Will Holosync make you enlightened?
by Bill HarrisJuly 7th, 2008
Many of you have asked that I write about Holosync, so beginning with this post, your wish is granted. There’s so much I could say about Holosync that it’s difficult to know where to start.
Here are just a few of the topics we could touch on:
- How Holosync affects the brain, and how those changes in the brain create changes in awareness and consciousness…
- The various brain wave patterns and what happens when your brain makes each of them…
- How Holosync affects what Eastern meditation schools call the subtle body..
- How Holosync affects dysfunctional feelings and behaviors…
- How Holosync affects your ability to think more clearly and effectively…
- How Holosync affects such things as ADD, hyperactivity, autism, addictions, and other such problems…
- What neurochemical and hormonal changes are created when you use Holosync, and how those changes affect how you feel and function…
- How Holosync affects awareness, what awareness actually is, and how increased awareness affects your life…
- The difference between Holosync meditation and traditional meditation…
- Why we provide progressively deeper levels of Holosync–and the huge benefit of continuing through those levels…
- An overview of what happens when you use Holosync, why it happens, and what to do about it…
- How Holosync raises your threshold for what you can handle from life…
- How Holosync improves physical health, longevity, and resistance to disease…
- Why some people have trouble using Holosync, and what they can do about it…
- How Holosync affects the developmental process I’ve written so much about, and…
- How Holosync affects enlightenment or awakening.
Whew! How do I write about all of that? A fair amount of this is addressed in the Support Letters I’ve written for Awakening Prologue and Awakening Level 1 (those for Awakening Level 1 are new, and just starting to go out to people), and in my other writings. I’ve found, though, that most people read this stuff once (if I’m lucky), and don’t absorb a lot of it.
Why does this happen? Because if I describe something that happens as you use Holosync, but it hasn’t happened for you, YET, you probably won’t remember having read about it when, later, it does happen. It just wasn’t of concern when you read it, so your brain deleted it, disregarded it. Then, when you do have the experience, you probably won’t remember my reference to it.
For that reason, I highly suggest that you go back and reread the Support Letters and Special Reports I’ve sent you. You’ll find yourself having all kinds of ah-ha’s if you do, because what I’ve said will mean much more to you now–and you’ll much better understand what you’re experiencing, and where all of this is heading.
I realize that doing this takes time. I’ve written a ton about Holosync over the years, and that you have other things to do besides use Holosync and read what I’ve said about it. On the other hand, when you use Holosync you’re exposing your nervous system to a very potent stimulus that creates some rather amazing changes in the way you see and experience yourself, your world, and other people. If I were you, I’d want to know what I was feeding into my brain and how it works.
Since we’ve been talking about enlightenment in this blog, and because several of you have specifically asked about this, let’s talk about Holosync and enlightenment. So, are you going to become enlightened if you use Holosync?
First, perhaps we’d better decide what we mean by enlightenment.
I realize that in posing this question I’m opening Pandora’s Box. Defining enlightenment isn’t easy, partly because the whole subject is ineffable, which means it resists description. We’re trying to describe something non-dualistic with language, the whole premise of which is dualistic (i.e., that certain separate things do something to other things).
Another potential problem is that every reader will interpret what I say from his or her own individual perspective (his or her current developmental level) which by definition (excuse me for saying this, but it’s true) is incomplete, making what I say only partially understandable. Nearly everyone’s perspective on enlightenment is a collection of IDEAS, not something they know from experience.
Whatever. Let’s give it a try, and see what happens.
You could say that enlightenment is waking up to the truth about reality, or the truth about who you really are. So, then, what is the truth about reality? And who are you, really? Again, we have a problem, because you can’t really say what reality is. Being ineffable, it’s beyond description. We are part of a multidimensional reality that cannot be described with linear and dualistic language.
For this reason reality is generally described by saying what it ISN’T. (In theology this is called the apophatic approach. Another approach is to describe what reality is like, which is called the cataphatic approach–the approach of poetry or metaphor, as when we say, for instance, that God is love, or God is like a father and we are his children.)
So what I’m about to say will be partly what reality is like, partly what it is not, and partly what it is–even though anything you can say about it really isn’t it.
So, on one hand, we have the common sense notion that reality is composed of separate things and events–and that you are one of those separate things. The awakened person would see that this chopping of reality into separate bits is an illusion created by the mind, and that in actuality everything goes together and exists in relation to everything else. It’s all one continuous thing and one continuous event. For the awakened person this isn’t a way of thinking about the world, a theory, but rather an experience of the way things are.
As I’ve said in previous posts, this also includes the realization that all pairs of seeming opposites are really one, that they arise together and depend upon each other, and that the supposed conflict between opposites is also an illusion created by the mind. This is what I’ve referred to as the Game of Black and White–the idea that life, for instance, must (or could) win over death, that good must win over evil, that having must win over not having, or in general that what you want must (or could) win over what you don’t want.
Further, the very nature of who you are–and the nature of every other “thing-event” in the relative world–is emptiness. In Buddhism they say, “Emptiness is form, form is emptiness.” This “emptiness” is called Śūnyatā in Buddhism, and signifies that everything one encounters in life is empty of any absolute identity, permanence, or any sort of in-dwelling ’self’.
This is because everything is interrelated and mutually dependent, as I said above, which means that nothing has any independent existence (when they use the term emptiness Buddhists don’t mean that everything is NOTHING–emptiness is their way of describing this lack of independent nature). All things are in a state of constant flux where energy and information are continuously and forever flowing throughout the natural world giving rise to, and themselves undergoing, major transformations with the passage of time.
In other words, everything is impermanent. What seem to be substantial and discrete things come into being and pass away, endlessly. This misperception that there are solid and separate things with some sort of independent existence (including the idea that there is a separate you with an independent existence) is caused by the psychological tendency to grasp at all objects of perception as if they really existed as independent entities.
Some think that this is a result of our resistance to impermanence, particularly death. This resistance causes ordinary (unawakened) beings to believe that separate and stable objects exist ‘out there’ as they appear to perception. (Ironically, when you stop resisting impermanence, and embrace it, you are free.)
This delusion that there are stable things out there is like seeing a whirlpool in a river and thinking that it is a solid, permanent thing, when in really it is a constantly changing flow that just looks like a stable and constant ”thing.”
Here is what the Dalai Lama said about the Buddhist idea of emptiness in his book The Universe in a Single Atom (and yes, I will get back to Holosync):
One of the most important philosophical insights in Buddhism comes from what is known as the theory of emptiness. At its heart is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own experience in it, and the way things actually are.
In our day-to-day experience, we tend to relate to the world and to ourselves as if these entities possessed self-enclosed, definable, discrete and enduring reality. For instance, if we examine our own conception of selfhood, we will find that we tend to believe in the presence of an essential core to our being, which characterises our individuality and identity as a discrete ego, independent of the physical and mental elements that constitute our existence.
The philosophy of emptiness reveals that this is not only a fundamental error but also the basis for attachment, clinging and the development of our numerous prejudices. According to the theory of emptiness, any belief in an objective reality grounded in the assumption of intrinsic, independent existence is simply untenable. All things and events, whether ‘material’, mental or even abstract concepts like time, are devoid of objective, independent existence. To intrinsically possess such independent existence would imply that all things and events are somehow complete unto themselves and are therefore entirely self-contained. This would mean that nothing has the capacity to interact with or exert influence on any other phenomena.
But we know that there is cause and effect – turn a key in a car, the starter motor turns the engine over, spark plugs ignite and fuel begins to burn… Yet in a universe of self-contained, inherently existing things, these events could never occur!
So effectively, the notion of intrinsic existence is incompatible with causation; this is because causation implies contingency and dependence, while anything that inherently existed would be immutable and self-enclosed. In the theory of emptiness, everything is argued as merely being composed of dependently related events; of continuously interacting phenomena with no fixed, immutable essence, which are themselves in dynamic and constantly changing relations. Thus, things and events are ‘empty’ in that they can never possess any immutable essence, intrinsic reality or absolute ‘being’ that affords independence.
Suffering happens when we cling to these phantom “things” and “events”–and in particular, to the most significant phantom of all, ”me.”
When a person awakens, they see through all of this–or, you might say, “there is a seeing-through of all of this,” since part of the waking up is the realization that there is no separate person there to actually see anything. (This is why it’s so hard to describe this with language, which implies the very separate things and events we’re saying aren’t real.)
This realization isn’t a theoretical understanding, or a belief. It’s an experience, and at first a quite stunning experience. And along with that experience is a complete freedom from clinging to the idea of ”me,” or to the world being any certain way. All the conflicts that seem so real in the Game of Black and White are seen through, and in seeing through all of this, there is complete freedom.
