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# The Human Effectiveness Institute

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- [Bill Harvey Blog](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pebbles/) - Each week Bill Harvey Blog brings you a new perspective, a way to use your mind that you probably have not used before, to induce the Observer and Flow states.
- [How Did We Each Become Such a Rolebot?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-did-we-each-become-such-a-rolebot/) - Powerful Mind Part 15 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, February 7, 2025 Created June 16, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 14, From our earliest experiences, people were telling us how we should be. For the first five years of our life, possibly the first 25, and unfortunately probably until the last breaths we
- [Re-Imagine Your Life with Fewer Constraints](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/re-imagine-your-life-with-fewer-constraints/) - Featuring two Mind Movies What if you suddenly had more freedom? You could do whatever you wanted to do. What would you do? Before continuing to read, take a moment and jot down a few quick notes as you ponder this question. Read on, and you will get one major step closer to that freedom
- [Creating a Mood of Mental Optimization in Your Organization, with the Power of Respect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/creating-a-mood-of-mental-optimization-in-your-organization-with-the-power-of-respect/) - The charter of The Human Effectiveness Institute defines our mission as improving decision making. As you delve into our material you discover that it is clarity we aim to engender as the means to improved decisions. A clarity that is lacking due to Acceleritis and EOP. Distraction is the agency through which Acceleritis diminishes our
- [A Message from The One Self of the Universe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-message-from-the-one-self-of-the-universe/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. August 7, 2026 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
- [The Present: Word Pollution Overload](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-present-word-pollution-overload/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. July 31, 2026 MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 4 Read Part 3 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
- [Application of the Scientific Method to Personal Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/application-of-the-scientific-method-to-personal-life/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. July 24, 2026 MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 3 Read Part 2 In the usual unscientific approach to personal life, if someone gives you a piece of advice, you either believe it or disbelieve it. In the scientific approach to personal life, you neither
- [We Are Being Tested](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-are-being-tested/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. July 17, 2026 We are being tested the way Job was tested. It was a setup. Starting way back in the 1960s. As early as the 1960s, as documented by Yoni Applebaum in this month’s issue of The Atlantic, the way that American history was taught in schools
- [The Human Heritage: Word Pollution](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-human-heritage-word-pollution/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. July 9, 2026 This is the second in the new MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS book excerpt series. The first one, Release Your Self from the Hypnotic Power of Words, was published on June 5. Humans come into the world. We find out certain things: for example, we find
- [A July 4th Message from the Father of Our Country](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-july-4th-message-from-the-father-of-our-country/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated July 3, 2026. Original post: July 2, 2021 An excerpt of the Farewell Address given by President George Washington to the people of America. For at least two decades from July 4, 1776, George Washington was the most trusted person in the United States of America. The
- [Starting Over](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/starting-over-2/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created June 26, 2026 It’s a gloriously beautiful day in the future. The dark days of endless hate and hopelessness have finally ended. The United States has voted in a competent, pragmatic President who is inspired by the spirit of America and its dream for the world. The
- [Recapturing the Spiritual Meaning, Awe and Wonder of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/recapturing-the-spiritual-meaning-awe-and-wonder-of-life-2/) - A recent, wonderful article in The Edge Magazine about my latest book, POWERFUL MIND Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, June 12, 2026 from June 1, 2026 edition Excerpts from Powerful Mind: 12 Simple Keys – The Human Effectiveness Institute, February 2026 We all have a yearning, subconsciously, to get back to the Garden, to feel
- [What Unites Us and What Divides Us](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-unites-us-and-what-divides-us/) - In Honor of Flag Day, Sunday, June 14, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog , June 12, 2026. Created September 16, 2022 Please allow me, courtesy of Wikipedia, to begin with all of the stanzas of Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner, including the fifth stanza added by Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior in 1861.
- [Release Your Self From the Hypnotic Power of Words](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/release-your-self-from-the-hypnotic-power-of-words/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created June 5, 2026 Some of you have read my book Mind Magic. The Seventh Edition is soon to be released, and it will contain Mind Experiments at the end of each chapter, games you can play with your mind that will have positive effects on your effectiveness
- [Misrepresentation of God May Be the Greatest Sin](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/misrepresentation-of-god-may-be-the-greatest-sin/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created May 29, 2026 I’m pretty sure that none of my readers fit in the category of needing to read this column. What I’m hoping for is that you all realize what I’m trying to do and agree with the notion that if everyone who sees this column
- [How Do We Protect Our Elections and Voting Rights At The Same Time?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-do-we-protect-our-elections-and-voting-rights-at-the-same-time/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created May 21, 2026 The question of non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is a major point of public discussion. Extensive data, recent state-level audits, and nonpartisan research show that verified cases of non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare, representing a minute fraction of a percent of overall votes cast.
- [Danny Rabella](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/danny-rabella-blog/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, May 15, 2026 Created August 19, 2023 Danny Rabella was alone in his room, his favorite way to be. His father, Rudy, known to all as The Chief, was at his nightclub leading his band and MCing, like every night except Mondays. Danny liked the club but didn’t
- [The Signals We Subconsciously Send Program Our Reality](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-signals-we-subconsciously-send-program-our-reality/) - 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
- [Recapturing the Spiritual Meaning, Awe and Wonder of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/recapturing-the-spiritual-meaning-awe-and-wonder-of-life/) - 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
- [Your Life Is Like a Fascinating Novel… to God](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/your-life-is-like-a-fascinating-novel-to-god/) - 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
- [Be Careful What You Wish For](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/) - 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 Strategy and Tactics of Your Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-strategy-and-tactics-of-your-life/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created March 20, 2026 It’s never too late to get really serious about your life. Before you can create a strategy, you have to know what your objectives are. You have a choice of 15 items on your menu. You can have some as appetizers, some as the
- [Being a Fool Is Not Necessarily a Permanent Condition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/being-a-fool-is-not-necessarily-a-permanent-condition/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created April 10, 2026 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
- [Never Growing Up](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/never-growing-up/) - 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
- [Why Should We Be Good?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/why-should-we-be-good/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created March 27, 2026 For thousands of years, great spiritual leaders and philosophers have given us all kinds of different answers to this question. And yet, from the beginning of recorded history right up to the present, it is mostly a record of bad behavior. Why can’t we
- [Most of Us Are Pretty Darn Nice](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/most-of-us-are-pretty-darn-nice/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created March 13, 2026 My favorite survey organization, Pew Institute, just did a global survey which finds that America is the country in which the largest percentage of respondents say that most of their countrymen are bad people. Things have been trending in that direction for some time,
- [How AI Might Help Shape a Better Future for American Politics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-ai-might-help-shape-a-better-future-for-american-politics/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created March 6, 2026 I’ve been asking AI a lot of questions lately about the American Revolution. I can see it like a movie now. Sort of like the original 1960 Ocean’s Eleven, when we see how the gang comes together like iron filings around a magnetic story
- [Even in Uncivil War, Can We Agree On Some Things?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/even-in-uncivil-war-can-we-agree-on-some-things/) - Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog Created February 13, 2026 This July 4th is the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The USA has been around for a quarter of a millennium. The longest running Noble Experiment in Self Rule by The People. Often referred to in the past as the Greatest Hope
- [Which Level of Consciousness Do You Want To Be In?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/which-level-of-consciousness-do-you-want-to-be-in/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created February 20, 2026 You have undoubtedly noticed that you are not always at your best. Almost nobody is. Sometimes we have very smart ideas, at other times our minds are dull, and at other times we think we are thinking very intelligently, only to discover that we
- [Regaining Tolerable Differences in Opinion](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/regaining-tolerable-differences-in-opinion/) - Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog Created February 26, 2026 Last week, we began this discussion of finding things we can agree upon across the political spectrum. It is the issue of the Age, and so obviously not soluble in one quick blogpost. In this post, we intend to dive more deeply into finding
- [Bringing on the Observer State by Observation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/bringing-on-the-observer-state-by-observation/) - Powerful Mind Part 31 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, October 3, 2025 Created October 6, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 30 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys “How observant of you!” We have all heard people say this from time to time, to
- [The Discoverers of Quantum Physics Concluded that the Universe Is Made of Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-discoverers-of-quantum-physics-concluded-that-the-universe-is-made-of-consciousness/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created February 6, 2026 It’s fascinating to do deep dives into the people who created our modern world, though unlocking the secrets of quantum physics. It came as a huge surprise to me that the originators had the idea I thought was mine, the idea that the universe
- [The Feeling of Being Guided by a Higher Power to Do Good](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-feeling-of-being-guided-by-a-higher-power-to-do-good/) - Powerful Mind Part 46 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog - January 30, 2026 Created January 26, 2024 Read Powerful Mind 45 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys A 2023 Pew survey found that 45% of Americans “have had a sudden feeling of
- [Mind Dwell Hath Consequences](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mind-dwell-hath-consequences/) - Powerful Mind Part 45 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, January 23, 2026. Created January 19, 2024 Read Powerful Mind 44 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys My wife Lalita is an avid reader; she reads a couple of books a week. The
- [Inner Visibility: See Your BioAI, See Your Muse](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/inner-visibility-see-your-bioai-see-your-muse/) - Powerful Mind Part 44 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, January 16, 2026 Created January 12, 2024 Read Powerful Mind 43 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Inner Visibility: See Your BioAI, See Your Muse You may say, “That’s easier said than done,”
- [Starting Over](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/starting-over/) - Powerful Mind Part 43 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, January 9, 2026 Created January 5, 2024 Read Powerful Mind 42 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys A useful exercise from time to time is to pretend that all of your experience to
- [Noia](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/noia/) - Powerful Mind Part 42 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. January 2, 2026 Created December 8, 2023. Read Powerful Mind 41 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys In the 1970s, I coined the term “Noia” as the opposite of paranoia when I
- [Become All You Really Are](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/become-all-you-really-are/) - Powerful Mind Part 41 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. December 19, 2025 Created December 22, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 40 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Who are you, really? You probably play many roles in life, and try to live up to what others
- [Conduct Your Inner Orchestra](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/conduct-your-inner-orchestra/) - Powerful Mind Part 40 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, December 12, 2025. Created December 15, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 39 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys The reason homo sapiens have settled into this pandemic coping pattern I call Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP) is that
- [We Each Have an AI Within Us](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-each-have-an-ai-within-us/) - Powerful Mind Part 39 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, December 5, 2025 Read Powerful Mind 38 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys No computer system before the current Large Language Models (LLMs) has fooled humans into thinking that the computer is human
- [Ride the Psychic Foam](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/ride-the-psychic-foam/) - Powerful Mind Part 38 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, updated November 21, 2025 Created December 1, 2023. Read Powerful Mind 37 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Key #10 is about how to ride the bucking bronco that is your mind. Your
- [The Supreme Depression](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-supreme-depression/) - Powerful Mind Part 37 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, November 15, 2025 Created November 17, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 36 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys You don’t have to let everything in, you can let love and joy in without reservation, and filter everything
- [If You Assume the Worst, You Yourself Will Bring It About](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-you-assume-the-worst-you-yourself-will-bring-it-about/) - Powerful Mind Part 36 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog – November 7, 2025 Created November 10, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 35 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys The latest findings of neuroscience suggest that we, as individual human beings, interpret our own emotions as they
- [“In Action, Watch the Timing.”](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/in-action-watch-the-timing/) - Powerful Mind Part 35 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog – October 31, 2025 Created November 2, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 34 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys The title, a quote from Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching, is worth unpacking. Taoism traces its roots to
- [Staying Focused Through Complexity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/staying-focused-through-complexity/) - Powerful Mind Part 34 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, October 24, 2025 Created October 27, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 33 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys By this point in our journey, your priorities are to be your highest self and spend as much time
- [Don’t Become Overly Concerned](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/dont-become-overly-concerned/) - Powerful Mind Part 33 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, October 16, 2025 Created October 20, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 32 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys In the Observer state, one has learned how to create a gap inside between autonomic reactions
- [Speak to the Other’s Saliency](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/speak-to-the-others-saliency/) - Powerful Mind Part 32 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, October 10, 2025. Created October 13, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 31 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Every conversation is a potential spike in learning, typically even richer than most other times, though,
- [Updating Your Life Plan](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/updating-your-life-plan/) - Powerful Mind Part 30 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, September 26, 2025 Created September 29, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 29 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys “Comedian George Carlin once quipped, ‘Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY,
- [We All Need Optimal Competition to Supplant the Unhealthy Kind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-all-need-optimal-competition-to-supplant-the-unhealthy-kind/) - Created February 17, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The optimal use of competition is to set it up to be good-natured. As if in a debating game. The way the Founders of the Constitution thought about it. Without fierce fear of failure, megalomaniacal attachment to power and political money, without hatred, gaming
- [Stripping Away Imposed Limitations](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/stripping-away-imposed-limitations/) - Powerful Mind Part 29 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, September 19, 2025. Created September 22, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 28 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys We have all been brainwashed. It was not done because of any conspiracy. It arose naturally as a result of the original minorities
- [The Patterns of Your Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-patterns-of-your-life/) - Powerful Mind Part 28 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog - September 12, 2025 Created September 15, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 27 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Now that we are embarked on Powerful Mind Key #6, which focuses you on a deep dive study of what you really
- [What Do You Really Want?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-do-you-really-want/) - Powerful Mind Part 27 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog – September 5, 2025 Created September 8, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 26 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Strangely, this is not something we normally think about. The subject usually rises to our conscious mind only at times of
- [Keeping Score Is Mundane Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/keeping-score-is-mundane-thinking/) - Powerful Mind Part 26 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, August 29, 2025 Created September 1, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 25 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys We have been conditioned to rate how well we have performed for other people. Our parents told us we were “a good
- [Oneness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/oneness/) - Powerful Mind Part 25 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, August 22, 2025 Created August 25, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 24 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys There is no separation between you and the scene you inhabit, you are not doubting nor second-guessing yourself, everything is flowing by
- [Shift in Perspective](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/shift-in-perspective/) - Powerful Mind Part 24 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, August 15, 2025 Created August 18, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 23 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Possibly the most pervasive hidden assumption we all make without thinking twice is that we are each a separate entity. Science
- [The Theory of Accidentalism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-theory-of-accidentalism/) - Powerful Mind Part 23 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog – August 8, 2025 Created August 11, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 22 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys For millennia, most human deep thinkers of whom we have kept records humbly kept an open mind
- [Embrace the High Path](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/embrace-the-high-path/) - Powerful Mind Part 22 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog – August 1, 2025 Created August 4, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 21 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys This begins the introduction to Powerful Mind Key #4. Don’t Ignore the Ultimate Questions Why
- [Start Your Life Anew with a Clear Slate Every Moment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/start-your-life-anew-with-a-clear-slate-every-moment/) - Powerful Mind Part 21 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated July 18, 2025. Created July 28, 2023 Read Powerful Mind part 20 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys “The entity should ideally retain all power over current behavior; none should be
- [Which One Is the Real You?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/which-one-is-the-real-you/) - Powerful Mind Part 20 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated July 18, 2025. Created July 21, 2023 Read Powerful Mind part 19 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys There can be a feeling of having lost one’s bearings when you’ve interrupted
- [Being Real](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/being-real/) - Powerful Mind Part 19 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Updated July 11, 2025. Created July 14, 2023 Read last week's blog post | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys In Powerful Mind 18, we talked about the consistency program, one of the
- [Change the Way Your Mind Does Business](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-13/) - Powerful Mind Part 13 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated June 27, 2025. Created June 2, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 12 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Perhaps there is nothing after death. Perhaps consciousness goes on after death of the
- [Peel Away Your Layers of Conditioning](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-12/) - Powerful Mind Part 12 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Created May 26, 2023. Updated June 20, 2025 Read Powerful Mind Part 11 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys You may have an investment in accepting some thoughts over others, such as
- [How the Drive for Closure Interacts with Acceleritis](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-11/) - Powerful Mind Part 11 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Created May 19, 2023; Updated June 13, 2025 Read Powerful Mind Part 10 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys “Acceleritis” — the condition caused by having too many things to pay attention
- [Outsmart Hasty Closure](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-10/) - Powerful Mind Part 10 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated June 6, 2025. Created May 12, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 9 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Key One: Outsmart Hasty Closure How to override the mechanism of “making up
- [Ways to Enter the Observer State at Auspicious Moments](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-9/) - Powerful Mind Part 9 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated May 30, 2025. Created May 5, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 8 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys EOP=Emergency Oversimplification Procedure. Corresponds to a mild panic reaction which can be sustained
- [Make the Attainment of Higher Consciousness a Way of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-8/) - Powerful Mind Part 8 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Created April 28, 2023. Updated May 23, 2025 Read Powerful Mind Part 7 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Observer State The Observer state is a state most commonly experienced today by meditators.
