Finally, after months of blog posts discussing human development, we arrive at the highest developmental level described by Susanne Cook-Greuter: the Ironist or Unitive perspective. Susanne really doesn’t like the name Ironist (which comes from another researcher), so I will refer to those from this stage as Unitives.
At this point it’s important to understand that the stages described by Dr. Cook-Greuter are not theoretical. They are, rather, derived from actual data from real people. This means that the descriptions of the developmental levels I’ve shared (the different perspectives a person can take as they seek to make sense of who they are and how they fit into the world) come from the analysis of data from real people, compiled over many decades.
In other words, Dr. Cook-Greuter describes a level or perspective only if sufficient data exists and she knows that some number of individuals exist who do see things from that perspective.
Almost certainly there are a few rare individuals who see things from perspectives even higher and broader than those described by Susanne Cook-Greuter and summarized in these posts. As time goes by, and more information comes to light, even higher developmental perspectives will no doubt be investigated and cataloged. Many theorists–Ken Wilber, for instance, and several others–have described possible ways of slicing the Unitive stage I’ll describe in this post into several different stages. As of yet, not enough hard data exists for these levels to be anything but theoretical.
You might say, then, that this is a story without an ending, because those living from the highest perspectives are always breaking new ground and exploring new ways to make sense of what it means to be a human being.
So, with that preamble, let’s look at the Unitive perspective, and see how it differs from that of the Magician.
The Magician is, in a way, a transitional stage in the sense that Magicians have one foot, or at least three or four toes, in the separate self, and the other foot in the transcendent. Or, you could say that the Magician experiences the self partly from the perspective of a separate, individual entity, centered inside (and identified with) the body/mind, and partly as the infinite connections linking that body/mind to the rest of the universe. The Magician has seen his ego for what it is–a mere map of reality, a construct, a way of seeing things, rather than something solid–but has not entirely transcended it. The separate self is no longer solidly real for the Magician, but it’s still a significant part of the Magician’s experience of life.
Unitives, though they still have a sense of being a center of awareness in a body, no longer experience themselves as a separate “me.” The separate me isn’t just an idea, a construct, a way of looking at things (as it is for the Magician, and to some degree for the Strategist and the Individualist). Now it is also felt and experienced as such. The Unitive’s felt sense has expanded to include the entire matrix of connections connecting everything in the universe in one universal ever-changing flow.
This is, quite obviously, an entirely new and different way of experiencing human existence and consciousness–a more cosmic or universal perspective. All the paradoxical aspects of existence are now integrated. Polar opposites, such as good and evil, being and not being, self and other, subject and object, existence and non-existence, are experienced without the sense of oppositional tension experienced by those at previous developmental perspectives. Instead, these seeming opposites are just part of the flow of how things are. In terms of time and space, the Unitive’s scale of perspective is infinite, taking in the passing of ages and, in terms of space and distance, the entire infinite universe.
The Unitive is able to take any previous developmental perspective or point of view and shift between perspectives and states of awareness effortlessly. All experiences–joy, grief, life, death, being, not being, pleasure, pain, having, not having–are seen as natural parts of the flow of existence, to be noticed and experienced as they are. The rational mind is not seen as a limitation (as it was by the Magician) but rather as just another manifestation of being human–sometimes useful and allowed to be more prominent, and at other times not needed and allowed to recede into the background.
The Unitive is able, then, to cherish all humans as part of the grand dance and flow of the universe, not needing others to be different than they are. “Higher” stages of development are no longer seen as “better.” Rather, all stages are necessary, interconnected, and always-changing aspects of the human condition.
The Unitive sees himself in similar terms–he has no need to be a certain way and therefore accepts himself in a non-controlling way. Though he may have many achievements, he sees their insignifigance in the grand scheme of things. At the same time, he sees that his contribution to the universe is an essential part of the whole–as is the contribution of every other person, animal, plant, rock, or piece of dust. His humility and grace, however, isn’t so much the result of a decision to be that way as it is a natural and spontaneous expression of his perspective. The Unitive truly sees the bigger picture, which allows him to “play” full out without attachment to what does or does not happen.
The Unitive’s perspective is one of non-ego-involved witnessing, moment-by-moment awareness, and resourceful responses to the infinite number of systems and variables swirling around him–including all the conflicting needs, paradoxes, and constantly shifting realities of the situation. He is no longer identified with a certain “me,” a certain role or identity. He spontaneously takes on whatever persona is necessary in order to catalyze others or in some other way be appropriate to the moment. His concern is quite often outside of what most people would consider his own individual interests–a concern often expressed as an unconditional love for humanity.
The Magician has a highly developed ability to “trust the process” of whatever is going on. The Unitive’s low identification with the separate self and his greater identification with the rest of humanity further elevates this trust–of the way things are, where they are going, and what can and “should” be done–to an even higher (and more selfless) level. To the Unitive, there is an awareness that on an ultimate level everything is happening in a perfect way, even including the fact that the world contains much suffering and many problems. These problems, and any addressing of them, are just parts of the dance, parts of the endless going on of it all.
This is reflected in the Buddhist perspective of the bodhisattva–the awakened being who vows to stay in the world until all beings have been similarly liberated.
The Unitive sees happiness and unhappiness as part of the necessary, temporary (and endless) fluctuations inherent in the human situation. Instead of seeing life in a dualistic way, where some things are appropriate and desirable while others are inappropriate and undesirable, the Unitive experiences the world as a place where all opposites “arise together” and “go together”–in any polarity each side implies (and needs) the other. Up needs (and is defined by) down, here needs there, life needs death, good needs evil, and so on. Positive and negative are seen–and experienced–as mental constructs, as ideas, rather than as innate or intrinsic characteristics of things, events, or people. The Unitive watches as positive turns to negative and back to positive, endlessly–and necessarily. This is, indeed, a totally new and different way of experiencing the world.
Because Unitives don’t seem to be as engaged in the goals, pursuits, and concerns of the rest of humanity, some–particularly Experts, Achievers, and even Strategists–may see them as being more distant from the world. This, however, is a mischaracterization. The Unitive merely sees the perfection of all aspects of the universe. This includes his own motivation to intervene in some cases and his contrasting motivation to leave things alone in others.