Geez, I just wanted to talk about Holosync, and here I’ve been sucked into explaining one of the deepest philosophical questions ever raised. So let’s just say that the above describes the awakened experience, even though such an experience can’t be described. And, if this doesn’t make sense to you, let that be okay. Before you start to actually see/feel/experience the truth of the above, it can just seem to be theoretical mumbo-jumbo. Once you have the experience, though, the above just seems like a description (though incomplete) of what is obvious.
So how does Holosync tune you in to this experience and awaken you to the illusion of separate things and events and the futility of resisting the universe the way it is?
It actually makes more sense to look at this question the other way around–to ask how in the world a human being can come under the illusion that there are separate things and events, and that there is a separate doer who can move them around through some sort of power that is separate from the whole.
Here’s the typical explanation. The mind, by its very nature, chops the universe into separate things and events, something I’ve discussed at length in other posts. This chopping is called maya in Hindu and Buddhist thought. Maya comes from the same root word as measurement, and it’s the idea that we take an essentially wiggly world and try to “straighten it out,” to explain it (ex-plane it, flatten it out), to “square things away,” to “iron things out,” and so on.
If humans were in charge of clouds, for instance, they would all probably have regular geometrical shapes. The natural wiggly world is too complex for our simple minds, so we try to simplify it by dividing it into this and that, separate things and events, and create simple representations of the exceedingly complex (actually, infinitely complex) multi-dimensional goings-on of the natural world.
For instance, if you tried to describe what happened to you during the last five minutes whatever you said would be a tiny fraction of what really happened, because what happened actually included all your sensory impressions, attended to or not, all your relationships with everything else (ultimately) in the universe, all the cells that divided in your body, all the heartbeats that happened, all the muscle movements, and a whole lot more–and that just can’t be described. It would take an infinite amount of time to explain all of this, since it’s all happening all at once. We live in a multi-dimensional universe that just cannot be grabbed hold of, physically or mentally! (It’s been said about Reality, the Tao, that “You can’t grab hold of it, and you can’t get rid of it.”)
So the way out of this fragmented way of living and seeing the world (a way of seeing that is the root cause of the suffering in the world) is to stop mistaking this chopped-up way of looking at the universe, through the filter of the mind, for the real thing. And, to do this, you first have to get out of the mind entirely (though once you “get it” you can go back to using the mind, but this time without being fooled that what it creates is more than just a representation of reality).
Holosync (as well as traditional meditation, for that matter) creates connections in the brain that gradually allows you to see more and more how everything really does go together, to see how everything is really one big “thing-event”, and how separate things and events (especially the separate “me”) are illusory.
This, of course, is the end-of-the-line ultimate realization. As you know if you’re using Holosync, this isn’t what happens during the first week. As you use Holosync, though, you gradually see how things go together and, as this happens, you relax. Things that bothered you before (aspects of life around which you were playing the Game of Black and White) don’t seem to bug you as much. Seeing the world as a conglomeration of separate things and events (that aren’t you, and are potentially dangerous) creates anxiety, because it makes it SEEM as if you are separate from the rest of the universe–and, as a separate self, that you are in danger, or at least potentially in danger.
As you increasingly see how things go together your anxiety diminishes, along with depression, anger, fear, and other “negative” emotions (the emotions of separation). At the same time, your various coping methods for dealing with what seems like the danger of existence also calm down–addictions, eating problems, withdrawal, projection, behavioral acting out, and so on.
Most people don’t, at first, see these changes as being a result of seeing how everything goes together, because that isn’t apparent in the beginning–at least to most people. But just a little bit, even if you aren’t yet consciously aware of it, is enough to change your experience of life. The ah-ha, where you see that, yes, everything is connected, and you are not separate, comes later.
Another way to approach this is to realize that the mind, in chopping the universe up into separate bits, creates an illusion. As the mind calms down, this illusion loses power. Holosync quiets the mind, at least over time, and as this happens you become calmer, you feel more connected to everything, and the emotions and behaviors characteristic of separation diminish.
On the other hand, as many of you know, you can experience upheaval as you use Holosync. With any kind of meditation, the mind, the ego, will fight back. All those areas of life where you’re playing the Game of Black and White (trying to resist or get rid of something) will eventually surface, and the upheaval you experience is really just your own resistance to what is.
In other words, all the areas of life where you think things should be THIS way and not THAT way, will come up, and you might have strong resistance around each of them. Of course, you don’t have to resist. You could surrender to what is and let the world be the way that it is, but most people fight for their IDEAS about how this should win over that. This fighting, of course, creates upheaval and suffering. This is what I’m referring to when I tell people as they use Holosync to let whatever happens be okay. Most people, at first, have a hard time taking this advice. Still, I give it.
(By the way, I am not saying that you can’t do something to create change in your life. As long as you do so without resistance, create all the change you want.)
The more you’ve been traumatized in your life, the more likely you’ll fight for your version of the Game of Black and White. This happens because the trauma you’ve suffered gives you a strong belief that the world is a dangerous place, and that you MUST protect yourself from that danger. What you think of as danger is Black in the Game of Black and White, and you can’t let it win, so you play a HARD version of the game in an attempt to defeat it. The Game of Black and White, though, is an unwinnable game. This is because in reality Black and White go together and are really one thing. Having one side “win” and eliminating the other would be like having up win over down. What’s more, ultimately, Black and White are just ideas, not realities. Desirable and undesirable are not qualaties that are intrinsic to anything. They are ADDED by the mind, from the outside.
So, if your experience is intense from time to time as you use Holosync, you have to realize that you are doing it, by (unconsciously) playing the Game of Black and White–which means clinging to your idea of how things should be, in other words, resisting what is. Again, this is why I suggest that you let whatever happens be okay, at least emotionally, and just watch with curiosity. And, I’ll admit that at first this isn’t easy to do, so you might have to go through a bit of upheaval from time to time. I sure did.
So, will you become enlightened? This, of course, is a trick question. The truth is that there is no “you” that could become enlightened. The “you” you’re hoping will become enlightened is the ego, and since enlightenment is an ending of unconscious identification with the ego, your IDEA of who you are, “you” can’t become enlightened. Trying to become enlightened ultimately bumps up against the fact that the trying is just a strengthening the very thing that stands in the way of it happening.
Well, shit, you say. Bummer. Maybe I’ll go to someone who’ll be more encouraging. But what I’ve just said isn’t bad news. The reason you can’t become enlightened is that you don’t exist, and that realization IS enlightenment (or at least one stage of it). The truth is that enlightenment can HAPPEN, but “you” can’t do anything to make it happen because you don’t exist!
As Ken Wilber says, enlightenment is an accident, but meditation makes you more accident prone. Enlightenment happens, but there is no separate self that it happens to. I will say that since meditation makes you more accident prone, and Holosync meditation is undeniably faster and more potent than traditional meditation, using Holosync makes you REALLY accident prone. And, even if enlightenment doesn’t “happen,” “you” will, over time, at the very least drop a lot of your emotional bullshit, gain a tremendous clarity of mind, and dramatically reduce the amount of suffering you experience.
Again, if you’ve suffered a lot of trauma in your past, you’re almost sure to be playing a seriously hard Game of Black and White, in which case your path will probably be much more intense (the more trauma, the harder we play the Game of Black and White). When this happens, the mind, the ego, fights back even harder.
This was the way it was for me. I had HUGE upheaval, tons of cathartic stuff. I made the whole process very difficult for myself. But if I can come out the other side, anyone can. It’s because of the potential for upheaval that I created the support letters and the support hotline. Some people need more support. I didn’t have any support, which meant that I unknowingly made things more difficult than they needed to be. Now the only way you can do that is if you don’t ask for support, or reject it when it’s offered (as many people do–we tell them exactly what they need to do to stop suffering and they get pissed off at us).
To make all of this even more paradoxical, once you’ve realize that you are IT (or, rather, that the center you thought was you is just an idea, and that the real you is the entire going on of it all), once you get that there is no separate you, you have to somehow integrate that realization back into the relative world.
The truth is that humans DO create a world of separate things and events, and you can’t get away from the relative world. Trying to do so is just as much a delusion as failing to see that separate things and events aren’t real. So once you realize that the relative world, the world of separate things and events, is a mentally created illusion–what is commonly referred to as awakening (the Third Rank of Tozan I described in a previous post) you go back into the relative world and learn how to function in it WHILE AT THE SAME TIME knowing who you really are.
