–the functional ways people use to get along in the world in the areas of job, money, social interaction, and so forth. Because they don’t know how to do these things very well, they are easy prey for the idea that magic will somehow get them what they want. But magic isn’t going to help, my friends, unless you want an occassional coincidence. What does work? Learning how to focus your mind on what you want, and then taking appropriate actions to get it–actions that create value.
Since I care about people who are stuck in this way, I just have to tell them that magic isn’t the solution.
But, as I’ve said, if you really want to give magical thinking a try, go for it.
This might be a good time to bring up another nuance on this whole subject of developmental levels and magic. Many of us see the limitations of rational thinking. This actually started with what is called The Enlightenment, which began in the 15th century. This “Age of Reason” supplanted the previous church-centered reasoning (which was, quite frankly, magical, or pre-rational, in most ways).
Here’s a good example of this type of pre-rational thinking. When it was discovered that Jupiter had seven moons (we now know that there are more than seven, but at this point only seven had been discovered), the pre-rational thought-leaders of that time responded with statements such as, “Well, of course there are seven moons. There are seven orifices in the human body, so it makes sense that Jupiter would also have seven moons.” This numerological view is a type of magical thinking, the idea being that the there is some magical reason for things to come in sevens.
This new Age of Reason began to find out many things about the world that had previously been explained by some sort of magic or otherwise assigned a pre-rational source or reason. This new rationalism was the beginning of the age of science, and this shift from pre-rational to rational was in many ways a very good thing for humanity. It brought modern technology, modern medicine, longer life-spans, better food production, and many other positive changes. The reason you have the time to read this (and that we can communicate at a distance like this), instead of having to till your fields from dawn until dark just to survive is one result of the Age of Reason.
But the Age of Reason wasn’t all moonbeams and rainbows. In suppressing pre-conventional views it also threw out the baby with the bath water. It decided that unless something could be empirically proven or seen, it didn’t exist.
Some of what couldn’t be seen was, indeed, magical nonsense, but not all. But, unless it could be backed up empirically, out it went. This meant, among other things, that the huge discoveries of Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist, Sufi, Christian, and Jewish mystics (to name just a few traditions) regarding internal states of awareness were seen as irrational fluff. This led to what some have called “Scientism”–an over-reliance on reason and empiricism.
So, today, we have a fairly large number of people who see themselves as post-rational, or post-conventional (”rational” and “conventional” are really names that refer to the same developmental level). These people see the limitations of rationality (some of these people also throw the rational baby out with the bathwater, though, just as the rational advocates threw the pre-conventional baby out with the bathwater earlier in history). Some of the limitations of rationality include, for instance, the post-rational observation that everything is situated in a cultural context, and that this context must be taken into account when looking at what seems to be empirically “real”–in other words, that all meaning is context-dependent.
Another is the realization that the internal dimension (thrown out for the most part by the rationalists), even though it cannot be seen in the same way as “the stuff out there” is still real–and valuable.
So, we have this group of people who see the limitations of rationality–they have moved to at least a post-conventional perspective (this, by the way, doesn’t mean that rationality is wrong–it means that it is partial, that it isn’t the whole story). At the same time we have a lot of people who are still at the pre-conventional stage. These people definitely don’t like rationality because it deconstructs their magical ways of looking at things. (These are the people, by the way, who are angry at me for telling you to give up believing in magic as a method of navigating the world. They love their magical perspective.)
Anyway, because both groups are anti-rational, they look similar, superficially, and are often confused with each other. This is called the pre-post fallacy, or sometimes the pre-trans fallacy. Seeing the limitations of rationality is not the same as being pre-rational, though the two at first glance look the same. When pre- and post- are confused, one of two things can happen. One possibility is that pre-rational magical thinking is elevated to some sort of “trans-rational glory” (as Ken Wilber puts it). Magic is seen as being more advanced that rationality, when it actually is not. Such people want to elevate “the ancient ways” as a solution to the problems of the world.
The other confusion is a reductionism, an explanation of actual, higher, trans-rational ways of seeing the universe as if they were all primitive magical baloney. This is the way most of science sees meditation and other trans-rational points of view. They don’t make the distinction between magical ways of seeing reality and POST-rational ways of seeing reality. One is a NO-rationality stance, while the other is a reality-PLUS stance (it sees the truths in rationality, but realizes that rationality is also limited in some ways).
The pre-/post- fallacy can be seen in social issues, too. During the Vietnam war, for instance, the rationalists (those at the conventional stage, with clear black and white thinking) were for the war. Of those who were against the war, some were looking at it from a post-conventional point of view, where certain principles about life and how countries should interact were more important than “killing those commies.” Others, though, were against the war because “nobody is going to tell me what to do” or “I’m not going to sacrifice my life to save Vietnam from Communism”–a me-centered, pre-conventional point of view (believe me, I know about this–I was one of them). Both groups were against the war, and from the outside it was difficult to tell them apart. These two groups were, though, against the war for very different reasons.
The same sort of confusion comes up with the abortion question. A pre-conventional person is okay with abortion because the only thing that’s important is their own needs. They’re interested in what they want, and the hell with anyone else (including an unborn baby)–a typical narcissistic view. The conventional person is against abortion because it takes a life, and their Truth says taking a life is wrong, and they see this as a purely black and white distinction, with no shades of gray (yes, I know that in other areas such people are fine with taking a life). The post-c0nventional person is, like the pre-conventional person, okay with abortion, but for a totally different reason: they believe that there are principles that transcend those cited by the conventional people. They aren’t, however, pro-abortion for selfish “me” reasons. Yet the two pro-abortion groups look, superficially, the same.
This pre-post fallacy will come up again as we delve more deeply into this treasure-trove of information about development and what it means to each of us.