Unitives serve to catalyze others just by showing up. Their way of being in the world provides a spontaneous challenge to the perspective of others and demonstrates an alternative way of being in the world. Their ability to see others as whole, their tendency to interact in non-demanding ways, and their effortless comfort and inner security about being human often has a subtle but profound effect on others.
Unitives have a completely internalized transpersonal morality, independent of any particular societal standards or rules. Naturally being in the moment, they decide what is right by intuition. Conflicting impulses or external demands are simply part of life and need not be resolved, only witnessed. If a response is needed, it happens.
The Unitive feels no need to be this or that, to achieve this or that, or to be in this or that state. He may act to be something or achieve something, but this is just “what happens” rather than the result of a need to get somewhere. This seemingly passive attitude, however, in its in-the-moment spontaneity, actually allows the Unitive to take powerful, effective, direct action. It’s as if, in not identifying with a separate self, the universe acts through the Unitive. Buddhists describe this by saying that doing happens, but there is no doer (the implication being that there are no separate doers, and that the real doer is the whole).
The Unitive sees all words, mental maps, representations, theories, meanings, divisions, and boundaries as mere constucts–ideas about the world, rather than the world itself. Instead, reality is experienced as a living, flowing, interconnected continuum, a unified field of possibilities existing now, and only now. At the same time, though, the Unitive sees that words, maps, representations, theories, meanings, divisions, and boundaries are essential aspects of human meaning-making.
Because the peak experiences so strongly sought after by those at previous developmental levels are readily available to the Unitive, these experiences no longer have the extraordinary and often startling quality they have for those at other perspectives. They are one more part of being human, happening in time and then passing away–another wave rising, then falling.
As you might imagine, the Unitive lives in the now moment. He sees that even planning for the future or learning from the past happens in the present moment. Being in the now moment happens naturally because the Unitive isn’t focused on regrets or hurts from the past, nor is he hoping for something better in the future. Paradoxically, the Unitive looks at the universe from an expanded time frame that includes all past and future time–while never leaving the present moment (from the Unitive’s perspective, that’s really all there is–past and future are ideas, not realities).
The Unitive’s stable awareness of the now allows him to see things as they are, without the added meanings created by the mind–though when it serves his purpose he can use ideas, concepts, and mental maps as useful tools. He sees these things for what they are–often useful mental constructs about reality, but not the reality itself.
Life to the Unitive is a temporary eye-blink of separation from the ground of being from which all things emerge. And, the Unitive is aware that this separation, this taking of a human form, is a choice. (Zen master Genpo Roshi speaks of the awakened person as “the one who chooses to be a human being.”) To the Unitive this separation from the ultimate ground of being, and the creation of a enduring separate self, are illusions used to safeguard the ego’s need for permanence and to defend it against the fear of death.
Unitives have transcended such narrow and limiting ego boundaries. They notice but are not preoccupied with whatever enters their awareness. Their perspecitve is that of the witness. This is a watching, more effortless than ordinary willed focus, in which there is awareness but not necessarily an awareness of anything. This is sometimes referred to as pure consciousness, awareness without content. The Unitive notices whatever enters his field of attention, but everything receives equal attention and awareness, and nothing is judged as better or worse, or more or less appropriate. The Unitive, therefore, has an open, non-grasping and non-judging experience of life.
The Unitive sees his life’s work as a natural outcome of his participation in the flux and flow of the whole. He cares about the problems of humanity, even while he sees their perfection, and works for fairness, justice, and benevolence toward all. Magicians and Strategists see themselves as masters of their souls, but the Unitive sees this control of life as both illusory and unnecessary. All outcomes, all ways of thinking, feeling, behaving, or being are part of the flow and all are equally valuable. Whatever happens just is. Even not-being is valuable. This is a way of looking at life difficult for those from other perspectives to understand.
The full range of beingness is available to the Unitive. In one moment he can be serious and in the next, playful. He can be personal or global, simple or complex, serene or active, rational or transcendent, sublime or silly. He can also be sad or angry, or exhibit any other human expression. As you might imagine, only a small number of people live from this perspective.
With this look at the Unitive developmental stage, we come to the end of our overview of the various developmental levels. I began this series because, despite its fundamental importance, one’s developmental level is rarely taken into account in descriptions of human interaction, values, morality, politics, psychology, or behavior.
Humans interpret and respond to whatever they experience from their particular developmental perspective, yet few who observe humanity are aware of this spectrum of perspectives–much less where they come from, how a person from each thinks and behaves, or how to deal with persons from different perspectives. Expecting a person from one perspective to see the world from another perspective is futile, whether they are a Democrat, a Republican, an Iraqi soldier, a South African tribesman, a 14 year-old high school freshman, or a born-again Christian. You can’t argue or reason another person out of their level of development.
As you view and relate to other people, or as you watch the news, I hope you will realize that each person thinks and acts from his particular developmental perspective, and that this is the only way he can make sense of his environment and his life. All perspectives include a certain type of cognition, a way of determining what is right or wrong, a way of relating to spiritual matters, a way of understanding one’s sense of self, a way of deciding what is important and what to believe (including a way of determining what is “true” and what criteria are used to determine that truth), certain strategies for navigating the world, and a lot more. Understanding these perspectives allows you to see why people act as they do, and it allows you to better communicate with them (or realize that you probably aren’t going to get through to them).
And, of course, understanding these developmental levels also allows you to better understand yourself, to understand why you see things the way you do–and to realize that your perspective is just one of many.
As I said toward the beginning of this series, whatever your perspective, you are immersed in something, which means that you are unaware of it. In fact, in being immersed in something, you are it.
Your perspective is, in fact, the place where you are stuck, the place where you are unaware. Genpo Roshi once asked me to express to him my current understanding of the way things are. I gave a very Zen-like answer: everything happens by itself, there’s no doer other than the universe as a whole, everything is connected, and so forth. He then looked me in the eye and said, “Now doubt that.” He was really saying, “Your current understanding is where you are stuck.”
Keep in mind that each perspective is a way of making sense of being here, one of many possible ways of dealing with the trials, tribulations, and ups and downs of being a human being–which you may have noticed can be quite a challenge. Each of these ways of making sense of things works for as long as it works, which could be a few years, or a lifetime. If your way of making sense of things stops working, it’s probably because you acquired more information, had new experiences, or were thrust into a new situation, and in this new situation the old way of making sense of things just doesn’t work any longer.
