1. Welcome to Issue #162 (July 2006) of MIND CHATTER, 
the e-mail newsletter of Centerpointe Research Institute: 
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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
   You, Quite Literally, Are the Universe
   by Bill Harris, Director (scroll to item #7)

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

// Book Review (scroll to #9)
   The Science of Success: 
   How to Attract Prosperity and Create Life Balance Through Proven Principles
   By James Ray
   Review by Kate Sparks

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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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-Janis Joplin 

I am still learning--how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my
selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice
when I succeed.
-Andre Lorde 

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to
discipline you. 
-Leonardo da Vinci 

You all seem to be interested in how to get back to the self, instead of looking
for what the self wants you to do in the world...The universe does not seem to
exist for the sole purpose of man denying or escaping it.
-C.G. Jung 

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6. Live long and prosper!

Unless you've been living in a cave lately, you must have seen some of the
recent news about the health benefits of meditation.

It's everywhere...

* An article published in the American Heart Association journal, Stroke, 
  recently reported that meditation can reduce cholesterol buildup and the 
  associated risk of heart attack and stroke.

* And another study of the elderly found that meditation actually 
  added years to their lives.

* The National Institutes of Health reports that regular meditation reduces 
  chronic pain, anxiety, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and 
  cortisol (sometimes called "the stress hormone") production.

* A University of Wisconsin-Madison study discovered 
  meditation boosts brain function and the immune system.

* A recent issue of the American Journal of Hypertension featured the 
  results of a study showing a significant lowering of blood pressure in a 
  group of meditators compared to a control group of people who didn't meditate.
 
  The study also reported a 23% decrease in usage of antihypertensive drugs 
  between the group of meditators and the other group.

* A Harvard study also concluded that regular meditation can reduce pain, 
  lower blood pressure, and cut production of the stress hormone, cortisol.

* The most recent study by The American Heart Association shows heart 
  and artery health improved 69 percent in test groups practicing meditation.

And this is just the beginning.

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Which of these big life improvements would you like to enjoy?


[ ] I want more loving and fulfilling relationships

[ ] I want to enjoy my successes rather then have them 
torn from my grasp at the last minute

[ ] I want to be happier and more satisfied with my life

[ ] I want to get rid of bad habits and adopt resourceful ones

[ ] I know I could achieve a lot more with just a little bit of help


[X] I want to create MY LIFE rather than 
live one that just happens to me


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 
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Just for a moment, imagine:

WHAT IF you could be IN CHARGE of what happens to you--including your feelings
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Wouldn't that be a lot better than waiting for life to "just happen," where you
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Are you willing to learn exactly HOW you can do this?

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So more people could afford the LPIP courses, and as an introductory offer, I'm
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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
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7. Feature Article
You, Quite Literally, Are the Universe
By Bill Harris

Last time we discussed the mystics' answer to the question, "Who are you,
really?" I suggested that who you really are is nothing less than the one energy
behind everything--the Oneness of the entire universe--and that the idea that
you are a separate ego is an illusion created by the mind.

According to mystical traditions in all cultures, this one energy is everywhere
and everywhen, and it makes up everything. What is more, this energy is aware of
itself being everything. In other words, it is conscious. 

Finally, I made the point that since this one energy is everything, everywhere,
and everywhen, it has nowhere to go, nothing to get, and nothing to be afraid
of. As a result, this one energy is peaceful, blissful, and infinitely happy.

Most people, though they might agree in principle with this idea of Oneness,
don't perceive or feel themselves to be this energy, and certainly don't feel
peaceful, blissful, and infinitely happy. As you know, most people spend quite a
lot of time feeling bad, feeling separate, and feeling at odds with other people
and the world--in other words, suffering.

Mystics tell us that you don't see and experience yourself as this one energy
because of your mind. Your mind creates the illusion that you are a separate
being, isolated in a bag of skin. Traditionally, meditation (along with several
other practices) is the antidote, because it calms the mind and, eventually, by
calming the mind, allows one to experience reality directly, without filtering
it through the mind.