Okay, on to something else:
A few people critcized me for “benefiting from” The Secret, yet being critical of it, as if this was a moral lapse on my part. In this way of thinking, if I was an actor in a bad movie, I should not give my honest opinion about it because I was paid to act in it. Of course, in this case, I wasn’t paid. We also aren’t selling copies of The Secret, so we aren’t benefiting in that way, either. And The Masters of the Secret course I created is FREE–and was designed to clarify and correct what I see as the deficiencies in the point of view expressed in The Secret, so you can benefit more.
My obligation is to you–to tell you the truth as I see it, and to teach you what I know about growing–emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I’m coming from an integral view, not a pre-conventional (selfish) view. Yes, more people came to Centerpointe because they heard about me in The Secret. We did “benefit” from that, though the real point is that the people who came to us benefited, as many of you have said in your posted comments.
Quite frankly (and some of you won’t believe this, because you don’t know what it’s like to be in my position), I really don’t care if I benefited. I have far, far more of everything than I’ll ever need and I don’t do things any more for whatever I might get–any more than you think all of the time about whether you’ll eat today or have a warm place to sleep tonight. Abraham Maslow (another developmental theorist) showed that once a need is met (his developmental work was about needs, hence the name “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”) you don’t really think about it anymore. I don’t need money, or anything else, so I think about serving. I serve as best I can, and what comes back to me, personally, takes care of itself.
And whether or not I benefited, I can’t help anyone if I’m not going to tell the truth, so I do.
If I were to do things that weren’t good for you in order to benefit myself, that would be an example of preconventional narcissism, an egocentric level of development. I’m not at such a level, and therefore don’t operate that way. Second, operating that way doesn’t create success. As I’ve been saying, pre-conventional methods don’t work very well in the world, so it would be stupid to operate that way, though many people do.
One of the main reasons for the success Centerpointe has enjoyed is that, first and foremost, I’m interested in how I can serve your needs. I learned long ago that my needs are automatically taken care of if I meet yours, so there’s no need for me to worry about that, or to operate without integrity, or to act in any sort of win-lose way.
So, yes, I was in The Secret. I don’t agree with some of what was said in it and some of what was omitted. So, whether or not I benefited in some way, I still have to be honest about what I think–which I do mainly for YOU. If I lied and said that everything in The Secret was great, then those who are struggling, and who need to know that you can’t just wait for the Wish Fairy to give you what you want, are harmed. If I remained silent and allowed that to happen, would that be a good thing?
Enough of that. Hopefully I’m not just wasting my breath (or the tips of my fingers, I guess). The point is that I care about all of you, and hope that in some small way what I share is helpful in making your life better.
Within the next several days, I hope to write something about cognitive development, based on the work of the great developmental theorist Jean Piaget. I think you’ll find it to be very interesting. Then perhaps we’ll go into moral development (based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg), and then ego development (based on the work of Robert Kegan, Jane Lovinger, and Susanne Cook-Greuter), and then, who knows? As we look into these different lines of development, many things will become clear. This is a fascinating topic, so stay tuned.
Be well.
Hi Bill. I can appreciate your perspective, but what about the very process of creation? I’m thinking about the experiment which James Ray references in your Masters recordings as well as Gregg Braden, where DNA is placed inside a near vacuum and the photons (light) are observed to fall into the same pattern as the DNA. Essentially showing us the very basis of how consciousness creates.
If we are out there looking for that prime parking spot, are we not creating that spot? Who is to say if that when are intently focusing our consciousness it is taking away something from someone who isn’t doing the same?
Is there really only so much “stuff” out there to be created that we are taking away from someone else?
You may not have time to answer this, but for my own sake I needed to type this out.
Peace,
JD
Hi Bill,
I feel its time for a glowing testimonial. After nearly 3 years of using holosync (just finished AL4) I feel I now qualify.
Here’s my story. I am a 26 yr old male virgin with a rubbish job, still living at home going nowhere. I have poor/ non-existent relationships to other men and no hope of finding a girl since the mere thought of approach paralyzes me with anxiety. Needless to say I have been depressed, have been no fun to be around and at some points even suicidal.
All this until very recently. You see I’m not writing this to primarily tell Bill how great he is (I know he’s well past needing that!) I’m writing to YOU. The person who cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel. The person who wants to change but thinks they never could. The person who knows he/she is capable of so much more. The person who hates themselves and is desperate. The person who is identical, at their core, to myself.
If you have found Centerpointe then I believe you are one of the LUCKIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH!
And I’ll tell you why.
Here’s just a few ways I am different now. (You may or may not be able to relate to them.)
I can now approach almost ANYONE with effortless ease and confidence. I can FEEL their heart, if I so choose, and I know exactly what to say and how to say it in order to create a warm connection. I do not NEED to be like this with everyone since my need for approval and acceptance has almost vanished. I know that if I want to I can give someone my gift of energy, presence, support , warmth or banter and they can take it or leave it. (They rarely leave it) I feel less alienated and separate from people, regardless of age, race or anything else. I feel less compelled to shut myself away and withdraw and more interested in how I can connect to others and relax with whatever happens. If people hate me then so be it – I’ll go be with someone else. I realise my self-worth is something I can choose as opposed to having it dictated to me from ‘outside’ of myself.
If you feel into your deep heart right now YOU want nothing less either. The truth is we live in a culture that is anti-postive, especially here in the UK. We all avoid each other to an extent and if we have to engage each other it’s usually to moan about something. This is the bottom end of the spectrum of course and we are all happy in moments, some people more than others it seems, but on the whole I believe we suffer. Holosync use over time helps you to FEEL SAFE to be, do and have anything you want. You become more like that charasmatic outgoing / quietly confident type that we all wish we were like. The truth is that you are already that person and you know it! You’ve seen that person fleetingly appear from within only to disappear again behind the safety barrier. The trouble is that there is this invisible rope inside your head that pulls you back. Holosync melts this rope!
