1. Welcome to Issue #150 (July 18, 2005) of MIND CHATTER, 
the e-mail newsletter of Centerpointe Research Institute: 
www.centerpointe.com.

Mind Chatter is published once a month, on or about the 16th of each month.

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3. In This Issue

// MindQuotes (scroll to #5)

// A few recommendations that may benefit you (scroll to item #6)

// Feature Article

No Problem!

by Bill Harris, Director (scroll to item #7)

// Glowing Testimonial of the Month (scroll to #8)

// BOOK REVIEW (scroll to #9)
Fading Toward Enlightenment:
Life Between Ego and the Etherial
By Wayne Wirs
Review by Marc Gilson

// Important Announcements (scroll to #10)

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4. MIND CHATTER contains articles about:

// How you create your life--and how you can stop unconsciously creating 
experiences and outcomes you do not want, and instead begin to create 
exactly what you do want

// Personal and spiritual growth in general

// Meditation (high- and low-tech)

// Recovery from emotional trauma

// Pretty much any other subject I get excited about and want to write about. 
After all, it's my company and my newsletter,  and I can do whatever 
I want with it. So there.

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5. Mind Quotes

You must work diligently for your own salvation.
	-Buddha

Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
	- Anais Nin

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, 
but reveal to them their own.
       - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 
The other is as though everything is a miracle. 
	- Albert Einstein

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6. I want to show you how to create the exact life you want--
inside and out! Here's how to experience a FREE preview...

I know that many people may have promised that they can teach you how to create
the life you want.

I promise you that I really can--and have for thousands of people.

I've also arranged for you to be able to experience a sample of how I do it,
FREE.

So, here's a very special opportunity for you...something that can totally turn
your life around. And, it could be worth a considerable amount of money to you,
as well.

Just for a moment, imagine:

WHAT IF you could be IN CHARGE of what happens to you--including your feelings
and emotions and other internal states, as well as your external results...

Wouldn't that be a lot better than waiting for life to "just happen," where you
sometimes get what you want, and sometimes you get what you don't want?

Are you willing to learn exactly HOW you can do this?

For the last year and a half, I've been teaching three 12-lesson online courses
called the Life Principles Integration Process, or LPIP, that teach you all of
this, and more. I've received thousands of emails and letters from the people in
these courses telling me how what they've learned has transformed their lives,
even saved their lives. (You can see some of the comments people have made
below.)

So more people could afford the LPIP courses, and as an introductory offer, I'm
offering them for an incredibly low $249 per course. 
 
And, if you sign up for all three, I'll give you the third course for FREE.

This actually made each course $166 each, about $13.83 per lesson.

If I taught the LPIP material in seminar form, it would probably take at least
ten long intense days to teach each course. And with all the personal follow-up
I include I'd have to charge several thousand dollars per course for you to
attend.

And even at that lofty price, it would be worth it, I promise you.

Not only that, there is an iron-clad money back guarantee on these courses.Take
the course and do the homework, and if you don't think this is the most
transformational experience you've ever had, I'll immediately refund your entire
tuition.
 
In other words, you have nothing to lose but whatever ways you have been
automatically creating what you don't want in life.

I will warn you, though. These LPIP courses are not your typical pablum-filled
feel-good seminars where you feel high at the end but realize three weeks later
that little if anything really changed.

If you take these three courses, EVERYTHING will change--and, for the better.
Your life will be transformed. You will have all the tools you need to be in
direct control of your life--your feelings, your internal state, your external
results, your behavior.

And, you will gain a huge insight into who you really are, why you're here, and
what life is all about.

Plus you'll learn, step-by-step, the exact strategies, internal and external,
used by the most successful people in the world to get anything they want. And,
I'll show you how to make sure you use them and make them work for you.

And, as I said, if you don't get what you want from these courses, for any
reason, you can get a refund. I'm taking all the risk, other than your time
investment in actually doing the lessons.

If you're not serious about changing your life, if you aren't willing to do what
it takes to operate at the highest level and really be happy, peaceful, and
successful ALL THE TIME, this isn't for you.