Every coin has two sides...

Next I noted that the mind's nature is to polarize everything into an infinite
number of seeming dualities: good and evil, up and down, male and female, here
and there, black and white, off and on, yin and yang, having and not having, and
so on.

The mind creates what seems to be a tension between the two sides of each of
these polarities. But these opposites only seem to exist as opposites. Actually,
each side of each pair is totally dependent on the other side for its existence.
"Here" makes no sense without "there". "Not me" makes no sense without "me".
"Good" makes no sense without "evil". Each side exists only in relation to the
other.

One manifestation of this duality is that this is a universe of vibration, a
vibration between what you might call on and off. The crest of a wave is the on
and the trough is the off. Or, to speak of particles rather than waves, the
particle is the on and the space where there is no particle is the off.

Our senses are constructed in such a way that we notice and respond to the "on"
but usually miss the "off". Darkness, silence, emptiness are all manifestations
of the off interval, and are generally ignored. Though consciousness ignores the
intervals between one "on" and the next, it would not be able to notice "on" if
it weren't for "off." 

Sometimes the on/off vibration is slow enough that we do notice the off. In such
cases we generally see the off side of things as undesirable, even, sometimes,
to be feared. We fear the dark, death, not having, and so on. We fail to see
that these things are necessary--even part of--the experience of light, life,
and having.

This idea of on and off has been called "The Game of Black and White," and in
playing this game we create suffering when we play a version of this game called
White Must Win. Why? Because white cannot win, and we wouldn't want it to,
anyway, because there can be no game at all without both White and Black.

This fact is very closely connected to why you feel separate and at risk in the
world instead of feeling at one, as you really are. 

Two reasons why you feel separate and at risk...

In fact, there are really only two reasons why you continue to entertain the
illusion that you are a separate ego in a bag of skin, at risk in the world.
First is the failure to recognize that all the so-called opposites,
light/darkness, sound/silence, solid/space, on/off, inside/outside,
cause/effect--and especially life/death--are poles or aspects of the same thing,
and that wanting one side to win out over the other is the key to the way people
create suffering in their lives. 

The second reason we fail to experience our real nature is that we are absorbed
in a type of narrow, linear, conscious attention where we fail to notice the
whole as it really is. We see the artificial and arbitrary ways we have chopped
the universe into different bits and things as intrinsic differences, and, in
doing so, fail to see how everything goes together in one unified system.

As a way of offering further evidence that everything really is one giant
interconnected process, that all divisions are arbitrary, and that you are that
process, let's look at what we mean by the idea of separate "events." Just what
is an event? 

When did you begin?

Take, for example, the questions of when a human being begins. Did you begin at
the moment of birth, at parturition, when you came out of your mother? Or did
you begin at the moment of conception? Maybe it was when the ovum and the sperm
were generated in your individual parents? Or when your father first saw your
mother and felt the urge to ask her out? Maybe it was when your parents were
born? Or when their parents were born?

All these things could be thought of as beginnings, but as a society we've
decided that a person's life begins when the baby comes out of the mother. This
division, this beginning, however, is totally arbitrary, and it only works
because we all agree about it. In reality the birth, the conception, the meeting
of the parents, and so on as far back as you want to go, is all one unified
process. Though dividing it into "events" might be a convenient way to talk
about aspects of the process, it also causes us to forget the fact that it
really is one extended event, and that the divisions are arbitrary and
conceptual.

How big is the sun?

Let me give you another example: How big is the sun? Where is the dividing line
between what is the sun and what is outside the sun? We could define the sun as
the extent of its visible fire, for instance. But we could just as well define
the sun as the extent of its heat--which would make it considerably larger. Or,
we could define the sun as the extent of its light, which would make it very
large--in fact, growing constantly as photons from the sun zoomed farther and
farther out into the universe.

