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The Signals We Subconsciously Send Program Our Reality

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created May 8, 2026

This truism is well backed by scientific verification. Micromomentary gestures, body language, eye movements, word choices, tones of voice, are all carefully scrutinized by trained intelligence field agents, psychoanalysts, law enforcement officers, professional negotiators, and many other people who are looking for “tells” either to be able to make a better deal for themselves or to truly help the person being observed, or in rare cases, both.

At a cosmic level, a wide range of scientists and nonscientists already know or believe in the idea that we causally impact our future experiences based on the signals we send ourselves, even when those signals are only being sent within our own minds, to ourselves, and even when we are not consciously aware of sending those signals to ourselves – and to the universe.

This applies even to those of us who are consciously aware of the way we program our own reality with expectations that we have inside us and hide from others. By definition, the subconscious is not something we are tracking, so stuff that goes on at that level can easily slip by us.

For example, we may not realize that our doing something apparently harmless that comforts us, can be read by the subconscious as a signal that we need to compensate for a sense of failure. This can program us to fail.

So can our being overly cautious or conservative in our estimates of tactical success. We may think it’s good for us to plan on a pessimistic basis so we will be even happier when we exceed that low bar. But it could also be that we are programming parts of ourselves to hit that low bar or even below it.

Michelangelo said:
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo believed that settling for mediocrity (hitting a low target) is more damaging to the human spirit than failing while attempting something grand.

Even a lack of spirituality can harm our chances of success in life. If we live life in a framework of physicalism, where our underlying basic assumption is that only the obvious reality exists, and there is nothing more, we can subconsciously be doubtful that we can ever experience more success than we have at the present moment. Of course, consciously we may be unaware that this holding ourself back is happening.

If we live life in a frame of mind that is open to the unknown, making no limiting assumptions about the unseen, we are not blocking moments of leakage of the spiritual into life, even if only for brief moments that we might not even think of as spiritual, simply as feeling extraordinarily good.

Maslow was once asked about religion and he turned the question into something else. Instead of replying about the known and agreed-upon religions, he used the word differently, in the context of his notion of peak experiences. He said:

The two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is to say, those who have private, personal, transcendent, core-religious experiences easily and often and who accept them and make use of them, and, on the other hand, those who have never had them or who repress or suppress them and who, therefore, cannot make use of them for their personal therapy, personal growth, or personal fulfillment. 

He was talking about openness to the possibility of cosmic spirit, something mysterious about which we know very little, but not prematurely denying its existence.

He also said, echoing Michelangelo in a different way, “We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”

There is practical benefit to leaving it open in one’s conscious mind that the nature of reality could include a benevolent God, that the universe itself could be conscious (why not? We are! The universe is a lot bigger than we are, with a lot more energy than we have, how could we be conscious and it not be conscious? We know it has consciousness in it). The practical benefit is that that thing lying squashed flat within us, that thing called hope, has a springboard from which to fly once again. Having real unfaked hope within us makes our subconscious try bigger plays.

Here is an experiment you can try.

When you are alone, go outside and as close to nature as is convenient. Breathe deeply. Casually empty your mind for a moment. Then imagine that you can make your life come out very happy, happier than you remember ever being, and that limits you assume you have are holding you back, so you must make every effort to stop imagining that you have any limits. You can restart your life right now with a new, creative attitude, reconsider everything you want to reconsider, taking your time and deciding over time exactly what you want to do with the rest of your life, and with the courage to actually set those plans in motion and stick with them all the way.

When you get started and have your first setback, don’t allow yourself to become deflated. Stop and look for what was the subconscious signal that got in the way.

There will be many rest stops like this caused by many setbacks. They are necessary because of the nature of the subconscious; you need these little setbacks to identify and root out the hidden signals that have always held you back.

You may be surprised at what some of them are. One might be that you have been too humble, too modest – too much of a very good thing – not all the things that hold us back are inherently bad things, some of them are great things which we have simply overplayed.

You may find, as you come out from holdback assumptions, that you are feeling somewhat cocky all of a sudden. Let yourself enjoy it and make it a way of life that rubs off on the people around you rather than rubbing them the wrong way.

Love to all,
Bill

 

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Recapturing the Spiritual Meaning, Awe and Wonder of Life

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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

 

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Your Life Is Like a Fascinating Novel… to God

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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

 

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Be Careful What You Wish For

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created April 17, 2026

Quantum theory supports the notion that minds can contribute to the occurrence of events in the material world. This idea started to become popularized in the U.S. in the late 19th Century and was initially known as American Transcendentalism. Today, millions of people in the U.S. speak of “manifesting”, and this is particularly prevalent in the MAGA segment.

