Friday, as I was driving to school, (I teach Human Development at a community college) I stumbled across your Piaget pieces. I was planning to speak with the students about adolescent cognition and Piaget’s last stage. Wow! My lecture was so enhanced by your wisdom.

I have found the transcripts of the podcast here and will print to study your perspective further.

Thank you so much. I am enriched!

Donna King

FROM BILL: I known Master Sha–he is a chi gong master who lives in San Francisco.

FROM BILL: On the “idea” level I can agree with most of what you have said. I want to point out, though, that all of this is your idea about reality. Any idea you have about it isn’t it. Genpo Roshi asked me once, with great fanfare, to describe in a couple of minutes my understanding of “how it all is.” I thought about it for a few minutes and framed a very Zen-sounding answer about everything being one interconnected whole, blah blah blah. In a theoretical sense what I said was “correct”–it was the same sort of thing said by many Zen masters and other enlightened beings. Then Genpo said, “Okay, now doubt that.” He was making the point that everything I said was an idea about reality, nothing more. Awakening comes from doubting ALL ideas, all concepts, all beliefs. Though these things are useful, on another level they’re all bullshit. It’s so easy to get lost in our ideas about the world, which makes us miss the actual world. In fact, as long as we are swimming in our ideas, as great as those ideas might be, we miss the reality the ideas are supposed to represent.

FROM BILL: It’s a gimmic. Isochronic tones are monaural beats, like a drum beat or a ticking clock. It is possible to entrain SOME brain wave patterns, though it takes a lot longer, using this method, just as people can get into a trance through drumming. Robert Monroe and other early pioneers in this field ABANDONED this approach when they realized that binaural beats (of which Holosync is derived) work a lot better. Plus, they allow us (by changing the carrier frequency) to create progressively more powerful deeper levels, which cannot be done with isochronic tones (despite what these people might say).

The bigger problem is that there are a number of tiny little companies out there making entrainment-type soundtracks and trying to start their business by framing their product in relation to Holosync, which they do by outright lying about Centerpointe in their marketing. The people using Isochronics are among these people. Quite frankly, if it wasn’t that they are so small and inconsequential that it doesn’t matter, and if I didn’t have a zillion more important things to do, I would sue them for disparaging us (don’t think I won’t, though, if it becomes necessary). I’m all for someone creating a company and selling a good product, but not by lying about their own product, and Certainly not by lying about ours.

Isochronic tones will probaby have SOME effect on you, though monaural beats are pretty primitive. They will not do what Holosync does by any strestch of the imagination.

Thank you for giving me insight regarding the developmental levels of humans. I found the information easy to understand and very interesting to read. I look forward to more of your “words of wisdom” in the future.

Instinctivly I knew that most of my questions would not be welcomed by adults so I learned to wait patiently for the answers.

What I learned over time is that sometimes the answers don’t come or are beyond my current understanding. Waiting until all is understood can mean getting stuck so sometimes the next step needs to be built on faith.

If you trust your mentor (and why would s/he be your mentor otherwise?) then you take the next step without fully understanding how it is
constructed. After the step has been taken you may look back on it from a different viewpoint and see that it’s really simple after all.

I wonder Bill, about temperment and cognitive development. It seems to me that with my sort of temperment it must have been easier for me to develop than it is for others with different temperments.

Finding and taking this test has helped me to understand why many very intelligent people seem to get stuck at a certain level of cognitive development.

Love your Blog.
Gina