- [The Breakdown in Society Has a Cause: EOP](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-7/) - Powerful Mind Part 7 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Updated May 16, 2025; Created April 21, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 6 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys It is our conviction that the way we use our minds is the source
- [A Clearer, More Effective State of Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-6-2/) - Powerful Mind Part 6 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, Updated May 9, 2025; Created April 14, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 5 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys The Observer State A clearer, more effective state of consciousness — only seconds away from
- [92% of Americans Experience Spiritual Feelings](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/92-of-americans-experience-spiritual-feelings/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, May 2, 2025. “Americans Haven’t Found a Satisfying Alternative to Religion”, Lauren Jackson writes in her article, and she cites Pew survey statistics to support her argument. In their flight from their childhood religions to everything from astrology to yoga, 92% of Americans still believe that something spiritual exists beyond the
- [We All Need Special Training <strong>Today</strong>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-5/) - Powerful Mind Part 5 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, April 25, 2025. Created April 7, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 4 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys The good news is that every negative emotion is a Get out of Jail
- [User’s Manual For The Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-4-2/) - Powerful Mind Part 4 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, April 18, 2025 Originally posted March 31, 2023 Read Powerful Part 3 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys Most people would agree that it would have been handy to have been given a
- [We Each Have a GPT4 Within Us](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-each-have-a-gpt4-within-us/) - Powerful Mind Part 39 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Created December 8, 2023. Updated April 4, 2025 Read Powerful Mind 38 | See all 12 Powerful Mind Keys No computer system before the current Large Language Models (LLMs) has been able to fool
- [The Consistency Program](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-consistency-program/) - Powerful Mind Part 18 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, February 28, 2025 Created July 7, 2023 Read Powerful Mind 17 “Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his Essay on Self-Reliance: ‘A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.’ His point was that only small-minded men refused
- [Study Thyself](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/study-thyself/) - Powerful Mind Part 17 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, February 21, 2025 Created June 30, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 16 “Know Thyself” goes back to the Delphic Oracle Temple in Sixth Century B.C. Greece then known as Hellas. The saying is attributed by legend to Apollo and by historians to a group of
- [A Time for Love, Forgiveness, and Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-time-for-love-forgiveness-and-flow-state/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, February 14, 2025 Created November 4, 2021 Happy Valentine’s Day, the holiday of love. Many see Valentine's Day as a time for romantic love. But it doesn’t have to be only that. Let’s celebrate love, just love; much more than an emotion, it is the highest state of
- [Do It Your Way](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/do-it-your-way/) - Powerful Mind Part 14 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, January 31, 2025 Created June 9, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 13 Every human being is unique. A combination of genes and experiences that has never existed before and will never exist again. You are one of these unique creatures. Then, why would your
- [All The World’s a Classroom](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/all-the-worlds-a-classroom/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, January 10, 2025 Created February 2, 2024 Not to contradict the Bard’s “All the World’s a Stage” – both lenses make sense. The value of using lenses experimentally is that you see things in new ways. This both stretches and searches your imagination. Einstein said that imagination was
- [Respect Everything](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/respect-everything/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog - November 29, 2024 Created February 23, 2024 Open-mindedness is one of the most important principles of metacognition (continuously studying one’s own mind as if from the point of view of an outsider) according to Dr. Gerald Zaltman, who has taught neuroscience at Harvard, and metacognition at Harvard
- [Seeing the Miracles in Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/seeing-the-miracles-in-life/) - Updated November 25, 2020 Isn’t it wonderful that we set aside a national holiday just for giving thanks? And we have SO much to be thankful for. The Center Held. America came to its senses. The election is finally over. Half of us are unhappy with its outcome, but we are on the road to
- [Be Indomitable](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/be-indomitable/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, November 8, 2024. Created February 16, 2024 Being indomitable is consciously favoring the approach mode. The day my mother died, Jewish customs would have been for the whole family to do nothing else but “sit shivvah” for several days. Therefore, they were shocked when my father, MC and
- [Awakening Your True Will](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/awakening-your-true-will/) - Powerful Mind Part 16 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog, November 1, 2024. Created June 23, 2023 Read Powerful Mind Part 15 Although the inelegant coinage “Woke” has been given many layers of automatic associations by today’s external world, use the strength of your own personal will to prevent being in any way affected by
- [What Would Socrates Do?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-would-socrates-do/) - Welcome to a special Pebbles blogpost. Created October 23, 2024 Socrates took being a citizen to be a solemn matter. He felt a responsibility to act in the proper manner for a citizen. He even agreed that the State had the right to put him to death, despite knowing it was their error. Perhaps it
- [Oversimplifications Do Not Achieve a Happy Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/oversimplifications-do-not-achieve-a-happy-mind/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog: August 2, 2024 Widespread mental emotional handicaps are not a new thing. Depression, anxiety, violent impulsiveness, sociopathy… they have been with us a long time. So have inventions or discoveries of ways to improve one’s own use of the mind and feelings. They go back to antiquity. Counting
- [Umberto Eco Deeply Understood and Cared](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/umberto-eco-deeply-understood-and-cared/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog: July 26, 2024 The Italian novelist, essayist, deep thinker Umberto Eco won first prize in a Fascist essay contest when he was ten years old. He was a product of his culture: Mussolini’s Italy was all he ever knew up until that point. That was reality. Fascism was
- [Leading Neuroscientist Confirms Theory of Bio-AI](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/leading-neuroscientist-confirms-theory-of-bio-ai/) - Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog: July 19, 2024 As I was growing up, I was constantly studying my own mind. This was natural to me and then it was accelerated by my experiencing Flow state, mostly during some stage performances starting at age four. I didn’t have a name for it other than
- [Be Your Better Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/be-your-better-self/) - June 14, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Life rushes at you from the first moment. You never can quite catch up. There are always things that you remember later that you forgot to remember for long periods of time. You learn to live with this. You come to accept that things arising
- [Superfluous Superstructure of the Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/superfluous-superstructure-of-the-self/) - June 7, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog We all pay some attention to our inner lives. But for some of us this means sustained micro-observation and for most of us it is occasional flashes in between slavish addiction to the endless rushes of information coming in through our five fascinating physical senses.
- [Interconnectedness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/interconnectedness/) - May 31, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog God bless Jerry Zaltman. In my May 17th blog post, I reported that Harvard’s pioneer neuroscientist who introduced the field of subconscious measurement by his creation of the patented ZMET system, is joining with me in a project to introduce methods in schools for thinking
- [Here's to the Protectors](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/heres-to-the-protectors/) - May 24, 2024 Originally posted November 10, 2015 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog Monday is Memorial Day. Flashback to the 60s when certain protesters sometimes crossed the line to not only condemn the war but also the country itself with the moniker Amerika, sometimes substituting a swastika for the “k”. That deeply saddened
- [If You Are Normal Today, It Might Be Holding You Back](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-you-are-normal-today-it-might-be-holding-you-back/) - Created May 17, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The norm today is Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP: the condition that sets in when there is too much information resulting in desperate shortcutting such as rationalized guesswork), a way of using the mind that as little children we fall into as a result of
- [ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Depression on the Rise](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/adhd-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-depression-on-the-rise/) - Created May 10, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The inability to pay attention is a symptom of EOP (Emergency Oversimplification Procedure). My theory of Acceleritis postulates that the amount of question-producing stimuli experienced by the average person per day has been increasing ever since the start of written language. This produces information
- [<div align="center">An Interview with Bill Harvey about his latest novel: <br><strong>THE GREAT BEING</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/an-interview-with-bill-harvey-about-his-latest-novel-the-great-being/) - Created May 2, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. I’m sharing my IndieReader interview with you, my Pebbles readers, as it reveals the motivations behind my latest book, The Great Being, and the other books in the Agents of Cosmic Intelligence series. My editor says The Great Being is my best novel so
- [There Is a Better Way to Run Your Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/there-is-a-better-way-to-run-your-mind/) - Created April 26, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The way you run your life has a lot to do with the way you run your mind. The way you run both these things determines what kind of results you get. You have surely noticed that not every idea you have is equally
- [If the Universe Is One Consciousness, the Creator Is You](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-the-universe-is-one-consciousness-the-creator-is-you/) - Created April 19, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The world’s most acclaimed quantum mechanics and relativity physicists including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking dealt with consciousness in ways that have not, to my knowledge, been looked at by philosophers for their possible implications. Physicists are a very useful
- [<em>SPECIAL EDITION</em>: An Eye for An Eye](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/special-edition-an-eye-for-an-eye/) - Created April 15, 2024 Special Edition The Iranian tactic has an ancient basis in the respective bibles of the "People of The Book." As a species we have known for a long time the disastrous consequences of escalation. This demo by Teheran starts a new era in geopolitik. It was prophesied in my 2022 novel
- [What Is Consciousness?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-consciousness/) - Created April 12, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Consciousness is the subjective experience of receiving information. In that sense, it is a verb. Consciousness is also the “stuff” that has those subjective experiences (qualia). In that sense, it is also a noun. What do I mean by “receiving information”? I define the
- [Science, Spirituality, and “Woo-Woo”](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/science-spirituality-and-woo-woo/) - Created April 5, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. “Woo-Woo” is defined as “unconventional beliefs regarded as having little or no scientific basis, especially those relating to spirituality, mysticism, or alternative medicine.” I’m grateful that there is not yet a derogatory term for “theories of universe grounded in science which are not in conflict with
- [The Difference Between "Predreaming" and “Manifesting”](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-difference-between-predreaming-and-manifesting/) - Created March 29, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Predreaming A recent article in The New York Times by Tara Isabella Burton, a fine writer of both non-fiction and fiction with a doctorate in theology from Oxford’s Trinity College, puts down a specific spiritual belief she refers to as “manifesting”. She writes: “Today’s
- [Cherchez L’Opportunité - Look for the Opportunity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/cherchez-lopportunite-look-for-the-opportunity/) - Pronounced Share-Shay Lopportooneetay. Created March 22, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Seize the opportunities. Whenever things go wrong, it’s natural for you to think about damage control. And you should. More about the nuances of damage control later on below. But it’s not natural to think “Where in this mess are there
- [Acceleritis Theory Validated](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/acceleritis-theory-validated/) - Created March 14, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The amount of information being processed daily by the average human being has been accelerating ever since the invention/discovery of written language. In my 1976 book Mind Magic I postulated that the amount of information being processed daily by the average human being has
- [Perspective](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/perspective/) - Created March 8, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Perspective is very helpful in dealing with the present historic moment...These are the times that test what we’ve got. Each of us... It’s time to be that best version of yourself. Let the highest part of you come out now. This is The Moment.
- [Mind Discipline](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mind-discipline/) - Created March 1, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Intellectual knowing is not the same as embodying that knowledge in one’s actions. Today there is fortunately an outpouring of articles and books on the subjects which a half century ago were rarely discussed outside of the kinds of books which were carried only
- [The Mental Health Pandemic Is Worse Than Covid](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-mental-health-pandemic-is-worse-than-covid/) - Created February 18, 2022 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. Data from the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that as of 2007, half the world’s population suffers from mental illness at least once in their lifetime. And in any given year, one in five people suffer from
- [Synopsis](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/synopsis/) - Created February 9, 2024 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. There was a Big Bang. On Earth, one primate species 14 billion years later took over the planet from all other species. Nature had provided this chosen species with opposable thumbs, extra brain frontal cortex, relative hairlessness, bipedalism, and took away their tails, encouraging
- [Some Thoughts on New Year's Resolutions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/some-thoughts-on-new-years-resolutions/) - Volume 5, Issue 45 As we approach a New Year, many of us are considering making New Year’s resolutions. Are you wondering if you’ll stick with your resolutions this time around, and thinking about how you can strengthen your resolve? Here are some thoughts on resolutions from my guide on 7 Life Tools for creating
- [Tom Paine, Viral Marketing Pioneer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tom-paine-viral-marketing-pioneer/) - Pamphlets from hand to hand were a mainspring of the American Revolution. Who was Thomas Paine, the writer of Common Sense, a single pamphlet that changed the world, and The American Crisis, a series of pamphlets that widened his reach and influence still further? He was also involved in the French Revolution. A serial revolutionary.