All of these definitions of the size of the sun would be reasonable, but we have
arbitrarily agreed to define the sun by the limit of its visible fire. How big a
thing is, then, or how long an event is, is entirely a matter of definition. In
reality, there are no intrinsic beginnings or endings, no intrinsic boundaries. 

We create all divisions in the mind, dividing the world, quite arbitrarily, into
different events or things, chopping it up in certain ways. This is fine. It's a
great convenience, one that allows us to talk about the universe in various ways
and navigate our way through it.  When we forget that the divisions aren't real,
however, there are consequences, the most obvious being the sense of
separateness and isolation we feel.

These separate things and events, then, are really not separate at all. Any
separation exists solely in the mind. And when we chop the world up in this way,
and forget that we did it, we leave ourselves with another puzzle: how do these
separate events lead to each other?

I hope you can see that the whole premise of the puzzle is faulty, and that
there really isn't any puzzle because there really are no separate events. 

As Alan Watts put it, "Life moves along like water and it's all connected like
the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean." All the events
in the stream are like a whirlpool, which looks like a thing, but really is an
event. 

There are no things, only processes...

This distinction between a thing and event is an important one to grasp. When
you see a whirlpool today, it isn't the same whirlpool you saw yesterday,
because all the water is changing every second. We should really call it a
"whirlpooling" not a whirlpool, because it is an activity, a process, not a
thing.

In fact, there are no things or events, anywhere. There are only processes, and
in fact all processes are really connected in one infinitely big process called
the universe. 

This is one reason why language is inadequate to describe Reality. Our language
presupposes separate things, which actually don't exist. Every sentence contains
at least one noun, each noun representing some supposedly separate thing--even
though I've demonstrated that separate things exist only conceptually. To be at
least closer to a true description of reality, we would have to describe a house
as "housing", a mat as "matting", and a cat as "catting". I would have to
describe myself as "Billing" because all of this represents an ongoing process,
constantly flowing and changing.

This problem shows up everywhere you look. Consider, for instance, a flame. We
say the candle has a flame, but really it would be more correct to say that
there is a flaming, because the flame is a process, not a thing. It's a steam of
hot gasses. 

That we call it a thing is just a convention, and a dangerous one, because it
drags us into thinking that we live in a world of things. Believing in separate
things then drags us into the idea of cause and effect, and ultimately into the
feeling that we are separate beings, at odds with the universe, as the poet
said, "alone and afraid, in a universe I never made." 

Another example: I make a fist, but really I'm doing something, I'm "fisting"
and when I open my hand, I'm "handing." Every thing can be spoken of as an
event, and, what's more, there really is no real dividing line between one event
and another. Events flow into each other, like water.

If we keep this in mind, we don't need the idea of causality to explain how one
event "causes" another event. That one "thing" causes another is just a mistaken
way of perceiving the way things really are. 

Imagine if you saw a cat through a slit in a fence but didn't already know what
a cat was. It might seem as if the head of the cat is an event that causes the
shoulder, and that the shoulder is another event that causes the body, and so
on--when it's really all one cat, one thing.

One consequence, then, of chopping the world into separate events and separate
things is that we tend to see ourselves as puppets of the past, driven by past
events, driven by something that is always behind us and which, since it is
over, we can't do anything about.

Are you a slave to your karma?

Let's look at a related topic, that of karma. Karma is usually thought of in a
way in which the past determines what happens now, but this is not really what
karma means. Karma is from the Sanskrit root "kri" which means doing, or action.
When something happens, when you have an accident, for example, the typical
interpretation is that you did something in the past and now you're paying for
it in the present--that the accident was your karma. 

But this is not what karma really means. Karma simply means "doing"--that your
karma is what you are doing, what is happening. In other words, you are doing
what happens to you, in the same way you are doing your breathing. Or, you could
say that breathing is happening to you.