At such times you feel uncomfortable and a bit lost–until you develop a new way of making sense of things, one that transcends and includes the old way, and can handle the new situation and take into account the new information.
And, finally, remember that awareness drives development. Whatever you are immersed in you are unaware of, like a fish in water. When you do become aware of it (if you do), your perspective changes. It expands. The goal here, if there is one, is to continually enlarge your perspective–until it ultimately includes everything. As that happens, your point of view moves from being me-centered, to group-centered, to world-centered, and finally to cosmos-centered. As this happens, care increases, compassion increases, and love increases.
And, lord knows, that’s what the world needs.
So, whatever you’re doing, watch. Learn to be the witness. Watch your body. Pay attention to how it feels and how it moves. Notice how those feelings and sensations change. Watch your emotions. Watch your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideas, the meanings you put on things. Watch everything. Be with all of it, right now, in each moment. You can even watch your sense of “I am,” your sense of existing. And, since Holosync creates increasingly deeper awareness (you knew I’d end up here eventually) and allows this watching to be more and more effortless, keep meditating with Holosync every day. If you do, you will greatly accelerate your growth.
Thanks for sticking with me through this long journey. I don’t know what I’ll tackle next, but I hope you’ll find it interesting and useful as you do your best to make sense of what it means to be a human being.
One last thing before I go–a reminder that Zen master Genpo Roshi and I will be doing another Big Mind workshop in New York on June 28-29. This is an opportunity to have a profound experience of the transcendent, to find out what it feels like to be one with everything, to be awake to who you really are–and, to experience any number of profound insights normally taking decades of meditation to realize. Nearly everyone who has attended a Big Mind workshop has described it as the most profound experience of his or her life. I would love for you to have this experience.
These workshops fill up extremely quickly, so if you are interested, go to www.centerpointe.com/bigmind right now and grab a seat. I look forward to meeting you in person in New York, June 28-29.
Until next time,
Be well.
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Wow, pretty neat, I read about half of it and what I read was very interesting. There has to be a way to get the growth holosync provides in less time. Where did you come up with the time lengths to spend at each level? I love you.
James
Hi,
This series has been a very important key in the door Bill, for going deep into cognitive development and just being! I also wrote a paper relating stages of cognitive development to the teaching of mathematics while being inspired by it all!
These things have been spoken of on this planet for many many moons, but still we cannot progress until we stop to listen to reason and then integrate it into our lives. Very few of us ever really wake up – - and then?
I congratulate you on presenting Piagets work and its modern day expansions in such an easily accessible way.
“At such times you feel uncomfortable and a bit lost–until you develop a new way of making sense of things, one that transcends and includes the old way, and can handle the new situation and take into account the new information.”
What advice can you give if one is stuck in a transitional period , still integrating the new information learned and figuring out how to make use of it. it is uncomfortable. feels as if friends and family are leaving my life (and I their’s) and new people are being introduced. it feels as if it is part of an agenda. the cycle. non the less still on the floor piecing the puzzle together.
FROM BILL: Watch whatever is happening. Be the witness. Meditate with Holosync.
Bill, thanks for these blogs on personal development. They have been very good food for thought. I hate to see them end.
Greetings.
This blog came to my attention through referral of a friend who is participating in the Holosync program.
Just wanted to offer my opinion that this is an absolutely fantastic blog. Many thanks to Bill Harris for providing it and, also, for offering means to help others get to the postconventional and unitive stages.
Robert
Thank you for your skillful, clear teachings. “I” will endeavor to employ them as best as I can for “others.”
Dear Bill,
to restrain my ego and “let go” in my everyday relationships.
Thank you sooo much for sharing your exquisite knowledge on human development, especially for this part. It showed me the most important features of the spiritual ideal I’m heading towards. I love the idea of not only taking others the way they are, but most of all regarding all devolopmental stages as equally “good” (or desired).
Even though the sole reading doesn’t do the trick, it obviously contributes to the next mental shift (like a seed left in the ground that is about to sprout).
Not trying to change others (or to be more specific their views on life) is one of my biggest challenges now. Realizing that everything is the way it should be (perfect) in this very moment is extremely soothing.
Bearing in mind this truth I will find it easier and more logical (”deduced” as my mind still finds it comfy
I look up to your high value work and am looking forward to your next post.
Namaste!
Maggie, Poland
I love the blog. Several months back, in an online discussion, I posted on the importance of understanding developmental levels, as in Piaget’s system. Then your blog expanded out from that foundation. Much of the later info, such as Cook-Greuter was new to me, but I seemed to ‘know’ it intuitively as I read it. And I could recognize in the descriptions my own growth over the last decade.
I am currently on Flowering 4, the final holosync level. According to the levels you describe, I am firmly in the strategist level, with experiences of the magician becoming more common, and occasional, but unpursued, glimpses of the unitive. I’m just happy to be where I am. And as long as I continue to be in the processes of awareness and growth, I trust wherever I will end up.
Then I ask, what of me? I am of all in all. I operate in time and space, yet I am not in time and space. I see things from out side of all. I am a controller that does not control. I am a manipulator that does not manipulate. I rest in all. What of us?
Dwayne
Thank you….
The ongoing education you have provided which I luckily stumbled across just over a year ago has been top notch. The material you offer is continually outstanding, and reassures me that the money I spend on holosync not only goes for a remarkable meditation tool, but a remarkable education. Value added is definitely a great way to describe your business model. I have thoroughly enjoyed the beginnings of deconstructing my blinding ego mask. Watching, and studying myself is truly the most fullfilling and interesting pursuit I have ever embarked on.
I just listened to the great cd The Truth About The Secret that you sent – I continually hear you say that you are no public speaker, don’t sell yourself short you have a disarming and engaging style that is unmatched.
Hello Bill!
Thanks for your article! This one line summed it all up for me:
‘The Unitive merely sees the perfection of all aspects of the universe.’
Knowing our own perfection, this perfection of the universe is naturally all we would see, all there Is.
Awesome, awesome!
Many thanks again,
Pam
I would love to meet you as well, but I am laid off, lost everthing I ever owned. I live in an RV. I am out of money. Yet, I am creative and I know I will survive. I will come out of this, on the other side.