I believe my main problem is/was that I have surpressed my true masculine core. I believe there are millions of men who are the same. You know the type, all smilely and friendly but deep down just wanna cut thru the BS and get the job done and do what he wants and be happy. Not in an obnoxious, anti-social way but rather an assertive, self-assured way. There is a good chance you are this kind of man.
Without rambling on too much here is my plea to you. Get started with this program or, if you have, never give up. I can tell you I’m not even half way thru yet and I am starting to feel like I can focus my mind on whatever I want and get it. The sooner you start, the sooner the dream can slowly unfold into a reality.
And finally to you Bill, I dont think there is a way I can express in words how you have saved my life…so I won’t even try.
Be Well
Chris, 26, SW England
Hi Bill,
I rather enjoyed your responder’s response on “magical thinking,” The Secret, levels of development and other responder’s comments. I am particularly glad that you used the word “bliss” when describing a frame of reference of high development. It is quite difficult (er, at least I have found it so) to describe the great state of bliss and gratitude that one can experience–perhaps you can discuss this more in future blog entries. For now, I wanted to pitch a cent or two in on “The Secret.”
I am amused that The Secret has earned so much attention. People have such short memories. Good ideas never die–they just seem to get repackaged and sold to a new audience as shorter and shorter sound bites. (Think of flea markets.) Since you, Bill, and others have mentioned books, perhaps it would be beneficial for folks to read some of the classics that gave rise to The Secret. This is especially true if they found the subject matter of “The Secret” helpful or inspirational.
Consider a few titles from my personal library…such as Claude M. Bristol’s “The Magic of Believing” published in 1948. This is in my mind one of the classic works on the subject matter of The Secret. Before Bristol’s book however, Emmet Fox wrote a book that greatly influenced Norman Vincent Peal and his “Power of Positive Thinking” movement entitled “Power Through Constructive Thinking.” Fox’s book was first published in 1932. Others have mentioned the “Secret of the Ages” and “The Book of Life” multi-volume series by Robert Collier published around 1925. I have some works on the subject matter of The Secret that have publication dates in the 1890s. I see that Mr. Al, that mentioned “The Science of Getting Rich” is also a collector of these old classics as well.
I have no doubt that The Secret subject matter can be found in some of the writings about Plato and Socrates as well. (Well, possibly not but it would not shock me) My point of course, is that “The Secret” is not new and that successful people have shared the Law of Attraction for years. It is a basic life principle worthy of sharing. I do agree that we should probably lose the mystical language and “all about me” mentality promoted by “The Secret” in particular.
I am so glad that Dr. Vetter mentioned Napoleon Hill’s classic “Think and Grow Rich” which alluded to The Secret. I want to mention my favorite–Earl Nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret” that explicitly expounded on the secret and won Earl a gold record. I laughed in agreement at Dr. Vetter’s statement, “Watching the movie ‘The Secret’ is like looking for the original and seeing a very close counterfeit.” I am not sure, given how far my own personal library goes back, that it would be possible to locate the first explicit published referenced to the subject matter of “The Secret.” I am confident that many many published works both predate and far exceed the treatment provided in “The Secret,” because I own a few of those that do. Your readers that enjoyed “The Secret” should expend a little effort (action as you have phrased it) and see if they can attract some of the original works on the Law of Attraction.
Another responder, sygun, mentioned the book, “The Urantia Book.” Given your previous posts and the work that Centerpointe does, I found the mention of Urantia surprising. For folks with similar leanings, might I suggest a book to add to your personal reading list entitled “The Guru Papers.” Many have found this study on how beliefs can be manipulated and coerced very helpful in deriving independent beliefs of their own.
Bill, I enjoy your Blog and the posts others add. I hope that as the blog evolves we can move beyond “The Secret” and its NYTimes mass appeal and get back to your core principles.
Sunflower Secrets Anyone?
Last winter I went to the Ukraine and enountered a woman standing outside a subway station in Kharkov selling small bags of sunflower seeds for about $.25. I walked past her on my way to get some snacks to take back to my hotel room.
On my way back she was still standing there in the wet mud and it was about 10 degrees celsius outside. As I watched her she stood motionless as droves of people walked past her just as I did. I could tell from her breath that she was very cold because when she exhaled you could see her breath breaking up as she shivered.
As I read these posts and contemplate Bill’s comments it occurs to me that so many of us have the luxury of focusing our energy into such trivial things about what it means to use “magic”, or rational and unrational thinking to get what we want.
All that elderly woman standing in the cold wanted was a few cents for some sunflower seeds that she obviously repackaged in generic Ukrainian saran wrap so that she could make her store bought bag of sunflower seeds go a long way to make her $1.00 for the night.
When I approached her on my way back I kept thinking of my mother and father who came to America from Greece so that they could have a better life since they grew up in poverty.
When I reached her, I tried to communicate with her and wanted to give her a $5.00 bill in US currency. When I did this she immediately scrambled to pull out as much of the sunflower seeds she could to gve me my $5.00 worth of sunflower seeds out of her now soggy wet paper sack that she probably had saved for months now and used over and over.
You want to talk about the law of attraction and magic and all this nonsense about pre or post rational thinking or what have you?
This woman insisted that I take the sunflower seeds when I kept trying to tell her it was ok and to take the money, but her pride would not allow me to leave empty handed.
So I walked back to my hotel room munching on the best tasting sunflower seeds I ever had in my life. I also dropped a few on the ground asking the universe to provide for this elderly woman standing in the snow that cold Ukrainian night. (I threw a little bit of magic in for good measure.)
I wonder if any of those sunflower seeds began to sprout when spring came. I guess I’ll never know because I don’t intend on going back there.
All I know is that woman gave me more that night than all the wishful thinking has ever brought to me out of mere circumstance, or focused intention or whatever.
When one is faced with survival, all of these trivial thought patterns become secondary to what it means to be alive.