If you define yourself as the whole unified field of events, the whole going on
of it all, the whole whirlpool--which is who you really are--then whatever
happens certainly is your doing. You are the entire whirlpool, the entire
universe, and the entire universe is the doer.

The mystical traditions often speak about being free of karma as one of the
consequences of enlightenment. Freedom from karma is nothing more than a change
in thinking to one in where you see that there are no separate things or events,
and no separate you to generate them. Karma, then, is a consequence of the
misperception that there is a separate you that could have karma.

When you "drop your karma," you merely get rid of the habit of thought whereby
you define yourself as a result of what has gone before, and instead realize
that the whole thing is being created now--and, further, that it's not being
created by a separate you but by the entire universe. 

There is doing, but no doer...

Mystics often say that there is doing, but no doer. By this they mean that there
is no separate individual doer. The universe, the whole thing, is doing. The
common idea that there are many, many individual doers is an illusion created
when we conceptually chop the world into separate things and events.

Now I admit that this whole way of looking at things is very subversive. It
turns things totally upside down from what seems like common sense. The idea
that we aren't separate agents acting on a world outside of ourselves seems to
pull the rug out from under us in a very unsettling way. But if you really look
at things, it is inescapably clear that this is the case.

Let's look into this idea that everything is connected a bit further. Let's
consider another way of understanding that dividing the world into individual
things is merely a convention, not the way things really are. I've already
mentioned two examples: that you can't really tell when you began, or where the
sun ends. Let's look at another.

Consider a flower. Now, flowers do not exist floating in nothingness. They exist
only where there is soil of a certain type, where there is water in a certain
amount, and with sunlight of a certain duration and intensity. These things all
go with each other. They are a system, a unified field, what you could call a
flower/soil/water/sun, an organism/environment. We can decide to divide them
into separate things, but in real life, they are one thing, one process, one
whirlpool of happening.

We could also add a bee to our system, since bees do not exist where there are
no flowers, and flowers do not exist where there are no bees. They are really
one thing, since they cannot exist in isolation. And we could keep adding
things, until we had added everything. The whole bee/flower/soil/earth/sun
whirlpool also requires a galaxy for the sun to exist in, and that galaxy
requires a universe, and pretty soon you realize that you've included
everything, and dividing off any part of it is entirely arbitrary, because it
all goes together.

This is another variation on the on/off principle I mentioned, or the analogy of
the two poles of the magnet. Each thing is connected to all other things, and
they all form a harmonious system, where each part is dependent on the other
parts. Or, to use another metaphor I have used, these things are like a
whirlpool, where something is always coming into the system, and other things
are going out of the system, endlessly. 

A field looks like a thing--a field--but it's really a flowing system, a
process, in which things come into the system, and things go out of the system
constantly, while the overall form, just as in the whirlpool, remains
structurally pretty much the same.

You really don't have enough balls to be separate...

Let's look at Oneness from still another perspective. Suppose you have one ball,
existing in otherwise empty space. In such a case, there would really be no way
to conceive if it as a ball, or as any other shape. If there were nothing
outside it, it would have no outside. And, for that matter, the space really
couldn't be space, per se, because space, by definition, has to be space between
two things.

Still, you can probably imagine a ball in empty space, even though it's really
an impossibility. But that ball would have no energy, no motion. In relation to
what could it be said to be moving? In order to have motion, we would have to
have two balls, so they could move in relation to each other. But if there was
motion involving the two balls, how would we know which ball was moving? Is one
ball moving, or the other--or both? Without a reference point, there's no way to
tell.

So let's add a third ball. Ball number three then moves while number one and two
stay the same distance apart, so we know that number three is moving. 

Or do we? 

Perhaps we're not seeing this clearly. It could be that number one and two are
moving together while number three is stationary. Or, maybe one and two are
moving together, while three also moves. Again, there's no reference point that
allows us to know for sure. What if all three stayed the same distance apart,
but were all moving? But, again, in relation to what? Without something else to
move toward or away from, there is no movement.

