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Too Many Variables and Sensory Overload Lead to Unresolved Experiences

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
August 21, 2026

MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 5

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rigid shock reaction to today’s information overload

“Too many variables” is another way of defining the root cause of today’s mass hysteria. These variables are programmed into our lives, by words and pictures and gestures, etc., via people and media and nature. Six hundred years ago, it was mostly just people and nature. And fewer people contacts per day.

Why is the increased load of sensory messages so devastating?

Because:

  • We get attached to having our lives come out a certain way (sometimes we get programmed into these attachments). This sets up a “maze” for us to get through, e., what we must do to get what we want.
  • We have strong emotional charges connected to these attachments.
  • The more messages we hear, the more complicated we make our maze—the more conditions we try to bring about at once.
  • Everybody’s mazes get tangled.
  • Everything “uncopeable with” we ultimately hypnotize away.

Unresolved experiences

These tug at the mind. It is an automatic secretary function of the brain which does this. These are items the brain recognizes as relevant to goals and about which it knows more clarity will be possible. It holds these messages for us and gives us these messages in odd moments.

When these items first came in through the senses, they were “question-producing” and achieved cortical recognition, although not necessarily conscious cortical recognition. This resulted in dissonance, and the items were put on “hold.”

Now, with the brain giving us six weeks worth of messages each day, needing clear meditation and learning so that we can improve our progress through our maze, we repress all of these messages. We refuse to learn. “We haven’t got the time.” Instead, we persist in our fixed, programmed pattern: this is not a normal condition but a pandemic pathological rigid shock reaction to today’s information overload.

We plan empirical studies to confirm or disconfirm that:

  1. A sensory overload relative to meditation time (to assimilate those inputs) causes a shift in how information is processed: different (simplified) biocomputer logics.
  2. By perpetuating robot repetition of conditioned programming, these simplified logics reduce free will, powers of observation, and sensory sensitivity, and in other ways, unnecessarily hamper one in achieving lasting satisfaction from Life.
  3. The simplified logics are intended by Nature to be used in short bursts for coping with actual emergency threats to survival, i.e., they are an alarm.
  4. The pandemic problem today is the inability to turn off the ever-constant alarm reaction.
  5. The difficulty in functioning through this alarm reaction is that learning is suspended.Experiences that need to be assimilated are repressed.
  6. Meditation is the most efficient method of assimilating human experience.

The source of tension

Unresolved experiences cause tension. This is the body’s way of “alarming” us so we figure out what’s bothering us. In a “natural” situation, we stop and meditate. On today’s sensory battlefield, there’s a general feeling that to stop is doom. Part of this is the subconscious awareness of how many messages are waiting inside, and how tangled together it all is.

So, we keep up the act as usual and wait for some outside force to maybe come along and save us someday. This leaves us with a lot of tension. Taking it out of the body directly (by massage, etc.) only treats the symptoms (though we highly recommend massage). The tension will, therefore, always return. “He can’t relax—he’s got so much on his mind.”

Clarity removes tension.

Tension is an alarm system prodding us to do something we are not noticing needs doing; like pain, a warning device. Tension is clutching—a keeping-tight. The mind does it first, then the body follows. Tension in the body mostly comes from tension in the mind; therefore, for example, fear makes us take up less space physically.

We find that when we achieve clarity on whatever has been bothering us, the tension eases. Then, the choices are clear, and one chooses at the proper time. It is clarity that turns off the alarm system “tension.”

Mind Experiment

Let yourself enjoy a long, slow, new, creative approach to all situations. There’s no hurry. There’s just the Eternal Now. How you relate to it at this moment is all.

Start your life NOW.

What are my attachments?

List the things, events, and conditions that must be maintained or brought about in your life in order for you to be happy—a particular job, a particular lover, a certain amount of money, physical security, having people think of you a certain way, and so on.

Then, list the things you fear that must not happen in your life, or you will be very unhappy—losing your current job, lover, status, etc.

Eventually, the items on these lists will be immaterial to you. You’ll want to keep the lists and keep looking at them from time to time until that point.

What bits of my past are holding me back?

 List the moments in your life that still trouble you when you remember them.

(You might not get all of these listed at once since some particularly troubling memories might be being actively repressed by your subconscious. But you can keep adding to the list as you remember more of these experiences.)

Achieving clarity on just one situation

 Take any one of the unresolved experiences on the list developed in item 4 above, set aside uninterruptible and open-ended time, and relive the experience in complete detail from beginning to end, one or more times, like a detective looking for clues.

What you are looking for is the truth of what bothers you about this situation. The truth of why it bothers you may not be why you think it bothers you.