But if you're serious, if you're sincere, these three courses will utterly and
completely change your life.

Here's a huge and very unique benefit you'll get from these LPIP online courses:

In addition to everything else, all LPIP course participants get unlimited email
access to me for any questions they have about course content. I answer every
one of these emails personally--no staff members are involved--and some of my
answers, when necessary, are sometimes three, five, even seven pages long.

I put everything into this course, because I really, sincerely want you to get
everything I'm promising.

You though, have a part in the success of these courses--in fact, a big part. I
don't wave a magic want over you and change you into a happy, peaceful,
successful person in complete control of his or her life.

If just tell you how to do it, and give you an easy way to make the change.

Because I have such a huge personal time investment in answering all your
questions, I want to make one thing very clear, though. Please DO NOT take these
courses unless you're willing to do your part. I do not have the time to waste
on those who aren't sincere and aren't willing to pay the price to create the
internal changes they want.

But if you ARE sincere, and you really do want to change your life, I want to
show you how to do it, and I will take you, step by step, through everything you
need to know.

You CAN create an entirely new life for yourself, regardless of your past or
present circumstances. 

You can read more about each course and what it includes, and even listen to a
free preview lesson, just by clicking below:

http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview

So please, go listen to the free preview lesson, and if you really are ready to
change your life, enroll in this amazing courses risk-free.

I look forward to having you in these courses and showing you that the
possibilities for what your life can be really are limitless...regardless of
your present or past circumstances.

Just click here to listen to the free preview lesson and to take advantage of
the old low price before we're forced to raise it on March 1st:

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http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview
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Be well.

Bill

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A special book changed my life...and, other special books changed the lives of
personal and spiritual growth teachers such as Louise Hay, Deepak Chopra, Jack
Canfield, and many others...
 
What if you could read the same books that shaped the lives of these and other
great teachers--and, hear their personal comments about these influential books?

 
Dear Centerpointe friend,

I want to tell you about something new that I believe could make a profound
difference in your life. 

I've joined with Jack Canfield, Neale Donald Walsch, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks,
Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Louise Hay and other transformational leaders to
build the world's largest transformational reading community. 

I'm very excited about this, and I want to invite you to become part of it, too.


The Transformation Book Circle is a unique service created by the same team of
heartful visionaries who brought you The Spiritual Cinema Circle.
 
Each month you get a life-changing book--the exact book that profoundly impacted
the life of a well-known transformational leader--who then went on to change the
lives of millions. With your book, you also get a CD with experiential
activities and other features that invoke deep reflection and personal growth,
and in most cases audio commentary from the transformational leader recommending
the book.
 
Of course, one of these books will be a book that changed my life. 

In fact, when Gay Hendricks first asked me, "What book changed your life
profoundly?", the teachings of Alan Watts immediately came to mind. So when my
selection is sent to Book Circle members you will get to read a powerful and
previously unpublished book of Alan's teachings (I was able to get a special
advanced copy from my friend Mark Watts, Alan Watts' son). This book is
available ONLY through The Transformational Book Circle. 

A new and exciting book selection each month...
 
// One book shows you how to eliminate stress and increase happiness instantly
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couples. 

// Another selection gives a quantum boost to your manifestation power, and the
accompanying CD teaches you how to apply it in any situation. Neale Walsch
credits it with putting him on the path that led to the full flowering of his
work.

// Month after month, your membership brings you the very best mind-expanding,
heart-opening non-fiction and fiction. You can learn more about this remarkable
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Personal growth becomes easier

The Transformational Book Circle really makes your life and personal growth
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you cancel your membership you can keep the books and CDs you've received.
 
Join now and save $10 per month--a full 35%!

Join right now and you get a special rate of $19 per month instead of the
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I recommend this program highly. Take a moment to explore it and join at
http://www.transformationalbookcircle.com/centerpointe
 
Be well
 
Bill Harris 

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7. Feature Article
No problem!
by Bill Harris

One thing that happens as people use Holosync is that they begin to feel more of
this sense of oneness and connectedness. They begin to have a sense that
existence really is what mystics have said it is: one big interconnected
process, rather than just a lot of separate pieces at odds with each other and a
lot of random acts by individuals each with their own agenda. 