- [Powerful Mind Pt. 4](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-4/) - Created March 31, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. To read Powerful Mind Pt. 3, click here. Chapter 2 The Observer State A clearer, more effective state of consciousness — only seconds away from your daily state of consciousness. Just knowing it exists can benefit you This entire book is about states of
- [Powerful Mind Pt. 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-2/) - Created March 17, 2023 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. To read Powerful Mind Pt. 1, click here. States of Consciousness Flow state, or “being in the Zone”, is a shift of gears in the brain that happens when you are doing something you love — your life’s work — your true work. Your
- [Powerful Mind Pt. 3](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-pt-3/) - Created March 24, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. To read Powerful Mind Pt. 2, click here. Latest brain science has validated the existence of states of consciousness above the normal waking state — called the Flow state, or the Zone. For example, Master Marvin Chun of Yale, a leading neuroscience expert, says
- [Powerful Mind Pt. 1](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/7101-2/) - Created March 10, 2023 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. My beloved literary agent Bob Silverstein before he passed away, passionately advised me to write a sequel to Mind Magic. “You can help more people by translating your poetic language into simple natural language, and explaining things in more detail,” he explained. He then
- [Virtual Reality Pt. 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/virtual-reality-pt-2/) - Created March 3, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. We are concluding a two-part posting (see prior post) of a chapter out of my upcoming sci-fi novel Revelations: Live To All Minds. This will be the fifth title to be released in the Agents of Cosmic Intelligence series. Two year old Danny has
- [Virtual Reality](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/virtual-reality/) - Created February 24, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Isn’t it all virtual? “Virtual” refers to light – and Wheeler made it clear with an equation how light is bound into matter by channeling energy from distance movement into spin movement. We are already living in virtual reality then. Nevertheless, a new layer
- [What Ike Was Saying, Taken to Another Level](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-ike-was-saying-taken-to-another-level/) - Created February 10, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. President Eisenhower warned us to be careful of the military-industrial complex. In a way, you might say what President Eisenhower was also saying was to look out for the people in the world who are impressed by and live by force, and want as
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 10](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-10/) - Created February 3, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Seven Cont. He/She/It is having your experience. You are sensing this as you having that experience. How could you tell the difference? The one sure way you could tell the difference is if you find that you continue to experience experiencing after you
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 9](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-9/) - Created January 27, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Six Suffering The Universe is its own art form. It is aesthetically beautiful. Everywhere one looks – except for the apparent cruelty we see in human life and even as we surveil the fight for survival across all the species. Why would The
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 8](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-8/) - Created January 20, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Five Extrasensory Perception The theory in this book proposes that there was an Original Consciousness that corresponds to, and may be the reality behind, our concept of God. That Original Self has, in our theory at least, created an “arcade Universe” in which
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 7](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-7/) - Created January 13, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Four The Singularity The moment in which The One Self becomes self-aware needs to be explained. Why did this singularity occur? Why had it never occurred before? And what was it? If all that had existed was nothingness, something in the nothingness constituted
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 6](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-6/) - Created January 6, 2023 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Three How Could One Imagination Create a Universe of So Many Beings? Consciousness itself is a form of information processing. The closest analogy would be to call consciousness an energy computer, a computer made out of energy. The consciousness level of a human
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 5](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-5/) - Created December 30, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Two continued φ The One Self basked in the pre-glow of anticipation. His imagination or possibly precognition was tantalizing with a torrent of possibilities for endless infinite fun, and maybe it would even be thought-provoking, causing him to realize and understand Himself better.
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 4](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-4/) - Created December 23, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter Two A Simulation of What the Most Recent “Beginning” Might Have Been Like Here is a fictional depiction of what the earliest events could have been like, to help us imagine the point of view of The First Self. From the book The
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 3](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-3/) - Created December 16, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter One Continued How Can We Reconcile “God” with Science? Because of the habits of the human mind, especially in a culture in which humans have created more complexity than our minds can easily handle, we find that as a first step it may
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-2/) - Created December 9, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Chapter One Unified Field Theory – Theories of Everything Einstein died before completing his Unified Field Theory, which would have explained how gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces fit together and why each of those four forces existed at all. He
- [The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 1](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-meaning-of-life-a-theory-of-everything-including-consciousness-and-god-pt-1/) - Created December 2, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The Meaning of Life A Theory of Everything including Consciousness and “God” Pt. 1 As we transition from one year to the next, I’ll be sharing with you here a serialization of my newest shortest book The Meaning of Life: A Theory of Everything including
- [Thanks For the Memories](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/thanks-for-the-memories-2/) - Created November 24, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. This time every year I write a column about gratitude. Gratitude has a lot going for it as an emotion and as an attitude. The mood of gratitude encompasses both an attitude mix (gladness and recognition of a benefactor) which can be expressed in
- [We Can’t Afford Widespread Neurosis Anymore](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-cant-afford-widespread-neurosis-anymore/) - Created November 17, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. It’s pretty obvious that the human race is somewhat out of control. It could be that, in the past, it was even more out of control than it is now. But if we look only at the time period since we learned how to
- [USA: Nine of the Most Probable Scenarios](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/usa-nine-of-the-most-probable-scenarios/) - Created November 7, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. On the eve of the most important election in at least the last 100 years, three writers have compellingly described a scenario in which the US at the time of the 2024 election goes into a period of guerilla civil war driven by the
- [Materialistic Authoritarians Manipulated Jesus’ Demise](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/materialistic-authoritarians-manipulated-jesus-demise/) - Created October 31, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The Sadducees were the materialistic and authoritarian traditional ruling class of wealthy aristocrats, high priests and merchants, and a self-identifying sect within Judaism that denied things that other Jews believed in, including the existence of the spirit; the Sadducees denied resurrection, denied redemption in
- [Take Joy Whenever You Can](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/take-joy-whenever-you-can/) - Created October 28, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Life today: it would be funny if we were watching it on Saturday Night Live. We used to say life imitates art. Now we can say life parodies itself. These events today are a satire on who we really are, what we’re really worth.
- [Why Does the World Seem to Be Moving Away from Democracy?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/why-does-the-world-seem-to-be-moving-away-from-democracy/) - Created October 21, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. In my regular MediaVillage column the other day I advised the political parties to use imagery rather than just words in their midterm political ads. This was based on a finding that only 38% of Democrats and only about 20% of Republicans and Independents consider
- [Cultivate Your Own Virtues, Including Conflict Resolution](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/cultivate-your-own-virtues-including-conflict-resolution/) - Created October 14, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. In these dangerous times, the one thing you can do to help the world is to help yourself, by bringing out the best in yourself. Imagine for a moment that the worst-case scenario actually happens. Say battlefield nukes are used by a person who
- [Levels of Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/levels-of-consciousness/) - Created October 7, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The idea that there might be a stepladder of different states of being goes back into antiquity, far earlier than the earliest written records. We all know that sometimes we’re on and sometimes we’re not. Plato implied there were at least two states of
- [The Future Psychology](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-future-psychology/) - Created September 30, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Why think about the future of psychology, aren’t the rush of current discoveries enough? We are close to proving ESP. What else do you want? A common phrase in marketing nowadays is “early wins”. It means when you have a Big Idea, it’s good
- [Walking In Someone Else’s Moccasins Is Rarely Accomplished](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/walking-in-someone-elses-moccasins-is-rarely-accomplished/) - Created September 23, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. It’s so easy to say things but so hard to ever do them actually. That bit of advice associated with Native Americans but probably evolved within every culture in the world is most profound: put yourself in their shoes. What would you be thinking,
- [Believing What We Want to Believe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/believing-what-we-want-to-believe/) - Created September 9, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The human race is driving itself insane. What is the root cause of this? I postulate that it is an overpowering desire for hard answers to questions for which we may not have scientifically objective hard answers for hundreds or thousands of years more
- [The Kids Were Playing the Usual Game](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-kids-were-playing-the-usual-game/) - Created September 2, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The kids were playing the usual game. It was the only game in town. That explained why they stuck with it, day after day, decade after decade. You gotta do something. As usual, the moves were all predictable. Because they all imitated the past.
- [The Fallacy of Political Binarism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-fallacy-of-political-binarism/) - Created August 26, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Aristotle was among the earlier philosophers to warn us away from binarism in general. Even 25 centuries ago the wisest among us knew that we all apparently have a built-in mental flaw. We tend to see choices where there is the unnoticed opportunity for
- [We’ve Been Given More Powers Than We’ve Been Able to Control](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/weve-been-given-more-powers-than-weve-been-able-to-control/) - Created August 19, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The people who channeled the Bible and similar spiritual masterpieces had amazing precognition. The story of Adam and Eve for example shows how something in the human race makes us overeager for knowledge that gives us more power. How did they know that was
- [Bringing Out Our True Selves](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/bringing-out-our-true-selves/) - Created August 12, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. This came through at 3am, I got out of bed and am writing it down. Materialistic Accidentalism is a story we made up to explain reality to ourselves. In their heart of hearts, most of the people in the world today assume that the
- [Editing Impulsive Neediness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/editing-impulsive-neediness/) - Created August 5, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. As always in this column I’m writing about self-mastery. The objective is for most if not all of us to achieve and maintain the Observer and Flow states, the higher states of consciousness in which we are more effective. We need herd immunity to
- [Imagination is a Powerful Tool: Five Exercises](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/imagination-is-a-powerful-tool-five-exercises/) - Created July 29, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. For every function of mind, it’s there because it can be used a certain way conducive to Flow state and happiness. It’s ours to discover what that way is, and isn’t. Take the Ego for example. The best way to use it is sparingly,
- [Losing Mental Obesity and Having Future Fun](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/losing-mental-obesity-and-having-future-fun/) - Created July 22, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. In my previous post, we wrote about that function of mind which unintentionally acts as a traitor, inflicting wounds on its owner. We speak of the bloated ego within us as that traitor. We postulated that a less obese ego would be a good
- [The Prevalence of Self-Inflicted Wounds](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-prevalence-of-self-inflicted-wounds/) - Created July 15, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. We’re not happy about Putin for very good reason. Yet he is one of us and we can learn from his mistakes. Might be a tad easier than learning from our own mistakes, until we get the hang of the latter, which is a
- [Setting Up a New Command Center in Your Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/setting-up-a-new-command-center-in-your-mind/) - Created July 8, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. If you are horrified by what is going on in the world today and wish you had the power to make it better, here’s how to get that power and to start using it for the good. Nothing can be achieved until you are
- [Putin’s Test](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/putins-test/) - February 25, 2022 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. Putin feels very deeply that his Mission is to resurrect the Soviet Union. What he has decided to do is a test. Are the Western democracies as weak as they seem, and will they pull a Chamberlain? The latter gentleman is always remembered for his
- [How Can One Say That There Is Good in Everyone?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-can-one-say-that-there-is-good-in-everyone/) - Created March 4, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey blog. Each of us is, at the core, a consciousness. My hypothesis is that at point of origin, consciousness is interested in the flow of its own experiences. It has no interest in destruction. It would be logical to say that at this point in
- [Open Your Present](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/open-your-present/) - Created March 11, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Past, Present, Future. Select the middle one. Now open it. What would it be like for you to learn how to open your present moment? You’d have to be so much in the Now that you’d be momentarily less aware of your past and
- [What Are the Odds Against the Human Race?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-are-the-odds-against-the-human-race/) - Created March 18, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Today I gathered by Zoom with a few lifelong friends. One of them a man I’ve always admired and have learned a lot from about the advertising and media business. He’s as much a genius as ever and as much of a realist. And,
- [Beware of Your Own Involuntary Reactions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/beware-of-your-own-involuntary-reactions/) - Created March 25, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Treat them as coming from your brutish heritage. Not worthy of humankind today. Let’s take a simple example. When someone transgresses against you in some way, no matter how subtle or unintended, a part of you is ready to move faster than your self-control,
- [Erasing Preconceived Notions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/erasing-preconceived-notions/) - Created April 1, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. As we live our lives, every moment means something to us, gives us certain feelings, has a certain influence on the balance of power in our minds of different ideas to which we have been attracted along the way. Most of this is unclear
- [Applying the Scientific Method to Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/applying-the-scientific-method-to-life/) - Created April 8, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Of all human endeavors, which are the most successful? Love, education, and art are certainly up there. One branch of education, science, has been spectacularly successful. Science is the form of education in which we plumb the mysteries of life from the ground up,
- [Unifying Our Idea of Social Progress](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/unifying-our-idea-of-social-progress/) - Created April 15, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. The most powerful cultural change driving world and personal events today is the underlying sense of loss of belief in the American Dream. I’m paraphrasing the words of Walker Smith, former President of Yankelovich, for many years the most psychologically sophisticated research company serving
- [Don’t Overthink Stuff, Nor Act on Every Impulse](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/dont-overthink-stuff-nor-act-on-every-impulse/) - Created April 21, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Flow state is what the human race needs more of. It is super competency, the opposite of what we witness all around us every second nowadays. Flow state is that condition in which an individual is doing everything perfectly. Which is why I referred
- [Happy Independence Day! Maintaining Our Independence](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/happy-independence-day-maintaining-our-independence/) - Created July 1, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. 246 years ago, we became a country. 530 years ago, we began to colonize this beautiful terrain we call the United States of America. The colonists who came here were fleeing tyrannies and religious persecution, and seeking opportunities for living free lives, willing to
- [Kiss & Make Up](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/kiss-make-up/) - Created April 29, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Where this is all going at the moment is taking us backward about a century and has the earmarks of possibly ending all life on Earth. If you have great weapons lying around, eventually you use them. Particularly in a climate riven by hate,
- [You Can Revolutionize Your Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/you-can-revolutionize-your-thinking/) - Created May 6, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. What good would that do you? It would give you a whole new vista on your choices in life. You stand to lose nothing by trying it. If you love everything about your life already, I’d say stand pat. Otherwise, here’s how to revolutionize
- [The Two Future Scenarios We Must Choose Between](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-two-future-scenarios-we-must-choose-between/) - Created May 13, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. One of these scenarios is very easy to visualize. It’s the downside scenario of war. We’ve seen the way this works and are extremely familiar with it. We can picture it, including sitting under a mushroom cloud ourselves, something I’ve been visualizing all my
- [2042: The Human Union](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/2042-the-human-union/) - Created May 20, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Bill Harvey was very old by then, but he suddenly felt very young again when the international space mission landed on Ganymede. Its shuttle brought the astronauts down in groups of four (all the shuttle was built for) so everyone could enjoy actually being
- [What It Takes to Get Back on Track](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-it-takes-to-get-back-on-track/) - Created May 27, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Each day the news becomes more worrisome. I don’t remember ever experiencing a time like the one we are passing through now. One thing that will be necessary if we’re going to turn this all around is a new emphasis on reinventing ourselves, each
- [The Art of Neutralizing Negative Emotion](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-art-of-neutralizing-negative-emotion/) - Created June 3, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. Negative emotion serves one pro-survival purpose only: it galvanizes us into action as an alarm system. Once having detected her/his own negative emotion, the sophisticated Flow state experiencer moves quickly to neutralize the negative emotion and to work rationally and dispassionately on solving the
- [The Ego Level is the Source of Today’s Threats](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-ego-level-is-the-source-of-todays-threats/) - Created June 24, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. In my view of the world, each of us moves up and down through levels of consciousness, from one moment to the next through our day. These levels were entirely theory for thousands of years, something I did not know when I discovered them
- [Keep an Open Mind about your Powers of Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/keep-an-open-mind-about-your-powers-of-mind/) - Created June 10, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. If you’ve been skeptical about psychic powers all your life, that is a very hard thing to change on a dime. You may have read my writings for years and come to have trusted me for advice on media and measurement matters, and possibly
- [How I Came to Write my Latest Novel, PANDEMONIUM: Live To All Devices](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-i-came-to-write-my-latest-novel-pandemonium-live-to-all-devices/) - Created June 17, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog. In the 1982-83 time period the U.S. Army invited me to speak at West Point and to Delta Force and other elite units at Carlisle War College including some Generals. One night in a big outdoor jacuzzi with Army guys we attempted remote sensing.