I still try and study these things, but it is difficult in this situation. Every day becomes more difficult to believe. I will not quit.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing these informative descriptions of the stages of evolution. I have only personally known one person who has reached the unitive stage and it is an amazing experience to be in “its” presence for one is truly aware of the unconditional love and acceptance that emanates from these beings. Unitives are able to elevate the vibrations of most anyone they come into contact with – even if only for a brief moment.
Thank you, Bill. Brilliant series!
Take care,
Beata
Awesome stuff Bill! I have thoroughly enjoyed all your posts on human development and the other ones besides haha. Thanks very much for showing me what I have to look forward to with continued holosyncing…. fascinating!
Thanks again,
David :O)
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Dear Bill; Thank you for asking my opinion. The unitive stage is something very close to where I have always felt I am. Even as a child. Is it possible to be born in that stage already. Even Buddist, say that we try to to get to a certain level. And we can go up or down the level latter with each life that we live. I have always seemed to help the people around me just by being there. People would come to me for help even though they did not know me or where I was from. I called myself the atmosphere changer. I feel the Unitive is the glue that keeps the universe in balance. Even though the world seems to out of wack. Life is a balancing act. trying to balance your emotion over reality. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. ftf.
Another interesting article! (But I believe I liked the Magician article better).
Based on Bill’s description, I suspect that the Dalai Lama is a Unitive. While I have a lot of respect for someone like that, I can’t say that I feel any call to express such a modality of Being. The basic problem I have with the Unitive modality is that it seems to be all about flow. In a practical sense, of course I do appreciate flow; for example I like Tai Chi, I like ballroom dancing, I like swimming, and flow is crucial for doing those activities well. But what really interests me is that which does NOT flow. So living large like the Dalai Lama, with a big emphasis on flow, is just not me and I don’t think it ever will be. I like to keep a low profile and I think I always will.
I would propose that the Cook-Greuter sample is biased towards including people with a Shakti/Shiva imbalance on the Shakti side, because I think such people are more likely to live large and be noticed; whereas people with an imbalance on the Shiva side are probably more likely to live small and just not show up in the Cook-Greuter sample. And I don’t think it is inherently better to have an imbalance on the Shakti side; both possible imbalances have their characteristic risks. An example of the risk of an extreme Shakti imbalance would be Chogyam Trungpa in the late stage of his life; an example of the risk of an extreme Shiva imbalance would be the Indian sages who say the world is just an illusion, so they ignore the suffering around them and neglect their own bodies. Such a sage is likely to simply die unnoticed, whereas someone like Trungpa will get noticed.
So I think the term “Unitive” reflects a Shakti imbalance. I don’t know where the term “Ironist” came from, or what it was supposed to mean, but to me it suggests a modality of Being that has more Shiva in it, and it resonates with me much more than the term “Unitive” does. Didn’t Parmenides say that the universe was really a great iron ball? And there are some interesting Zen koans about iron bulls. I find that such sayings speak to me on a deep level: what is it, here and now, that is NOT flowing?
1) “The Unitive sees happiness and unhappiness as part of the necessary, temporary (and endless) fluctuations inherent in the human situation.”
That is not the way I see (or would want to see) happiness/unhappiness. In a poem, Jane Hirshfield said that happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one of pressed tin – each carries the same water. I like that!
2) “Life to the Unitive is a temporary eye-blink of separation from the ground of being from which all things emerge.”
I don’t think being alive separates you from the ground of being for even the briefest of moments. How could it ever do so? If something can be separate from the ground of being, then it was never the true ground of being. To me it seems that life, and especially human life, just has to be remarkably expressive of Shiva, the ground of being. If anything in our universe could ever even come close to being separate from the ground of being, I would point the finger of suspicion at Rumi’s “bewildered atoms”, not life and certainly not human life.
3) “To the Unitive, this separation from the ultimate ground of being, and the creation of a[n] enduring separate self, are illusions used to safeguard the ego’s need for permanence and to defend it against the fear of death.”
To me, this view is superficial at best and confused at worst. Granted that no theory is perfect, but I think the notion of a separate self is a reasonably good theory. The basis for the validity of this theory would be considering a human being in the universe as Shiva showing up in a particular little part of Shakti in an unusually strong and transparent way. Anyway, I think the ego issue is mostly a red herring. The really important issue is whether or not the flux and flow that is our universe is just an illusion. I would say it is not an illusion. The stone maiden whose name is Parashiva, really is dancing!
Posts are too long? Ramana Maharshi said “Of what use is it to complain of the stinginess of the ocean if you approach it holding only a thimble?” Gender issues? You would rather he talk about dysfunctional women instead? Me, too. BTW, Ms.Editor, “comprised of” is incorrect. It’s “composed of” or “comprises.”
Who cares if the theoretical person is addressed as ‘he’ , ‘his’, ‘him’…. Its just a conventional thing really. Better than an ‘it’. he he ..
) Anyway, I prefer ‘one does this’ or ‘one does that’ or ‘their’.. take out the gender thing in total! ;O) Then hopefully everyone will be happy, or not happy and we have consensus!! ;O)
By the way Bill, loved the Unitive post, very interesting! I wonder what is beyond??
love Jen
the intuitive seems to be intuitively aware of all sides of the picture & sees the ebb & flow of the human situation as part of the ebb & flow of the universe. He sees that the duality of things and doesn’t focus on any one thing–he looks past it into the vastness of eternity, transcending the ego therby focusing on eternity and the relative intermingeling of each AND every action
Answer:
Nothing defines my opening state in those five months with Holosync Awakening Prologue. I am more focused in my root as creation and creator with awareness of what I really represent in this world. Things come true since I make the internal representation of what I want. I cannot define this realization, only I feel it. Believing by sure all is connected within my senses I have had big gifts. Yes, now I certainly believe in my creations. Today I understand the sentence “Be able to see beyond of what you see” and “There are many eyes to blind to see”. Thank you. Maria.
Hi Bill,
There’s a lot of Buddhism in this which is fantastic as it is the only philosophy that goes so deep into describing deep mental phenomena. However, Buddhism says that attaining Arahantship (Arahant or Arahat) is the highest spiritual achievement one can attain (only through Vipassana/Insight/Mindfulness) meditation and this is achieved through developing moment-to-moment awareness (just as you’ve described above). As far as I know, this method was first described by the Buddha upon attaining full Enlightenment and the Buddha preached in Many Sutta discourses that Mindfulness meditation is the only way to attaining Full Enlightenment. I would like to know your thoughts on this. Many thanks. Viraj Perera.