As this feeling grows, you relax. They feel more content. You stop fighting
everything, you stop focusing on what you don't want (which causes bad feelings
and causes you to create more of what you don't want). In almost every case, by
the time a person gets into Purification Level 1 or 2 of the Holosync Solution
program (the 6th and 7th levels of the program) they begin to say, "I'm fine.
Other people are fine. The world is fine. Everything really is okay." 

I'm continually amazed every time I run into a Holosync user who has reached
Purification, because they almost always tell me, in almost the same words, that
everything now seems to be fine. They feel content with life and with
themselves. This doesn't mean they don't see suffering in the world, or that
they don't care about it. In fact, they feel more like doing something about it
and they feel more empowered to do so, but seeing this suffering doesn't pull
them into their own suffering. This is the beginning of what Buddhists call
compassion.
 
So why does this happen when people use Holosync? Why do people begin to feel
this sense of connection and contentment? First, it's a byproduct of increased
conscious awareness. When people use Holosync, they become more aware of the
reality beyond that created by their thoughts and concepts. As you use Holosync,
your mind calms down. It becomes more still, more quiet. 

As this happens, your attention shifts from the constant stream of thought and
images inside your head and you begin to be aware of a larger reality. Mystics,
as I've said, tell us that the universe is one energy, one big interconnected
process, and that this process, this oneness, is who you really are. Yes, I know
that this probably isn't your experience unless you've been doing Holosync for a
long time, or you've done some other powerful spiritual practice for a long
time. But in every culture there are seekers and mystics who report this same
experience, so it's probably a good idea to look into it and see if perhaps
there's something to it.
 
The mystics also say is that this one energy is conscious, that it is aware of
being all and everything. It has nowhere to go because it's everywhere. It has
nothing to be afraid of because there's nothing outside of it to threaten it. It
knows that there's nothing to get because it's already everything. Knowing this,
all problems vanish, all striving vanishes. As a result, this one energy of
everything is happy, blissful. According to the mystics, reality is one energy,
aware of itself being everything and everywhere, and because of that awareness,
being eternally happy. And, finally, the mystics point out that this one energy
of everything is who you are, that you are an aperture through which the entire
universe experiences itself.
 
The question everyone asks at this point is, "Okay, if this is true, then why do
I feel so bad so often? I don't feel as if I'm this one energy of everything. It
feels like the world is filled with problems and potential dangers and I have to
watch out for them." If you're caught in this way of thinking--and most people
are--the outlook of the mystics sounds like pie in the sky. Though you can
understand it intellectually, it takes personal experience to really see that
the mystics are right. When you use Holosync, it creates some changes in the
brain that allow you to increasingly bypass the world created by your mind -all
the fears, all the meanings you place of this and that, all the ways we chop the
world into separate bits, the whole map of reality created by your mind -and
instead see how everything really does go together, and how you really are "it".
 
As this awareness dawns on you, you feel better. You feel more connected. Your
fear diminishes. In terms of the brain, the two sides of the brain become more
synchronized, where they work together in a balanced manner (most brains are
highly laterialized, where the two hemispheres work more independently and with
much less balance). 

There is a spectrum from total lateralization, where the two hemispheres are
working independently as much as possible, to total synchrony, where the two
sides of the brain are working together. The more lateralized you are, the more
you feel afraid, anxious, sad, and separate. The more synchronized you are, the
more you feel happy, balanced, clear, and connected. Over time, Holosync very
powerfully creates brain synchrony, and as this happens your way of seeing
yourself and the world changes.
 
Because almost all people have lateralized brains humans have a peculiar way of
looking at life. With a laterialized brain, life looks as if it is a problem to
be solved. You must have food, shelter, love, air, and many other things.
Without them, you die. The world is full of danger. There are many things that
can hurt you, physically or emotionally. And, eventually, no matter what you do,
you fall apart and die. This seems like a big problem, and most people's lives
are filled with their efforts to solve this problem, or at least to hold it at
bay. Alan Watts called this The Game of Black and White.
 