- [Choose Resilience Over Resentment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/choose-resilience-over-resentment/) - Created February 11, 2022 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey blog. One reader of last week’s post thanked me and made a special request: write something about resentment and how to deal with it in oneself. Last week’s post was about the things we do automatically all the time that do us absolutely no good.
- [Things We Do Automatically That Do Us No Good](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/things-we-do-automatically-that-do-us-no-good/) - Created February 4, 2022 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. We take certain things for granted because everyone else does these things, and we find ourselves just “naturally” doing them as well. One example is hating. It has no beneficial effect on our own lives to “hate” specific things or people. If we don’t
- [If We Spoke Compassionately](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-we-spoke-compassionately/) - Created January 27, 2022 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog. If We Spoke Compassionately to Everyone, It Would Make a Big Difference Let me start with a very extreme case to prove my point. If we spoke to Putin compassionately it might make a difference. Soon after the Inauguration I wrote a series of
- [We Are Not as Polarized as It Seems](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-are-not-as-polarized-as-it-seems/) - Created January 21, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog post. Although we in the USA are unquestionably more polarized than we have been since the Civil War. Yet the phenomenon is at a very superficial surface level. Arguments begin to flare up as soon as tripwire words are used and then people change
- [Loving Your Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/loving-your-life/) - Created January 14, 2022 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog post. Imagine that people have two levels. One is the one that they are consciously affecting. The other is so deep inside of them, most have lost touch with it. The face one wishes to present at the moment is the shallow self. It’s
- [The Acceleritis™ Theory](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-acceleritis-theory/) - My studies have led to this theory I’d like to share with you. Like all theories it sprang into being to answer some question. In this case the question was, “How is it that the human race has managed to bungle things to quite this degree?” In short, my theory is that it’s Acceleritis™ —
- [Happy New You!](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/happy-new-you/) - Created January 7, 2022 This was the message I received on New Year’s Eve from my great friend and songwriter Stan Satlin. Now the purloined title elegantly captures the sense of a brand-new year of opportunity to choose a new way of being. Why would you want to choose a new way of being? You
- [Make It a Clean Break](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/make-it-a-clean-break/) - Created December 27, 2021 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog post. We’ve been accultured to think of making New Years Resolutions. As a prospective pro-survival mechanism, it’s not a bad one. We slip back into old habits and it’s psychologically handy to have a once-a-year official restart to give us a jolt of extra
- [Our Christmas story continues!](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/our-christmas-story-continues/) - Updated December 22, 2021 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog post. Excerpt from my new science fiction novel, The First Son. We continue our story where we left off last week, with the second part of a chapter excerpted from my new science fiction/alternative history novel, The First Son. As we mentioned last week, many of you
- [A Holiday Gift to Our Readers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-holiday-gift-to-our-readers-2/) - Updated December 17, 2021 Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog post. With affection and gratitude for you, our best friends and readers, this post and the next one will be a chapter out of my new science fiction book, The First Son, an alternate view of the great turning points in history over the
- [Who Am I?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/who-am-i/) - Created December 10, 2021 Welcome to this week's Bill Harvey Blog post. When you hear yourself talking to yourself in your mind and using your name, what do you think? As in: Bill, you know you are not going to forget an idea like that, you don’t have to write it down, stop acting crazy.
- [A Method for Gaining Inner Control](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-method-for-gaining-inner-control/) - Created December 3, 2021 On an average day, what percent of your waking hours are spent in a really good mood? Let’s try a scientific experiment together to see whether this method can increase that percentage. The experiment will run from now through whenever you decide the experiment is over. During the experiment, you’ll try
- [Thanks For the Memories](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/thanks-for-the-memories/) - Created November 23, 2021 This time every year I write a column about gratitude. Gratitude has a lot going for it as an emotion and as an attitude. The mood of gratitude encompasses both an attitude mix (gladness and recognition of a benefactor) which can be expressed in words, as well as emotions which can
- [Message For Rescuers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/message-for-rescuers/) - Created November 19, 2021 How did QAnon and yoga get together? What can we learn from this to do a better job of rescuing? In rare times like these, all of us want to come to the rescue. If we were in better control of what goes on in our heads, we would act like
- [Drops of Kindness When the Chips are Down](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/drops-of-kindness-when-the-chips-are-down/) - November 12, 2021 Don’t be afraid to step out of character. If you play your character the same way every day, you’ll bore everyone, especially yourself. And that ultra-consistent predictable behavior will keep you out of Flow state. Flow comes when your pure authenticity is coming out all by itself. Not when you’re adhering to
- [Believe In Yourself](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/believe-in-yourself/) - Created October 29, 2021 What do those words mean? The underlying precept is that, even under rare conditions of constant parental attention, life still tends to wound us. Incidents in which we underperformed abound. No matter what good we do, somehow, we have a tendency to never forgive ourselves for those times we caused our
- [Courage and Honesty are The Highest Virtues](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/courage-and-honesty-are-the-highest-virtues/) - October 8th, 2021 Winston Churchill said, “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.” In other words, if you don’t start from courage, how will you always have the courage to state the truth? How will you always have the courage to be objective, to be
- [We Have Become Overwhelmed, But There’s a Way Out](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-have-become-overwhelmed-but-theres-a-way-out/) - Created October 15, 2021 All living things react negatively to prolonged periods of stress. That’s part of the explanation for the dramatic increase in negativity being expressed all around us and in us. Negativity is catching. The more negativity we hear, the more likely we are to have negative thoughts and feelings, and the more
- [Reopening Your Mind to All Possibilities](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/reopening-your-mind-to-all-possibilities/) - Created October 22, 2021 We all have heroes and heroines. That’s a very good thing. But life is complicated, there can be harmful things that come out of good things, and vice versa. The harmful aspect I’m thinking about right at the moment is that we can become violently protective of every single thing our
- [Accept What Has Been and Focus on Action Options](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/accept-what-has-been-and-focus-on-action-options/) - Created September 29, 2021 If something is upsetting you, as soon as you realize you’re not in your best headspace, excuse yourself and go out for a walk or lock yourself in the bathroom or get away from the rest of humanity as best you can for five minutes. Bring something to write with and
- [Constructively Judo Your Dissatisfaction](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/constructively-judo-your-dissatisfaction/) - Created September 23, 2021 Dissatisfaction is rampant. It has never been as dominant a theme before in the USA. We descendants of tough colonists and immigrants with the guts to leap into the relative unknown are a hardy breed. We have always overcome, at least until Vietnam. That was kind of a turning point. It
- [You’ll Know You Are in the Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/youll-know-you-are-in-the-flow-state/) - Created September 17, 2021 You’ll know you’re in the Flow state when your mind sees the futility of saying anything to itself, because words can never tell the whole truth about what you are already sensing and need no words to sense. When it first happened to me, I was merged with the audience, with
- [It’s Never Too Late](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/its-never-too-late/) - Created September 10, 2021 The most constructive aspect of the pandemic is that it drove us inside. Not just inside our own homes, but inside our own selves. We hadn’t had an opportunity to do that in ages. Not to that degree. On vacations, there are so many new diverting experiences to enjoy, we tend
- [The Untalking Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-untalking-self/) - Created August 31, 2021 Did anyone ever say to you “You’ve changed!” We’ve all had that experience. It’s true, we are all constantly changing, very strongly affected by every single thing that we experience. The me you are today is not exactly the same as yesterday’s. Some aspects of ourselves change very slowly over the
- [We’ll Look Back and Realize This Was Our Finest Hour](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/well-look-back-and-realize-this-was-our-finest-hour/) - Created August 27, 2021 We’ve licked terrible odds before and we’ll keep doing it. It’s what we do. Every situation has a handle, which if you grab it, levers everything positive. I have total confidence we will find the handle. You can be sure even better technology will come out of it. The world’s best
- [Becoming Immediately More Effective](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/becoming-immediately-more-effective/) - Created August 23, 2021 The aim of reading this article is that it will stimulate your own mind to the degree that you can sense something is happening to you inside, and it will accelerate your own metacognitive programs (the ones you discovered for yourself) to further develop faster. If it doesn’t work, please let
- [Metacognition Versus Public Disenchantment with Science](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/metacognition-versus-public-disenchantment-with-science/) - “I do not like that man: I must get to know him better.” --Abraham Lincoln How is it, one wonders, that tens of millions of Americans can believe and echo absurd fantasies, while showing signs of disbelieving in science? It clearly has something to do with hatred. For most of my life, I would have
- [Getting into the Observer State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/getting-into-the-observer-state/) - In our normal waking consciousness we think, and we feel. The way it appears to us is “I think X” and “I feel Y”, but we do not inspect it so dispassionately as to state it that concretely in words, we just experience the constantly flowing, constantly changes torrent of thoughts and feelings. We take
- [What’s Bothering Me?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/whats-bothering-me/) - Created August 13, 2021 Have you noticed that sometimes when you are feeling down, you don’t even know what’s doing that to you? Isn’t that interesting? Some part of me knows that something is wrong. But my conscious mind doesn’t know what it is. That could mean my bad feeling is for a stupid reason,
- [Partners - We Need Each Other](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/partners-we-need-each-other/) - Created August 6, 2021 Good-natured rivalries are a constructive force for the betterment of all concerned. Unsportsmanlike vicious bitter feuds bring down all concerned. The state of play at the moment between the two U.S. political parties is at the worst extreme observed in my lifetime. That can’t be a good thing. A house divided
- [How Can We Get the United States Back to Normal?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-can-we-get-the-united-states-back-to-normal/) - Created July 30, 2021 “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.” --Ronald Reagan The world is waiting to see how this unprecedented drama comes out. Billions of people had high hopes that America would lead the world to a fair break democracy for all. Now it’s looking
- [MAKING YOUR LIFE GREAT DESPITE NOT GETTING ALL THE BREAKS](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/making-your-life-great-despite-not-getting-all-the-breaks/) - Created July 23, 2021 Forgive me, I must admit I wasn’t thinking of you, my regular readers, when I wrote this. I was writing this to your kids, or grandkids, or more likely to young people you may know who didn’t grow up nourished by your wisdom. Please do pass this along to anyone you
- [Don’t Work Against Yourself](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/dont-work-against-yourself/) - Created July 16, 2021 The above title seems obvious. “Who would knowingly work against one’s own best interests? Masochists maybe, but no normal person.” Unfortunately, that is not the case. Practically all of us work against ourselves on a daily basis. The reason we do it is because we don’t realize the power of our
- [What’s a Non-Trump Republican to Do?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/whats-a-non-trump-republican-to-do/) - Created June 25, 2021 The latest (May 17-19) Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 53% of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was stolen, down from 68% in a January 28 poll. The stolen election belief appears to be dropping about a percentage point a week. A straight-line extrapolation suggests that pollsters may soon find that the
- [Preventing Minority Rule](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/preventing-minority-rule/) - Created May 6th, 2021 Some prognosticators are saying that filibuster and gerrymandering cannot be stopped and the result will be Republicans taking over legislative majority next year and winning the White House in 2024. (Right up front let me say that I am OK in principle with Republicans or Democrats or even Independents like myself
- [They Who Do Not Trust Enough, Shall Not Be Trusted](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/they-who-do-not-trust-enough-shall-not-be-trusted/) - Created June 18, 2021 Trust levels have been going down for a long time. Distrust in the US government began dropping in 1958 and as we all know, today roughly one in six Americans (half to two thirds of Republicans, essentially) don’t trust the 2020 election. It’s not just the government. People don’t trust the
- [Favoring Your Better Side](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/favoring-your-better-side/) - Created June 11, 2021 In the prior post I wrote about Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP), which I hypothesize to be a milder version of Post Traumatic Shock Disorder (PTSD). At the end I provided a few brief takeaways that are effective mind tricks to get out of EOP and into your naturally most effective and
- [Statement of Work](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/statement-of-work/) - Created June 11, 2021 This is an SOW for the human race. It’s really an urgent request. You see, it’s difficult to see something that is gigantic. Your mind has an automatic program for suppressing cognitive dissonance, especially during Acceleritis. This is not any less threatening than all of those movies. This is the oncoming
- [The Quest for Peak Experiences](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-quest-for-peak-experiences/) - Created December 4th, 2020 Abraham Maslow described peak experiences as “sudden feelings of intense happiness and well-being, with an awareness of ultimate truth and the unity of all things.” Have you had such experiences? Even if it doesn’t exactly fit Maslow’s definition, can you select one experience that might have been the best moment of your life
- [Sense the Meaning of the Moment: Right Now, it is “Fresh Start”](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/sense-the-meaning-of-the-moment-right-now-it-is-fresh-start/) - Created January 26th, 2021 Take Advantage of your Permission for Creativity Everyone had been waiting to see what President Biden was going to say to Russia and to China. I wrote this piece below a few days before President Biden had his first call with President Putin. I wrote: I hope he and his Team
- [Decode the Universe’s Lesson](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/decode-the-universes-lesson/) - February 3rd, 2021 An “As-If” viewpoint opens the mind. You don’t have to believe that the Universe is conscious. But, just because it is possible, and it is of practical value (more about this presently), you can choose to allow yourself to play the game of trying to see the universe’s lesson in whatever happens.