Everyone who wants to reach this stage should read “A New Earth” by Echart Tolle. In comparison to what Bill has written, it describes exactly how you can get to this “unitive” stage of develpoment. I have definitely become awakened since I have read it.
Also, go to
http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webcast/archive/archive_watchnow.jsp
to watch webcasts covering each individual chapter. It’s absolutely amazing and enlightening. I guarantee you will be impressed. They should cover this book in every school curriculum.
FROM BILL:
I am in the process of creating a free online course that will expand on what Eckhardt Tolle is doing with Oprah. I do like what Tolle is saying–and, I think there is more. I think it’s amazing that Ophrah has put this subject on the table in such a public way, and I thank her for doing that. This free course will include Genpo Roshi, Ken WIlber, Diane Hamilton, Sally Kempton, Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder, and (I think–I haven’t heard back from her for sure) Byron Katie. And, me. I’m doing this partly because I hear from a lot of people who are intriqued by and attracted to what Tolle talks about but are uncertain about how to implement it. And, I think there are a few key points Tolle doesn’t bring up. The people I’ve chosen have some very helpful things to teach about this topic. I hope to launch this within a couple of weeks–maybe sooner, and will email everyone from Centerpointe about it and also announce it on the blog.
Thanks Bill I used to think I was my feelings but now I am a watcher!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with Bill in his reply to Vanessa’s comment above. Eckhardt seems to go in circles in his book and hasn’t really explained how to implement it (although he has written a book on meditation and mind exercises). If anyone wants to dig deeper, read the book “Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond” by Ajahn Brahm. Brahm has been a forest meditator for decades and practiced meditation to its ultimate goal and KNOWS what he’s talking about through his own experience. The beginning instructions are some of the best anywhere, and the descriptions of the advanced states are unparalleled in their vividness. He has perfectly laid out the method one needs to follow to attain “true” Enlightenment (as people nowadays tend to mistakenly label the high bliss states of meditation as Enlightenment when in reality, these states are only regarded as states of “Enlightenement Awareness” which are not permanent). Further Brahm goes into detail in explaining the hindrances (sensory desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and doubt) to attaining higher states of meditation (and I have hardly seen any authors educating the reader about these hindrances) which the meditator needs to be aware of. Never before has this material been approached in such an empowering way. So if you’re a serious meditator I strongly recommend you read this book. You will save a lot of time.
And yes, I use Holosync with the method laid out in Brahm’s book. Holosync has made amazing changes in me which I am not too surprised about because this is what meditation does. However, I must confess that Holosync has made the progress much faster. When you meditate you become more and more mindful (you start to see things as they happen more easily and more clearly as your mind becomes more and more quiet – in other words your moment to moment awareness develops). Holosync enables you to develop mindfulness very quickly and will push you into deeper states of awareness in your journey to Enlightenment. So if you don’t want to waste time and want to know exactly what you need to do and how you need to develop mindfulness, and get rid of the hindrances in order to attain the true states of Enlightenment, read the book. It has certainly awakened me. It has given me the deepest insight of exactly what I need to do from someone who has traversed the path.
Hi Bill,
I was wanting to know if you know the name of any individual living at the unitive stage of development. I would be interested in reading an autobiography written by such a person if it’s available.
Aside from that, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all I have learnt from you through your online LPIP courses. I am corresponding with Katie.
I am currently up to course 3 lesson 9, and I have done the homework to the best of my ability so far for each lesson. I will definately go over the whole course a second time because I am determined to master the material.
What I really want you to know is this material has changed my life for the better, and well…..
as I am writing this I can see that there really aren’t words to explain what this information has done for me.
Please just know that the information, as you present it is clear and life changing. The way you describe things are very understandable, and leave no room for excuses.
You truly are doing a job that you are really quite excellent at.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and the heart of my family, who I am now a better person for.
Sincerely
Thank you
Michelle
FROM BILL:
Genpo Roshi is at the Unitive stage, and not only can you read his book, Big Mind Big Heart (which has a ton of self-revealing information), you can mett him and spend time with him. Just come to the workshop we’re doing together in New York, June 28-29. Go to http://www.centerpointe.com/bigmind.
Mr. Harris:
Since you asked for feedback, here are a few words. I have used Holosync for about eight years. It is a useful meditation tool. You have created an interesting mind-map in these articles, but as you yourself have said, “The map is not the territory.” Words can be tricky things – pale reflections of a pale reflection – easily misunderstood and misleading. As the first story in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones says:
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era, (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to enquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitors cup full and then kept pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.”
Maps are useful, but one should remember to look away from the map occasionally and appreciate where one is.
Hi Bill,
I am responding to your request for our feedback on this post. I have read each & every one of them with great interest. I find that just reading about the different levels inspire me to be more of what I always have known I could be down deep in my heart. Mozart said that (and I paraphrase) that Love is the soul of a Genius, not knowledge, not wisdom, not even action or inaction. We were made to love, our bodies and souls thrive from it, all that diminishes love in our lives is to our detriment. Understanding this has changed how I live & operate in this world, it continues to be the one thing above all others that helps me understand & clarify what I really came on this planet to do. Your posts Bill make the way more clear than ever. The thing I find myself asking is how can I best communicate effectively with those at different levels. I suppose if I took the time to take it apart I might find the answers woven into all you have expressed, but I just thought it might be helpful to have it all charted out or explained succinctly. If you have already done this in another resource please let me know but that is what I thought might be helpful. I wish you all the best, thank you for making such a difference in my life, even though I have not thad the opportunity to meet you, I can say most assuredly that I love you very much Bill. Thank you, I am honored to share the Planet with you!!
Thanks, Bill, for this latest on human development. It is a superb multi-faceted ‘guidance’ tool. I’m chugging along on Flowering Level One and count this, along with Holosync itself, and The Nine Principles for Successful Living as pillars for whatever growth I have obtained.
I hope it will be published in some cohesive form. Fred
I have been a “Unitive” my whole life. I am seeing through these posts that we don’t post, my thought is that it is not our job to teach from this forum, that is your position at this moment. My question is – where are we? Is there a group of us somewhere working on a project I could help with? I’ve met very few of us throughout my time, very few.