To play the Game of Black and White, you divide the universe into sides: us and
them, here and there, up and down, good and evil, me and not me, having and not
having, living and dying. Everything is divided into opposing poles. Then we
decide that one pole, one side of the duality, is desirable and the other side
is undesirable. We then cling to the side we like and avoid the side we don't
like.
 
The problem with this approach -which, remember, is the lateralized brain
approach--is that both sides of each pair of opposites arise together and need
each other in order to exist at all. There are no one-sided coins. You never see
up without down, and wanting everything to be up is nonsensical. Here makes no
sense without there. Life exists only in relation to death. Good exists only in
relation to evil. All pairs of opposites rely on both sides in order to exist.
One side of each pair cannot exist except in relation to the other side. You
wouldn't know you were feeling good unless there was such a thing as feeling
bad.
 
So playing the Game of Black and White, where White must win, is a game in which
Black is imagined to be a problem, and must be resisted or defeated. One side of
each pair is desirable and is clung to, while the other side is undesirable and
resisted. The truth is that there is no problem because both sides need each
other and neither can ever "win". 

The only thing that creates this so-called problem is the act of defining it as
a problem. If you imagine that everything should be up, while in reality some
things have to be down in order for up to even exist, and you fight for up, and
cling to the idea that everything should be up, you will suffer. You've created
an insoluble problem. No wonder you feel chronically frustrated by life. This is
what is behind my saying so often, Let Whatever Happens Be Okay. I'm saying that
if you resist things being the way they are when it's impossible for them to be
any other way, you set yourself up for suffering.
 
So, to circle back around to my original point, when you use Holosync, it causes
the two sides of the brain to work together. It causes the brain to synchronize.
As this happens, you stop seeing the world, and your life, in terms of
opposites, where one or the other side must win--when, I as just demonstrated,
one or the other side can't win because the two sides depend on each other and
in fact define each other.
 
As you begin to see things in this new way, what you've resisted and identified
as a problem stops being a problem. In actual fact, none of it ever was a
problem. The way you looked at life, filtering it through a lateralized brain,
made it seem to be a problem. All along you thought that you had to solve these
problems, when all you needed to do was to see that there never was a problem to
begin with. 

It's a shift in how you see things, which is why enlightenment is called a
"realization." You realize that things aren't the way you thought they were.
 
Most people just won't accept what I've just said. "What do you mean that all
the problems I have aren't really problems! That's an insult. I have tons of
problems and it's easy for you to say, Bill Harris, that they aren't really
problems." So I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm asking you to find out for
yourself by doing the meditation work that will allow you to see things in a
different way. As you use Holosync, and you stop separating everything into
opposite and warring poles, you'll begin to see how everything works together,
and that neither side is wrong--and neither side is right, either.
 
Trying to get one side of each pair of opposites to win is what is called a
double bind, an idea I'll get back to in a moment.
 
This may be hard for you to take, but I didn't make this up. Zen Buddhists have
known this for hundreds of years. But just telling someone that life isn't a
problem to be solved isn't going to change their mind, because that's not the
way it feels to most people. To change your mind you have to experience it in a
new way.
 
Let's say you find someone who thinks the earth is flat. You explain that the
world is actually a sphere, but no amount of explanation will convince them that
this is so. But, if you can get such a person to act consistently with their
belief, until they see, from their own experience, that it isn't true, then they
may believe you. So you say to them, "Hey, wouldn't it be fun to go look over
the edge?" You have to be disciplined about how you do it, though, or the person
may think you walked in circles and that's why you couldn't find the edge. So in
a very careful and disciplined way, you walk due west on a certain line of
latitude until you arrive back where you began. Then the flat earth person at
least believes that the earth is a cylinder. Then, you could do the same thing
by walking north on a certain line of longitude until he sees that the earth is,
indeed, a sphere.
 
There are people who seem to have solved this so-called "problem of life." These
people look as if they've found a way for White to win--or at least they don't
seem to be plagued by the same problems as other people. They seem happy and
peaceful. Nothing seems to faze them. When things get tough they seem just as
happy as when things seem good.
 