This is necessary because of one of the basic laws of reality: everything is in time and eventually passes away. There’s no getting away from this, and it’s for this reason that to be here, as a human, there is going to be SOME suffering. To be here you have to become attached, at least a little bit. You have to play a LIGHT version of the Game of Black and White. There’s no reason to be here unless you do. Genpo Roshi, for instance, is attached to some things, but it’s by choice. He’s attached to his children, his wife, his friends, to Zen, to helping others wake up, and so on. In the same way, I’m attached to certain things. And, because all things come into being and pass away, there is suffering built into all attachment.
The difference between Genpo Roshi (or anyone who has awakened and then goes back into the relative world) and the average person is that the awakened person chooses what to become attached to. Genpo Roshi calls such a person ”the one who chooses to be a human being.” Once you “get” the truth that everything is one thing, you could just sit in that place, in Big Mind, but in that place there’s nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to get. In that case, why be here? This relative world is a place where we at least play as if there IS something to get, somewhere to go, something to do. It’s just that the awakened person is choosing those things, while the unawakened person–busy playing an unconscious Game of Black and White–unconsciously stumbles from one type of suffering to the next, without choice.
So the answer to the question of whether or not you will become enlightened if you use Holosync is yes. And, it’s also no. And maybe. I’ll tell you this, though. Enlightenment is about two things: awareness (of what is real and what is illusion, and who you really are), and surrender to what is (in particular, to impermanence). You must see things the way they really are, and awareness is needed if you are to do that. Then, you must accept things the way they are, which means that you stop playing the Game of Black and White, except as a conscious choice. You see the way things are, and also that ultimately there is no escape from the way things are.
Once you do that (again, accepting the fact that, in reality, there’s no “you” to do this, but that’s the limitation of explaining this using language), you are FREE. People think that freedom is winning the Game of Black and White. It isn’t. Freedom is stepping out of the game, then stepping back in, but this time doing so consciously, intentionally, knowing and accepting the consequences.
Whew! This was a long one. I hope this is helpful. See you next time.
Before I go…
1) I just returned from presenting a workshop with Genpo Roshi in New York. Again, it was mind-blowing. Everyone raved about their experience. If you were there, please post something about your experience. I strongly urge you to come to our next workshop, in Las Vegas, on September 20-21. You can sign up at www.centerpointe.com/bigmind.
2) Also, if you haven’t registered for my FREE online course about the work of Eckhart Tolle, please do. Those who are taking this course are raving about how helpful it is. Just go to www.understandingthepowerofnow.com to register.
Please tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about this course, which features Genpo Roshi, Ken Wilber, Byron Katie, Diane Hamilton, Sally Kempton, Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder, and…me!
Be well.
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July 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Dearest Bill,
what can I say? YOU’RE A GENIUS, I would want to write a load of things here, but you’re already doing that for us all, so I will just post two words and then shut up.
I look forward to read more of your posts about holo and what it does. As the holo experience is unfolding for me, I am amazed at the changes it is creating in my own life (and I have been doing it for a mere 15 months).
To all that have started out on holo and are in the initial stages I say GANBATTE! (Japanese for hang in there).
Once more thanks so much Bill!
Until next time take care, David Lugano/Switzerland
July 7th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“The truth is that enlightenment can HAPPEN, but “you” can’t do anything to make it happen because you don’t exist!” ; well said.
Perhaps others may benefit from this persons experience:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacey-lawson/amazing-grace-video_b_111155.html
July 7th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Bill, it was a privilege to experience you in person at the New York Big Mind conference. Genpo Roshi really integrated what you are saying in this blog at the energy and spirit level of most of the participants. I have been cycling thru Stage 4 (I call it mini-stage 4 because although I’m in the shallow end of Stage 1, I seem to cycle thru the 5 stages at the level I’m at) and I was MAD at the suffering I perceived in my experience in general. Your blog helped very much explain what happened at Big Mind when I got “reset” on the path I’ve been following. Even though I know what is going on at the level of thought, I need help (and help from your organization is most effective) to integrate. Thanks.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
What an excellent post. Thank you!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hi Bill,
Thanks again for the wonderful post. I appreciate it. I, for one, have read all the Support Letters and other material I’ve been sent many, many times and I’ve gotten a lot out of them, especially the “Oneness Isn’t Metaphysical” booklet. I make a point to read them every 3 months or so and they are very helpful, so thanks for making them available.
Looking over the topics you listed I would just like to let you know which ones I am most interested in:
How Holosync affects what Eastern meditation schools call the subtle body..
The difference between Holosync meditation and traditional meditation…
How Holosync improves physical health, longevity, and resistance to disease…
Why some people have trouble using Holosync, and what they can do about it…
How Holosync affects the developmental process I’ve written so much about, and…
Thanks!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
“Trying to become enlightened ultimately bumps up against the fact that the trying is just a strengthening the very thing that stands in the way of it happening.”
This is the theory I took to heart when I realized, 15 years ago, that searching for happiness will only keep me away from it. Searching for happiness implies that I don’t have it already within me. So I sat down to meditate.
One of my teachers instructed me, “Don’t be attached to the outcome.” That is, you can have a favorite this or that, but if God gives you some of the other, don’t be mad!
Favorite quote from The Matrix (first movie of the trilogy): “There is no spoon.” Similar to your current post! “The truth is that there is no “you” that could become enlightened.”
July 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thanks Bill. I love the ambiguous answer to the question of whether or not Holosync will make us enlightened.
Could I sum it up this way(?): the only truth is, everything is both true & untrue; it’s up to you.
Or how about this bit of doggerel:
If you think you’re enlightened,
You’re not.
If you think you’ve transcended Ego,
You Haven’t.
If you…something something something, I forget the rest of it.
I too look forward to reading more about Holosync, especially things like this which aren’t covered in the books & CDs (LOVE the CDs-from-a-Retreat which I’ve listened to over and over and over and….)
Thanks especially for inviting feedback. Best Regards, Elaine
July 7th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Thanks for the post, Bill. I love hearing about things relating to Holosync, especially any new information that relates to Holosync or the benefits of meditation as new studies are conducted.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Wow! I just wanted to thank you for all the posts on human developement and especially for this last post on enlightenment. Although some of the material is over my head I always feel so much better after I read them. I don’t have too many people to discuss this stuff with so it is always good to go back and re-read the info. Thanks so much, Bill.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Once again Thank You Bill,
You do have a talent for explaining what can’t be explained.
A few years into Holosync now and I can truly say I’m glad to be here. No big ahas (many small comforting ones though), no major traumas (just little ones). All I’ve gotten from Holosync is a gradual lightening of the load, an increasing peace of mind, a lessoning of angst and a cheerfulness that is contagious. Excelsior!
Please keep writing; of all who you’ve introduced me to with your Blog and programs you seem to be the one I resonate to the most. Somehow your depth comes across the mind barrier and is truly beautiful to experience.
Stay well,
Jeff
July 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Bill,
I read all of your stuff over and over (feel better?). But then, I’m also the kind of person that reads all of the instructions before I put anything together. By the way, you didn’t mention THRESHOLDS OF THE MIND (I’m on my fourth reading).
Even though I read your blog faithfully (and download your podcasts) I’m not usually one for offering my 2 cents (there are plenty of those who can do so more elequently than I). Yet - I felt I had to speak to this blog.
I’ve been using Holosync for almost a year now (next month). As to whether or not I will be come enlightened (like eckhart) - WHO GIVES A CRAP?! - I have never been happier or more at peace IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I spent 54 years “suffering through it”, then came Holosync. Without belaboring the details I went from “I wish I wan’t here ( I was suicidal in my younger days) to “I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE.
Everyday is a JOY. The people I work with think I’ve gone off the deep end…and I suppose I have in a way.
My wife and I also have been deeply invloved in Tolle’s books and the Oprah “event” - which was great. But here’s the clincher. After reading and listening to Tolle, I went back and read your THRESHOLDS OF THE MIND. Page after page I stopped to think “OMG…that’s what eckhart meant!”
Whether or not I become “enlightened” through Holosync I can’t say (it would be a nice “perk”). What I can say is that I am the luckiest person alive to have found it.
Thank You
Terry
July 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Hi Bill,
This was your BEST Post yet! I look forward to accidentally becoming enlightened.