Just wondering.
I write to express my appreciation and support for what Bill Harris has articulated so well. For many years, both in my academic research and just as another human being in this universe, I have often asked how we combine our dual need to separate events and also bring them back together. This is not an easy problem. Both in behavioral and brain research many challenges remain, and I have been fortunate to be part of these explorations.
The summary given by Bill Harris is one of the most articulate explorations of these issues I have come across, and I complement him. Indeed I complement the entire Holosync. mission. Its a foot in the door to what Bill spoke so eloquently about.
In my youth I had the good fortune to communicate with, and visit the Swiss psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Jung, one of the pioneers in human personality. He too was fascinated about stages (flow patterns) in human development, and how we seek unification with the universe if we are to be truly whole.
Having recently retired from my academic posts in both the USA and Canada, and now being happily relocated back in Eugene, Oregon, I have tried to take some of these insights that Bill alludes to into an integrated Health Coaching program: ETHOLIFE HEALTH COACHING. The basic idea is quite similar to what Bill outlined so well here. I use the Greek foundation term, ethos, to refer to our fundamental roots and character, which can be lost to the detriment of both our physical and mental health.
We need to unify ourselves, and through this unify our connections with the universe.
I will be happy to share ideas and our Etholife program with anyone interested. A key, as Bill again pointed out, is to share our lives and our perspectives.
For more information go to “etholife.com” and send me a note. We each can reach toward a higher level of being. I would love to hear your views.
Thanks,
John Fentress
Founder, Etholife Health Coaching
Eugene, Oregon
I agree it is important to be aware of these stages when dealing with people. The funny thing is, though, I feel I am at all stages at once. As I have felt ever since my youth, we don’t have to go anywhere, we are always already there. And yet there is work to be done, we seem to develop, and I am as caught up and frustrated by this development as anyone. It is all a show, but what a great show! And as all show business people know, the show must go on.
Hi Bill,
I listened to the audio version of your blog, and I found it very interesting. I think it’s all about self awareness as you pointed out, and our willingness to expand our perspective as we become more enlightened and realize our interconnectedness with all of life. As we become more spiritually evolved and self-realized we connect with our source of being. Thanks for being part of this shift in consciousness in this small but growing number of people in the world!
Namaste,
John Curran
http://www.coachcurran.com
To anyone interested,
I was doing holosync regularly for 10 months and when Bill started his development blogs, I seemed to relate to each level as if I just noticed it happening to me, like preceding the levels, and lots of Aha’ moments happened for me. Because of my positive changes, my husband started holosync without any kind of encouragement from my side. I encouraged a 23 year old daughter of mine to do holosync who also acknowledged my changes. Due to my ability to explain greater joy to my family and friends also in my work place, I do not remember experiencing any suffering anymore. I find it easier and easier not to engage in personal dramas’ anymore and just do not have emotional charged situations either.
I dont holosync anymore and I only needed level 1. I am easily comfortable by myself and do not need to pump my life with activities anymore, be it what it may. I can just sit and enjoy all my daughters, aged 32, 25, 23 and 16, all are still unmarried and are in and out of relationships, all having exciting lives.
A year ago, I was constantly worrying about them, and assisting them with dramas and personal problems. All ok these days. I love the way my life is now, easy-going and accept everyone involved in my life just the way they are.
Due to Bill’s clear blogs, I seem to just have reached a level and along comes Bill and explained it.
Now that my life has evened out, my daughters’ lives are evening out as well, each one different from the other, but really easy-going, clear and confident, I am amazed of the changes for the good in all our lives. My new threshold is simply a step ahead of most frustating and overwelming everyday situations.
I enjoy nature more and more right in my own garden and my most enjoyable time is leaving the car at home and walking to work, since 6 months now, through rain, wind and snow.
A lot of strange people have made comments of what a pleasure I am to our company, just my presence etc. More and more I have come to believe this wonderful change. I smile lots more for no reason.
I am considering really putting this whole business to the test, by going out of my comfort zone and finding people who need to build this easiness into their lives, as everyone I know is managing their lives very well, with all its ups and downs.
Thanks to Bill and his method, I am one contented 53 year old woman, with a contented husband and contented children.
FROM BILL: Unfortunately, some people use Holosync until the acute pain they’ve been experiencing is gone, and once it’s gone they lose the motivation to keep going with their seeking. Though you are in a wonderful place, there is ten or twenty times more of it, if you keep going. Every new place seems so good compared to where we were that it seems like a good place to rest. I hope you will allow yourself to keep going, because you have experienced just the tip of the iceberg. One of the things I’ve learned from Genpo is that even though he’s in a place few humans ever attain, he is still looking for the next larger perspective, the next step. There’s always more. Stop and rest, but don’t build a house.
Awesome Bill… just awesome!
Thanks!
Carol
I’ve enjoyed your series on human development; it was well presented and you did cover a lot of ground. What I find interesting, particularly in this last post and your closing statements about observing everything about ourselves, our lives, our observations about our observations etc, has an interesting and infinite set of ironies. The concepts you spoke about, I found very easy to follow and understand. They in and of themselves are simple and logical, yet at the same time cover a very complex issue.
Additionally, the simple act of being mindful enough to consciously make observations is in itself at the same time also very difficult to do, especially if one were to attempt to consciously do that continuously.
I suppose being mindful of all this or perhaps having this type of knowledge or ineterest as a default mindset within our make up may have some benefit or purpose towards achieving the most (if possible) developmental level possible. But then again the counter balance to that (which life always seems to provide for us) would be that having the conscious mindset to achieve or aspire to the ultimate level of development, would then also mean ones lower levels of cognitive development would still be in play. In order to make the decision necessary to achieve such a goal, the involvement of ones ego must come into play because the concern for self is what is at play in making such decisions.
If one is truly highly developed, then the ego should have been transcended even though not, obviously, totally abandoned. But again an irony. If the ego is not completely abandoned in a higher consciously developed person, but remains a remnant of a lower devlopment stage, then in order to access it, doesn’t that require one to consciously take a “developmental step” back in order to do so? Again the irony, we must literally take one step back, in order to move two steps forward. No wonder we call it a long journey.