Notice also that two balls can move only in a straight line (in other words, in
one dimension), whereas three balls can move over what appears to be a surface
(in two dimensions). If we add a fourth ball, we get the third dimension of
depth, and now it seems as if the fourth ball can stand apart from the others,
take an objective view, and act as referee. But which one is the fourth ball?
Any one of them can be seen as being in the third dimension in relation to the
other three.

The principle remains the same no matter how many balls you add, and therefore
applies to all celestial bodies in the universe and all observers of their
motion. Any person, planet, star, galaxy, or anything else, can be taken as the
central point in relation to everything else.

Here's yet another possibility, just in case your mind isn't yet twisted into a
pretzel. Suppose the balls don't move at all, but that the space between them
moves. We often speak of distance as something that increases or decreases, as
if it were a thing that could do something. This is the problem of the expanding
universe. Are the other galaxies moving away from us, or are we moving away from
them, or is the space between them expanding, as many astronomers are saying?

The fact that no decision can be reached is the clue to the answer: not just
that the space and the galaxies are both expanding, but that something you would
have to call space/galaxies or solid/space is expanding.

It's all relative...but to what?

What I'm illustrating here is that everything depends on and either exists or
moves in relation to everything else--another way of saying that it's all one
system.  This seems mind-bending because we ask the question in the wrong way,
with a wrong premise--the premise of separate things and events. 

For instance, we see the solid and the space as two separate things. Under that
way of seeing things, space appears to be nothing at all, when actually space is
no mere "nothing"--after all, solids can't do without it. Space and solids are
actually two aspects of the same thing, different but inseparable, just as with
the front end and the rear end of the cat I earlier described. Solid goes with
space in the same way light goes with dark and here goes with there.

Everything is relation, and you're right in the middle of it. In fact, you are
It!

Notice also, that one of the key aspects of this little thought experiment with
the balls is the question of locating a point of reference by which to measure
or determine what is what, whether it's moving or still, where it's moving to,
and other such questions. 

Without a point of reference, none of the normal perceptions of location,
identity, and motion--pretty basic aspects of what we consider to be
"reality"--make sense. To experience the third dimension you must have a point
of reference. Without one, everything collapses.

Here's what happens when there is no individual you...

When you have a true mystical experience of unity consciousness, where your
individual identity (or, rather, the illusion of your individual identity)
disappears, several things happen. (I'm adding this little tidbit because I had
a remarkable experience of this recently and was fascinated by what happened to
my normal reference point during this experience.)

First, you notice that there is no reference point! In terms of who and what you
are (and where), there just isn't anything to hang onto. With nothing to hang
onto, there is no you! In other words, the illusion of you and the illusion of a
reference point go together--they are another of those polarities. No you, no
reference point. No reference point, no you. There's just the entire going on of
it all, and when this happens it is very clear that you all of it!

The second thing that happens is that the third dimension does not appear the
same as it did when you had that reference point. The illusion of being a
separate individual is our reference point. And, that individual "me" becomes
(quite literally) the center of the universe just as with the balls we were
playing with a moment ago, where we concluded that anything can be taken as the
central point in relation to anything else. 

In other words, we make up a reference point--the separate sense of self--which
then seems to be, and acts as, the center of everything. In fact, every person,
every animal, every insect, feels that it is right in the center. I suspect that
this is why scientists say that no matter where you are you are in the exact
center of an infinite universe.

What do you do when the 3rd dimension goes wacky on you?

At the same time the third dimension goes wacky on you, you suddenly
see/experience (I'm unsure of exactly what verb to use here, since this is
beyond words) an infinite number of other dimensions--the fourth, fifth,
fiftieth, five-hundredth, five-millionth, and on and on and on. No matter how
far you go, how far you look, there is more. It is truly mind-blowing.