Sincerely,
Amit Mehta
July 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Bill, Great blog on enlightenment from Holosync. Lots of laughs in it as the mind is tweaked. Really, if we are all illusions then why bother about anything anymore? So much was answered and touched upon brilliantly but I am still challenged on the idea of attachment. We could end all suffering if we are not attached to anything and to me that would seem to mean give up love - full stop. I am not attached to my own life, but I am attached to comfort, which seems to be dwindling away. As I let go of attachments, people are letting go of me and so is my income and my life it seems. I hear what you say and love it but there are amazing philosophical contradictions still. Words are not able, in my view, to describe paradoxes, nor to explain anything. They are powerful and yet useless at the same time. Our interpretations are as ilusory as anything. But I rave about Holosync. So much garbage has slipped away from my experience and a lot more to go if I can last the distance. You have to care to keep going and yet caring is an attachment. You have to believe in something for even Holosync to matter. Even thinking is an attachment to this illusory life. It is all a great wiggly.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Excellent explanation of “enlightment” - thank you.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hello Bill,
I can not but agree with everything you wrote. I could not have written it as eloquently as you did Bill. I am very grateful for your talent. I have been committed to listen to the Holosync CDs daily for the last two years and I am planning to stay committed. I agree fully with the conscious choices we make as we become more aware of how things fit so well together - as everything is part of the whole.
Again, thank you for your time and energy.
My very best in everything you do!
Christina
July 7th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your great insights again. I’m currently on Awakening Level 1, due to move onto level 2 in August. I am a fair way into your Life Principles Program too (course 2) and certain a-ha’s are taking place.
What amazes me (but I am starting to see that it is no coincidence) is some of the things that “happen” in total synergy with a thought or feeling.
A quick example:
Today I was sitting down to write a song (I am a songwriter) to capitalise on a lyrical idea I had in my head. After a few minutes my lyrics got around to the heart, the mind etc… and in a flash of inspiration Genpo Roshi & Bill Harris appeared in my head and the song was born called Big Mind, Big Heart… literally 2 minutes later your email arrived to inform me of this post…
Thank you for providing something that is enabling me to truly wake up.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yes ,I am one of those who does not know whether one is or is not “enlightened “.
Once upon a time I was under the opinion that I was not quite “normal ‘ ( Whatever that is ) and became a member and studies of a metaphysical order .This membership saved my psychological life . I understood my mission in life as it related to my spouse . I became FREE. “There were of course times of great inner upheaval resulting into “sorting things out”.
After many years of doing other interests ,mainly the persuit of economical security
I decided to check back into what we are persuing now .
I must say that I have no quarrel whatshowever with either the words and action of all teachers , Centerpointe or Intergral Institude .
However nothing bombastic ever occurred (Also practicing Chi Gong ).
I have no REAL problem with anything nor anybody ( Safe the present administration , but not to the point of being “negatively” affected ).
I am AT ONE with the “cosmic” entity have no fear . Nor am I affected by any serious malady .
I am however amused by the type of Problems expressed in tragic operas and terrible problems of the country song type .
There is one thing I must say : Whatever occurs to you as reality is definitely not reliable to be viewd as reality.
And That can open up a can of worms .
Also the question is when working with Natural Laws , insofar are mathematical relations real or not . They seem to work everytime according to the “Law” as proof by valid results .
I wish I would be enlightened to answer that question .
Do not be concerned about me . You are doing splendid work
Be you all well
Helmut
July 7th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I was one of the participants at the Big Mind workshop in NY and should say that it triggered what I believe is the biggest breakthrough in my life to this point.
I am still somehow “integrating” what happened into the relative world and discovering what and how much to get attached to, so far all I can say is that it changes–constantly, and of course that is how it’s supposed to be.
I wish words could explain it, the only thing I could say to anybody who feels a call to wake up is: please go.
Lots of love.
Santiago
July 7th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Thank you Bill for taking some very “slippery” concepts and allowing one to make an attemp to grasp them…Intellectually, I get it. Now to release this version of me as I acknoweldge my “being” in all of these magical “happenings!”
I very much recommend that readers of the above blog now go to the Bill Harris/Genpo Roshi interview at http://www.understandingthepowerofnow.com for more VERY complementary awarenesses and understandings.
I am grateful for you, Bill as our enlightenment advocate!
Oh yes, I might add that I’ve been listening to Holosync for two years and there have been major transformations: tolerances of the inequities of life have risen, acceptance of stress without being so affected by it, more open to loving relationships - to name a few. Am looking forward to the next two years.
Carl Stange/USA
July 7th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi Bill,
Brilliant!!! Reading this was so enjoyable :O) Thanks for writing it, the whole thing is a bit of an a-ha moment haha.
Have a good one and thanks very much for being so helpful,
Dave :O)
July 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
So life is just a game played with oneself for no reason at all and when you wake up you just keep playing cause there’s nothing better to do? Isn’t that idea just an illusion too? Just between me and you maybe we’ve just made this whole thing up and haven’t got a clue until time passes and we really wake up to something no one ever thought of before because it never was. See you there!
July 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Thank you Bill for taking the time to write this very interesting discourse. You have a way of explaining that is much like a Mother’s kiss to a booboo. It makes it “better” without making it “better”. I have been perusing “A Course In Miracles” and what Gary Renard says about it. What you are saying here and what Mr. Renard says about the course sound very similar. Regardless, you always seem to say what needs to be said in a way that brings me up a level and doesn’t presume to make it necessary to point out my inabilities as much as what my abilities and potential can be. Thank you and Be Well!
July 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
That was truly truly great, and quite insightful.
I have been using holosync for more than 8 years, Its been quite a ride and I certainly know what Bill means by: there is no-one to enlighten, no separate “me” to awaken.
Although I have to admit I still fall into the world of duality often it doesn’t bother me anymore, both the transcendent and the world of duality are ok, but there is a strong clinging or attachment to the transcendent which again creates suffering.
Its so wonderful to read Bill’s insights about all this as it helps me accept this as another part of the journey, another resistance to integrate.
I do have some comments on the view point and Bill’s interpretation of the selflessness nature of reality.
Bill, It seems as you have adopted the viewpoint that there is ultimately no self and the whole universe is just happening as one whole unified field.
Along with the famous buddhist concept of sunyata is the profound concept of the sulinata found in the yogacara tradition which may seem opposite to the void, saying that Brahman (Parabrahma to be precise) or ultimate reality manifests itself as Paramatman or the individual yet infinite nature of the individual self not as a separate self but as an all inclusive multiplicity in the great ever present BigMind.
As it`s quite true one can experience this state of oneness thanks to the BigMind process of Gempo Roshi in this state I have found two profound realizations, one that although there is no perception of a “me” or not “me” this state have not created what it is, the chair I’m sitting in, etc. And although I can feel oneness with all I can perceive and clearly see how boundaries or concepts are just that, there is ultimately a Gempo in the screen (I only have the dvds) and another part of this whole which calls to the concept of me, yes being infinite but also finite.
Without falling into the need of creating a concept that there is “something” called me, in the end we must recognize that this void where it all arises although being the same in nature of the void where this words are being read (i.e. another self reading this) is ultimately not the same but one with another.
Like a mirror made of an infinite amount of reflections (sides of the mirror), all made of the same material but each reflecting a different aspect of all of this being reflected (the universe or reality) all being part of the same “mirror” yet all reflections an individual part of the whole.
So I agree with everything you say but I wanted to post this hoping for a comment on the selflessness (sunyata) vs. true self (Puroshotama Paramatman) that translate on the void of each moment, the “the now” and the thing being manifested the reflection of the self into world “the here”, the “you” which is empty of itself but it is still “there” being felt as itself being “everywhere”
thanks for the enlightening post
July 7th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Dear Bill,
first I would like to thank you for everything you are developping to arise human spirit.
I am psychologist and psychotherapist in Jungian school, and what you say is very meaningfulll for me. I am sorry the distance between is to large and so, I could meet you only by your blog. I am deeply interested in what are you saying and doing. However thare are some slightly differences to consider.
I am used to think a little different. For me, “all pairs of seeming opposites are really one, that they arise together and depend upon each other”, but I do not think and do dot find that the supposed conflict between opposites is also an illusion created by the mind.
If world has to go on, it’s energy is provided by this oppositions going on and having real meaning. I guess, to become wise is to be able to stand, like Crhist, in between oppositions and consider them right. To bear the tensions between the oposed directions is the redemtion. And, perhaps, understanding that and by doing so you will find the peace.
To be able to give sense to any of them is the key, I guess.
I am looking forard to reading more of your considerations.
Light and serenity with you, Mihaela Minulescu
July 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
What you have said, you have said beautifully.
You Say… “Everything is interrelated and mutually dependent, … which means that nothing has any independent existence (when they use the term emptiness Buddhists don’t mean that everything is NOTHING–emptiness is their way of describing this lack of independent nature). All things are in a state of constant flux where energy and information are continuously and forever flowing throughout the natural world giving rise to, and themselves undergoing, major transformations with the passage of time.
