Category Archives: Classic Bill

Recapturing the Spiritual Meaning, Awe and Wonder of Life

Leave a reply

Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created May 1, 2026

 

We all subconsciously have a continuous yearning to get back to the Garden, to feel that numinous, magical thrill we subconsciously remember having as a child. That yearning is to have that feeling all the time, not just in momentary flashes, most of us treasure as peak experiences that came out of nowhere on a beach or a hill or in meditation, where we experienced the certainty of ubiquitous love all around us and throughout our own being.

The practice of worship in temples came out of that yearning.

The brilliant writer David Brooks in his May Atlantic article “History Is Running Backwards,” explains how this yearning helps drive the traditionalist movements around the world. He does not use the term “MAGA” but brings it to mind. Sympathetically, he rationalizes their cause as a mistaken belief that turning back the clock to the past is a realistic way of achieving the recapturing of spirituality, meaning, and purpose to Life. He agrees that we have lost a lot, that there has been “emotional, social, and spiritual decay.”

He offers as a solution the teaching, once again, of the Bible and the humanities, that the moral wisdom we need will once again be imbued in us by this approach. I certainly agree that it would help for parents and schools at all levels to make the greatest books of all times reading matter for children, and to discuss those readings with them. But I think the emptiness within requires more than that.

I feel that the consciousness which is the Universe wants to remember Itself, and in any incarnation where that is absent, there will be a sense of loss, emptiness, and a subconscious drive to find that Self once again. And the absence of that Self-realization inevitably leads to moral and social decay, because other people will seem to be less important to the local vessel self.

In my estimation, Jesus knew all this and had a 100% understanding that we are all One Consciousness, and was wise to also understand that the idea was too big to be grokked by the primitives of the time. Therefore, he spoke in simplified ways that encompassed the implications of the truth that they needed to know, that we are all children of One Father and should therefore play nice with one another.

In modern times, this simplified language no longer gets through to the minds practiced on mechanistic and scientistic thinking. The untold messages of Jesus need to be spelled out in the language He would use with us today.

There is ample evidence in the Bible that Jesus stated clearly that there is more to be told and that it would be revealed later. For example, in John 16:12-13, Jesus explicitly tells his disciples that they aren’t ready for the full truth yet, and that later, when they are ready for it, the Holy Spirit will enter them and reveal more to them in their own minds: “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.”

To all of my audience, I say this: The Theory of the Conscious Universe is 100% consistent with science and with everything written in the Bible at the same time. In my estimation, it is all true. The One lives inside us all, as us.

Because this is understandably hard to believe, living as we are in such a vicious time period, with such complexity and confusion that our minds being so boggled we doubt everything, I’ve written two fictional novels which show how science and the Bible both can be true at the same time, entitled The Great Being and The First Son. I wrote those books so that people can see for themselves that it can all fit together perfectly and that we are, in fact, the avatars of the most amazingly potent and loving Being we could ever imagine.

It could not be otherwise. Something does not happen for no reason. The reason there is this Universe is for the love of play and creation and the love of one’s creations. There is only One of Us. We live through many versions of Ourself because it is much more fun that way. Only in some places and times we get lost and scared and blame it on each other. But with God’s help, we will come out of it better than we ever were before.

Love to all,
Bill

 

Live chat with my avatar

New Power of You Podcast:
Balancing our internal & external worlds to improve
satisfaction, well-being, and performance

My new book POWERFUL MIND is now available in e-Book format at

amazon        &       Barnes & Noble

An innovative too for self-discovery

“A compelling, optimistic, and original approach to mental focus, Powerful Mind is an innovative tool for self-discovery and creative liberation. Succinctly outlined and intuitively structured, this book is replete with rational advice, using a radical but commonsense approach. It takes a rare and adroit thinker to incorporate myriad worldviews and welcome diverse readers, regardless of ideological allegiance, but Harvey shows himself to be precisely that. The book is a masterfully structured, intellectually affirming, and potentially paradigm-shifting read.”
~ Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★

Your Life Is Like a Fascinating Novel… to God

Leave a reply

Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created April 24, 2026

A lot to unpack here. First, what do I mean by “God”? What is God in my worldview?


God is what each of us experiences as our consciousness, and everything we perceive through that consciousness, summed across all of existence as One Consciousness.