It’s when we are truly faced with survival, that heightened states of consciousness motivate us to aquire what we need. What we want is secondary.
Yes, it’s true that my perception of these comments is a reflection of my own map of reality.
I wonder how much thought that woman is giving to what her map of reality is right now.
Let us for a brief moment give appreciation to all that we have and all that we have to give.
And if you ever come across someone who is willing to stand in the freezing cold to over-deliver on sunflower seeds, please don’t mention anything about the secret.
Sincerely,
Ilias Glenis – Dedicated Holosync User
Hi bill,
A mighty huge thanks from me too. Referring to David Fuchs’s short and sweet response. That is all that is needed to say. I too can just show gratitude and give thanks for all that you have and are doing for us.
To David, would like to contact you, I live in Abtwil, St. Gallen. Would appreciate it if you could contact me.
Bill: Well done. It takes focus, not magic, to cause the brain to reawaken to who ‘you’/ ‘I’ are/am.
Not magic. Years ago (15?) I read The Life We Are Given, by George Leonard and Michael Murphy. My understanding is that Ken Wilbur developed his programs– re: ITP-Integrated Transformative Practice– as a result of this work–or maybe vice versa. Not the point.
The point is: you’re system and support work.
It is my hope for each of the peole posting their upsets hear your response.
Thanks!
Carol
Hi Bill.
Overall, I applaud your blog and the points you make, for instance about parking spots, that one was priceless.
I´m a successful recording artist myself and I know it didn´t come through wishful thinking and magic. It came through playing a ton of gigs without getting paid while still enjoying every second of it, sitting home alone writing songs when my buddies where out partying (I still write good party songs though based on their stories haha) and spending 2 hours a day practicing my vocal performance. What kept me going all those years before I made it, well the answer is simple and I´ve realized it afterwards as I´ve studied the subject extensively, I kept my focus on what I wanted and refused to quit.
There is one thing I would like to point out. To me there still seems to be something more out there that modern science of today cannot explain fully, maybe it is attraction and vibration, God, I don´t know. However, all to many times we as a society seem to get so caught up in our own time, thinking we know it all while in fact we know so little. I mean, 50 years ago all the experts told us we can´t run a 4-minute-mile. Roger Bannister proved the experts wrong, and a brief look through the history books shows us that this keeps occuring again and again and I believe (yes I used the b-word
) this will continue to occur in the future.
What matters though is what works, what doesn´t, and I fully believe that what you teach is the way that works put into a practical formula. And that is what really matters at the end of the day, did it produce the desired results or not. If it did, great, keep doing it and perfect it. If it didn´t, see it as a lesson not to do so again and try anther approach.
Have a great weekend guys.
Whew! Thank you for taking the responsibility away from me – of willing a good parking spot. I just could not figure out what I was doing wrong. I was really beating myself up about it… Ha.
Really, though, thanks for your genius. My child-like side wanted to believe in the magic, but my true self just wasn’t quite buying it. This makes for a big conflict in the mind. Each side trying to prove it’s point. Now I can feel good about happy coincidences – without reading too much into them.
Clear all those “magic” cobwebs – and I become a logical person who can pat my child-like side on the head and keep moving forward with action. Action really is the key, isn’t it? (The worst thing to do is nothing.)
I really am amazed at your ability to explain things with absolute confidence and without creating the aforementioned conflict in my brain (i.e. “I want to believe this, but something tells me…”). You are a true leader in all this muck. And Holosync is a true saviour. And, no, I was not paid to say that!
By the nature of what Bill is teaching, many are going to be “attracted” who are not in the best place in their lives, but who are striving to learn and change. The discussion is very healthy and is part of the process of discovering our own truths to live our lives by. We have a saying in Alcoholics Anonymous: “It’s not Well-People’s Anonymous.” There is going to be some drama as people heal. Thanks for your leadership Bill.
Ellen
Hi Bill,
Thank you for your sincerity & holding to the spiritual principal that we benefit when we help others without expecting anything in return. I believe that I will always be fed but I have to dig the potatoes, so to speak. I enjoy your blog and gain a lot of insight. You have a wonderful way of communicating. I realize that resistance sometimes helps me grow more so than just blindly accepting everything I hear or “see” that’s why I have a brain.
Blessings,
Maggie
Thanks Anthony & Bob Covert for your comments.
Oh my Holosync Experience! Have none of the people listened to anything you said in your follow up letters about letting what ever happens happen. Do not try to pick it apart, looking for the reason or rhyme of it. Just be quite and become the witness, the observer. You would think people would be so glad to have things just flow, just because. I think with our society of quick fixes and so on that instant gratitude is somthing that will soon be a thing of the past. It is becomming that for me. I stood before the judge and he ask. Did you shoot that man in self defence? No I replied. I shot him in the ass and he jumped the fence. I am not well learned, but I am one of thoes people that Wilber talks about the less than 1% If they keep listening and being quite in it they will get sooner or later and I got my PHD at Home Depot on isle 15 (post hole digger). Happy Holidays Bill Harris. I love you.
Dear Bill: Wow! This magic sounds like much drama coming in. I have completed the first level. Just a baby and yet I have been initiated into meditation in 2002 by an Indian Master. Yes I have had many profound experiences with this being, but with Holosync I have dropped things that I don’t need so fast. I am looking forward to the next level. Thank you so much.
With gratitude
L.C.
Since I read your original blog about The Secret, I can’t get my mind off of it. I also read your response to the criticism’s you have received, and I have the following to offer:
You have really hit a nerve with people and it is my opinion that they are bothered for two reasons:
1. People want hope in times when things seem uncertain and desperate. The Secret’s popularity exploded because it came at a time when people needed it. Now that people have implemented it and it hasn’t worked for most, they have a hard time accepting it. It is like their hope has been taken from them. What many still don’t realize is that they just need to educate themselves more deeply about this concept and that it is based on action, not hope.