And, all of this is accompanied by indescribable bliss--a real cosmic orgasm
with an infinite universe.

You don't need you...

It also become clear that there is no need for an individual you. As you have
this experience you learn to navigate within it, and it doesn't seem so weird.
At first you miss that reference point and aren't quite sure how to deal with
(literally) an infinite number of reference points, but with experience you find
that everything takes care of itself without the need for a separate and
individual you.

At this point you might be asking "why?" Why does all of this happen? Why do we
think we're separate in the first place? If being under the illusion of
separateness creates suffering, then why do we resist waking up to who we really
are? Why does it seem so difficult? And what about all the apparently evil
things we see around us? What, indeed, is it all about?

Next month I'll take a shot at answering these questions. Until then...

Be well.

Bill Harris

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8. Glowing Testimonials and Letters
 

Thank you for Support Letter 5...I am now beginning to see the benefits.Ê Thanks
to anticipated outside events everything came to a head over the weekend and
your last newsletter helped me to finally understand how to deal with the
emotions through talking about "focussing".Ê Everything fell into place and I am
so happy that I was able sit with the emotions and let them dissipate instead of
going into my usual response of identifying with them and getting into madly
thinking and analysing to distract myself from them. The Support Letters are
very valuable and helpful, and though I am aware that there is a whole lot more
emotional stuff there, I am happy because I know that the process works and that
freedom beckons! Thank you so much, and I am certain I will be thanking you
again and again as the programme goes on!
-Mary

**

It is now day 33 [of using Holosync]. It is amazing. I made a vow to simply
witness what ever arose no matter how awful or wonderful. I am identifying with
the Witness and the quality of my life is profoundly changed. I knew most of the
things that you are talking about for many years, but now it is happening as a
lived experience by using the Holosync technology. Also sitting without the
sound has become much deeper. I interpret that as my brain is indeed changing.
If the results can be reproduced even to 50% of what I am experiencing it could
be a new era in the field of addictions treatment. 
-John

**

This is a long-overdue thank you note to Bill Harris and all of you at
Centerpointe.  I'm on Purification Level 2 now, and I think that the meditation
CD's were the best investment I ever made.  I joined the Inner Circle soon after
I started; I knew this was for me.  I had previous experience of meditation, but
had never been able to do is consistently, day in, day out, and for an hour. 
But with Holosync, I never miss it because I wouldn't want to.	It's a beautiful
way to start the day.  I'd feel deprived without it!

So much negativity (stressful people and situations, messy relationships,
careless lifestyle habits) have slipped out of my life, and so many positive
things have come into it.  When I was diagnosed with high cholesterol, I was
able to adopt a very lowfat vegetarian diet with pleasure and very little sense
of deprivation. (In the process, I acquired a body I never thought would be
mine! I guess I owe Dean Ornish a thank you note, too.)  I am sure that this was
all so easy because of the focus I've acquired from meditating with the Holosync
series.

There are other positive spiritual influences in my life, but meditation with
these tapes gives all the rest a huge boost.  There's a magnifying effect.  It's
helped my work (I'm an academic) no end -- relationships with students and
colleagues, writing, creativity... One major effect has been that
disappointments that would have had me prostrate for days in the past are now
like "ping!" ... barely a pinprick.  The next thought is, "How are we gonna make
it work?".  I have a research team that I'm always chasing funds for, and
sometimes the news is not what we want to hear.  But now a disappointment just
galvanizes me, gets me thinking of new ideas, new things to try.

I also figured out a way to get my mortgage paid down much faster than expected;
again, I give Holosync the credit, for shaking up my thought processes and
letting me experience new ways of looking at things.

When I realize that I have years more to go in the series, I'm thrilled.  I
don't want it to end! I've developed a love for meditation, just for itself...