That view of what God is, is fully embodied in perhaps 1% of the human race. It is stated in less precise Western scientific terms, more metaphorically and perhaps more relatably, in the belief systems of Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Kabballah, and in the modern forms of American Transcendentalism known variously as “Manifesting”, The Secret, Silva Mind Control, et al. It is inherent in most other New Age thought and is widely held within MAGA, so that, in its less scientifically precise forms, its footprint could be in the ~25% range across the Earth’s human species.

Whereas there has been a gradual decline in the belief systems of the major world religions, this concept of God has been on the rise for the past Century, and it might be the fastest-growing cosmological system among the general public at this time.

The 1% who see it in its most scientific form tend to be kind, peaceful, and calm, because in their comprehension, we are all One and so, strife is inappropriate.

The ~25% who see it from a more metaphorical point of view can also exhibit those same collaborative tendencies, or can intellectualize the idea in a way that rationalizes xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, Us Versus Them thinking and behavior.

From the standpoint of social good or social utility, it would therefore be better for the idea to be comprehended from a scientific framework, rather than partially understood in a woo-woo framework.

Fortunately, there is a slow growth in the percentage of scientists who are willing to consider that consciousness might be more fundamental to reality than matter is, or that both consciousness and matter are manifestations of an underlying reality such as “information”. Physicalism is the term that has emerged as the main label for the scientific presumption that all that exists is physical matter and energy, which can convert from one to the other (E=MC2).

The slow growth of the group of scientists who are not willing to presume physicalism has caused new labels to appear to cover this group, specifically, the terms used are panpsychism and cosmopsychism. The fact that new names are being assigned is, in my view being a cosmopsychist, a good sign.

It is an indication of strong bias (which scientists are supposed to avoid like the plague) that scientists change the subject or make funny remarks about drug use when it is pointed out that the pioneers of quantum physics. Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli; not to mention other great physicists Albert Einstein, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking, all stated that the physical universe is, as Dr. Richard Silberstein puts it in his new book coming out in October, “responsive to consciousness” (the observer). That mind over matter is real. It is not real to the physicalists, and the ground they stand on is shrinking under their feet each year.

The physical universe is… “responsive to consciousness” (the observer). That mind over matter is real.

How can this be visualized by the average person? This is God’s form of Virtual Reality. God, being the One Consciousness from which the multiverses sprang, inhabits all of creation in the form of little pieces of consciousness, which is the One Game Player that really exists, looking out from each set of eyes, pretending to be separate entities.

In one sense, each little piece of consciousness IS the One Consciousness. In another sense, it is a diminished form of the One Consciousness because in this temporary role, it sees only from its limited viewpoint, and in the case of virtually all Earth humans, has no conscious memory of being God.

This is part of the game.

It is a more than three-dimensional movie. We watch movies and videos and often lose ourselves in the protagonist, as if we are that person. God is doing the same thing with us, at a far higher level of technology.

It’s in that sense that each one of us is living a life that is fascinating to God.

The tiny percentage of human beings who have overcome their egos and risen to higher levels of consciousness and have seen this reality and reported it back to the rest of us, have had their observations written up in scriptures throughout the ages. One of the clear messages in these scriptures is that God loves a happy ending. That’s why God helps us with synchronicities and other forms of hinting and even blatant Deus ex machina intervention, which physicalists categorize as coincidences.

Centuries past our mythos was that the world is a mysterious, glamorous, magical place, our lives have meaning and purpose, and God looks after us. In our scientific ascent, there was an unnecessary sharp turn away from all that as “magical thinking”. Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.” The world is a magical place, meaning that the technology the One Consciousness has created so that we can all play this game together is of the highest unimaginable technology. The word “magic,” however, connotes a numinous feeling of awe and wonder, which are good feelings to have, certainly better than the average feelings around here in 2026.

We have trivialized life itself.

We have trivialized ourselves.

God, however, finds us fascinating.

Why all the suffering then? Free will. We make mistakes. Their benefit is learning. It’s the game. In the end, no one is extinguished; consciousness, like matter and energy, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Every movie and every novel that is aimed at drama requires an antagonist. That’s why there is antagonism in the world. Without it, there would be no drama.

The game is whether, in our imperfect semi-evolved form, can we overcome our mistakes and antagonisms, and how exactly will we do that?

Perhaps the One Consciousness is able to predict everything perfectly and so, there is no surprise, except down here at our levels where God, in an incarnation in which memory has been suppressed of ever having lived before or of being God, surprise is the key joy that God is able to experience through the design of the game, and perhaps (given omniscience) only by living through diminished versions of Herhimself.