2. This comment is listed in your “about us” section on your website, centerpointe.com. “With Holosync, anyone can learn The Secret to creating whatever they want in life.” 2. The same section refers you as “Teacher of the Secret”. You then go on to write on your blog “Magic, Magic, and more Magic”, “Quite frankly (and some of you won’t believe this, because you don’t know what it’s like to be in my position), I really don’t care if I benefited.” Why would you use a tool that you criticize to promote your products? This seems hypocritical to many people. In fact, I purchased the Holosync CD’s because I was brought to your website through “The Secret”. The real question here is your methods, not your motivation.
You seem to be a man of integrity and high moral character who is firmly grounded in reality and works to serve the greater good, so this appears to be hypocritical to some people.
Another thing that I am curious about: I have followed The Secret from the beginning (since it was on Oprah) and I have watched the response from a lot of the teachers (Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, John Assaraf, etc.) and there seems to be some angst about the way the movie was produced and edited, as if it misrepresented their opinions and/or didn’t include all of the relevant and important information that they relayed. Is this true?
Nonetheless, thank you for creating the Holosync products. They have transitioned my life for the better.
Hi Bill,
Regarding the secret. To me it is very simple. If you find somebody involved in fraud and conning you must react even if your guru is involved. Because you expect him/her to have integrity.
Love Ole
Hi Bill
I have to admit that your personality is colder and more direct than mine and at times that has not felt good to me.
You would never have enough time to get done the important things you have done with all the “nice, happy fluff” that I and lots of others feel we need in our lives. It shows you’re getting it done and I am not, period. It takes time to be nice, happy and fluffy
I am grateful for “The Secret” because it has lead me to your work and dream at Centerpoint. I have purchased “The Secret” for special people stuck in their existing lives. Amazing things have happened not from magic but from being able to have “hope” again which in turn has lead them to use action to attract different results. That, to me, is magical. Makes me smile and warms my heart when this kind of “magic” starts the awakening process. For a short period of time millions of people got excited and some actually started to act. Thank you for being part of this “magic” otherwise I may never have been exposed to your life long work.
Bill, thanks for this blog, and for clarifying…. I’ve been (or rather, was) a fan of Ken Wilber’s for a long time. (Probably discovered him before you – I read all his early books). However, I moved on from him some time ago. I find his writing overly wordy and complex. Simplicity. Life is a mystery – it’s meant to be. We cannot contain, constrain, explain or try to understand it. It just is. For my five cents worth, I’d like to pass on a few words of wisdom from some truth seekers I resonate with. Oh, before I do – Anthony – thank you for your thoughts – We are definitely on the same wave. Beautifully written also. This is from Gregory Szanto’s book ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Earth’: “The scientist says that reality exists only in the material realm. The spiritual world is not real. Either it does not exist at all, or it exists only in the imagination, which amounts to the same thing. The mystic takes the opposite view, it is the physical world which is unreal. It is maya, illusion (David Icke, brilliant, read his book ‘Only love is Real, Everthing Else is an Illusion’ – agrees)..The real worl is that of the spirit. We are not our bodies, not even our minds. We can get away from our bodies and away from our concrete, conscioius minds by practising meditation (holosync!) Then we experience true reality by reaching our spiritual level. The magician encompasses both levels. His model contains both body and spirit as integral parts of one realty……….There is only the manifest and the unmanifest. Physical reality is not created out of nothing. It is contained in what we call nothing……..To devalue the power of the mind is to refuse to face reality. Anything that exists on the material level began its life on the mental plane (the Secret. No secret really.) The occultist and the scientist both use the mind in different ways. The scientist through the consciious faculties and the occultist through the unconscious. But scientists are gradually becoming more aware of the deeper levels of reality……The magician sees the universe as a multitude of lines, criss-crossing each toher, forming a vast pattern, like a gigantic spider’s web. The four levels, the spiritual, creative, formative and material co-exist on these lines and the magician transposes one to another.”
Gregory Szanto, byw, was a barrister who gave up law to become an astrologer. He’s brilliant. His writing leaves (sorry Ken) people like KW in the shade. Why? Because he feels the mystery, the magic, of life…and he intertwines this with a superior aptitude for synthesising and intellectual prowess…
Hope he wont mind that I shared some of his brilliance.
Thank you Bill for providing this forum and for the work of Holosync – which I am still not 100% pro pro about…. jury still out, so to speak. Perhaps it will always be that way – as holosync, for all its ’scientific’ background, touches the mystery……
Thanks for reading everyone
…..At the risk of taking up more than my fair share of space, can I (please) just add one more thing (and sorry about the proofing of my last piece… type too fast)… This was written in the 70’s – from Osho: “To be in a state of not knowing is intelligence, it is awareness – and it is noncumulative…..Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know – and that knowing will come out of your experiencing. That knowing will never destroy the mystery: the more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.”
Life is lived on the visible, but created on the invisible. The invisible is what some call ‘magic’. Bill, I have to agree about the parking space thing – I think we are really being a little childish here. The world is not going to miraculously conform to our expectation of it (as you have, far more eloquently explained). BUT – there is magic, serendipity, synchronicity, coincidence…. They live in the dimension of the invisible (out of which the visible is born). We get glimpses of the invisible, in these moments….. I can’t subscribe to the belief that ‘there is no such thing as coincidence’. Yes, as you say, focusing, the power of intention, desire, has an attracting power – it aligns us with supportive people and situations. And we probably DO meet the right person when we are in a state of ‘readiness’. However, the ‘decision’ as to WHO is right for us, and why, and in fact, WHEN(because everything is about timing, the person who is ‘right’ for us at 24, is not going to be the same type of person who is right for us at 44) – this is something that belongs to the realms of the mystery…. (I’ve written a book about this – you can check it out at http://www.lifemaps.co.nz) . It’s magic, in other words. I love your conclusion Bill – the universe is entirely infinitely love. We loop around (through the maze of words) and come together in the end! Thanks guys.