In other words, everything is impermanent. What seem to be substantial and discrete things come into being and pass away, endlessly. This mis perception that there are solid and separate things with some sort of independent existence (including the idea that there is a separate you with an independent existence) is caused by the psychological tendency to grasp at all objects of perception as if they really existed as independent entities.”
If this is understood than the being becomes Enlightened. I have experienced this, being an astute believer in, what I call ‘ the Path to Higher Living”.
Have been a Reiki practitioner, have done the Firewalk and intensely believe that power of thought enables Success as and when desired.
July 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Hi Bill
I’m sad to say I don’t read very many of your blog entries but this one was a good one and this will be my first comment to any of them. Also as with all of your blog entries I have read I had a bunch of Ah-ha:s and got some clarification on some of my thoughts about “all”. “All” basically is a short for the reality of non-reality, everything and nothing, opposites and that they’re not, etc. It would require a comment as long as this blog to describe “all” but basically it is described in this blog entry.
But aside from that I wanted to share some of my thoughts I got while reading younr blog entry so I better get to it.
First I just want to say I’m not religious in any way unless you call thinking a lot about what is and what isn’t and that it really doesn’t matter but still it does a religion so be it so it is better to say I’m not following the tenets of any religion. Even with that said while reading this:
“For this reason reality is generally described by saying what it ISN’T. (In theology this is called the apophatic approach. Another approach is to describe what reality is like, which is called the cataphatic approach–the approach of poetry or metaphor, as when we say, for instance, that God is love, or God is like a father and we are his children.)”
I got the distinct thought of God = reality. Because if god is like a father then he must foster us and provide for us, well isn’t that what reality does and that we are his children would in that respect would be true since everything is a “child” of reality and since reality often only is what a person perceives then certainly god lives in everything and all of us.
Argh all of that came from me and i don’t believe in god and just to be clear I can’t believe in his supposed opposite the devil if I don’t believe in god.
I had some thoughts on this:
“It actually makes more sense to look at this question the other way around–to ask how in the world a human being can come under the illusion that there are separate things and events, and that there is a separate doer who can move them around through some sort of power that is separate from the whole.”
That is easy to answer because it is a choice made when we are to young to even remember it when we are old enough to wonder about it and the answer is because it is “easier” to think that things are separate. On that thought you can’t (or it is really hard to) really think that things are non-separate, ofcourse you can intellectually know it to be so if you accept that as a possibility but thinking that it is so is just not possible since thinking is based on language which you have said is based in duality. The only way to not think that things are separate are to experience it as a whole (which as far as I understand it is enlightenment) and experience transcends the boundaries of any language.
“This fighting, of course, creates upheaval and suffering. This is what I’m referring to when I tell people as they use Holosync to let whatever happens be okay.”
I had a thought on this since the “to let whatever happens be okay.” part didn’t really work for me, or didn’t work well enough, I created a group of deviations that had a similar meaning but since where created by me had a greater impact or worked better. My favorite is “let’s see where this leads” I don’t know if I translated it right but I think it still means the same. But basically in the end it still means accepting what happens but to me accepting without failsafe is not good so basically I resisted “to let whatever happens” be okay so I created my own that reserved accepting until I had already seen what happened if I let it happen and to me experience can’t be rejected, but still with meditation and mental growth whatever works for you stick to it until it doesn’t work for you anymore and then find what works for you again. Since nothing is permanent this should be a fact and since mental growth is change the same tool should ultimately stop working eventually.
Black and white is the same even physically, both are every other color they just treat them differently black is the absorption of every color and white is the reflection of every color.
Just one last thing now you don’t have to play the game of black and white. Now how can I say that, well if white is good and black is bad (suffering) and suffering is resistance to what happens then you could live while only playing the white part and when ever something black happens i.e. some one you care about dies or your favorite CD cracks and stops working, you could simply accept it and move on. Sounds simple but it is not trust me I have experience in that department as everyone have. But instead of regretting the death of a person you could remember them as they where and thus, if you believe such things, make them happy even when they’re dead, since I certainly wouldn’t be happy if my death caused suffering and someone to spend the rest of their life mourning me.
Phew that became long oh well first post and all and still I haven’t written all thoughts spawned by reading your post Bill.
If I may be as bold as to give a suggestion on what to write next I would really like you to write in greater detail than in your support letters about:
What neurochemical and hormonal changes are created when you use Holosync, and how those changes affect how you feel and function…
Well thanks for reading and I hope I made some sense.
Until next time
/Anders Lönn Wege
July 7th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Hi Bill,
On this auspiscious Hindu Day I read your article. The ideas presented in this article are thoughts provoking!
I will try to churn each and every sentence in this article and understand in more holistic way ,till then see you with more such articles…
Thanks and Regards,
Rakesh
July 7th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Recognizing how accident prone I am, the ego has been careful to avoid slipping.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Simply put ….. brilliant.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:11 am
greetings Bill
I’m gonna be a trouble maker here hehe, okidokey, in my experience (about bloody time too), is that awareness is created through observation of the mind, observing the stuff that’s going on, or as you say “get curious”… and coming to a realisation that you can make a choice to move in any direction you desire regardless of the “stuff”.
Ok here’s a choice based quote from your post:
“the difference between Genpo Roshi (or anyone who has awakened and then gone back into the relative world) and the average person is that he chooses what to become attached to.”
So choice is at the core of our power as human beings in a multi-dimensional existence. As powerful beings we don’t really need to give our power away to anything, ayahuasca, lsd, magic mushrooms and even holosync are a form of looking outside of ourselves for self growth but before I’m misconstrued here, I’m a huge fan of holosync and your teachings, and they simultaneously have their place and this is why:
As you portray so eloquently in your writings, nothing is black and white in existence and everyone are at different stages.
For sake of an analogy, if I had a car that could drive on water, I may take a short-cut across that water, however, if I told someone with a regular car that I usually go across water they would be dumbfounded. They wouldn’t understand and would have no option but to drive the long way around.
So, anyway, lets skip back to meditation/holosync. In my experience I have had the most profound meditations on holosync and it’s a fantastic “tool” for promoting self awareness, but my true shifts in awareness have come from applying that awareness to life, interacting with life, being triggered by people’s comments and acttions and judgements and observing it and moving past those issues and self judgements.
As a Warrior of Life I see holosync as a secondary weapon.
For me, meditation creates awareness but choice and observation release power and new perspectives, but I realise that within infinity there are coutnless routes to new awareness and your research on aware states in the brain point to this. (isn’t pointing fun
)
(I’m also an undisciplined mediator which is why I love holosync so much lol )
So yeah, Bill you’re awesome and I think you are brilliant individual who understands how to meet people where they are at.
Nothingness=everything-ness; going around and telling people to just make a choice is completely meaningless and devoid of value to someone who is stuck in their mind trying to get out of a tight squeeze.
Thanks Bill, if you’re still looking for a story for your book
Grant :-p
July 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
This post is a work of art.
A symbol is a derivative of ____. By its very nature, a symbol is not ____ in itself. Thus, with human language, a system of symbols, we can perhaps put together certain words to experience a derivative of enlightenment, never enlightenment itself. This you have beautifully explained. Moreover, in your attempt to describe THE most important, relevant idea/phenomena/_____–enlightenment– you have used the imperfect yet fascinating evolved mechanism of human language to its fullest potential.
THANK YOU! This post is epic for homo sapiens!
July 8th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Hi Bill,
I spent 20 or so years meditating and wrestling with the suffering that resulted from a very traumatic past. I had some improvement but it was shaky and theoretical. I was seriously considering entering a monastery but was very conflicted about that. In desperation I tried holosync for the first time 4 years ago and somehow, over time, the wrestling has diminished to almost nothing. Halleluja! I cannot tell you what a relief that has been. As for enlightenment—-who needs it?
Thanks for your always very lucid explanations of the unexplainable.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Bill,
Thanks for a really great message. I love your down-home way of speaking about the ineffable. Now that’s true democracy. Lots of love, and let’s keep the clouds wispy, Mary Ellen
July 8th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Fantastic article! I’m a bit puzzled over the Ken Wilbur statement that enlightenment is an accident. Does that mean that this whole universe is an accident? Is life itself an accident? Is conception an accident and does having sex make you more accident prone? It was Einstein, I think, who said that he didn’t think God played dice and I must say the idea sounds a bit unsettling to me. I have decided to apply the principle of resourceful beliefs and prefer to believe that enlightenment is intrinsic to the evolutionary process and a given rather than an accident.