Some part of you will tend to want to avoid these memories, fearing that they can only cause more hurt. In fact, each of these memories is an energy watershed you can turn to great advantage in your life simply by understanding your emotional charge with each situation.

This is why the mind tags these memories with alarm charges: so that eventually, you’ll pick up the phone.

After you get the knack of it, you’ll naturally clear out all the items on the list you made in item 4, mostly spontaneously, at moments when you don’t expect it.

If you’d like to speed up the process, just set aside time and relive the experiences in priority order.

Love to all,
Bill

 

The Independent Mind: Breaking Free from the Partisan Spell

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
August 14, 2026

This is a moment for cosmic re-evaluation, starting from an open mindCosmic Crossroads Beyond Division

The trouble started long ago when Democrats started demonizing Republicans and vice versa. When I was a kid, it wasn’t this way. It was like rooting for the Yankees instead of the Dodgers, although living in Brooklyn. It was surprising but not something to rouse animus.

Sportsmanship has always been an attractive characteristic of individuals, athletes, and famous people. People could be rivals, kid one another, but never come close to demonization.

My first realization came about the turn of the Century. Someone sent me a Halloween card whose cover said, “Want to wear a really scary costume this Halloween?” Inside it said, “Dress up as a Republican.” I had to shake my head.

After that, it came on in slathers, and the buildup was tsunami-like. My beloved business partner, the late Bill McKenna, called liberals “Libbies,” and it was obvious from his tone of voice that the female surname “Libby” was a giveaway that all Liberals were effeminate and not masculine enough.

The algorithmic intensity of modern media has brought this to a level absolutely on a plane with Brave New World and 1984. In fact, the proportion of movies, video series, and books about dystopia has shot up. It is as if the whole population is helping to order up dystopia to engulf us in consensus reality, by the amount of our thinking and dreaming about it, which is helping to bring it about. We are “Living the Nightmare” in our expectations, and now we have accepted it as the necessary reality.

It has become literally mass hypnosis.

We now accept it as normal that our leaders will be corrupt, lie to us, bully us, shoot us, and steal our money in every way possible. Yet, we go about our daily routines less happy than usual and more prone to escapism. We don’t rearrange our fundamental thinking about our loyalties because that would be too much to bear; the fear of the unknown floods in when we even come close to thinking about that.

We would not be that way if we were not surrounded by all of our tribe and reinforced in our tribal thinking by very select use of media channels that echo chamber us and keep out the bad memes that would undermine our sense of self and drag us down into doubt.

“This is who I am,” we think, without words, down at a level below our own conscious awareness. “I have chosen this course in life, and it’s far too late to turn back and become somebody else. The other Party is far too radical and ugly; none of my best friends and family like them.” In these subconscious self-conversations, we do not have enough intellectual prowess to point out to ourselves that there is a third option of not being hung up on either Party. If we take the time away from escapism to have these self-conversations at a conscious level, we will have more controllable intelligence to make sense of things. The third option is to become a political Independent, which about half the US population has already chosen. That would allow us to vote based on individual merits rather than robotic puppeting the party line.

It’s hard to admit to oneself that one has been a puppet and played like a violin for decades of one’s life. It’s better to let awareness of the truth come in rather than to protect oneself against the truth and to live in a shell of self-deception. The truth will sometimes show you that you say one thing and do another, and that the high and noble precepts you mouth are not reflected in your actions. Yes, this is a painful experience, but so is childbirth, and both types of temporary pain lead to an infinite amount of emotional payoff in the end.

This is a moment for cosmic re-evaluation starting from an open mind.

Love to all,
Bill

A Message from The One Self of the Universe

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
August 7, 2026

Greetings my children!

Greetings, my “children”! I want you to know how much I personally appreciate and love each unique one of you. And how highly I think of you, and what you mean to me, and how much I respect you.

Of course, the reason for that is that each one of you is Me, looking out through your eyes.

Talk about an identity crisis! Just kidding.

I realize very few of you have figured out The Meaning Of Life, which is that The One Self of the Universe has created and inhabited an infinite number of avatars so that we all can have a fun time.

Back in the Beginning when I was all alone, I had fun thinking and having visions all the time, but then that got old, and I got this great idea to create all you vessels for me to inhabit, and I gave you free will, and made you forget you were Me, which I find is a game that never gets old, because there is always new stuff happening.

Thank you for all the great vibes you send Me as if you were my nerve endings!

However, we shall have to have a talk about the bad vibes you’ve been sending lately.