In my writings, I’ve postulated that the Universe responds to these inputs in a way very similar to counting the popular vote, and that minds that dwell upon scenarios they don’t want to happen help bring about the dreaded scenarios as much as those who want to bring them on.

Today’s uncomfortable world situation can be traced to the desires of many white Christians wishing for things that are actually counter to the wishes of Jesus.

In my view of the Conscious Universe, what we are living through today could be the Universe giving us what so many people have yearned for, as a way of getting them to realize that they have been confused in their thinking.

Bruce Springsteen, in his address at the Minneapolis No Kings Rally on March 28, reminded Americans of what their values are, and insisted that these are not expired; they are still our values, but many of us have not been upholding them.

At a layer under conscious values, the subconscious motivations drive all human action. The conscious values have some driving force on behavior, but they are overwhelmed by the subconscious motivations. In this way, the ego (which operates at conscious and unconscious levels) easily takes over, especially during periods of maximum distraction and minimum time set aside for contemplation and meditation.

Ego values are by definition selfish, conceited, arrogant, demanding, conniving, and concerned only with the success of the owner of the ego.

Someone who is consciously entirely devout and loves Jesus can therefore be quite capable of being unkind to strangers, needy people, people of different skin colors or genealogical heritages, directly contradicting the directions given so simply and clearly by Jesus. Going back a bit earlier in the Judeo-Christian philosophy and cosmology, Moses made it clear that a person cannot be loyal to both God and money at the same time. That was the symbolism of the Golden Calf, and the god of money was Mammon.

Ego was already taking over the human race that far back.

In the Old Testament, the phrase used to describe ego was the hardening of the heart.

Many books have been written about “The Secret” and “The Law of Attraction,” but they typically fail to warn against the ego. No self-improvement book is complete without fully arming the reader how to deal with his or her ego, how to recognize when the ego is at work, even when the ego is hiding in some rationalized bundle of idealistic values shot through with consciously invisible underpinnings of ego motivations.

Humans with half-knowledge of these phenomena tend to subconsciously want to stay in the ego, unaware that they are being played like a puppet by parts of themselves, which are conditioned layers of neuron networks grown in their minds as colonized invaders from the ideas of other people.

They fight like the dickens against the realization that they are not only brainwashed but also acting in a way that will make them unpopular, incapable of achieving great positive things that history will admire, petty, vulnerable to what other people think of them, and at the end of their lives when they go naked into the spiritual world, bereft of the virtues and powers that would enable them to gain leadership roles there.

They also make sure to stay in their own bubble of confirmation bias, where no unnerving ideas will disturb their black and white absolutism.

What will help these people – virtually all of us are subject to ego control from time to time, if not continuously – what can we do to speed up the cleansing of our minds?

We have to be able to control our attention. We need to pay attention internally as much as externally. Jesus said this, quoting the prophets of the Old Testament.

“Jesus taught that true control over the mind comes through surrendering it to God, rather than worldly conformity, to achieve transformation. He emphasized renewing the mind (Romans 12:2), guarding against negative thoughts, and bringing every thought into captive obedience to Him (2 Corinthians 10:5) to overcome spiritual battles and maintain peace. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key concepts regarding Jesus and the mind include:

  • Renewing the Mind: Romans 12:2 teaches that Christians should not be conformed to the world but transformed by the renewal of their minds, enabling them to discern God’s will.
  • Taking Thoughts Captive: 2 Corinthians 10:5 calls for capturing every thought and making it obedient to Christ, comparing the mind to a battlefield.
  • Guarding the Heart/Mind: Proverbs 4:23 advises guarding the heart with all vigilance, as it is the source of life, which Jesus supported by emphasizing inward purity over outward conformity.
  • The Mind of Christ: Followers are encouraged to have the “mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16), which offers peace and perspective, rather than focusing on the “flesh,” which leads to death (Romans 8:6-11).
  • Replacing Negative Thoughts: Rather than just managing behavior, believers are encouraged to replace negative, sinful thoughts with Truth, allowing the Holy Spirit to transform thinking patterns. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Essentially, Jesus taught that mastering thoughts prevents them from becoming sinful actions, urging believers to align their mental life with his teachings. [1, 2]” (Google AI)

Love to all,
Bill

 

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~ Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★