Your work is great, Bill, but if you could condense the work of Cook-Greuter into a big table it would make it much more applicable to the real life of all of us laymen. Thanks!!!
Great informative post. That would definitely be wild to see things from that perspective and be able to describe it to others and help them out. I’ve seen some pretty wild things using Holosync and it keeps getting better.
Hello Bill
For me all I read till now from this blog and received from Holosync tec. have been LIFE SAVING.
After 3 yaers I’m a new being.
Grazie Mille from Rome!
Bill – while some of this material is a bit over my head, most of it makes a lot of sense. I am reaading “Conversations With God – Book I” by Neal Donald Walsh [& "God" ]. Much of what is said in the book has a lot in common with your material both here and in the Accelerated Change Maximizer Course.
I must say that your explanations are easier to follow than his.
I suppose Holosync [beginning Level-4] is responsible for recent changes in my attitude to life. I am largely detached from the news, politics, others’ dramas, etc. While not unemotional, I am uninvolved in these things which seem trivial now. At the same time I am more compassionate than previously. And at peace with myself and the world.
I also read a new-age mag called NOVA [www.novamagazine.com.au]. An article in the April issue [http://www.novamagazine.com.au/article_archive/2008/08_04_Truthseeker.htm] also has a lot of parallel ideas. And I have come across similar ideas in other arenas. So it looks as if there is quite a movement throughout the world, towards a new philosophy based on the non-dual universe you describe.
Dear Bill
Once again you have said some really great things in your blog. It is amazing what was unfamiliar yesterday, will be familiar today. The only thing we must be is “present”. In the Now. It is going into those unknown territory that can be quite scarey at times. We can describe those territories in many ways, along the way we learn about many emotions. Every emotion in the spectrum will be felt. It is impossible to go into new territory and not have felt the spectrum in one fashion or another. Along the way, we learn what is familiar. Everything unfolds accordingly. A person learns their really is no need to be scared, it really is an illusion. However, being scared is part of life. One must experience it to know how to deal with it. One must experience being trapped sometimes to know how to deal with it. One must experience the whole range to know how to become a better “person”. It comes with growth. Once you experience growth, you become better acquainted with growth. You realize growth is worth it. The more experiences we are able to forge through by facing our fears the less resentment we will have in the long run. It is only by not surrending to fear, but forging through that allows us to know what we are capable of as an individual human. It is only by not surrending to our fears that makes me realize…if you feel it…it is real.
Something else in your blog that caught my eye. Every experience is in and of itself amazing to each individual. I certainly try to respect everyones point of view in some way. I try not to look at the world as right and wrong. However, this way of thinking can be hard to maintain. Especially, when holding onto that thought is having to be right. There are always games in life. These games that represent the flow of life is sometimes difficult to continue. It is in these games that one realizes how unnecessary they can be. What is unfamiliar today, will be familiar tomorrow. This is partly why I look forward to tomorrow no matter what. My job is to try to make it as beautiful as possible. That is my only job in this world.
The greatness we seek is already within each of us. The greatness we seek is when we realize we are all great. Each and every one. Yesterday, I met a gentleman who at times appeared to be daydreaming. He daydreamed about greatness. It was at this moment I had to acknowledge I could no longer allow myself to sympathize with him. What was unfamiliar yesterday is familiar today. I believe when I became aware of his daydreaming that allowed me to stay in the present moment. It allowed me to recognize the importance of staying in the moment. It showed his vulnerability to the world. I had to accept that was where he was in the world.
Just something on the funny side. I love the movie, Uncle Buck. It kind of reminded me of when John Candy went into the principals office about his neice. The principal scolded his nephew for being a daydreamer. I loved his response to the principal….I do not want to meet any six year old who is not a daydreamer. Just something I have thought of that all. It a funny movie. That scene does kind of ring some truth to it. There is not much action in the daydreamer. There is a time to dream, and there is a time for action. Dream, then act. That is all we can do. Live our own dream, not our friend, family, or anyone else. We must always live our own. We do not have to control someone else’s in order to know everything will be alright. It already is alright.
I kind of rambled I know….but it was fun.
5-20-08 BLOG response for Center point-The 5 stages of enlightenment, Unitive state of Development.
This brilliant, impressive writing about stages of human development that we can possibly evolve or grow into distracts people from focussing on the truth about injustice.
Without the struggle to survive because of injustice, and in a world where every body has equal opportunity, we all would naturally evolve to our highest possible level, effortlessly and automatically.
The myth about earning, evolving or choosing how you see things from different developmental stages or perspectives and creating your own realties is nothing more than the next phase or the “turning the other cheek to injustice scam”.
Ignoring injustice, does nothing more than perpetuate the few rich getting richer with the vast majority of poor getting poorer in the negative cycle of insanity that’s keeps the whole world spiraling down.
Turning the other cheek to injustice to survive in comfort while others suffer unjustly, instead of doing something to stop it is the moral equivalent to bending over and spreading your cheeks .
Injustice for anyone is injustice for all.
One extreme is every bit a bad as the other. In the end all will all get what they deserve for believing what they want instead or what is.
Everyone creating their own comfortable reality with their heads in the sand, ignoring or pretending injustice isn’t there will get exactly what they deserve, “shafted”.
Best wishes to all who do what they can to eliminate injustice.
Gary AKA rgaryc at hotmail
FROM BILL: The truth is that the solution to injustice is having more people who embody higher developmental levels. The whole idea of injustice–or doing something about it–doesn’t even appear until the Achiever stage described by Susanne Cook-Greuter–the 6th stage. This stage began to appear in human history during the Enlightenment (1700’s) and led to ideas such as Universal Rights, the abolition of slavery, the women’s movement, and so forth. The higher on the developmental scale you go, the more compassion and care the person exhibits. Even while someone at the highest levels of development is “turning the other cheek” he is doing much more than others to help end suffering. No one is saying that it is a good idea to ignore suffering. The enlightened person is doing MORE to deal with injustice than others. At the same time, though, from a more cosmic perspective, he sees that everything is happening just the way it’s supposed to, including the suffering and all the efforts to alleviate it. This is one of those paradoxes of being human, but it is NOT in any way a turning away from injustice.
Bill,
I’ve enjoyed reading all of your posts, but this particular one is especially eye-opening. As an undergraduate student at UCLA, I constantly get wrapped up in the minute (and sometimes trivial) details of college life that I start to lack perspective on what is really important in life. It’s not all about me-me-me.