One such person might be a Zen master. So let's say you meet a Zen master, and
you say to yourself, "Wow. This guy has it together. Nothing bothers him. He
seems so serene and yet also so powerful. I want to know what he knows." So you
go to him and ask him if he will be your teacher. But he tells you he has
nothing to teach. You figure he's just testing you to see if you really want it
badly enough, so you persist. "You've solved the problem of life, and I want to
learn from you. Take me as a student." So, if you're persistent, he finally
agrees.
 
Then, he does the same thing to you that you did to the flat earth believer: he
gives you a task that makes you act in a manner consistent with your premise
that life is full of opposites and that one side of each pole is a problem to be
solved or defeated. He might, for instance, tell you that desire creates
suffering, (something the Buddha said) and that you should go meditate and
figure out how to stop desiring. So, you go off to sit each day and work on that
problem.
 
As you get into this task, you being to realize that it's more difficult than
you thought.. A few weeks later the Zen master asks you to report on your
progress. "Well," you say, "I've managed to give up some desires, but this is
actually pretty difficult." You work on it some more, with some, but limited,
progress. Then, he really throws you a curve. He asks you why you want to give
up desire. "Isn't wanting to give up desiring also a desire?" Hmmm. How do you
get out of this one, you think. Maybe you should give up desiring to give up
desiring. But wouldn't you be doing that because of something you desire, also?
 
This is the same double bind I mentioned above. You're trying to solve an
insoluble problem, and the reason the problem isn't soluble is that it isn't a
problem to begin with. And the Zen master may take you through dozens of
problems of this same type, hoping that at some point you will see that there is
no edge of the earth, that there is no problem. In fact, what he's really saying
is that there is no separate you to give up desiring, and there was never any
separate you that was desiring in the first place -but that's another subject
for another time. I cover this in great detail in my second online course
(www.centerpointe.com/life/preview).
 
You could go to a Zen master and he would treat you as if you thought the earth
was flat and make you act consistently with that belief. In this case, your
belief is that life is a problem, a version of White must Win. The Zen master
has you act consistently with that belief until you have convinced yourself that
your belief makes no sense.
 
Out in the rest of the world it is hard to see that duality--the act of dividing
the world into opposites and then making one of them good and the other
bad--makes no sense. Why? Because everyone else is under the illusion that it
does make sense, and it's darned difficult to go against the way of thinking of
6 billion other people.
 
But when you use Holosync your brain begins to operate in a new way, a way that
would otherwise take 25-40 years of traditional meditation to achieve. And as
your brain changes you begin to see that the earth isn't flat as you always
thought it was, and as every other person you know always thought it was.
 
This new way of seeing the world does not mean, by the way, that you stop doing
what needs to be done, or that life changes in many particulars. As the Zen
Buddhists say, "Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After
Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water." But this new way of see the world as
one energy, where there are no divisions (except those we create in the mind)
does mean that you become happy and peaceful, and that you achieve the power to
create pretty much whatever you want in life. Ironically, once you have this
creative power, you realize that it doesn't matter what you create, at least in
terms of your own happiness and inner peace.
 
And, the other thing that happens is that you develop a great amount of
compassion for the suffering of others, and feel a pull to do something to
alleviate it. Once you are established in this experience of oneness, all
problems dissolve into the illusions they always were.

Be well.

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8. Glowing Testimonials and Letters