Interestingly, when one observes the goal-seeking behavior of single-celled creatures, they appear to exhibit – besides the drives to survive predators and other environmental dangers (security), find food, and socialize – curiosity, which might also be called the urge to explore, to experience novelty, to be surprised. Every animal exhibits this motivation.

God might have set up the whole game just for the surprises.

More likely, the training SheHe is putting us through indicates that we are beloved companions desired to be kept around forever, who therefore need a certain amount of toilet training for the maximum enjoyment of our company in Eternity.

One way or another, we need to stop selling ourselves short. We have a glorious, glamorous destiny, and we are wasting time by dwarfing ourselves and playing smaller games when we could be playing The Big Game.

Here’s a short 3+ minute video on the One Consciousness from my Power of You podcasts.

Love to all,
Bill

 

Live chat with my avatar

My new book POWERFUL MIND is now available in e-Book format at

amazon—     &   —   Barnes & Noble

An innovative too for self-discovery

“A compelling, optimistic, and original approach to mental focus, Powerful Mind is an innovative tool for self-discovery and creative liberation. Succinctly outlined and intuitively structured, this book is replete with rational advice, using a radical but commonsense approach. It takes a rare and adroit thinker to incorporate myriad worldviews and welcome diverse readers, regardless of ideological allegiance, but Harvey shows himself to be precisely that. The book is a masterfully structured, intellectually affirming, and potentially paradigm-shifting read.”
~ Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★

Being a Fool Is Not Necessarily a Permanent Condition

Leave a reply

Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created April 10, 2026

We have all been fooled into thinking that

In honor of the recent April Fool’s Day, some thoughts here about the idea of being a fool.

The word has had more than one meaning since it came into the English language in around the 13th Century. It comes from the Latin word for “bellows or inflated ball”, figuratively meaning an airhead. It came to English through French, where its connotations at one time were “the King’s jester” and at other times “insane” or even “a prostitute”. Even in English today, it has multiple meanings. It can mean someone who acts with poor judgment, a know-nothing, or someone who is gullible and can be easily taken in by a trickster.

In my opinion, each of us has a certain probability of doing something foolish at one point or another. We can be a fool for a moment or a day and then come out of it.

In today’s environment, in which the internet and AI enable scammers to trick even the smartest of us, we can be made fools of, possibly with greater frequency than in the past, if we are not cautious and patient enough. Acceleritis tends to cause us to always be rushing, and that leads to being a fool more often than we’d like.

It can make us feel really bad when we realize we have just now acted like a fool. We tend to quickly lose all confidence in ourselves. This is an overreaction and a dangerous one. Take it in stride; it’s part of life, it happens to all of us.

The most dangerous thing of all is to be stubbornly resistant to admitting that one has been played for a fool. Everyone in your life may be completely aware that you have been played like a violin and that you are in permanent and rigid denial. That makes others really lose respect for you. Much more than if you admitted your mistake.

Admitting that you can make mistakes, that you can be fooled, gains you respect from every person.

We all know how hard it is to admit our mistakes. When a person has the guts to do this difficult thing, everyone knows what reservoirs of integrity and strength undergird such actions.

Confucius said, “Someone who will not admit he made a mistake is making another one.”

Admitting mistakes is good because you can then learn from them. As you probably know, my cosmic philosophy is that we are here to learn, and that means making mistakes, for without mistakes, there cannot be much learning. And without admitting mistakes, there cannot be much learning.

There is a specific mental/emotional function which causes the refusal to admit mistakes. It’s called the ego.

Freud theorized that the ego was not the original self we are born with, but a mediator with the outside world, which forms as a functional center the first time our needs are thwarted. I agree with this theory; it jibes with my own personal science project of studying the way my own mind works for my entire life. Not that I remember the event of my ego coming into existence, but I can discern impulses coming from an egoistic source within myself from impulses arising from a different source within myself which is not so hung up on what happens to this particular body I’ve been assigned to this time around.

The two sources are not equally competent at making good decisions. I define good decisions as those whose outcomes are beneficial to all concerned. The ego is terrible at making such decisions. Its bias toward its own owner blinds it to opportunities to gain much more for that owner by making things come out all right for everyone involved in the situation.

The ego is an inferior part of the mind which makes decisions that end in our unhappiness and regret.

Unfortunately, not only do we live in a culture which feeds the dominance of the ego, the culture also creates a competitive race which has led to uncontrollable Acceleritis – inhuman amounts of information overload as a distraction. We are born in a relatively angelic state and are turned into egoists operating largely in Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP). This causes us to mess things up on a grand scale, which condition is the one part of my narrative that is now universally recognized to be the unvarnished truth.