- [Improving Personal Timing Is the Lowest Hanging Fruit](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/improving-personal-timing-is-the-lowest-hanging-fruit/) - Created February 11, 2021 Sometime between 600 BC and 400 BC, Lao Tzu advised “In action, watch the timing”. Sometime between age 4 and age 6, a showbiz celebrity advised me after seeing my act “Timing is everything”. During my teen years operating the spotlight for shows at Hotel Brickman I carefully observed how the
- [Don’t Fight Yourself](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/dont-fight-yourself/) - You may not realize it but sometimes you fight yourself. You are desirous of one type of outcome but your actions force you to the opposite outcome. This is caused by mental-emotional processes that are built in. How do you know when you are doing this to yourself? One sure sign is negativity. Negative emotions
- [The Whole Human Race Has PTSD](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-whole-human-race-has-ptsd/) - Created June 4, 2021 Post Traumatic Shock Disorder (PTSD) is usually associated with combat veterans, but civilians have also had it after being in violent or dangerous situations. To millions of whites in this country having Obama elected president was a traumatic shock, and to half of Americans the Trump years were a prolonged traumatic
- [A Way to Decide How to Live Your Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-way-to-decide-how-to-live-your-life/) - Created March 5, 2021 Painful periods in history have always made us stronger. Other than the venom of our disagreements, we now show great promise as a race. We are now advanced enough to come up in less than a year with vaccines that work against novel deadly viruses, and several nations are visiting Mars
- [Identify With The Wisest Voice In Your Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/identify-with-the-wisest-voice-in-your-mind/) - Created February 19th, 2021 The average person is controlled by their own mind. This might seem like a very good thing, if we interpret it to mean that the average person acts autonomously, guided solely by their own independent view of things. Unfortunately, the ruminations of words, images, feelings, and action impulses that we experience
- [The Human Race Needs to Go Inside](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-human-race-needs-to-go-inside/) - Created March 12, 2021 By not being observant, we miss out on information that would have helped us if we had only noticed it. The information we miss might be from events happening around us. It can also be information we miss that is going on inside of us. Distraction is the usual cause of
- [Break the Chain of Non-Forgiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/break-the-chain-of-non-forgiveness/) - Created November 20, 2020 On November 6, 2020, my blogpost was entitled Both Sides Are Protecting America in their Own Minds, and in it, I wrote: “We all grew up with the same values. Other countries were corrupt, we were taught, but here we had the privilege of living in a democracy, where there is concern
- [De-Robotizing Your Free Will](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/de-robotizing-your-free-will/) - Created December 30th, 2020 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! May 2021 be the year we all learn to fully appreciate the lives we had before, and now are able to have again – sometime during the year. In prior posts, I’ve hypothesized that we come into this world as an experiencer, and from our very first moments,
- [Re-Evaluating Our Foundational Beliefs](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/re-evaluating-our-foundational-beliefs/) - Created April 30th, 2021 *Thank you Mr. President for a balanced and meticulously thought out approach at a time when others are losing their heads. In addition to my donations I’ve attempted to send you helpful ideas. Here are the links to the articles that hopefully someone on the staff can review, assess, and do
- [A Trace of Hot Tub Diplomacy in The Air](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-trace-of-hot-tub-diplomacy-in-the-air/) - Created April 23, 2021 *Thank you Mr. President for a balanced and meticulously thought out approach at a time when others are losing their heads. In addition to my donations I’ve attempted to send you helpful ideas. Here are the links to the articles that hopefully someone on the staff can review, assess, and do
- [Belonging, Unity, and the Future of the USA](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/belonging-unity-and-the-future-of-the-usa/) - Created May 28, 2021 Belonging (a sense of social acceptance) is one of the 15 Motivations uncovered by the scientific* work I have been doing for the past 30 years or so. Belonging is the most complex of the 15 Motivations in the sense that it contains more variations within it. It contains 25 Need
- [Is Our Democracy Worth Preserving?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/is-our-democracy-worth-preserving/) - Created May 21, 2021 If you consider human history from its earliest roots until today, too much of it is violent and tragic, causing Thomas Hobbes in the 1600s to write that human life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Until the democracies began to appear on the planet. To oversimplify, democratic governments protected the weak
- [Orchestrating Palestinian Israeli Cease Fire](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/orchestrating-palestinian-israeli-cease-fire/) - Created May 20, 2021 Because the US and other countries do not recognize the legitimacy of terrorists, they have been addressing Israel in their requests for cease fire. This makes it look like all the blame is being placed on Israel, when in fact the Palestinians started it. That is not helping. The US and
- [What Is Conservatism?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-conservatism/) - Created May 14, 2021 The GOP did not start out to be a conservative party, but in our memories it has always been associated with conservatism. What is conservatism? It is conserving the value we have already created, and not risking it unnecessarily by taking steps believed to be progressive which might have hidden flaws.
- [Our Future](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/our-future/)
- [Can We Up the Level of Discourse?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/can-we-up-the-level-of-discourse/) - Created April 16, 2021 My obvious point in the fictional last three posts 1 2 3 is that a lot could be accomplished by the world’s top leaders at least speaking nicely to one another. Yet despite my treasured audience, I guess so far, my thoughts have not entered the right offices in Washington DC.
- [Turning a New Page in History](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/turning-a-new-page-in-history/) - Created April 9, 2021 When they finally turned in, Joe, Vlad and Jinping had slept well, dreaming of better days ahead. A limo brought them down to Pfeiffer Beach just before sunrise. Although the air was brisk and the water cold, the three went for morning swims. By the time they were in beach chairs
- [Sanctions at the Sanctuary](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/sanctions-at-the-sanctuary/) - Created April 1, 2021 (This is Part Two of our story Part one) At Esalen Sanctuary, the sky was turning purple although the sun was not quite to the ocean. Joe had just lobbed his bombshell proposing an ongoing triangular conversation working together toward permanent relief of friction. All three were now using the jets
- [Could World Safety Be One Conversation Away?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/could-world-safety-be-one-conversation-away/) - Created March 23, 2021 The press and late-night TV comics had a field day when the Esalen Summit was announced by the White House. Backstory: Joe, Kamala and Chuck had a running joke about the subject and then one day, started to take it seriously. It turned out that Vlad and Jinping liked the idea.
- [Feeling Happy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/feeling-happy/) - Created March 19, 2021 The Pursuit of Happiness. It’s one of our inalienable rights. But do we exercise it enough? What percent of our thoughts does happiness get? Before Covid, probably our own happiness did not get much of our attention at all on the average day. Since Covid, I hear from my friends that
- [My 2019 Scifi Novel Coming True in the South China Sea?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/my-2019-scifi-novel-coming-true-in-the-south-china-sea/) - Created February 7, 2021 Let’s hope not. PANDEMONIUM: LIVE TO ALL DEVICES depicts one of the downside scenarios. It’s our job to steer into one of the upside scenarios. My career-long friend Norm Hecht just sent me this news story about China creating new laws making it legal for her to fire on foreign vessels
- [What Is Fairness Among Nations?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-fairness-among-nations/) - Created February 2nd, 2021 Part of why Russia and China are perpetually mad at us is that we have continuously called them out for doing things we don’t approve of. We have identified the cause of what we see as their bad behavior as being the fact that they are not democracies in the sense
- [How Can We Hold the Feeling of Unity?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-can-we-hold-the-feeling-of-unity/) - Created February 1st, 2021 I had cautioned that habits are going to be hard to break when I began to write about all of us getting a fresh start. We’ve all now seen a lot of backsliding to the partisan bickering here at home, and one evidently cannot lay aside cold war feelings overnight in
- [We Can and Must Legislate Ethics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-can-and-must-legislate-ethics/) - Created January 28th, 2021 The U.S. Congress acts as if ethics issues ought to be dealt with only by means of establishing norms via “ethics pledges”. These are promises, not legally binding. Why would we want issues of ethics to be based on promises? Obviously, anyone whose ethics is awry is going to make false
- [What Does the Real You Want?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-does-the-real-you-want/) - Created January 21, 2021 As I started to write this, Sammy Davis Junior simultaneously began singing “I Gotta Be Me” on the Sinatra Channel. This is the kind of synchronicity that occurs in peak experience. This series of posts entitled “On the Road to Flow” started out aimed at helping you stay in the peak
- [Rugged Individualists Do Not Become Followers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/rugged-individualists-do-not-become-followers/) - Created January 14, 2021 It’s often been said that Americans are rugged individualists. As compared with the world average, I would agree with that as an American average. It’s also been recently media-drummed into our heads that only far-right Americans are rugged individualists, and that the rest of us – all of us who are
- [Re-Open Closed Switches Inside](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/re-open-closed-switches-inside/) - Created January 8, 2021 HAPPY 2021! Wishing all of us a fresh start – pull up the transparent screen and erase 2020 and before – and you are new again, the world is new again – all hurts forgiven. In my December 22, 2020 post I cautioned against hasty closure – the habit of making
- [Holiday Blessings](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/outsmart-hasty-closure/) - A holiday gift to you from all of us here at The Human Effectiveness Institute and songwriter Stan Satlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooF8CDQIpDE Outsmart Hasty Closure Created December 22nd, 2020 Built into each human being before birth is an information-processing program whose apparent purpose is to help us understand our external and internal experiences. It works as follows:
- [Your You-ness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/your-you-ness/) - Created December 17th, 2020 To recap recent posts, this series within Pebbles in the Pond, “On the Road to Flow”, is aimed at helping you establish yourself in the Observer state, so as to be able to spring into the Flow state more often. We kicked off the series by reviewing the work of Abraham
- [Observerness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/observerness/) - Created December 11, 2020 Happy Chanukah, commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, the one that Jesus loved! Wishing you a glorious Festival of Lights! This continues from the prior post. We are discussing how you can reach and stay longer in the higher states of consciousness, real states whose existence have been
- [To the People of the World](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/to-the-people-of-the-world/) - Created November 13, 2020 I am an American. I also consider myself a citizen of Earth, and a member of the Human Race club. From my point of view, we have been spending too much time competing for political power to get done any of the immense things that we HAVE TO get done. And
- [Both “Sides” Are Protecting America In Their Own Minds](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/both-sides-are-protecting-america-in-their-own-minds/) - Created November 6, 2020 If we can keep from becoming emotionally stampeded, we can reach compromises in a more pleasant way that are creative, innovative, bold, exciting, inspiring, and consensus based. Isn’t that the whole point of Democracy? How did we get so divided so fast? It seems hard to believe based on what had
- [The Follower Type](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-follower-type/) - Created November 2, 2020 A long time ago we each made up our own mind for ourselves. Language did not exist, and so there was no way to convince one another of any given viewpoint. That all changed when language came along. Life then became gradually more complex. There were more things to think about
- [See Through the Things That Still Manipulate You](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/see-through-the-things-that-still-manipulate-you/) - Created October 30, 2020 You know what I mean. You’ve already conquered many of the things that used to push your buttons. Now maybe they can still get your goat from time to time when they catch you suddenly off guard while you are dealing with something else, or when you are just totally exhausted.
- [What Did They Die For?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-did-they-die-for/) - Created October 23rd, 2020 No reason the number 1,304,679 should mean anything to you. Even the graph I looked it up in didn’t have a total line. It’s the number of American Armed Services men and women who died in combat in all of our wars combined. Why did they die for us? Was it
- [Thomas Paine, the True Spirit of America, and the need to make Common Sense more common](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/thomas-paine-the-true-spirit-of-america-and-the-need-to-make-common-sense-more-common/) - Created October 16th, 2020 It is suspected that Tom Paine had a hand in the writing of the American Declaration of Independence. But it is a fact that he had an important hand in the American Revolution. His pamphlet in 1776 is what set the match to the smoldering timber. The revolution was about one
- [An American Heroine and a Friend of China](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/an-american-heroine-and-a-friend-of-china/) - Created September 18, 2020 Increasing world tensions and the upcoming election cause me to think back to the days when the U.S.A. and China were friends. I’ve done a lot of research into the period of the 30s and 40s as a result of helping to write a script about a real person unknown in
- [How do you decide to whom to give your vote?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-do-you-decide-to-whom-to-give-your-vote/) - Created October 8th, 2020 This year, everything may depend on it. The whole planetary environment, and our own fair land, is burning and flooding at the same time. Plagues released by our own hands in the invasion of forests and jungles are severely curtailing our ways of life everywhere in the world. The greatest most
- [An American Heroine and a Friend of China – Part 3](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/an-american-heroine-and-a-friend-of-china-part-3/) - Agnes wound up setting up field hospitals, building sanitation facilities, lecturing, raising money, and doing everything else they asked her to do to help repel the invaders, including a continuing stream of reports to the world. She often lectured about Democracy. At one of these lectures, an old woman stood up and came forward and
- [An American Heroine and a Friend of China – Part 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/an-american-heroine-and-a-friend-of-china-part-2/) - Most of the other war correspondents were men of course. Agnes hung out with them sometimes but most of the time she was sneaking around places she wasn’t allowed to be. Chiang had shown the Democracy face convincingly to the West, but all non-Chinese had to stay within certain “sanitized zones” as Agnes called them,
- [Solving Challenges with Just One Fresh Thought](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/solving-challenges-with-just-one-fresh-thought/) - Updated August 28, 2020 Do you get frustrated when you look at a longstanding problem or challenge and feel that you just don’t know how to solve it? Is it possible that you do know how to solve it, but deep down inside you realize that the solution is likely to involve long, hard effort?