I mean, the last time I got such bad vibes was from Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what I did to them. I don’t even want to kid about wiping you all out because it isn’t funny. To me, it’s erasing pieces of myself, which is inherently distasteful. But these bad vibes coming up the channels to Me from Earth have got to stop.

A part of Me – I have a lot of parts – let me tell you about that first. Each time I send out an emanation of myself, I hold back different qualities of Mine so that each one of you is totally unique – there will never be another YOU for all of eternity!

The Game is that each of you in time will figure out you are Me (with some stuff withheld, like omnipotence, I’m not crazy) and that will start your real growth, you will become a mensch, you will start to have incarnations in which you have more obvious psychic powers, and eventually when your growth is sufficient, you merge back into Me as a personality trait.

So, as I was saying, a part of Me, one of my personality aspects that made it through The Game and got back in here with Me, Myself & I, said to me that the Earth experiment was probably the riskiest one we ever played. That’s true because we let the Aggressor Forces onto Earth to observe how that would play out. My bet was that homo sapiens would win in the end despite the superior technology and psychic powers of the Aggressor Forces. That’s how much I believe in you kids.

Who are the Aggressor Forces? Well, you know, you’ve got them too; in any well-run military organization, the best troops get to play “the enemy” in wargames. You even call them “the Aggressor Forces” yourselves. On a cosmic scale, the Aggressor Forces are my avatars who didn’t get enough compassion, and I could have erased them but felt it would be more interesting to let them exist and to see what happened.

In the Bible we tipped our hands a bit – put out a little clue – in the Book of Job. Nietzsche put it nicely: “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Actually, even the stuff that kills you still teaches you on a subconscious level. And getting killed is not a permanent condition; it’s like trading in your old car for a new one.

Anyway, the Aggressor Forces have been on Earth for about 200,000 years now, and have started all the wars in history. They are doing it on other planets too, wherever they can, training the largest army ever mustered, so they can “Storm the Gates of Heaven” as they call it. In other words, they want to kick me out of office and replace me.

Since I am inside each of them, and as Myself I have 100% power over The Game, they are on a fool’s errand – for the last 14 billion years! And on Earth, the past 200,000.

So as to protect yourself against falling in with them (they are very persuasive), how can you identify them? Just pay attention to anyone who is often nasty, and after seeing if you can explain to them why that isn’t a good idea, it’s best to stay away from them and not give them any power over you.

I’ll repeat that: DON’T GIVE MEANIES ANY POWER OVER YOU.

Consider it my Eleventh Commandment, please.

If you follow this Platinum Rule, in addition to The Golden Rule, which is The Prime Directive, you will be able to reduce the bad vibes your planet is sending me, and I’ll stop daydreaming about pulling a Sodom and Gomorrah on you.

Kids, play nice, enjoy yourselves, and think about my requests and my promises. You are Me and so is everyone else. Treat everybody kindly; they are you, and you are Me, there is only One of Us, One Self, in many forms. But don’t get involved with aggressors; they turn kindness into a weakness, which is about as bad as it gets in terms of cosmic report cards. And definitely do not vote them into power, ESPECIALLY IN GOD’S NAME! Since “God” is what you folks have always called me, it irks me when an aggressor says they are doing their bad stuff at My direction. It’s even more irritating when a good person gets tricked by them into parroting that stuff.

I AM ON EVERYBODY’S SIDE. WIN/WIN IS WHERE IT’S AT. YOU ARE ME, SO SHOW IT. ACT FOR THE GOOD OF EVERYONE, NOT A FACTION.

I know I’m asking a lot, given where you guys are at the moment, so many mind-bending new media coming at you from all directions, you focus on the few channels that reinforce your current beliefs, and you cling to those. That is not a winning strategy when everything is changing fast and topsy-turvy. Grow With the Changes. Keep an open mind to let in what the other is saying and combine it with what you are saying. That IS a winning strategy. Unify the family. Make Earth a place where I will be happy to make a personal appearance.

I promise you a happy ending no matter what happens between now and then. I control it, and you are Me, so I want the very ultimate best for you all.

Love, Your Cosmic Self

The Present: Word Pollution Overload

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
July 31, 2026

MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 4

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How the tonnage of words and other input has increased past the overload point, causing hysterical imitation in the place of real life.

Meditation as accelerated information-processing

Information Overload: A cybernetic explanation for the state of the world (1)

Over millennia, up to about 300,000 years ago, we humans evolved a neuronic net, which we call a cerebral cortex. We are still learning how to use this new facility, and currently, it is running amok and hypnotizing us, due apparently to an overload of “question-producing” sensory input per average second.