I am sincerely committed to this program and have a certain knowing that it is
very important work for me.  I have found Bill Harris'	book to be excellent and
enjoy reading all I can on this process.  I am, on one hand, quite
scientifically oriented and immediately found the research making perfect sense.
It merged with my faith in the knowledge of the value and importance of
meditation and deeper emotional and spiritual connection. I don't miss a day and
am following the listening as suggested.  I go deep very quickly , occasionally
I think I doze off  but mostly I am alert. It's typically not until I surface at
the end of the cd that I realize how deep I was. I immediately noticed
significant and varied experiences and have been trying to simply observe and
accept as suggested.  Initially I found myself headachy and quite tearful which
is not typical for me. Also, almost immediately, I found my craving for
unwinding with wine at the end of a work day almost distasteful.  One of the
most significant changes that is apparent is the disappearance of chronically
aching neck and upper back muscles.  I have put up with that for years and years
and quite frankly I'm floored and so grateful for the relief.  For the past 10
days or so during my meditations , I am experiencing  the very unusual and
persistent sensation of electric currents running thru my legs causing them to
move involuntarily.  I've tried not to analyze it or get hung up on it but it is
quite pronounced and almost uncomfortable. I have a sense that clearing and
healing will occur  first on the superficial and physical level ,then go layer
by layer down thru my consciousness. I have recommended the program to my
daughter and good friend who are both starting it as well.

Will stay in touch,
Karen

**

Dear Bill Harris,

First and foremost I want to say a BIG THANK YOU for your incredible
program!!!!! Just as a brief background :

I am A 46 years old South African, who immigrated to Portugal (my  husband is
Portuguese) 13 years ago with our 2 daughters. I have always had a very
successful, high powered career, which I continued here. About a year ago, I
just crashed as I was under constant pressure at work, at home (my marriage was
falling apart), and to make matters worse, my youngest daughter had attempted
suicide many times and was self injuring. My life was a mess. Up to that point,
I had handled pressure incredible well, but I guess the burn had to come? I was
working 12, 13, 14 hours a day. I was totally overwhelmed. Looking back, I
realize, that I was living 100% in my mind and work was just an escape from not
dealing with the issues at hand. First, my thyroid gave in, I just never
listened to my poor old body who was screaming at me to wake up!! 2004 was the
worst and best year of my life. Worst--because I was no longer in control (I
was a total control freak) and my mind just went "walkies" to put it mildly, and
best because finally I started to awaken.. I have always been interested in
esoteric "stuff", but put this pretty much on the shelf while relentlessly
pursuing my career. 

I started to read spiritual self- help books, and like yourself, re-read them in
the hope that I would find some inner peace. Daily I receive inspirational
messages from "The Conscious One" and one of them happened to have your info. I
ordered the demo cd and just forgot about it. Very shortly afterwards, I
received this in the mail and now here I am now doing the "Awakening Prologue". I
TRULY cannot believe the  change in the short time I have been doing this (not
even a month). My anxiety is disappearing daily, I feel more energized and far
more peaceful than I have for a very long time. I too experience resistance, but
I am going with the flow and just accepting this as part of the amazing,
exciting journey. 

Last month, my husband was retrenched from work and I didn't freak out at all
when he told me, in fact I had been expecting this. Somehow I know that this was
the best thing that happened to him. Over the last very difficult year, we
started to communicate again. My present work has stopped having any meaning for
me. Weird - it was like my whole life before!! I am truly, truly grateful to you
for giving me (through your program) back the joy of life. For the first time in
eons my life seems to just be flowing, I am not forcing any issues, I just put
out the intent and live.  It is so strange because my whole family seem to be at
peace, even though I am the only one doing the program!!!! Before we were all
stressed out. 

I also want to congratulate you for the outstanding follow up material given.
This is exactly what I need, because no book follows up to see how you're doing,
and feeling. I don't feel alone in my journey. It is so great to get the bonuses
and your book is a MUST. 

GOD BLESS YOU!!!!! 

Tessa 

**

Dear Bill and all at Centerpointe,
 
I came across Holosync whilst desperate and searching the internet for
depression support groups. I was unhappy at the time and stuck in a relationship
that I wanted out of, but didnt have courage to end. My life seemed to be going
nowhere and I felt like I hadn't achieved anything. I was 34 and my life seemed
over.

As a naturally sceptical person, I immediately thought 'Snake oil' when I read
the description, but on further investigation, I found that binaural beats their
effects on the brain had been discovered quite a while before hand. Now I was
impressed. There were several companies offering products that contained
binaural beats, but, while yours was the most expensive, it seemed to offer a
genuine life changing progression and improvement as a whole. The others seemed
to be specifically for things like relaxation and positive thinking as separate
things. But I was still sceptical.