So thanks, over and over ... I'm so grateful!
-Deirdre


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9. Book Review
by Kate Sparks

The Science of Success: 
How to Attract Prosperity and Create Life Balance Through Proven Principles
By James Ray
Review by Kate Sparks
 
To learn more about this book or to order, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966740017/103-2240139-8775804?n=283155
 
Books on success are a dime a dozen. Volumes upon volumes have been written on
how to succeed, how to think successfully, the spiritual side of success, etc.
So, what's one more? What more could be written about success that hasn't been
said before? 
 
On the other hand, is having the right information solely what determines
success? It may be that the old adage, knowledge is power, fails to be true. It
may be, as James Ray argues, that true power lies in wisdom. 

And wisdom does not come from reading a book. Wisdom comes from experience. This
is the magic of James Ray's book, The Science of Success. If information leads
to understanding and taking action, then the reader crafts wisdom from
experience. 

The Science of Success stands out on two fronts. First, Ray has a knack for
taking scientific laws and clearly showing how they apply to personal success in
all areas of life, without spending undue time in analysis or lengthy
explanation. Second, his concise writing motivates the reader to try on new
ideas and get into action. 

The principles contained in The Science of Success are timeless and universal
truths, but are presented in a way that pushes the reader to break free from his
or her paradigm and take full responsibility for every part of life as it is
now. 
 
Ray's seven power principles - The Power of Understanding, The Power of
Paradigms, The Power of Vision, The Power of Partnerships, The Power of Giving,
The Power of Gratitude, and The Power of Accountability - point to universal
laws that are at work in people, just as they are in nature. He explains in a
simple manner how these laws work for or against you, based on your thinking.
 
The results we have in life now are nothing more than our past thoughts,
decisions, and actions, Ray says. Life circumstances change as paradigms change.
He defines a paradigm as "the sum total of our beliefs, values, identity,
expectations, attitudes, habits, decisions, opinions, and thought patterns -
about ourselves, others, and how life works."
 
Many times people succeed in one area of life but aren't sure why or how. Then
they can't replicate that success or apply it to another area of their life
because they don't understand these laws. And they are living out of a habitual
paradigm, rather than intentionally applying the laws. 
 
Though Ray doesn't spend a lot of time explaining why these laws work, he
provides numerous real-world examples of the laws in action. For example, Ray
writes, "The Law of Rhythm tells us that everything in nature, and in our lives,
is either growing or dying. Stated simply, this SuperLaw says, 'create or
disintegrate.' Whatever is not growing, is dying. We are always moving in one
direction or another."
 
Not only are most people trying to move toward success, but success is also
looking for them, says Ray. He explains that the Law of Gender, which governs
all creation, says that all the success a person is looking for in life already
exists, but it takes an unknown length of time to manifest. Many people don't
have the necessary patience, consistency, faith and belief. Rather than knowing
their vision is on its way toward becoming a reality, they become disillusioned
and give up at the first sign that they aren't succeeding. "When we have faith
and belief that our dreams are coming to us, we never hurry. Hurry is a
manifestation of fear," Ray writes.
 
The seven principles are simple and powerful. Concepts such as gratitude,
giving, and accountability have been discussed by many spiritual leaders and
self-help gurus alike. The Science of Success provides new ways of looking at
these concepts that many have in the past considered spiritual, but not
necessarily scientific. For example, on the importance of giving, Ray writes,
"If you want to bring something new into your life you must have some space
available for it. Nothing can come into your life unless there is room for it.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If you make space, something will come to fill it."
 
The final chapter of the book does a wonderful job of summarizing practical
methods for putting these principles together. Ray details what he does every
day to create his vision, and gives solid ideas for creating taking action to
change your paradigms and making your vision a reality. 
 
Full of activities and exercises to jump start your vision and pearls of wisdom
to get you into action, The Science of Success is definitely a worthwhile
addition to the existing pool of success books available today. 
 
To learn more about this book or to order, go to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966740017/103-2240139-8775804?n=283155

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