Thanks, Bill, for applying developmental theory to religious conceptual processes. It adds a layer of clarity to my focus on the topic of at a time when I was looking for some more depth.
You brought into discussion the example of abortion in the context of developmental theory, and used Carol Gilligan’s model. I am guessing there will be quite a stir about this inclusion, and would like to suggest you refer folks to Gilligan’s studies on abortion and her other writings. I think people are looking for more ways to consider abortion, and your post-rational example didn’t go into any depth. It is complicated, and Gilligan does offer some non-judgmental examples that differentiate preconventional narcissism from a more holistic and relative perspective about what a woman sees as her best interest.
Bill Thanks for clarifying and I agree. I also understand (now) why you so vehemently oppose “magical” thinking. Yet I am a believer – in magic no less!
Let it be known that once you take responsibility to for your own destiny i.e. your mind and change even one thought a day, life becomes magical and you the magician, the creator of your own life.
Ditto for the day you become grateful rather than habitually disgruntled.
The realm where everything really starts to make sense is the space of nonsense.
I call it magic. But let’s not argue semantics.
From Jed’s response 11/15/07
“Curiously, the more I know, the more incredibly “magical” the universe becomes. The fun part is there doesn’t seem to be any end point; the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
I could not agree more! Well put, Jed!
I think Bill totally misunderstands the Sedona Method. The Sedona method DOES teach that you can “get stuff” by releasing. They even sell a course called “effortless creation.”
To prove my point, here is a quotation from Lester Levenson, author of the Sedona method:
“When we know that we have everything and therefore need nothing, then everything comes to us for the mere effortless thought of it.”
Could this be any clearer?
Hello Bill and Friends,
I consider someone to be at the magical stage who believes that they are manipulating the universe, God, or the gods, with special powers that they have. At this stage one believes that their ego is making things happen. But what about someone who believes that the Divine Other is acting in their life through other people and circumstances that they may have been asking for or seeking? I believe that openness, communication, and prayer works in two ways. The first way, as you have described is in focusing the mind on how to get what one wants. I also believe that something else is happening (you might consider this magical thinking) and that is that the Divine Spirit works in our lives, meets us halfway if you will, communicates back to us, gives us things that we couldn’t have imagined possible and is not limited to the Laws of the Physical Universe as we are.
Sometimes people or circumstances will come into our lives in spite of our focus or in spite of the fact that we are running away from ourselves. The Source will reach out to us even when we are determined to hide. Other times people or circumstances come into our lives as a result of our working together in harmony with this divine source. The Source, as any good parent, does not just let her children make a list of demands and then grant those wishes. To get something you must give, you must work, and you must have the right mindset. But I do not believe that the Laws of the Physical Universe are any limitation to the ways in which the Divine can work in our lives.
It seems to be ego-centric to say that all of our experiences are created by our own minds and our programming and to deny that we are in a dance with a mysterious Other that is the source of our true self and true home.
Darling Brother Bill,
Thank you for giving me some really succinct and easily communicated answers for me to share with my hand-clapping-while-chanting-”I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies”-friends. I love them dearly but they are so easily discouraged when Tinkerbell doesn’t show up. I am printing this set of pages for them to read. I know it will either help them or be used to fill a wastebasket. We do what we can, right? In the past, I couldn’t hear what I needed to hear until I was ready to hear it. It is still that way as I grow. You are the biggest and most powerful facilitator in the happy progess of my evolution/growth/enlightenment. I just started Purification Level 2. One of these days I will write a chapter for your new book with all of the pertinant details.
“What the Bleep Do We Know” and “The Secret” are DVDs that are helpful tools but NOT some new-age Holy Writings that are infallible and to be held as infallible and “sacred”. I recommend them to folks who are searching for answers and if they watch them and want to talk about those messages then I tell them about Holosync because I know they are seriously looking for a way to grow. I think there are many ways to get folks to ‘come to the party’. Neale Donald Walsh teaches the same thing about organized religion that George Carlin does but George is vastly more profane (and funny, to me) about it. Many teachers with different styles for all of the students on this planet.
Have you seen the movie http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ ? I just saw the first 10 minutes. Really intense.
Thank you for your help and lots of Love on you, Nolene
You rock Bill ! People are too critical. Keep speaking (or typing) your truths! There are those of us who love what you have to say, the products you offer, and are happily gaining knowledge, clarity and understanding of our own life because of you and others like you. I for one say THANK YOU !
Reliance on “magic” results from wanting things without putting in effort, and I’m glad you’ve made this clear. Heavy reading here, but I’m very grateful for the clarity it offers – so at the highest level, life is about service?
I agree. Using magic to get a good parking spot is a very materialistic thing. The other issue at stake here is; what’s wrong with walking a little ways? It’s good exercise and we could all use some of that!
This is a great blog. Very entertaining! I’ve never visited a blog where the comments are almost as long as the post. Keep up the good work of challenging people’s thoughts. good exercise for them, I say.
I have to say, Bill, I sense you aren’t completely free of the magical belief aspect yourself. You believe in the spiritual side of life, and that by giving, you will receive. Life IS magical, and the unexplainable IS part of everyday life. But I agree, action is necessary. Desire and imagination is part of the journey, but when action becomes part of the equation, dreams can become reality.
Some of us seem to be incredibly lucky, while others struggle on, even though they try their damndest to succeed. I have no answer for this. There is so much pain in the world, it’s hard to understand why and how, but I have a theory.
A few of us seem to be more evolved than the masses spiritually. It’s one thing to believe, but knowing is something else. Knowing comes from personal experience, though some people are born feeling this oneness with the Universe. You can try to help others understand this incredible gift, enlightenment, as Jesus and the other great teachers did, but unless they have the experience themselves, all they can do is believe, and belief is not enough to take you there.