- [What Is Your Summum Bonum?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-your-summum-bonum/) - Updated May 15th, 2020 We all have a bit more flextime than we are used to now in the stay-at-home world, and that inevitably leads to more reflection than we normally get to do. It’s a silver lining to the dark cloud of the pandemic. Having the natural will, energy, and opportunity to be self-reflective
- [Moving Beyond Fear to Happiness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/moving-beyond-fear-to-happiness/) - updated May 8th, 2020 The worldwide calamity has increased our tendency to live in fear. Fear is like an alarm clock, designed to alert us to make apt decisions soon. We don’t let the alarm keep ringing in the morning when it wakes us up, and the best reaction to fear is to focus objectively
- [How Did We Become So Distracted?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/become-distracted/) - Updated April 24, 2020 Although we are staying home now, and the amount of overstimulation we receive from our environment is therefore considerably lessened, with the screens in our home and the audio and (if we're lucky) other people and pets that are with us, there's still an awfully lot going on and coming in
- [The Win/Win Principle](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/winwin-principle/) - Updated April 17, 2020 As we are cloistered now, it’s a perfect time for reconsidering everything. As I sit outside watching the river flow by, my mind relaxes and goes to unexpected places. I watch it fly… and I muse at what it chooses to remember right now, things from the distant past… why those
- [Improve the Creative Result by Taking a Break](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/improve-creative-result-goofing-off/) - Updated on April 10, 2020 Now that we are all cloistered, looking inward is happening by itself, to everyone. Getting something positive out of the nightmare is therefore possible. By following your mind into your own depths, and gaining back the full complement of strengths nature gave you. To bring these powers not only into
- [Data Mining Your Own Intuition — Revisited](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/data-mining-your-own-intuition-revisited/) - Updated on April 3rd, 2020 Intuitions often come to us when we are in entirely new situations, as we all are in today, so this post may have special relevance to all of us. Have you ever had an intuition? Intuition is when an idea pops into your head fully formed without being preceded by
- [Rediscovering that Ancient Territory: Your Own Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/rediscovering-ancient-territory-mind-revisited/) - Updated March 27th, 2020 Now that we are all temporarily confined to quarters – with hopefully some escape to Nature – it’s a perfect time to spend some of it alone within our own selves, reinvestigating that ever-familiar landscape as if for the first time, taking a really good look at what’s in there, without
- [If You Aren’t Enjoying Your Self, Something’s Wrong, Especially Now!](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/arent-enjoying-self-somethings-wrong/) - Originally posted February 3, 2015 Life must still be enjoyed second to second, otherwise what’s the point of wellness and longevity? The advice below stands despite and especially during the pandemic. Assume that if you are in a bad mood or feel a negative physical symptom, this is a direct internal communication to you. Your
- [You Are a World Changer — Part Three](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/world-changer-part-three/) - Originally posted January 27, 2015 In the last two weeks you have begun committed work on a problem/challenge condition in your current situation. You started using the techniques and tools we presented beginning with trigger notes, then you created a table with problems and approach directions toward the solutions of each problem or challenge. Then
- [Step Away from Business as Usual](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/step-away-from-business-as-usual/) - Originally posted December 8, 2015 Volume 5, Issue 41 Life in general is more complex than ever — we rush through our days trying to keep up and we tend to miss so much of what and who is around us. This is not conducive to being in the moment, open to the opportunities to
- [The Power of Respect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-power-of-respect/) - Originally posted November 3, 2015 If you are a leader within your organization (and anyone can be a leader, at whatever level you’re at) the single best thing you can do to mentor, nurture and develop your team members, bringing out the best in each one of them, is to create a mood of mental
- [Flow Genes](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/flow-genes/) - Volume 3, Issue 9 Thanks to Steven Kotler and the Flow Research Collective for their metaphor of the Human Genome Project as the kind of thing we need even more to facilitate Flow state. Now that thousands and maybe millions of us are experimenting and getting into this state, it has to become a world priority
- [Appointment with Destiny](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/appointment-with-destiny/) - NEW Post! June 21, 2019 Every Life embodies a concept, a plan for a Life: The One can see it all coming, where it can go, up, down, down, up. Will it reach its Destiny Goal? My theory of a Conscious Universe is not the first cosmology to conclude that a single Self is all
- [Are you getting enough pleasure out of your life?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/are-you-getting-enough-pleasure-out-of-your-life/) - Originally posted April 14, 2015 If you’re not, you’ve got to fix that. No one else is going to do it for you. All that exists is now, this moment, so you can’t be putting off fun to some hoped-for future. If you’re not getting it right now, this very day, you’re not playing to
- [Positive Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/positive-thinking/) - Originally posted March 17, 2015 People are always saying to me, “Bill, you’re one of the most positive people around.” While I take it as a high compliment, I am always thinking “How do I convey that there’s more to it than positive thinking?” Positive thinking is an idea all of us know by now,
- [The American Presidents – A Contrapuntal Soliloquy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-american-presidents-a-contrapuntal-soliloquy/) - Post Date: February 14, 2019 Monday, February 18, is Presidents' Day. A day to honor our leaders, those who have assumed the executive responsibility for our democracy and our freedom. The burden for them, all of them, has been and remains enormous. Collectively, our Presidents have been almost as awesome as the concept of America itself.
- [Visualizing 2019](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/visualizing-2019/) - Originally posted January 5, 2016Volume 5, Issue 47 As we leap into 2019, with clear intentions and resolve, let’s keep this visualization in the forefront of our minds to guide our thoughts and actions: Visualize the whole Universe as one thing Every individual of every species Every idea Every event Every moment of time Every
- [Our story continues!](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/our-story-continues/) - Excerpt from my new science fiction novel, The First Son. We continue our story where we left off last week, with the second part of a chapter excerpted from my new science fiction/alternative history novel, The First Son. As we mentioned last week, many of you will feel a familiarity with the story revealed in this
- [A Holiday Gift to Our Readers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-holiday-gift-to-our-readers/) - With affection and gratitude for you, our best friends and readers, this post and the next one will be a chapter out of my new science fiction book, The First Son, an alternate view of the great turning points in history over the climactic period from 3100 BC through the Resurrection. Many of you will sense
- [What Most of the World Is Missing Is the Sense of Daily Inspiration](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-most-of-the-world-is-missing-is-the-sense-of-daily-inspiration/) - October 18, 2018 We are all familiar with the obvious top-priority problems such as terrorism, the economy/jobs, and the environment. Less or nothing is said about one of the background conditions that has caused these three symptoms to exist. Our collective view of the world has ceased to be driven by a sense of higher
- [Which Motivators Drive Our Most Frequent Choices?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/which-motivators-drive-our-most-frequent-choices/) - Volume 4, Issue 16 June 26, 2014 Lessons from my day job One of the benefits of my day job as a media researcher is that I gain valuable insight into what sorts of things I should create in the future to carry the messages of the Institute to as many people as are ready
- [THE FIRST SON – My Intention and Hope](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-first-son-my-intention-and-hope/) - October 11, 2018 Just as with my nonfiction books MIND MAGIC and YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE, my intent in THE FIRST SON is to free the consciousness of the reader from habitual thinking and feeling. Sharing with you here my hope for the effect that reading my new sci-fi alternate history novel will have on
- [Why am I just publishing my first novel?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/why-am-i-just-publishing-my-first-novel/) - Some friends say, “Bill I love your non-fiction writing, why are you switching to fiction?” It’s really because I’m trying to get my main ideas to more people, including people whose reading is mostly fiction. Also, novels get turned into TV and film which reaches even more people than books. I’m also trying to get
- [The Regenerative Method for Stimulating Innovation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-regenerative-method-for-stimulating-innovation/) - Volume 2, Issue 2. Originally posted April 12, 2012 This blog takes a shortened form optimized for Acceleritis™ conditions Listening to you readers, I have enjoyed writing this blog more than ever. Everyone I've talked to has said it is something totally different and therefore worth reading. Thank you all again for the encouragement. Habit
- [A More Alert Reaction](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-more-alert-reaction/) - Just one of the benefits of Observer and Flow States Originally posted March 1, 2012 “A word to the wise is sufficient.” Confucius may have said this. The same conditions causing Acceleritis™ also reward those of us who can spend some time in the two higher states of performance. In the sped-up culture that continues
- [It’s Possible](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/it’s-possible/) - How Little We Know About the Nature of Reality, and the Technique for Remembering This Originally posted February 16, 2012 as a recap of the first year of blog posts here at Pebbles in the Pond. On February 17, 2012, this blog was a year old, with this our 52nd post. In reviewing what we have
- [The Door to Enlightenment Is Always an Inch Away Part 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-door-to-enlightenment-is-always-an-inch-away-part-2/) - Originally posted as the second part of February 9, 2012 blog post In the prior post, Part 1, we analyzed the concept of Enlightenment and some of its meanings from Kant to SRI VALS to Eastern philosophy, and pointed out that it is not an attainment but a maintainment, as one keeps slipping back out
- [The Door to Enlightenment Is Always an Inch Away Part 1](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-door-to-enlightenment-is-always-an-inch-away/) - Originally posted as part of February 9, 2012 blog post A friend sent me Kant’s definition of “Enlightenment”: Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of
- [Upon Enlightenment, One Stays Infinite All of the Time](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/upon-enlightenment-one-stays-infinite-all-of-the-time/) - Originally posted February 2, 2012 Growing up in a Western culture, one hears and reads the phrases, “seeking Enlightenment” and “the path of Enlightenment”, sees movies like Lost Horizon and The Razor’s Edge, and eventually questions whether maybe there is something real going on. What is this Enlightenment they speak of so often and so
- [Ideas We Think Are Important](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/ideas-we-think-are-important/) - And which deserve further research Originally posted January 26, 2012 What is a life worth? All each of us can do for the betterment of the world is largely constrained by our funds. Warren Buffett, God bless him, is one of the least constrained in this way, and has heard the clarion call to give
- [“Get the bad guy” is now proven an obsolete idea](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/“get-the-bad-guy”-is-now-proven-an-obsolete-idea/) - World problems now can be solved only by Psychotechnology. It has now gotten to the point of complexity and intertwinement that any legislated change will at best reduce suffering, but will not stop the endless violence and sadness. Change from the outside can be effective when individual populations being governed are small and separate enough
- [Because the Universe Is Conscious, Everything Happens for a Reason that Makes Sense to Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/because-the-universe-is-conscious-everything-happens-for-a-reason-that-makes-sense-to-consciousness/) - Originally posted on December 29, 2011. We suspect this is what Einstein really meant in his famous quote “God does not play dice with the Universe.” Think about it for a minute. If you’ve been reading these posts you know what I am saying is that the universe is one infinite field of consciousness at
- [The Alchemy of Transmuting Feelings into Right Action](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-alchemy-of-transmuting-feelings-into-right-action/) - Originally posted December 22, 2911 Experiments you can perform best when alone, such as in shower or tub Full disclosure: I am an interested party — these experiments will tend to confirm my speculations and hypothesis — and help prove my theories. On the other hand, you stand to gain a great deal. Your decision
- [Of Genes, Memes and Phemes](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/of-genes-memes-and-phemes/) - Originally posted December 8, 2011 John Wheeler’s saying “Its from Bits” means that physical objects are generated from information blueprints, which are a prior form of existence than the physical forms they create. In other words, at the first foundation of reality our science is able to see the primary substance from which everything is made
- [What if your mind can actually do more tricks than you currently believe it can? Part 3](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-if-your-mind-can-actually-do-more-tricks-than-you-currently-believe-it-can-part-3/) - Originally posted December 1, 2011 2 more incredibly easy and vitally important experiments you can perform surreptitiously Experiment 3: Make the Eye Naked Again, all of these experiments relate to level setting reality. This one is primarily visual. You cannot trust your senses to be exactly reporting what is out there, because there are mechanisms
- [What if your mind can actually do more tricks than you currently believe it can? Part 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-if-your-mind-can-actually-do-more-tricks-than-you-currently-believe-it-can-part-2/) - Originally posted November 23, 2011 2 Incredibly easy and vitally important experiments you can perform surreptitiously The goal of these experiments is for you to see if you can actually discover new views of reality by stripping away everything in your mind that is unproven. To recap from the prior post: You don’t have to
- [What if your mind can actually do more tricks than you currently believe it can? Part 1](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-if-your-mind-can-actually-do-more-tricks-than-you-currently-believe-it-can-part-1/) - Originally posted November 17, 2011 What is the value of an open mind? The mind, like a reducing valve, closes down to keep out overload. In this so far 6000-year era of Acceleritis™, there has been a lot of shutting down, when openness without commitment either way would always have been the more careful strategy.
- [How Acceleritis Affects Organizational Effectiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-acceleritis-affects-organizational-effectiveness/) - Originally posed November 10, 2011 The metrics used today to judge the effectiveness of organizations are primarily stock prices and their direction in context of the market condition. This is supposed to reflect the equity of the brands in the stable of the organization. It is therefore all built on the fuzzy perceptions that people
- [Make the Best Use of your Fine Brain](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/make-the-best-use-of-your-fine-brain/) - Originally posted October 20, 2011 Even Bill Gates could not afford to buy this supercomputer. That is, if we could make one. The more science discovers what our brain can do, the more respect one has to have for the “random forces” that supposedly “collided” to make this brain. On the other hand, those forces
- [Science Has Accepted Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/science-has-accepted-consciousness/) - Originally posted October 13, 2011 We live at an exciting turning point in history. The first great turn has already occurred. Quantum Mechanics, the most successful theory in the history of science, has put the observer back into the picture of the universe collectively known as science. Einstein started it with relativity theory, but Quantum
- [Getting Your Team into the Zone](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/getting-your-team-into-the-zone/) - Originally posted August 25, 2011 The Zone or Flow State is something we all have observed in other people such as supreme athletes or musicians in moments of peak performance — people doing something extremely difficult and doing it perfectly — it seems like magic or even a miracle — we are riveted, transfixed, watching
- [One of the Greatest Mind Stretchers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/one-of-the-greatest-mind-stretchers/) - Originally posted August 18, 2011 [mp3j track="Before_Abraham.mp3" title="Before Abraham - by Stan Satlin - © 2011" Loop="false" autoplay="n" flip="y"] Audio: click arrow to play/pause Every now and then I am tapped to give a workshop to a group of sufficient strategic importance that I cannot refuse. Although I am there to tell them about THEI (the Human
- [Who Are You Really?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/who-are-you-really/) - Originally posted August 11, 2011 The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That”, released in 2014. Why does it matter what your true identity is? Because if, for example, you are an accident in an accidental universe, better to act 100% in your own self-interest
- [What is Consciousness made out of?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-consciousness-made-out-of/) - Originally posted August 4, 2011 This may seem like an academic question yet it leads directly to the meaning of life. Who among us has not pondered the meaning of life at one time or another? We know consciousness is real, we know it exists. As René Descartes said, “Je pense, donc je suis” —
- [Maximizing the Emotional Fullness of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/maximizing-the-emotional-fullness-of-life/) - Originally posted July 28, 2011 The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That”, released in 2014. Why I am writing about this subject — The Theory of The Conscious Universe? To explain let me go back a few thousand years to the earliest philosophers —
- [Consciousness Has Been the Black Hole of Physics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/consciousness-has-been-the-black-hole-of-physics/) - Originally posted July 21, 2011 The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That”, released in 2014. Since Einstein’s famous mind experiments made it possible to think in ways we could never even imagine before, we have learned that Time is Relative to an Observer. Einstein
- [The Theory of the Conscious Universe: Where Is the Self in the Brain?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-theory-of-the-conscious-universe-where-is-the-self-in-the-brain/) - Originally posted July 16, 2011 The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That”, released in 2014. Picture the neurons in the brain as strings in a violin. Now picture them as superstrings. The brain is both. In a previous posting we discussed the different “selves”
- [The Theory of the Conscious Universe: The Roots](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-theory-of-the-conscious-universe-the-roots/) - Featuring: A Movie in Your Mind Originally posted July 11,2011 The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, "You Are the Universe: Imagine That", released in 2014 . An area in which the Human Effectiveness Institute focuses is the interface between psychology and physics. The ultimate nature of reality is what
- [Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (EOP) on a Social Level](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/eop-on-a-social-level/) - In a superbusy world, EOP (Emergency Oversimplification Procedure)* Man jumps at the chance to believe, and says to himself he has no time to think for himself. Religions, political systems, sports leagues, the old left-right wing oversimplification, skin color biases, all of these things become time saving conveniences to EOP Woman and Man. Don’t have
- [What if the Mission of the USA Is to Demonstrate Democracy?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-if-the-mission-of-the-usa-is-to-demonstrate-democracy/) - Originally posted June 11, 2011 [mp3j track="Liberty_Tree.mp3" title="Liberty Tree - by Stan Satlin - © 2011" Loop="false" autoplay="n" flip="y"] Audio: click arrow to play/pause In the previous blog post we asked the question, “What are we here for?” “We” in this case being the United States of America. (Of course, asking this question of oneself, “What am
- [What is the True Mission of the U.S.A.?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-the-true-mission-of-the-u-s-a/) - Originally posted June 3, 2011 [mp3j track="I_am_an_American_original.mp3" title="I Am an American - by Stan Satlin - © 2011" Loop="false" autoplay="n" flip="y"] Audio: click arrow to play/pause What is it that we are striving to achieve as a nation, our Purpose on Earth? What did Tom Paine expect of us, or George Washington? If we do not know
- [14 Things Everyone Needs From Government](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/14-things-everyone-needs-from-government/) - Originally posted May 29, 2011 In The May 16, 2011 issue of The New Yorker (an especially fine issue even by that iconic publication’s standards), a Pakistani storekeeper doing business in the neighborhood where Osama had been hiding, says he doesn’t care about that particular struggle, or any other fight going on in the world.