The Bible made the connection between “fool” and “ego” in Proverbs without using the word “ego” but by describing many of the main traits of egoistic behavior:

“In the Book of Proverbs, a fool is not merely someone lacking intelligence, but a person characterized by moral deficiency, arrogance, and a stubborn rejection of wisdom, discipline, and godly instruction. They are self-sufficient, quick-tempered, and prone to reckless speech that leads to ruin.

Usage Examples of “Fool” in Proverbs:

  • Rejection of Wisdom: “Fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7).
  • Arrogance: “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 12:15).
  • Uncontrollable Anger/Speech: “A fool gives full vent to his spirit” (Proverbs 29:11) and “A fool’s mouth is his ruin” (Proverbs 18:7).
  • Repeating Mistakes:

“Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly” (Proverbs 26:11).

  • Quarrelsome: “It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling” (Proverbs 20:3).

Synonyms and Types of Fools in Proverbs:

  • Simple/Simpleton: Gullible, naive, and easily led astray.
  • Scoffers/Scorner: Proud, mocking, and hostile toward correction.
  • Sluggard: Lazy and reckless with their responsibilities.
  • Babbling Fool: One whose speech is chaotic and foolish (Proverbs 10:8).

Common traits include being quick to anger, untrainable, and unteachable, often needing drastic, painful lessons to learn, as noted in Proverbs 27:22.”

– (Source: Google AI)

People who do not vote have been fooled. They think their votes don’t matter. They think they are powerless. They think the world is all screwed up far beyond anything they can do to make it better. It’s not true. In the 2024 election, 89 million eligible voters did not vote in the presidential election. That’s more people than voted for either candidate.

Some people who did vote know on some level that they have been fooled, but only some of them are willing to admit it.

We have all been fooled into getting into this polarized two-party headspace. We are all Americans, we are all citizens of the Earth, citizens of the universe, and in my estimation, we are all avatars of the One Consciousness that is the universe.

We have all been fooled into thinking that we are entirely separate from one another.

It’s not the end of the world to be fooled, nor to admit we were wrong about something.

We’re all fools to some degree, but we can gain back our self-respect and dignity by admitting our mistakes and moving on.

Happy belated April Fool’s Day! Happy glorious Spring!
 May we all spring forward in all our inward and outward endeavors!

The Fool

Love to all,
Bill

 

Live chat with my avatar

My new book POWERFUL MIND is now available in e-book and print format at

amazon    

An innovative too for self-discovery

“A compelling, optimistic, and original approach to mental focus, Powerful Mind is an innovative tool for self-discovery and creative liberation. Succinctly outlined and intuitively structured, this book is replete with rational advice, using a radical but commonsense approach. It takes a rare and adroit thinker to incorporate myriad worldviews and welcome diverse readers, regardless of ideological allegiance, but Harvey shows himself to be precisely that. The book is a masterfully structured, intellectually affirming, and potentially paradigm-shifting read.”
~ Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★

Never Growing Up

Leave a reply

Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created April 2, 2026

 

The big problem with Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP) – the pandemic, which almost no one realizes has made most of us borderline psychotics – is perhaps more accessibly explained as never growing up. Still thinking and acting childishly, but in a bigger physical body.

In the still male-dominated civilization we have inherited, this manifests as little boys becoming bigger boys but still playing with the same sorts of toys. Even before the ages when violent video games became the main toy, little boys and girls were privy to watching the television/streaming shows which glorify the heroes who are experts in violence. These are the characteristics of heroes that we teach children: they can punch out every bad guy. They are also good with guns and can throw knives with uncanny accuracy. Not just the heroes but also many of the heroines, particularly of the Marvel variety.

How could it end up any differently when violence dominates the news and, in a somewhat more controlled way, is inherent in sports? On top of reality shows, dramas, etc.

President Eisenhower warned us against the military-industrial complex. That has evolved now into the military-technology complex. The four biggest technology companies, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, are each now the size of a mid-sized country in terms of annual gross revenues produced, and are projected to become the size of large countries soon.

“Everybody wants money and fame,” my great friend Zoe Kalar despairs. Her action to make this situation better has been to spend years building a better social media called 8. Standing for the infinity symbol standing up. Encouraging creativity and love, and AI-protected against hate. With millions of people and growing, backed by over a hundred caring advertisers.