Bill, I put my website up after watching “The Secret”. Watching the DVD galvanised me into action. It gave me the courage to come out of the closet, so to speak, and tell others of my own experiences, in the hope the telling would lift and inspire others.
Did I make any money? Nope. I’m poverty-stricken and I really mean that. Sometimes I have to choose between buying flour or eggs. I’m poorer now than before I watched “The Secret”.
Yet I have this incredible luck in other areas of my life. When I focus on and ask for something, it often happens. Yet money evades me completely. Yes, I do have an attitude towards it.
Here’s the thing, Bill. I’ve had dreams that came true. Yes really! Read the e-book “A State of Bliss”. Too many crazy unexplainable paranormal things have happened to me in my 59 years. Quantum physics has unwittingly given me an explanation on how those things are possible. Walk a mile in my shoes, Bill, before you dismiss me as a looney.
Back to the masses. One person cannot change the world, but they can influence it. If people can use the power of thought to attract what they want, and if we attracted everything bad that happens in our lives, what causes the innocents to suffer? Children dying of cancer… aids? Who generated the bad thoughts that create mass destruction? Earthquakes… Tsnamis? Are we, the masses responsible? A kind of group effort, hell bent on chaos? I think not.
One last thing… if positive, excited thought was enough to get you what you want, how come gamblers lose?
Hi Bill,
I agree with Keven Wallingford’s post. I have read your writing over and over and the more I read them the more confused I get as to where you stand, until now that is. You appear to me to a be a “mechanist”, you appear to view the world from an atheistic viewpoint. I hope I am wrong.
Let me tell you about synchronicity. It happens so much that it cannot be chance. Let me tell you about meeting people, friends I haven’t seen in years and with whom I have lost contact with. This is what I do. I think about them, I think about meeting them in a certain place or I think about them contacting me through an address I have always had contact with. Then I either go to the pre-determined place at a pre-determined time and voila! Friend appears. (EVEN IF I KNOW THEY HAVE LEFT TOWN SOME TIME AGO). Coincidence? Bill you appear not to have the faintest clue about how this universe actually works or even what it is. I am not being offensive but this is what is coming across.
Reducing what you are saying to the bare essentials, removes the need for holosync altogether. Ie, simply focus and apply yourself to what you want. Well that’s fine but as I pointed out in an earlier missive, for most people that doesn’t work any more than simply “wishing” for something.
You can show that the brain becomes balanced using holosync and that may have some benefits, however I think it depends on the pilot as much as the plane being built. I expressed in a previous missive how we fill any new biological capacity by “growing” into it. However this takes practice, time and an act of will. What worries me is that you have meditated for years useing holosync, almost certainly have a balanced brain, although you talk like you are almost totally left brain dominated but haven’t had one paranormal or psychic experience. I have been having paranormal and psychic experiences since I was a small child…….without meditating. (As a child). What is important though is that visionary, psychic and paranormal experiences are sign posts along the way of meditation to show you are making progress. It appears that you have missed that bit altogether. In itself that doesn’t really matter, so long as the real aim is achieved. But if your real aim is simply to operate better in this world and experience some sort of sense of oneness, unity or love then ultimately its a waste of time. These things only really matter IF you have a true spiritual perspective and aim and by spiritual I mean supernatural. God etc.
So I am left wondering A) Am I right, are you an atheist. B) What the real point to holosync is if it doesn’t truely mimic meditation. You see there is a difference in developing the brain by traditional meditation. It requires conscious effort and involvement. So you are building your “inner muscles” whilst doing it and opening channels and doors to other worlds of being. With Holosync I believe you can do the same faster but only if you attempt to pilot the brain being built in the the right way.
Final word re human knowledge and why science can never really be trusted when it comes to explaining life or reality.
FACT> We have limited senses. We cannot sense the whole nature of reality, not even with the best equipment.
FACT> Our brains filter out information, deemed not to be crucial to operating in this 3d world.
FACT> Our brains are limited, our intelligence is limited, our understanding is limited. We are seeing the world with limited senses, filtered information and then using our meagre intellects trying to make sense of it.
FACT> We have another problem. We cheat. We apply knowledge filters. The worst culprits for this are scientists. Whenever they find anything that disagrees with their idea or world view, they simply ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist. The world is full of these clowns.
I wish you well.
Allan
Me again Bill,
Allen Moore has a point. You do come across as being somewhat blinkered about the supernatural or paranormal. Spirituality, God, synchronicity and pyschic phenomena are all bundled in there together. It’s all part of the same deal. Anyone who believes in God or their spiritual selves usually also believes praying can influence events to some degree.
What is prayer? Emotional thought directed at a power larger than ourselves. How does prayer work? It’s a communication between the energy within our photons and the energy within the photons of the Universe. The ‘power of thought’ is just another term for ‘prayer’. More upmarket, trendy.
Do we have total control of our lives? No, of course not. We can’t make the sun shine. We don’t control our Earth or the Universe. We could feed the starving millions, but the rich usually only make token gestures of generousity. Governments also only make token gestures. We are human, imperfect and selfish. Every last one of us. Partners in crime. So much we could do to uplift the world. We could “Pay It Forward”. But how many of us do?
I have noticed the effect giving has in my own life. Yes I am poor, but I always have enough. Almost immediately, within days, after I have given unconditionally of myself or possessions, I am given help or things I need are given to me. Not just the odd thing I could write off as coincidence, either. More like a pouring than a trickle. Synchronicity.
Breathe in – Breathe out. Give and ye shall receive.
Another thing. I seem to have a built in radar detector. I can find people’s lost items. I can feel things. I have the same uncanny synchronicity with people that Allen has. I decide on a course of action and a string of related opportunities will present themselves. Way beyond confidence and action. One time I wanted to find out more about a certain subject I had no knowledge of. Within 3 days, without any action on my part, a string of related coincidences pushed the information at me from 5 difference sources.