FROM BILL: Saying that enlightenment is an accident means that there is nothing “you” can do to become enlightened because “you” don’t exist except as an idea, a concept. The real doer is the entire going on of it all. The individual doer is an illusion. If what you think of as you becomes enlightened, it’s the universe doing something, just as a molecule of water that makes it to the ocean didn’t “do” it, the entire river did it. So, if the universe as it does its thing includes the molecule you call Gloria meditating or doing Big Mind or some other type of spiritual practice, that “molecule” might be more likely to make it to the ocean. Saying that enlightenment is an accident is a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that it isn’t a linear event: do this, you’ll ALWAYS get this result. Some people meditate for their entire lives and do not awaken. Others, like Eckhart Tolle, for instance, have a spontaneous awakening. Just keep using Holosync and keep watching as I have described in these blogs and in the Centerpointe support materials. This will make you accident prone (of course, there is no you to be accident prone–this statement is a metaphor, and the whole situation is a paradox, as is everything in this universe).
July 8th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Hi,
All of this seems to be overwhelming, but in the same time it just fits together perfectly. But I’m curious about one thing: what are the enlighten people’s views on life when they’re no longer human beings (at least when they’re not the concepts they are now). I know it may seem trival or ridiculous, but things that you write REALLY make sense to me even though I’m not living with this experience, but I always tend to get astep further with question: what’s in it (or what’s under it, what’s the core)? You write that transcendent is a place where tehere is nothing to do, that’s why we should act with our concepts and minds on earth. But what’s next? Reincarnation to some higher (or maybe lower) levels/planes? Or just passively being The Big Mind? Do you - the Enlightens happen to think about it, or is it obvious, or isn’t it the point any more (if so, why?)?
Sorry for so many questions,but I would love to get some feedback. This post was very insightful and light to read. Thanks a lot =)
Namaste!
July 8th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Bill, this blog really hit the target for me, producing laughter and tears as the a-ha’s unfolded. I even found myself clapping my hands like a happy toddler at times! I just want you to know that your commitment and persistance are beginning to pay off!!! ‘Thanks’ seems such an inadequate word, but I will thank you by honouring you in my way of being.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Bill,
I also now and again re-read the support material that I received for Awakening Prologue, and continue to get more out of it each time. This is the first I’ve heard of the new support letters for Awakening 1, though. Would it be possible to post these somewhere we can see them? Though I’m further through the program than that now, I have no doubt they’ll still be helpful.
Sally
July 8th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Hi Bill,
it’s your self-titled favourite student here!
Thanks for this post. It was very interesting although a little naughty that you posed such a yummy question then really didn’t give a direct answer! Perhaps that’s just my dualistic inclination to ’straighten things out’
The ideas for future blogs sound good. Posts on any emprical studies of holosync technology would be great. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that you guys were conducting a study in a hospital here in the U.K costing 1 million dollars. It would be interesting to hear how that panned out.
I recently got the ILP starter kit that you recommended and I have found the 3-2-1 process incredibly eye opening. It’s amazing how much awareness of your internal patterns and processes this reveals. I am discovering things about myself that I simply never knew and I experientially understand what you mean by an increased awareness that allows you to observe subconscious unresourceful patterns. It’s amazing.
In the past I spent a considerable amount of time, money and effort looking for the answers to my problems in seminars, informational materials, other people and so on. I now see that whilst a few of these things can serve as useful pointers, the real answers to EVERYTHING lie within.
Thank you.
Love,
Terry
p.s.
I ALWAYS read your supporting information, again and again…I think I deserve a gold star!
July 8th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Another fine example of the “Bill Harris American Way to Awakening” I have been suggesting for almost a year to the man in my life to give you a read, no far east lingo, no mystical mumbo jumbo, no giving up all your material goods, just good common (almost corporate) sense that most american males can relate to. (Eckard says men are further away from enlightment) This blog might do it!
I am about to start level 1 of holosync and I, too, read everything you send. Although I study and enjoy others, you truly are a balance to the mix. I am looking forward to the future
blogs.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Bill:
You pulled it off!
Thank you for writing the unwriteable, for explaining the unexplainable.
A couple of topics from your list which would be very interesting and helpful are:
- Why some people have trouble using Holosync and what they can do about it (You have promised something similar in your next support letter);
- How Holosync affects what Eastern meditation schools call the subtle body (Ken Wilber mentions the various bodies in the DVD you’ve just sent me; I’d like your take on the subject).
Roger
July 8th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Hi Bill -
Another brilliant post - thanks for your perspective on black and white thinking, and the power of choice. Extreme black and white thinking, in my view, causes so much avoidable suffering in this world - the ego in action. But then again, this is also choice.
Holosync, along with the vast knowledge that you so generously share with your readers have become a valued part of my own search for personal understanding and truth (that’s truth with a small “T”).
Thanks for what you do.
Karen
July 8th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hi Bill,
This was a *highly* interesting post! I enjoyed reading it very much.
I want to address two things you mentioned.
1. Enlightenment: I personally believe that a person is enlightened the moment they discovered their purpose in life and express it in all areas of their lives. Therefore there is not ‘one’ enlightenment but everyone is experiencing it at their own special level.
2. Reality: The same with reality. There is not one reality but everyone experiences their very own reality. It depends on their core beliefs, expectations, and life experiences. As soon as they start changing their beliefs, etc. they change their own reality.
Best regards,
Peter R. Sherman
From Bill: Peter, these sound like IDEAS you have, opinions–not something that comes from experience. What you call a thing is arbitrary. Enlightenment is just a word, but it does have a meaning to those who have had the experience. You can decide for yourself that enlightenment and reality mean something else, for you, but then you will be on a different page than the entire centuries-long traditions of those who have had these experiences. When I use the word “reality” in this context I’m talking about the capital “R” reality than underlies all the individual realities that each person creates for him or herself.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:21 am
“Happy to be!” That’s what using Holosync has done for me. Knowing that every moment, of every day it is my responsibility, mine alone, to choose my state of mind - every single moment! Many people do not want to accept the fact that they are completely, irrevocably responsible for their moment to moment state of mind. That is a huge responsibility but it is an undeniable fact of this plane of existence. It is the game of black and white and I am extremely grateful that my life is mainly played in the grey! Ever since I figured out that I am completely, totally responsible for my state of mind, life has become extremely fun. As Bill recommends, I play Hamlet but I know I’m not Hamlet therefore the story continues and evolves.
FROM BILL: At a deeper level, however, you have NO responsibility because there is no you. Like the water moleclue has no agenda for where to go in the river, you just go where the flow takes you. Awakening is partly the transcending, and including, of both the taking of personal responsibility AND the fact that there is no you that really makes any decisions or takes any INDEPENDENT actions. Actions happen, but they are the actions of the whole. This is the paradox of existence, what many call The Mystery. Taking responsibility is only one corner of the triangle. No responsibility is the other corner, and the apex of the triangle is the transcendence and inclusion of both, simultaneously.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am
The unity of all reality is an experience that is created in each moment-perspective as it synthesizes/unifies the set of all moment-perspectives that preceded it. As each moment-perspective unifies the moment-perspectives that preceded it, it groups certain subsets of moment-perspectives into enduring objects. The objects created in each momentary synthesis include such “things” as trees, chairs, rocks, and one’s own individual “soul.”
The path of awakening that many people have taken has been to the realization that the various “things” in their experience are merely parts of the underlying unity of their experience. The distinct and independent individuality of “things,” including the enduring soul or ego, are merely “ideas” or “illusions,” as you say, illusions created in and by consciousness. As you say, many people stay at this level of realization, what you call the third rank of Tozan.
But the reality is that even this supposedly ultimate unity of all things only exists in and for the various moment-perspectives. The unity of the whole space-time continuum is recreated in each moment from each new perspective. The reason that it is impossible to free oneself fully from the “illusion” of multiplicity and abide exclusively in the transcendent unity is that this unity is itself created in each of the many moments that arise one after another. The ultimacy of this unity is itself an “idea” that one must be freed from in order to rise to what you call the fourth and fifth ranks.
There is no escape from the ongoing process of the world because this ongoingness is the ultimate reality. The unity of the world exists within each moment-perspective of the process of the world and is recreated in, by, and for each moment-perspective as it synthesizes the moment-perspectives that preceded it and anticipates those that will succeed and synthesize it in turn.
As Whitehead put it, “The many become one, and are increased by one.” Each moment-perspective unifies the many that precede it and thereby creates a new multiplicity for succeeding moment-perspectives to unify in turn. And so the process of the world goes on everlastingly: many, one, many, one, many, one, many, and so on forever. There is no perspective from which the process of the world is complete and finished, no FINAL unity. The idea of an ultimate, final unity is just that, an idea. No one has ever actually experienced it. The only unity that anyone can experience is the unity of their own moment-perspective and of the parts of the various moment-perspectives that are synthesized in their moment-perspective. Which is the unity of the whole space-time continuum for the present moment-perspective.