Because I live in the UK I was also afraid that if it was a scam and I was
ripped off there would be no come back. But I needn't have worried. I sent off
for the free sample. Not only did you send it to the UK, but it arrived within a
couple of weeks. I was impressed. If a company can be bothered to do this, then
they are definately worth dealing with.

Shortly after this I sent for the awakening. I admit, it was hard work to start
with as I have always been very tense and unable to relax. I felt strange
effects and it was working, but needed an extra kick.

Towards August of this year, I finished with my partner. She was desparately
upset by this, but by this time the relationship was co dependant. We both
suffered from depression, hers much worse than mine. Holosync helped me through
this time.

As I still kept in contact with my ex, but she would occasionally make things
difficult for me and occasionally I felt suicidal because of this. I will add at
this point, that I had been on anti depressiants for that last 5 or 6 years.

It came to april of this year (2004) and by now I was on better terms with my
ex. Things seemed to be taking a slightly better turn in my life and the
Holosync wasnt as strong as it was. It was time to upgrade!

Again, in your usual efficient style, I recieved the next level quickly. After
listening to the first CD for a couple of weeks, I immediately noticed the
difference.

Now on CD #2, almost ready to move to #3, I am off anti depressants (I never
thought I would ever come of these!) and feeling all the better for it. I work
out at the gym more regularly and I'm making better progress. I am starting to
write short stories. I have always liked writing, but have suffered writers
block. My first short story I wrote, I posted on an internet forum and it went
down well :-D. I feel happier. Not completely happy as I still have a long way
to go, but I feel I'm making progress. Progress I never thought I would ever
make. I'm better at my job. I'm learning much more about me and why I am the way
I am. And I'm starting to let go of negative behaviours. I dont drink as much as
I used to. I'm starting to relax for the first time of my life. Things are
improving.

I can feel the chaos, the entropy now, but I can also see there is some order
starting to emerge. Prigogine's theories that your book introduced me to are
fascinating and the whole 'order out of chaos' thing makes so much sense now.
 
So Thank you Bill, and all of the CenterPointe team that made this possible. I
am indebted to you so much!
 
Yours
 
Duncan

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9. Book Review

Book Review
By Marc Gilson

Fading Toward Enlightenment
Life Between Ego and the Etherial
By Wayne Wirs
Copyright 2005 Wayne Wirs
Missing Man Press


Your life is a story. You are its author. Your story, like mine, is one of
triumphs and tragedies, goals met and goals missed, struggles and successes.
Each day our experiences write a new page and the document of our life emerges.
As a Mind Chatter reader your story is likely one of personal discovery and
growth; a voyage, not to distant lands perhaps, but inward, to yourself, to
home.

That's Wayne Wirs' story, beautifully told in words and photos in Fading Toward
Enlightenment. Wirs, a photographer, writer, and Centerpointe Participant, has
composed a striking book documenting much of his own personal voyage of self.
Part photo essay, part autobiography, Fading Toward Enlightenment artfully and
intimately portrays the journey Wayne has taken thus far. Each page reveals a
black and white photo - some austere, some visually arresting - along with
Wayne's narrative description of his personal quest for Inner Peace.

There are plenty of books describing such quests. Some are excellent
(Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" comes to mind). Few match the openness
and honesty Wayne shares with the reader. What sets this book apart is a kind of
ambient awareness with which Wayne writes; a truly "witnessed" perspective
pervades his work. He is not a guru or a teacher. He is an explorer, a field man
more than an academic. He encounters the same sorts of everyday challenges so
many of us have experienced in our own personal journeys. Challenges generated
both from the mundane demands of what he calls the "Solid" world, as well as
those that come from the Etheric realm of his own inner demons.

The first of these challenges is childhood itself. A stark photo of a single,
abandoned child's shoe accompanies the following section (often written in the
3rd person):

"At some point in every young life, innocence is lost ­ sometimes painfully and
brutally. Seeing the darkness within his own soul causes him to doubt authority.
For it is authority that has shaped and formed him. What he held to be true is
questioned, and his value system teeters on the edge of a precipice. Suddenly he
is alone in a world which seems cold and cruel and heartless. Youth is lost ­
adulthood begins, and the painful questioning commences."