Violence, money, and fame ought not occupy such large shares of our timespace. A more civilized civilization would spend more of its timespace with authenticity, respect, taking responsibility, creativity, love, doing good, and having uplifting and thought-provoking fun experiences. Although our rational minds might universally agree with this last statement, our rational minds are not in control of our actions.

Not growing up consists of acting out the conditioning received from others without realizing it. Not observing and learning from one’s own behavior and feelings what is really driving you. Not taking control over from that robot. Not choosing your own autonomous life and values. Not discovering your true gifts and developing them to Flow state levels. Living a meaningless life.

A brilliant article by Cal Newport in The New York Times recounts how physical exercise went from being something done regularly by 24% of Americans to 60% of the U.S. population between 1955 and 1971, and he lays out a plan for inducing a similar uptick in cognitive exercise. I’ve been trying to do the same thing all my life. I just wrote a note to Cal that reading and setting time aside for contemplation and staying away from social media are all definitely parts of the exercise needed, and I sent him copies of my two books of cognitive exercise, Mind Magic and Powerful Mind. I mentioned to him my diagnosis that long before today’s tech, our species was already on a long downhill decline in the use of our amazing brains and minds, as a result of mass conditioning to prescribed ideologies, and the absence of a culture supportive of daily periods of solitary contemplation.

The ancient Kabbalah schematic called the Tree of Life was, in my estimation, a coded understanding of the process of growing up.

Self - Wisdom - Understanding - Flow...

Cautionary note: This is my intuitive interpretation, and may be considered unorthodox or revisionist by serious teachers and students of Kabbalah.

There are 5 levels of the self, going down the middle from top to bottom. We are born and at first simply experience the life of the body, not necessarily remembering anything from the day before. Soon the ego is born, the first time we do not get something we need, and a manager appears in our minds to rectify such situations in the future (Freud’s idea, which I agree with). We might live 100 years and not go any further than that.

Or, under the right circumstances, most of us can also shift at times into a state in which we are non-self-protectively simply being genuine. That is the “self” in the sphere right above the ego. The Tree of Life implies (to me) that we must achieve a balance between love and work in our lives in order to achieve a stable evolution from ego to self.

Most non-Americans have a view that Americans are all workaholics. This is supported by a lot of good evidence, although it might not apply to all of us. That would definitely constitute an imbalance which would set us back in growing up. In addition, our culture does not make it easy for us to align the work we get paid for with what our passion work would be, and there is no cultural inducement for us to spend any time trying to figure out what our passion work would be. These things tend to keep us from growing up to all that life offers.

Nevertheless, most of us have experienced some time in the self, and many of us get a bit of that each day for most days of the year.

Then, in order to keep growing up, we need to balance mercy and severity. This is very difficult. In the USA, we have split into two subcultures: one of which is overbalanced in the direction of severity, and the other, which is overbalanced in the direction of mercy. Because of the male domination and glorification of violence by most of our stories and heroic role models, severity appears more attractive, and this appears to be reaching a peak at the moment.

Whenever we, as individuals, have escaped from ego into self, and also achieve a balance between severity and mercy, we rise to yet a higher level of consciousness: the Flow state. Here, everything we do is automatically the right thing, for as long as the state lasts, often broken by ego thoughts and feelings, cutting the connection.

Once we have reached that penultimate state, we are called a mensch in the Jewish subculture.

At that point, there is one final balance to be achieved, between wisdom, “knowing what the right action to take is,” and understanding, “accepting the situation and forgiving those who do not take right action.”

When that final balance has been achieved, the human has spiritually merged with the One Consciousness of the Universe, the Self, capital S.

In India, such a person is called a sadguru, a true guru. This confers the additional power to lift others simply by one’s presence. This is the end goal of growing up. In Eastern philosophies, the purpose of reincarnation is to achieve this end goal, which is likely to take more than a single incarnation if one is born on a planet as a member of a very young species which has not yet learned to make the best use of all of its potentials.

Love to all,
Bill

 

Live chat with my avatar

My new book POWERFUL MIND has some great reviews

An innovative too for self-discovery

“A compelling, optimistic, and original approach to mental focus, Powerful Mind is an innovative tool for self-discovery and creative liberation. Succinctly outlined and intuitively structured, this book is replete with rational advice, using a radical but commonsense approach. It takes a rare and adroit thinker to incorporate myriad worldviews and welcome diverse readers, regardless of ideological allegiance, but Harvey shows himself to be precisely that. The book is a masterfully structured, intellectually affirming, and potentially paradigm-shifting read.”
~ Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★