The moment-perspectives themselves are the actual real things, not the space-time continuum, which is merely an abstraction that exists in and for moment-perspectives. Moment-perspectives are nothing but syntheses of other moment perspectives. The experiences of past moment-perspectives become part of the experience of the present moment-perspective, and the way in which the present moment synthesizes the experience of past moments is a free choice of the present moment, undetermined by the past moments themselves. Each moment of experience synthesizes past moments of experience and anticipates being appropriated and synthesized in future moments of experience.
This is the only relationship that exists among moment-perspectives, the inclusion of the experience of one in the experience of another. And this ongoing process of the synthesis of the many in a novel unity, creating in turn a novel multiplicity for synthesis in further novel unities, and so on, is the way that the universe recreates itself in each and every moment, and these moment-perspectives of experience are the only things that really exist. Every unity is always provisional. Each moment of experience is a “perpetual perishing.”
July 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hi Bill,
Nice one.
Holosyync is Holography. Just another piece of the Maya.
Awakening, a karmic release, a freedom from the prison of the mind; a “peace that passes all understanding”; as Christ is reported to have said - as well as “seek the truth and the truth shall set you free.” For that truth exists in us as us, as you have so delicately put it. And as Ramakrishna has said,” if one could gain enlightenment by reading, then you could squeeze the farmers almanac and get rain.”
Knowledge does destroy ignorance and that is a good black and white game. Liberation is a direct result of a direct experience of itself; I said that.
Tadavasthaavadhriteh”
July 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I sort of understand what you are talking about as far as an awaking bringing you to the realization that everything is emptyness. I do understand that everything is inter-related, without another existence my existence is irrelivent, therefore we for all pratical purposes feed off of each others existence.
I don’t claim to be an “Awakened” individual, as you can tell, but I am begining to understand the concepts thanks in part to your series with Echart Tolle and your level One Holosync. (I just ordered level 2)
My questions is, does an “Awakening” happen like a revelation, all at one time or does it happen over a period of time and you just all of a sudden realize it happened?
July 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Hi Bill,
I would love, love, love to hear from people who have been using Holosync for different periods of time at all different stages so as to get a general idea of what to expect at the different stages, and to possibly hear the similarities of the examples people have had that have used Holosyc for one year or what they are percieving or experiencing after two years and so on, especially the people that have been using for 8, 9 and 10 years.
What triggered this idea in me was a question someone asked you that you replied to. They asked what the difference was between going from Awakening Level four, to Purification. The question was to the effect of:
“Could it may as well be called Awakening Level five, or was there something different about Purification”, and your reply was that basically the Awakening levels were the stage that you clear up alot of emotional stuff and Purification was more of an awakening of the fact that everything really is okay.
I am at Awakening Level three and hearing that question asked and answered not only helped me realize that “yeah, alot of my emotional stuff has quietened down”, it just comforted me to hear that ‘period’, and that potentially gave me a feeling of hope that everything REALLY IS going to be okay,it really is working, and to just keep going, even if I don’t understand EVERYTHING, just keep going.
I guess it gave me more faith in what I was doing and gave me motivation TO keep going.
It’s like “this is what I have to look forward to”. The reward for my commitment.
So….
What do you think?
Would it be possible to set something like this up?
Do you think the more experienced, longer time meditators would be willing to put in their input?
There is nothing quite like “hearing it from the horses mouth”, so to speak.
I purchased the entire program and am committed to completing it, I would just love this bonus insight.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed. I hope to hear a reply from you on this.
Thanks heaps
Michelle Beaton
July 8th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I wonder if we could discuss some of the common elements of the holosync experience, in general what tends to happen and what users have universally noticed. I know that in my own experience holosync has created quite substancial changes in the way I view my world, and I’m wondering if perhaps some of these things might somehow be tracked. For instance I’ve noticed that my mind is much more spacious now, in that there still seems to be all of the mind chatter however now there seems to be more space into which to place all of it; it’s as if my map has expanded to include more of the terretory which, while not reducing the terretory or limiting it, makes it much more manageable and results in the mind chatter no longer being perceived as such a problem. In fact for me it seems that there is more mind chatter than before, however I can much more readily identify with it and come up with my own ways of understanding it. I imagine that this is similar to what’s being witnessed by others, and I’d love to hear what others experience in this regard.
Similarly to the levels of development you’ve been discussing, I wonder if there is any marked progress as one uses holosync. Have you noticed stages that people go through, or certain indicators of where individuals are at with respect to their level in the program; I recall you saying something about how it seemed as if holosync opened up each chakra in turn, such that the proper order is maintained, and I wonder if there is a way to measure this progress. I also wonder about how holosync might effect our ability to use the law of attraction or other such principles, as compared to those who are not participants in the program (we could also look at whether or not the person is encorporating other material such as your internal map of reality expander course etc). I am also interested in the effects of holosync as it pertains to effecacy in energy psychology applications (EFT and the like) although this is probably more of an intuitive, rather than intilectual, measurement. I would also be very interested to note the effects of big mind process on people who use holosync, and it would be really cool if we could do these studies as they relate to carrier frequency; I myself have noticed some very suttle effects of using this process, and I’d be interested to know whether or not my holosync use is part of this.
I could go on and on about this, as this whole process intregues me quite a bit. I’ve done some of my own research and have come up with some pretty interesting stuff, however I am currently unable to find a way to substanciate what I find. I think that it would be wonderful if we could somehow conduct studies of holosync’s effecacy durring different tasks, perhaps by using EEG or some other measuring device, and get that data into the scientific community such that others might start researching this as well. I have faith that this day will come, however for now I believe that what you’re doing is spot on. Keep up the good work, and be well.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
One last comment about carrier frequency. I’m wondering if you’ve noticed holosync users being able to influence other people, or perhaps carry their emotions somehow? You speak of holosync over time lowering the vibratory rate of a person’s energy field, and I imagine that this somehow effects the physical world (as well as suttle and causal realities respectively) by way of causing others to resonate with the same lowered frequency; sort of like how Genpo can fascilitate people going into big mind, or how in one of the lessons in your “mastering the power of now” course you had a couple on who spoke of transmitting energy states. They also speak of guru’s being able to fascilitate spiritual openings etc by causing followers to resonate with their frequency akin to a tuning fork. These are all pieces of the puzzle, and since you write about this in support letters I’m wondering if it has practical application which we can notice? I know I’m all over the place in these posts, however it is my hope that perhaps my ramblings will give this conversation a fruitful nudge. Thanks again.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Hi Bill
I gain more insight with every seeing/hearing of all of your enlightening communications. I have not yet experienced the Reality that you describe but I can feel it arriving with ongoing use of Holosync and LPIP. Everything you say makes sense to me. One aspect that I keep returning to as I reflect on the enlightenment experience is that the mind I inhabit appears to have a unique and personal perspective and consciousness. I wonder whether, in the experience of Big Mind and enlightenment you describe, there is a collective consciousness experience where all minds are experienced as one.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Best wishes
Kevin
July 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Bill,
You are absolutely on the mark about “Awakening is partly the transcending, and including, of both the taking of personal responsibility AND the fact that there is no you that really makes any decisions or takes any INDEPENDENT actions.” That’s what makes this life so much fun to me. I have a particular meditation that I enjoy very much while using Holosync - I visualize myself as a leaf floating down a river, going where the current takes me. Occasionally “I” bump into the rocks or shore, swirl around in a whirlpool, join up with other leaves, get stuck on a tree limb, but always continuing the journey of where the river takes me. It is a visualization that is so very much like every day life that it helps make every day life flow for me because “I” know that no matter what I bump up against during the day, the current will continue to take me and I can relax and let whatever happens be okay. It is transcendence and inclusion.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Dear Bill,
I too just want to say thanks for another amazing piece of work. I’ve only been using Holosync for nearly a year now and my state of mind has improved more than I ever could have imagined. I fully believe that it is largely due to my use of Holosync and all of your writings to which I always look forward to. I’ll be eternally grateful for your contribution to my awakening - however far it may go. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Bill:
This is for Michelle who asked for comments from long time Holosync users. I am in the middle of the third set of Flowering, which is the last phase of Holosync. In other words I have one set of four discs left after this one. How long have I been doing Holosync? Well I have been meditating in some way or other since 1972, and doing two hours per day since 1980 and have tried various methods. So I am not really sure when I began Holosync, but it has been many years. Am I Enlightened? No. Do I feel much better? Yes. Holosync is by far the best method I have tried.