- [Old Wounds Can Eventually Heal](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/old-wounds-can-eventually-heal/) - Volume 4, Issue 25. Originally published September 4, 2014 The year was 1954. My parents, whom I called Pop and Sandy at that time (later Ned was renamed “The Chief” by a Native American horn player in his band and I then switched from Pop), took me out to dinner in Manhattan, which I loved.
- [In Praise of Goofing Off](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/in-praise-of-goofing-off/) - Or, Indirect Observation of Undirected Mentation Volume 4, Issue 31 The creative process goes through four stages: absorbing information, turning away, the Aha! Moment, and implementation. A third of a second before the Aha! Moment — a type of Flow state experience — Daniel Goleman explains that there is a burst of gamma activity, signifying
- [Ten Minutes in a Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/ten-minutes-in-a-life/) - Originally posted December 20, 2012 Volume 2, Issue 36 He looked up from the gas pump to where a moment before he had an intimation she would be, and high in the sky was the moon behind a pale shimmer of cloud, one day past full. Down and to the left was an American flag.
- [Psychotechnology for the 21st Century](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/psychotechnology-for-the-21st-century-2/) - This post will overview the Institute and our work. As a media researcher I’ve analyzed large databases, done surveys, measured brainwaves, tracked eye movements, absorbed a vast amount of information, and thought for the past 40 years about the way media affect the mind. I started using computers in the 60s and was on the
- [The Spirit of America: A Dream](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-spirit-of-america-a-dream/) - Original post August 14, 2014 I am seemingly on my back looking up. There are people all around me looking down at me. Are they doctors and nurses? Am I on an operating table? Am I all right? They are talking to each other and I am trying to make out what they are saying.
- [Three Books with the Same Name](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/three-books-with-the-same-name/) - In April, 2014 my book You Are The Universe: Imagine That was published, but I held back from marketing it, awaiting a feeling of the right time. The Universe obviously saw no reason to wait to have Its coming-out party, thus stimulating the re-recognition among its many self-parts of Its One-Selfness. So this year the
- [Which voices do you listen to?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/which-voices-do-you-listen-to/) - Originally posted September 8, 2015 Volume 5, Issue 27 Most of the time, we are not aware of the layers of louder and softer voices constantly going on within our mind. Most of us have found that the subtlest part of our mind speaks in the softest voice, while the most negative part of our mind speaks
- [How to Stop Worrying](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-to-stop-worrying/) - Originally posted July 28, 2015 Many of us spend too much time worrying, which means we’re spending too much time thinking about a problem non-constructively. Worrying actually gets in the way of finding solutions and then dealing with the problem. When we notice we’re worrying, we should of course stop worrying and deal with the
- [Multitasking Increases Short-term Brain Fun  at Expense of Long-term](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/multitasking-increases-short-term-brain-fun-at-expense-of-long-term/) - Volume 3, Issue 13 Speaking at the recent Wharton Advertising 2020 Conference in New York (where I also had the honor of being one of the speakers), neuroscientist Carl Marci used his closed fist to illustrate the brain. He described the fingers, curved under to touch the palm, as the brain’s newest evolutionary part, the
- [A Most Unusual Sea Journey](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-most-unusual-sea-journey/) - Volume 6, Issue 7 Part 78 of the ongoing saga of The Great Being, the One Self that manifests as each of us. Previous episodes. It was a short walk from the tavern to the seaside. Athenius and Sniike walked astride a few paces behind Melchizedek and Layla, who had kicked off their shoes and were reveling
- [Finding One Honest Man](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/finding-one-honest-man/) - Volume 6, Issue 6 Part 77 of the ongoing saga of The Great Being, the One Self that manifests as each of us. Previous episodes. Athenius scooped up the cosmic smartphone and tapped on it as he’d seen Melchizedek do. Cosmic smartphones had been around forever and once they assumed their present size and shape they had
- [Finding That Hidden Switch Inside](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/finding-that-hidden-switch-inside/) - Sensible procedures for quickly returning to your best self This blog aims to provide a new psychotechnology for maximizing human performance and happiness, derived from a synthesis of the author’s experience and the relevant findings of science both modern and ancient. The construct posits three levels of waking consciousness: Flow state — the most desirable
- [A little bit more love could be enough.](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-little-bit-more-love-could-be-enough/) - Love is always the answer, as the community of Charleston, South Carolina so vividly attested in the wake of unspeakable tragedy in the name of racism. The light and grace of love and forgiveness was and is palpable, conquering even what has become an established symbol of divisiveness, the Confederate flag. Then there was the
- [How Do I Escape the Fear that I Am Growing Old?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-do-i-escape-the-fear-that-i-am-growing-old/) - Volume 3, Issue 19 By realizing deep down, in a profound moment of inner silence and receptivity so it goes to the ground of your being, that we don’t know diddlysquat about what comes after this life.< /br> I know that one has not normally spent the moment it takes to realize that the consciousness
- [Do What You’re Inspired to Do](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/do-what-youre-inspired-to-do/) - At Any Given Moment Volume 4, Issue 21 Our moment of history may be called “The Accelerolithic Era” by those living thousands of years from now who study records of our period (even if they’re Martians). Since written records began (and I theorize because of written language) our information pressure per day has been exponentially
- [Accomplishing your 2012 Objectives](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/accomplishing-your-2012-objectives/) - A highly incomplete checklist The year has just started and already you are creatively adapting to the unexpected, steering around unexpected resistances, and still feeling cocky about taking the hill you’ve assigned yourself for this year. Good. This cursory reminder list of methods is passed along to keep handy if and when you run up
- [You Are a World Changer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/you-are-a-world-changer/) - Start activating change where you are now What’s my evidence that you’re a world changer? You read my stuff. That’s my evidence. I get an interesting if fuzzy picture of who reads this blog from the people who thank me for it. And from some indirect measures, such as how rarely people leave public comments,
- [Cognitive Toolkit Meets Psychotechnology](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/cognitive-toolkit-meets-psychotechnology/) - David Brooks has done what I wanted to do — tried to do for many years but couldn’t make it happen, at least not in such a big way. My hat’s off to him! In his book The Social Animal — and in the popular reaction to the book — David has called the world’s
- [The Immediate Upside Opportunity of Engaged Relationships](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-immediate-upside-opportunity-of-engaged-relationships/) - Volume 2, Issue 1 The next boom could be right around the corner, but we have to create it When one is in a depressed defeatist state of consciousness, one draws down upon his or her self all manner of further difficulties incremental to what caused the depression. Some might say this is just others
- [The Need for Flow State Diplomacy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-need-for-flow-state-diplomacy/) - Volume 4, Issue 13 The peacefulness of a Saturday morning, left alone to write. Even the animals inside and around the house who consider me Daddy sense the time calls for his isolation. From the back deck the feel is of a tree house. A green thicket of suddenly leafed-out trees exude exaltation in their
- [Rollout of Freedom, Long Stalled, Resumes](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/rollout-of-freedom-long-stalled-resumes/) - Agnes Smedley, a great American heroine unknown here in the U.S. though known to schoolchildren in China, considered that The French, American, and Chinese Revolutions for Independence were not three wars, but a single revolution. The Freedom Revolution. Since written language began, nations have been formed by warlike leaders. These controllers have been better or
- [To The Protectors](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/to-the-protectors/) - Volume 3, Issue 39 It is Veteran’s Day as I write this. On the way to the airport listening to the radio I heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing a special show celebrating America and its war veterans. Flashback to the 60s when certain protesters sometimes crossed the line to not only condemn the war
- [The Season to Celebrate the Miraculous](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-season-to-celebrate-the-miraculous/) - Volume 3, Issue 43 The Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year when the sun appears at its lowest altitude above the horizon and darkness abounds, has been celebrated with festivals of light since Neolithic times. Earliest cavemen and cavewomen prior to the dawn of reason could have felt that the world was coming
- [What Is The Highest Good?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-the-highest-good/) - Volume 2, Issue 13 As a philosophy major I learned to say “The Highest Good” in Latin: Summum Bonum. I had begun philosophizing as a toddler about the same subject, vaguely noting that my inarticulate intuition could not accept anything I was told as an absolute, even from those two beloved gods Ned and Sandy
- [Data Mining Your Own Intuition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/data-mining-your-own-intuition/) - Volume 3, Issue 20 Intuition is when an idea (usually in the form of a feeling with cognitive elements embedded in it) pops into your head fully formed without being preceded by a step-by-step logical chain. These “cognitive elements” equate to meaning; that is, you know and comprehend the content of what it is you
- [The Human Effectiveness Institute: A Personal View](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-human-effectiveness-institute-a-personal-view/) - Volume 2, Issue 40 Many people ask me how my books compare with the flood of self-improvement books crowding the psychology/philosophy shelves nowadays. When my first book appeared there was not so much of a glut of such titles and the question rarely came up. Instead people told us they had never seen that kind
- [Inner Head Language](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/inner-head-language/) - Volume 3, Issue 33 My daughter Nicole and I were at a book fair today, ostensibly selling my book Mind Magic from our table alongside other local authors at their tables. I say “ostensibly” because my real motivation for attending these events is to see if and how people can be helped to reach higher
- [Obvious Miracles in Our Lives](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/obvious-miracles-in-our-lives/) - Volume 3, Issue 52 Sometimes the miracles in our lives are more obvious than at other times. The world is always miraculous, it’s only us that sometimes see the miracle and other times repress it from our awareness. Babies, kittens, flowers, stars, the Moon, the ocean, mountains, trees, falling in love together — these are
- [A Fiscal Cliff Fable — Or Maybe a Solution?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-fiscal-cliff-fable-or-maybe-a-solution/) - Volume 2, Issue 37 They called him the SAP. The kid looked about 12 years old. He was Special Assistant to POTUS — the President of the United States. The President gave him the mission of cutting through the impasse and getting both parties to come up with a plan to get the USA off
- [The Worst Case Scenario](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-worst-case-scenario/) - Volume 4, Issue 12 We are at Mohonk Mountain House looking out over the lake from the terrace of our Victorian room. The crescent moon rises triumphantly over Mohonk Tower and reflects in the still lake. Photo Courtesy of Mohonk Mountain House When life is so good, why bring up downside scenarios? I guess it’s
- [Who will be the next Google?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/who-will-be-the-next-google/) - Looming opportunities for technological innovation Google is a rich company because it developed the first search engine that really worked. Someone was going to do it. There were a bunch of search engines. There still are. But Google got it right ahead of the others. They did smart things after that too of course. Quickly
- [The Three States of Waking Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-three-states-of-waking-consciousness/) - Western science has it that there is a single state of human consciousness. In his landmark book The Meditative Mind, my wonderful friend Daniel Goleman presents the ancient Eastern wisdom of the Visuddhimagga and other sacred texts, showing ten waking states above an access state which itself is superior to the everyday state on the
- [How Resolutions Gain Traction](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-resolutions-gain-traction/) - Volume 2, Issue 38 Be aware of your power to change yourself. It is common for individuals to focus on their past performance as being predictive of how they will act in the future, regardless of their contrary resolutions. This is because there is no feeling of change inside when a resolution is made; thus
- [Dial Back on Arousal to Reach Highest Performance](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/dial-back-on-arousal-to-reach-highest-performance/) - Volume 2, Issue 3 Science verifies the Vedas, Tantra, Qabala, and other ancient ideas Hope you’re enjoying the new “2-minute read” format. Thousands of years ago, individuals who trained themselves to be introspective all learned the same wisdom about the mind, in Greece and Egypt as in India and elsewhere. I’ve also rediscovered those bits
- [Optimize For The Consumer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/father-of-addressable-advertising-speaks/) - In 1979 I predicted in Media Science Newsletter that television and computers would evolve into advertising media where individuals could be reached with addressable ad messages that were so relevant the recipients would be grateful and would supply information to help achieve that relevancy. In the 90s I spearheaded the effort to create privacy principles
- [Where Will Neuroscience Make Its Greatest Contribution to Advertising?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/where-will-neuroscience-make-its-greatest-contribution-to-advertising/) - At the recent Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Re:THINK 2011 conference, ARF reported the results of its study of nine different suppliers’ tests of the same commercials. All nine suppliers utilized their own approach to the measurement of involuntary psychophysiological response to stimuli. Later that day, two other suppliers who had decided against participation were probably
- [Digital Integration of Media, Advertising, Gaming, and Philanthropy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/digital-integration-of-media-advertising-gaming-and-philanthropy/) - Volume 2, Issue 27 Sharing with you our contribution to the Wharton Advertising 2020 Project Today a new company, Thinaire, is placing low-cost links to digital content in physical objects such as shelf-talkers and magazines. People can just tap their mobile phone to the object and the content appears on their screen and can be
- [A Way Out of War](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-way-out-of-war/) - Volume 4, Issue 24 Sun Tzu said that the greatest leaders win without having to fight. Solomon’s sarcastic remark about cutting the baby in half was an example of one tactic for conflict resolution. As was Jesus’ remark about ye who is without sin casting the first stone. May we continue to evolve ways of
- [Thank You So Much](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/thank-you-so-much/) - Volume 4, Issue 23 Once, in a faraway, fertile and pleasant land, there lived a king who loved his children. He had a great many wives and so he had an even greater profusion of children. He loved them so much of course he spoiled every one, remembering them by name and knowing each as
- [Gratitude Reach Units (GRUs)](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/gratitude-reach-units-grus/) - “Quality Of Life (QOL) advertising/promotion... advertising/promotion designed to trigger a feeling of appreciation or gratitude as the audience realizes that the advertiser has made a positive contribution to the quality of life, either in the advertisement/promotion itself, or in a separate event that the advertising/promotion recounts.” —Media Science Newsletter, June, 1979 Since 1979, there has