From this post, I’ve taken away these main points, which I will do my best to live by in my day-to-day life:
Everyone and everything that happens is part of the grand dance and flow of the universe. I can work hard to achieve a particular outcome that I want, but whether I achieve it or not does not affect my happiness. In other words, I am not attached to any particular outcome.
Unitives have the ability to effect change in others just by simply being in the world and acting compassionately through their enlightened perspective of the world.
Absolute control of our personal lives is illusory and unnecessary. Humanity is more important than the individual self.
We should go from:
me-centered -> group-centered -> world-centered.
Love and compassion increase with each new perspective.
And finally, awareness is the key to drive development, so keep meditating!
I heard last night that a medical doctor, she was a young 26-year-old was killed in a car crash. A truck slammed into her car, ruptured her liver and she died at 11.45 am. This stuff sounds very good Bill, but tell that to the grieving mother. I don’t get this “all the universe is one” stuff. And any way, if it is, who gives a rat’s ass?
Hi Bill, having listened to the whole series, it seems that as part of growing, we definitely experience growth into all these stages, and at the same time, but since we do tend to stagnate in certain areas, we end up shortfalling and challenged there. So, experiencing a certain level at large is only an indication that we are on the right track and I am sure Susanne ’s SCTi Assessment is the correct tool to assist us in our growth.
I think we shouldn’t at all label ourselves and our growth, and that these incedible lessons should act as inspiration, and not as time-space coordinates.
Hi Bill,
I would love to hear more about the shadow self. I understand that meditation wont touch the shadow aspect of myself, and that I will have to deal with that seperately with a specific technique.
I am a Holosync user and I realise that I will feel increasingly pushed to deal with the shadow aspect of myself.
If you could write anything about dealing with the shadow and using Holosync just to shed some more light on this subject area it would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Sincerely
Michelle
I am Creek/Cherokee/Choctaw. I was raised by my grandmother who was a very powerful Medicine Woman. She would have looked at these articles and said, “lotta words”. That’s not to take anything away from their content, but, to my traditionally-trained Native mind, it’s a whole lot simpler than that. I am not Sioux, but I am a 20 Sioux Sundancer, so I borrow a bit of the Sioux language. The Sioux have a universal blessing that honors the Oneness of all—Mitakuye Oyasin! It literally means, “All my relations” , but in a larger translation means, “It is all one. We are all one. There is only one. People, animals, plants, rocks, everything.”
Not so many words but it encompasses everything that was said in all the words of those articles. Achieving the level of full recognition and deepest level of understanding and acceptance and practice of “Mitakuye Oyasin” is the path in few words. Not so may words.
FROM BILL: I appreciate the “all my relations” idea very much. However, there IS more to this than just saying “we’re all one.” First of all, there is a developmental process that people go through to get to the point where they see things that way. And, the idea that “we are all one” is interpreted in a very different way at each developmental stage. Finally, there is a significant difference between saying we’re all one and actually having the experience (usually called “enlightenment” or “self-realization”) of being the entire going on of it all, where the locus of “self” is the entire universe rather than just the individual body/mind. For instance, many people coming from a Green, pluralistic point of view say that we’re all one–it’s almost a cliche, in fact. These people are not having the experience I’m talking about, however. They believe it, but aren’t BEING it. A step in the right direction, but still a long way to go. I don’t know if you read my entire series on development (going back to the beginning of the blog), but all of this is explained, step-by-step, in a series of posts.
Bill, I couldn’t help but notice as I read some of the comments that people have written about your long post and laugh because at one time I too looked and saw that you had a lot to say. But then again I didn’t read everything you wrote either because call it lazy or what ever you call a lazy mind. But now I have begun to read everything you have written and it’s very interesting because even though you have a lot to say about particular subjects the person reading it learns something that is so vital to their understanding of the world and what is going on inside the human mind. Our lives are like onion skins as you grow a little wiser each time you loose the outer exposed skin and the new one appears. The whole thing is getting to that other level or the other layer of that onion skin and that is what makes us a truly enlightened person.
FROM BILL: I write only as much as I need to write in order to say what I need to say, and no more.
Thank you for this Blog, it is difficult to convey these states in words, but you have done well to point them out, I certainly recognized the Unitive state. I have been blessed to have experienced the Unitive state of consciousness as described for a short while, on a few occasions. Although I am not there for the time being, or you could say I am not there for being in time perhaps, but I feel the it will return with a mass awakening.
The most profound experience of Unity Consciousness occured In the early 1990’s. I had a conversation with a psychic lady about her crystal collection, she lifted one particular crystal which turned out to be ‘Sodalite’, and suggested that I place it on my third eye area. Not long after I did this, I began to feel a pleasant sensation around the area of the third eye, and tingling feeling.
The sensation traveled down my neck to my heart, and then to my hands. It was then that I felt a shift in consciousness as though I awakened from a deep sleep, I was truly awake for the first time, with a real feeling of pure joy. I will try to describe the experience in the best way I can. I felt the complete absense of fear, a total peace, as I was ‘One’ with everything. I looked at the psychic lady, and my mother, and I recognized myself in them, we were ‘One’, and I said softly, ‘God’. My ego had merged with pure eternal consciousness.
It was all so simple, and this was truth was literally staring at us all in the face. It felt like being told the funniest joke conceivable, and we were the punchline to it. The ‘Oneness’ or ‘Unity’, was Unconditional Love, I had never felt such love before as I was Love itself. After about a minute the consciousness slipped away to normal conscious state, but I had never before or since felt so alive and so happy.
For three days I felt a mild not unpleasant headache, in the center of my head but no side effects. It was on the third day that I was observing an old lady walking in the street, who I did not know, and suddenly as before the ‘Unitive’ state briefly returned, seeing beyond her form I recognized her consciousness as though it were my own, and felt a ancient unconditional love for her.
I had not meditated or done anything to initiate the state of Consciousness, or at least in this lifetime, it just seemed to happened almost by accident. I have been waiting for this state to return again, knowing that there is really nothing that I can do to bring it back as such. However I am at least aware that due to the information on this Blog and elsewhere, that its return feels imminent. God Bless, love and peace.
FROM BILL: Meditate with Holsync!