This overload appears to have been brought about by the successive waves of the media revolution, which began with the printing press and have reached tidal wave proportions with today’s Internet, television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, records, outdoor signs, movies, plays and so on.

The world was very different 600 years ago. We estimate that about seven weeks’ worth of sensory “question-producing” stimuli 600 years ago is what we now get in a day—about fifty times the pressure to learn and adapt.

Just as an “Ice Age” appeared to stimulate humans to discover “travel” and master fire, this media revolution, while it has paralyzed the brains of our leaders as well as ourselves, also appears to be a stimulus for humans—to evolve the capacity to remain focused through complexity.

Cybernetically contemplating the brain

In order to appreciate how “question-producing” sensory overload can have such a powerful effect, one must cybernetically contemplate the brain. The neuronic net we call the cerebral cortex contains about 80 billion neurons, each capable of relating in many different ways to thousands of other neurons around it. (2)

Let us visualize this as transparent, as if it were a force field rather than matter, so that we can look through it in our minds. When sensory input comes in, it moves from neuron to neuron. At each neuron, it encounters other information, and sometimes, the contact results in a cognitive association between the new input and a memory.

Brain researchers can tell that the incoming sensory data is “filtered” (as if through a grid) as it moves in through layers of neurons, each of which checks the data from slightly different “viewpoints.”

This is how the brain updates many of its files based on each new piece of data passing through. Something we see on the street may trigger “notes to oneself” in several different “files” without our being consciously aware of all this (because there is so much going on so fast inside and outside).

Because of the many logical connections between each bit of incoming sensory stimuli and each bit we have already stored as memory, a cyclopean computer update takes place in our brain each second our eyes are open on anything other than a totally familiar scene.

Yogis estimate that 70% of the energy we consume is consumed through the eyes.

Today’s media revolution proves that what we let into our eyes and ears is much more of a factor in our well-being than what we allow into our stomachs. We have gotten used to treating our precision electronic circuitry most carelessly, by feeding it sustained hyper-overload with scarcely a letup—as if our neuronic nets were more like Sherman tanks.

There’s your brain there every moment like a secretary tugging at your sleeve asking you where to file something, and your answer requires a decision. But meanwhile, outside your eyes—the world still wants you to do this and that (and it asks questions, too!).

Before the media revolution, people just took their time, thought things through pretty carefully and slowly, and worked out all the details. Today, there are too many details. The brain shifts into a different kind of functioning entirely.

The brain represses dissonance. It accepts that questions needn’t be answered. And it lets itself regard certain questions only long enough to identify them as having been looked at before; then it puts them away with a “characteristic-habitual-decision-feeling” as if the matter were solved…

We call this phenomenon “hasty closure”. In other words, we let ourselves fool ourselves into ignoring things we should be understanding because we “simply haven’t got time.” (Actually, we don’t know where to begin.)

A different kind of functioning entirely

When people are hypnotized by the things they are told, their resulting emotional motivations drive them at a hectic pace, precluding meditating on their own experience. They “click into Emergency Oversimplification Procedure”—another way humans can process information other than the way that is normally best.

In this emergency oversimplification procedure, our biocomputers follow a grosser logic. For one thing, in EOP, everything must be either black or white. And it must be decided immediately, based on precedent.

We also have little foresight in EOP. In meditation, we can see where things will lead years hence and so avoid entanglements we won’t want then. The mind has little agility for this maneuver in EOP.

Mind Experiment

  1. For one entire day, concentrate on not jumping to conclusions.
  2. Am I in EOP?

For one entire day, keep checking to make sure you’re not in EOP, and if you are, get yourself out of it.

Signs of EOP:

  • Black/white thinking
  • All force goes to precedent
  • Things you see are auto-categorized
  • Negative or no feeling
  • Speediness
  • Engaging in activities to get them out of the way

How to get out:

  • Breathe…
  • Let your body relax wherever it is holding tension.
  • Regain your sense of humor.
  • Change the scene for a moment.
  • Use your body (walk, go outside, etc.).
  • Remember your long-range objectives and how they translate to immediate goals in the NOW.
  • Remember your agreements.

But most of all, find out what YOU want to do NOW. Then, balance that with your agreements.

Let yourself enjoy a long, slow, new, creative approach to all situations. There’s no hurry.

  1. Cybernetic = from the Greek for “Helmsman.” The Science of Guidance Systems, human or otherwise.
  2. Most neurons can either “fire” or “not fire.” Some, called “microprocessors,” have a wider repertoire. However, even the two-way neurons can have a range of meanings depending upon which other neurons are firing.

Love to all,
Bill