I need to share a little of my personal history so you can put this into perspective. My Internal Map is geared toward SAFETY as I have two chronic illnesses, starting with polio when I was 4. I can barely walk now and experience great fatigue and coldness. In my teens I began noticing symptoms of Crohn’s which is an inflammation of the intestinal track. It is like having an open sore in your intestines and you can imagine the discomfort when your stomach juices (acids) pass that spot. Unfortunately I did not repond to any of the treatments so have had 4 major surgeries to remove the infected spots. The trouble is the Crohn’s returns. So now I just live with it because there is not enough intestine left to take out. It causes acute stomach pain along with constant diahrrea. (I am on morphine for pain so I haven’t mastered the art of letting eveything be okay.). Along the way I have also had surgery for irregular heart beat, both gall and kidney stones, insomnia, four minor strokes and numerous other ailments including gout and skin diseases besides drug reactions. I list all these not to draw sympathy but to emphasize how my world view was shaped by my experiences. The world was a scary place for me, thus my need for safety in my Internal Map.
So my journey with Holosync has not always been a smooth one as resistance was the name of the game for me. But I persisted, reading everything Bill sent out, taking his on-line courses and have finally gotten to a place where I can “let whatever happen be okay” most of the time. I also experience peace and happiness inside which was always overwhelmed before by my physical circumstances. I volunteer where ever I can, particate in chat groups and do what I can to help others. I look forward to finishing the Holosync program, although I will probably continue to meditate with it just because it is so ingrained in my daily program.
After reading Bill’s description of the 5 Stages of Tozan I realize there is a lot more to come. But I just focus on the peace and happiness I feel today, even though I know it is not the Ultimate Reality. And as I said before if I reach that level fine, if not, that is fine also.
Terry M
July 8th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Thanks, Bill for responding to my comments on the ‘accidental’ nature of enlightenment. The notion quite sent me into a tail spin for a few hours and your response has made me realise how fearful I still am, to have taken the idea so literally.
I am committed to seeing Holosynch through to the end. I am nearly 6 years into the programme now. Recently I had an urge to do ‘regular’ meditation, which I have always had difficulty with, and so sit for just 1/2 a day. It seems to be helping me with my Holosynch experience as well, as my mind is less frantic when listening, and I can stay awake more during HS.
I have also had the great fortune to find an enlightened being with whom I spend 2 hours meditating once a week - right here in the backwoods of southern Australia!. In addition, I do A Course in Miracles, work with my dreams and watch and read and listen to a heap of stuff like Eckhart’s.
I truly was beginning to wonder if there was something so badly wrong with me that I needed to do all of this, but I am slowly coming around to the realisation that I had a very, very, messed up childhood which led to creating much suffering in my adult life and this is just ‘my’ way of clearing all the karmic goop.
In surrendering to the fact that I am in this process, I have found, much to my surprise that I am ENJOYING it all. What felt like hard work, forced onto me by life’s unfariness, is becoming a joy and a pleasure. Gone is the resentment over my ‘forced’ withdrawal from the world and the guilt that I should be doing more in the outer world. I am seeing at last that resistance itself is the problem and not what is being resisted.
Thanks, Bill and to all the posters. I love reading the comments as much as the blog.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Have just read Michelle Beaton’s comments and thought it might be worth mentioning that I am halfway through Purification Level 3 and the levels really don’t mean much anymore. I have used the CDs pretty much everyday for the past 5 years, 9 months and joined the inner circle after about 2 years. I used to worry that Centerpointe would go bust before I finished the programme!!!
July 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Hey Bill,
I’ve been using the Holosysnc solution for the past eight months and I’m waiting for the arrival of Level 1. Now, I got involved because for the past few years I’ve tried a whole range of other things for personal development to no avail however just doing the Awakening Prologue has made a tremendous difference. Anyway, I know a few people who meditate traditionally and have never heard of Holosync. I’m not after their approval however they have an intriguing question, “How do you ask Q’s and receive answers from the subconscious mind/expanded self/source energy/big mind (or whatever you’d like to use) if your mind is not actually quiet?
Any help is much appreciated.
Robert
From Bill: First of all, the Holosync soundtracks do not keep you from experiencing your own intuition of Higher Self, or whatever you want to call it. Second, the purpose of meditation isn’t to ask quesitons and get answers. Third, your intuition (which does become super-strong as you use Holosync) is accessible any time, not just during meditation. Fourth, using Holosync dramatically quiets the mind. These questions really come from not having a true understanding of meditaiton and how it works.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
“The truth is that enlightenment can HAPPEN, but “you” can’t do anything to make it happen because you don’t exist!”
The mere listening to holosync to ‘achieve’ enlightenment means that once again you’re trapped in the intellect. If englightenment is an intuitive perspective only apparant when the mind is free of thought then trying to use the mind to become enlightened is pure folly. The mind can’t comprehend the uncomprehendable, so why attempt to use the mind to achieve it. Most peoples motive for using holosync is fear, fear of death, fear of trauma, fear of the little ‘me’ dying, etc. Whilst I’m motivated by that fear then my thoughts are conditioned and limited by that fear and so cannot be open to allow that which is beyond the mind to be. The same would be for formal/normal meditation.
If however, I decide to use holosync like I might choose to brush my teeth, then I may be closer to being open to allow this thing to happen.
Why does someone need someone else to explain about Eckart Tolle? Why don’t you readers just go and read his books for yourself and see his DVDs yourself, or watch excepts of him on YouTube and make up your own mind. If you go running to someone else constantly to answer your questions, then you’re throwing away responsibility, or at the worst handing that responsibility over to someone else. It’s something that you need to come to yourself, no amount of having someone else tell you about it will help. It’s like reading books on how to swim, they mean nothing once you’re thrown into the water.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Dear Bill, Where can I start? Maybe back in 2003 when I “jumped off” and joined the inner circle and started meditating every day with holosync. I am on the edge of starting “flowering”. There is no rush with this program. My life has become more and more amazing to me - pushing beyond limits is my passion. Before the “Law of Attraction” hit the mass media (very cool) it was working for me because I was able to “get it” by following Bill’s teaching (starting with the “Nine Principles” and through his excellent Life Integration series of courses). Here is what he taught me: “Focus on what you want” and “Let whatever happens be OK”. When you dive back in to play the game of life it is actually FUN most of the time because “you” know that you now have the power of “YOU (Big Mind)” in your court at all times and you just need to focus, act, trust and the little you will be amazed. I think of it as Super Consciousness (God) and God’s love for every one of us is limitless. so ASK! And believe that it CAN happen! If you ask for bread, God WILL NOT give you a stone! (And don’t forget to thank Him!)
Bill, I can’t thank you enough for being a BIG part of helping me break through my self imposed limits to an ever expanding awesome life! I am planning to schedule one of your retreats into my life in the coming year.
Again, thank you, and I also thank myself for letting you into my life!!
July 9th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Hi,
Another cracking post
im really into this atm
the best things 4 me aside from all the enlightenment stuff is the conciousness holosync brings into your world, it has really helped me in bringing up my two little girls, in so much as the behaviour that i see in them is really just a reflection of my own behaviour and i can now clearly witness it in me instead of just flying off the handle with auto react ego.
The way i interact with the folks that come into my universe has changed in massive ways and im only half way thru level2. I aplaud you on your knowledge of all this and am inspired every time i come back to read your blog. As i was lying in bed last night after another session of h/s the immense gratitude i was feeling is just undiscribable it almost brought me to tears and it wernt because i was sad (i was wondering if it was upheaval lol) but anyway i could go on with more slush but hey you know it all already
Bill Harris
Top Bloke
Loadsa love
Bob
July 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Hi,
And thanks for ‘Will Holosync make you enlightened?’ A question I, and I guess many others, have been waiting to be answered. You have of course answered this question before (google, Mind Chatter issue 25 Sept 1999) in replying to ‘the’ question by Neil Myres.
Comparing the two articles, almost ten years apart, makes for interesting reading!
Your answer this time round is a lot less vague than in 1999, but the question still remains: Do you know of Anyone who has used Holosync(as their main spiritual practice) that is at Tozan Zen rank 3, what generally most people would consider Enlightenment.
i.e Quote from yor post:
This realization isn’t a theoretical understanding, or belief. It’s an experience, and at first a quite stunning experience. And along with that experience is a complete freedom from clinging to the idea of ‘me’, or to the world being any certain way. All the conflicts that seem so real in the Game of Black and White are seen through, and in seeing through all of this, there is complete freedom.
The above sounds good to me and an EXAMPLE of someone experiencing this realization who mainly used Holosync to make them,as you said, ‘REALLY accident prone’ and fall into this realization, would I feel give a definitive answer to the question Will Holosync make me enlightened.
Thanks again,
Will.