Later, he finds himself faced with a dilemma. Does he follow the path of his
peers and live a "Solid" life, one conditioned and guided by worldly
expectations and definitions of success and happiness? Or does he embrace the
path of the seeker, striking out on his own, both spiritually and physically, to
face himself "in a way that is both humbling and frightening?" The choice is
made, and Wayne walks away from the Solid and the known toward the unknown
mysteries of his inner self.

"I started meditation. I practiced morning, noon, and night."

Revelations and experiences came and went as he meditated, enough to sustain his
practice, but not enough to sate the persistent thirst of ego. Wayne did not
give up.

"...What is keeping me from the Divine?" This question and this alone is what
drives him. It is said that the spiritual seeker must find a guru ­ that the
answers cannot be found without guidance. But who? How do you find one? When you
do, how do you know if they are true? So he reads, he studies, and he combines
what resonates true with his practice. He meditates, he watches. Blockages
become apparent, answers are found, and step by step he walks the path.

Page by page, Wayne compels the reader to not only observe the unfolding of his
story, but to engage the process itself, to see his experiences as aspects of
every such journey, including yours. He studies the works of Jung, Wilber, and
Tolle, and uses Holosync as his meditation aid (he describes his use of Holosync
in the "Questions and Answers" portion at the end of the book).

Eventually, he begins to develop a kind of map by which he identifies his own
position:

"He starts to think of normal people as "Solids." Solid because they experience
themselves as very real, very important...He thinks of enlightened people as 
"Etherials"--those individuals who are no longer attached to the machinations 
of the mind's for himself and others like him...He takes to calling them 
"Liquids"--people who flow back and forth between the two extremes.

Confronting the paradox of himself, and the contradictions of the world around
him, Wayne recounts each step of his journey with unflinching frankness;
eventually leading him to some of the most profound realizations such a journey
can yield.

Rich with insight and wisdom, Fading Toward Enlightenment is a work of sensitive
awareness, candid truth, and genuine reflection. Words and images are blended
together to comprise an evocative and poetic portrait of one man's quest for
peace. Highly recommended.

Visit www.waynewirs.com or http://fadingtowardenlightenment.com/ to order Fading
Toward Enlightenment.
(Wayne will donate $5 of every book purchase through the website to the charity
of your choice.)

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10. Announcements

Centerpointe's First-Ever East-coast Retreat!

For the first time, we will hold a retreat in the eastern part of the U.S., at
the Bryn Mawr Mountain Conference Center in Honesdale, Pennsylvania! The dates
are September 16th through 22nd, 2005.

We promise six months of growth in 5 days, but most people claim they received
MORE than six months of growth.

We're down to five spaces, so call today to reserve your place.

Here are comments from a few retreat participants:

"The greatest benefit I got from the retreat was a tremendous sense of peace
from the meditations, that may have released the helpless sense of 'what
difference do I make?'
-Heather

"I came away from this retreat with an even deeper closeness to my husband, a
greater sense of compassion for my fellow man, more willingness to look someone
in the eyes and touch their heart, even if just for a second. Be prepared to
look at some real issues in your life and be open to change to get the most out
of it."
-Tonye-Marie

"This is a top course in the industry of self-improvement, fulfilling a broad
range of expectations. Bill Harris is a genius in meeting the needs of
participants who are genuinely committed to shifting their understanding of what
it possible for human development."
-John

"This is a marvelous way to interact with gentle, caring, like-minded people and
to release your excess baggage."
-Ann

"The greatest benefit I got from the retreat was a release from illusions. I
gained the knowledge/insight of what is happening subconsciously, tools to deal
with it, and the opportunity to act."
-Sallie

If you would like a huge breakthrough in your life, please come to the next
Centerpointe retreat. For more information, please call Katie Sparks at
503-906-6027 or visit http://www.centerpointe.com/ and click on "retreats."