Sometimes we have to accept we are being helped by forces beyond our control.
bill is right
the secret has an excelent point about the power of the mind and attention importance of directing it – on the other hand it was made/edited to keep (some) people dependant for marketing purposes
now
“i would rather succees with “no explanation” than fail with tom of books written – explaining it
success does not reuire explanations”
this is my personal motto – made and constructed by me
one have to be carefull of getting into too much explanations and justifications – has to be “cruel in recognising the facts in each relalm”
please notice: – really successful people rarely explain their successes and write tones of books about them. on the other hand loosers explain their failures in very noble terms – official literature and popular culture are ful of them
we are thoght wrong in popular culture and scociety what is “noble”
run away from “friends” who justify your shortcomings and surround itself with people observing the reality and improving it by doing what it to be done in this world to achieve success in this world.
“god will pay” one for good thoughts and intentions – for paper money you have to do some other work more appropriate to this world
it is not realistic to exchange goods between diferent worlds as presented in secret – how ever thoughts – actions cold be coordinated and this is the way thought or spiritual world will do magic in materiall world.
Hi Bill
I was one of those people who found Centerpoint and Holosync through The Secret…I am up to Awakening Level 2…it has changed my life and my ability to cope in this life… I have not missed a day since starting..its fantastic …thank you thank you thank you
Karyn
The following quote came from a man who has healed hundreds of people and maintains an 85% healing rate.
“For Those Who Believe
No Words Are Necessary.
For Those Who Do Not Believe,
No Words Are Possible.”
Dom Inacio de Loyola
I definitely realize that there is no ‘magic’ or wishful thinking involved in attaining what it is you desire as the media would have liked the general population to believe after the release of the Secret. I found that the Secret did not fully explain that you need to work at what it is you want not just ‘wish’ for it and think that’s all there is to it. Having said that I have been on a journey to heal a health issue and have worked extremely hard on all aspects of my healing. My blood work has recently all come back normal but my body tells me (with pain and inflammation) that I am not healed. Where am I going wrong? I appreciate the opportunity to comment. Thank you so much.
Hello,
I’m using Holosync technology and appreciate the research that has gone into it. I also appreciate your perspective on the Secret. I share your perspective. Actually, it was Ken Wilber’s Integral philosophy that most helped me to think clearly about this. From my reading of your blog, it’s clear that he is also your philosophical teacher – or one of them. You seem to be using his precise arguments and framework. That’s great, but I’m wondering why you don’t credit Ken? (I’ve only read a few of the blogs, so maybe this is happening already, and I just need to read more. Thanks for your great work and your service to make a better world.
Thanks for all your creations with which you are trying to help so many people.
I find the discussions about magic and “The Secret” sometimes confusing, the secret for me was just an indication how we influence our life’s, with all the explanations we make it more complicated then it realy is. The position we find ourselves in at this stage of our lives does not come from magic but is due to our “Intent” or “Focus”
I believe this was already pointed at by James Allen in his book “As a man Thinketh” Some good material to watch to help understanding this are:
“What the Bleep do we Know” and “Conscious acts of Creation” (Dr. William Tiller)
Be Well
Martin
i realy love your c,d tapes you are wounderful thanks
Bill, I like your example of the parking spaces to explain an example of magical thinking. However, I get confused when I hear Abraham (Esther Hicks) proclaim that what you really, really want and what you really, really, don’t want is what you attract. You say that one must take action to obtain the desire and by focusing on the desire, we see things and notice opportunities which we wouldn’t ordinarily see if our focus was not there. My confusion and question is, how is one taking action to get cancer if they are focusing on NOT wanting cancer? Cindy
This is the most reassuring, calming information I have seen in a long time. Not that I wouldn’t want magic that worked to get me out of these difficult and painful times. But I have not read The Secret or watched the movie because I have been afraid it would lure me into believing in things that don’t work, and then wasting more time. I’m not even sure where I am with regard to your definitions, Bill, but I know I want to get to a better place, where I am not paralyzed by the thought of bills coming in and not enough money to pay them. The trouble is, my idea for overcoming this is either to continue the way I have been going (and hope for improvement somehow, either my own or the reception that others have to what I create, which is dangerously close to magical thinking) or to go back to the old way, hunting down a job that I don’t like and doing it until I die, no matter how mindless and miserable it is, or how many magical thinkers I have to take orders from. The trouble is I’d rather die than do that.
I owe everything I have to the wish fairy! Why just this morning I wished for a million dollars and the next thing you know, I received several e-mails informing me that I had won several lotteries. How do I know that it was magic? Because I hadn’t even entered any of the lotteries that I had won.
Now there’s the proof that magic thinking works!
I like to park far away. I need the exercise.
I’ve liked these posts. I bought two CD series from TUT a year and a half ago, and while they were uplifting, they were more like the Secret… Holosync has helped me more in the last 6 months than anything else has helped me in YEARS. I’ve changed my eating habits and lost weight, I’m more positive in general, and I’m HAPPY. And I’m only on Awakening Prologue! Thank you, Bill!!
Hello Mr Harris, I dont expect you to read this comment or anyone else for that but I have to comment here. First why Im commenting sir.
My world is one of bliss, and I invite all of you to jump in, because the water’s FINE.
Secondly I couldnt swim before and thanks to yourself and your work Im happily swimming along. Take care, Be safe Mr Harris. Kind regards phil.
I have to comment yet again Mr Harris. The secret who gives a monkeys whether you benifitted or not. you have benifitted me in ways that 20 years of self help hasnt so your word is good enough for me sir. Also I had a great laugh at the parking responce from you well wicked sir lol Take care,Be safe Mr Harris Kind regards phil.