- [The Spirit of Friendship](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-spirit-of-friendship/) - Volume 4, Issue 19 And the Future of Facebook It started as a way for male college students to see the faces of the coeds so as to choose which ones to ask out on dates. Today it is as big as television in the lives of many people. In my newsletter of things to
- [How to Increase Your Luck](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-to-increase-your-luck/) - Volume 3, Issue 49 The flock of wild turkeys walks past my window facing the river, heads bobbing forward and back, through the light snow drifting down. Today, whatever guides me to decide to write about a specific thing in these posts has assigned me the subject of luck. My mind, like the snow, drifts
- [A Method of Increasing Luck, and the Sweetness of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-method-of-increasing-luck-and-the-sweetness-of-life/) - Volume 3, Issue 22 One rainy day I was driving a little too fast plus the cruise control was on. I got onto I-84 East and as I reached the highway itself I must have hit an oily patch for the next thing I knew I was going backwards Eastbound, staring straight at Eastbound traffic
- [Applying Game Theory to the Largest Questions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/applying-game-theory-to-the-largest-questions/) - Volume 3, Issue 21 Recently a great friend sent me this link and these questions: http://nyti.ms/12a3BJz NY Times: A Quantum of Solace Is time an illusion? Is there a universe, or multiverse? Finite or infinite? Will we ever know, and does it matter? All of these are interesting questions. Let’s however focus on the last
- [Can We Sense The Extremisms In Our Own Culture?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/can-we-sense-the-extremisms-in-our-own-culture/) - We are what we become used to. Having become used to something, it is taken for granted. Then we don’t notice it any more. All cultures have extremisms; that’s what makes them cultures*. A perfectly balanced culture would be, by definition, boring. There could be no drama. Who would caonvene such a culture? Not human
- [Latest Lessons from Erwin Ephron](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/latest-lessons-from-erwin-ephron/) - Volume 4, Issue 15 This last Monday I was presented with the Erwin Ephron Demystification Award by the Advertising Research Foundation. Naturally, I was tipped off in advance, and had organized my thoughts about what I would say. Bill Harvey, recipient of the first Erwin Ephron Demystification Award, with Gayle Fuguitt, CEO and President of the ARF. (On
- [Set Yourself Up To Cultivate “Aha!” Moments](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/set-yourself-up-to-cultivate-aha-moments/) - Being a creative being you are constantly having “Aha!” moments. In the Acceleritis cloud, however, like everyone else you may rarely notice your own “Aha!” moments. These insights often go by unnoticed simply because they are obvious to you and you have heard them before. However, your subconscious continues to present them to you because
- [Do Something Different this Advertising Week](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/do-something-different-this-advertising-week/) - Volume 2, Issue 25 Can You Make a Quantum Leap in Your Own Creativity? If you’re in Manhattan the first week of October, it’s likely you will be attending some of the great events that will be happening as part of Advertising Week. The one event that is totally different from all the others will
- [Can Creativity Be Induced?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/can-creativity-be-induced/) - Volume 3, Issue 38 Waves booming, the expletives of gulls as they glide like white boomerangs buzzing us, scouting for handouts. I’m sitting with Lalita at breakfast on the terrace at the Malibu Beach Inn, reading The New York Times and I come across a book review reprinted from the Financial Times of London of
- [Increasing Profits for U.S. Corporations is a Social Good](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/increasing-profits-for-u-s-corporations-is-a-social-good/) - With all our flaws, the world is a better place for having the U.S. in it. We make our share of mistakes but our intentions are always good. We are trying to help out the world as best we can. Not that we are alone in this. More and more nations every year are awakening
- [Your Bucket List for 2014](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/your-bucket-list-for-2014/) - Volume 3, Issue 44 Why have bucket lists for the rest of your life without having one for the upcoming year? Forming a strong intention to do something in 2014 that you’ve always wanted to do is so much more concrete and action-oriented than simply hoping you’ll get around to doing it someday. The probability
- [A-GRPs: Affinity Gross Rating Points](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-grps-affinity-gross-rating-points/) - What if we found out that affinity was the most powerful communications effect translating into incremental sales dollars, even more powerful than reason-why or viewer-reward? Let me back up a second and define what I’m talking about. “Affinity” is liking the brand. An ad that creates affinity — the feeling that “the brand is my
- [Come Out and Play](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/come-out-and-play/) - Volume 4, Issue 18 Being and Becoming After all the rains, nature is happy that the sun has come up brightly. The talkative birds fill the ears as one awakens. Sunlight glinting off the river helps keep the eyes closed. The birds, squirrels and chipmunks gather outside waiting for Lalita to come out of the
- [Audience Created Programming](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/audience-created-programming/) - “Another Potential Ratings ‘Secret Weapon’: Recruit Your Audience To Do Your Programming. Then they will tune in to see themselves, and get as many other people as possible to watch... Sounds homey and unglamorous, but so are most communities and most people. Its track record proves that this method yields more rating points per production
- [Anti-Terrorism Critical Success Factors: Propaganda (AKA Communication) and Morale](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/anti-terrorism-critical-success-factors-propaganda-aka-communication-and-morale/) - Volume 4, Issue 30 Propaganda (my stipulated definition) is any attempt to influence by any means — a very broad definition including advertising, much of marketing, packaging, and even product and service design. The advertising business received many high-ranking former OSS (the CIA of the time) officers, indicating the existing two-way street between these disciplines.
- [Agencies to Become a Major Factor in Television Production Again](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/agencies-to-become-a-major-factor-in-television-production-again/) - "Rx for Agencies [excerpt] Create programming designed as the optimal environment for the specific client. Agencies should bring programming to their clients which utilizes the new more efficient production technologies. These will include… programs with fully integrated cast presenter commercials and product placement, and subtler forms. This again is an integration function and one which
- [President Clinton and the Propaganda Industry](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/president-clinton-and-the-propaganda-industry/) - Volume 2, Issue 14 During WWII the U.S. military and paramilitary evolved the attitude scales that have become the persuasion metrics of the advertising industry. What was to become the CIA was then called the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and at the end of the war some of its prominent members migrated into the
- [Fun Was Had at the ARF Creativity Playshop](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/fun-was-had-at-the-arf-creativity-playshop/) - Volume 2, Issue 28 Of course I had fun. I always have fun presenting and this was so experimental — imagine media researchers, at least one copywriter, and other marketing people meditating together as part of an industry event — I felt like a kid again. Co-presenter and Playshop co-creator Richard Zackon and I alternated
- [Setting the Mood for Conflict Resolution](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/setting-the-mood-for-conflict-resolution/) - Volume 2, Issue 39 With Better Data and Analytics for World Class Solutions Two posts ago for the first time in this blog’s history, I retracted an idea from the article within 24 hours of its posting. In a quick series of blunt emails a dear friend thoroughly convinced me that even raising the possibility of
- [A Li’l Christmas Story](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-lil-christmas-story/) - Volume 4, Issue 41 Lou was in a depressed state and trying without success to hide it from Angie. She assumed he was mad at her or tired of her. It was starting off to be a very bad Christmas. He didn’t know why he found it hard to smile so he hid out for
- [What Is the Meaning of Life?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-the-meaning-of-life/) - Volume 3, Issue 36 When I was younger, I would ask this question whenever anyone, even a tour guide in a museum, asked me if I had any more questions. Internally, it’s the question I asked myself multiple times a day all my life until I felt sure of the answer, which occurred sometime in
- [Probability of Winning Is Proportional to Acceptance of Losing](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/probability-of-winning-is-proportional-to-acceptance-of-losing/) - Volume 2, Issue 16 Sharing techniques to attain and maintain Observer and Flow (Zone) states, in earlier posts we described the Yerkes Dodson Law and explained why we perform best when our motivational arousal is moderate rather than extreme, and why ancient Greek and Indian philosophies esteemed nonattachment which we redefined as “losability” the mental/emotional
- [Win/Win Is the First “Rule”](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/winwin-is-the-first-rule/) - Volume 2, Issue 24 So many writers have impressed me with at least one thing, if not everything, they said. Crowley for example in Liber Aleph makes the point that there are no rules, just principles to balance in every given situation. Yet probably just a few principles come closest to being rules that apply
- [Plenty of Time for the Human Race to Wake Up](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/plenty-of-time-for-the-human-race-to-wake-up/) - Assuming that our theory is correct, the human race is currently in the grips of an Emergency Oversimplification procedure (EOP). This is a worldwide disease of the mind that we don’t know that we all have. It started no more than about 6000 years ago when written language revolutionized our lives, kicking off inventions, weapons,
- [Recall the Moments When You Shined](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/recall-the-moments-when-you-shined/) - Not for ego gratification, but to be that You on command We’ve got to start taking daily vacations. Not only is that what life is all about — what it is meant to be every second of every day — but on top of that, we then give far better service to each other. Emotion
- [Continuing Praise for David Brooks at ARF, and Holosentience](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/continuing-praise-for-david-brooks-at-arf-and-holosentience/) - I’ve long been bemused by the fact that some people really love my book FREEING CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS, while others seem to stare at it uncomprehendingly, not knowing what category to put it in. I myself have struggled to put the book in a category since there were no other books in that category. Or, at
- [Resiliency, Situational Awareness, Mission, and Positive Emotion](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/resiliency-situational-awareness-mission-and-positive-emotion/) - Volume 4, Issue 14 The word “resiliency” has risen in usage within the U.S. military. It means the ability to quickly spring back from traumatizing experiences and function at Flow state levels. This connotes a degree of toughness, mental toughness. A physical weakling with low resistance to pain might nevertheless have enough mental toughness to
- [Smell the Sweetness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/smell-the-sweetness/) - Volume 4, Issue 22 Annie was moving fast. She always moved fast. She did everything fast. She even laughed fast, and then quickly moved on to the next thing. She whisked through the garden doing the necessary watering without noticing the sweet fragrance of new-mown grass and wildflowers. The softly scented breeze on her bare
- [Happy Anniversary World](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/happy-anniversary-world/) - Volume 4, Issue 20 Today is our 12th wedding anniversary. On the satellite radio Matt Monro sings Tony Newley’s song, On a Wonderful Day like Today, “May I take this occasion to say that the whole human race should go down on its knees, show that we’re grateful for mornings like these…” Zohreh the cat
- [What the World Needs Now](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-the-world-needs-now/) - Volume 4, Issue 17 Happy Independence Day! The answer is always the same — “Love, sweet love.” Hal David’s lyrics to the Burt Bachrach score. Reverberating in John Lennon’s “All You Need Is Love” a couple years later. Yet at almost all times in memory there have been huge groups of people so angry at
- [A Possible Explanation for Dark Energy and Dark Matter](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-possible-explanation-for-dark-energy-and-dark-matter/) - Volume 4, Issue 15 I’m sitting in the outdoor roof bar of New York’s Catch restaurant down in the meat packing district. The incessant heavy metal beat of the Muzak is almost drowned out by the traffic sounds below and the murmurs of voices from the adjacent inside bar. A cool breeze beats the heat
- [Inner Imagery Shorthand to Reinstate Flow](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/inner-imagery-shorthand-to-reinstate-flow/) - Volume 4, Issue 14 Five hours in an airport. It’s a great way to catch up on work and then relax with a novel of speculative fiction, especially when I’m exhausted. It’s all okay until they start the delaying-the-flight game, which all too often leads to cancellation. Kristin isn’t working (on my clock) but has
- [The Unified Level of Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-unified-level-of-flow-state/) - Volume 4, Issue 11 On this, one of the first springtime days, finally, I was able to clamber through the woods to the stream and meditate in Nature. Back at the house, a horde of tiny yellow birds flood the side deck feasting on the thistle seeds we put out for them. We’ve been exploring
- [The Precognition Level of Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-precognition-level-of-flow-state/) - Volume 4, Issue 10 Driving back from the inn where we held our Human Effectiveness Institute Spring Meeting I check out the baby black cows dotting the broad rolling field to my left. Grazing nearby, their mommies tower over them, the babies being the size of small dogs. I imagine holding one of the baby
- [The Cognition Level of Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-cognition-level-of-flow-state/) - Volume 4, Issue 9 We’ve devoted each of our most recent posts to describing a different level of higher consciousness, working our way up the scale higher and higher. We skipped over the seven lowest levels of consciousness, the ones in which most of the human race has spent most of its time during this
- [The Flow State of Bliss](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-flow-state-of-bliss/) - Volume 4, Issue 8 In this most recent series of blog posts we are reviewing the highest levels of consciousness above the divided levels in which most of us live most of the time. Two posts ago we discussed the three Observer states and in the most recent post we covered the first of the
- [The Flow State of Action](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-flow-state-of-action/) - Volume 4, Issue 7 Below the Observer state, we are like a computer that has one of the keys on its keyboard stuck down. A state of distraction and internal division exists. This is the state that most of the human race finds itself in, in the average second, in 2014. Our level of consciousness
- [Invisible Emanations from Your Navel](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/invisible-emanations-from-your-navel/) - (A useful mental construct?) Volume 4, Issue 6 At stages of the Flow state one becomes able to sense in uncanny ways. For thousands of years people from one end of the world to the other — people with remarkable achievements and qualities — have reported actually seeing other subtle energy bodies within our physical
- [Forgive the Universe for Having Hurt You](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/forgive-the-universe-for-having-hurt-you/) - Volume 4, Issue 5 The Universe is trying to bring out the best and highest in each of us — motivated selfishly by the fact it IS us. So for the corrective feedback we get, we will eventually be grateful. We will get to a place where we can see the Big Picture. If it
- [The L-Offense in the Room](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-l-offense-in-the-room/) - Volume 4, Issue 4 Caring too much about something makes you unrealistic, distorts your judgment. Stuff you would easily and correctly get instantly, now you’re unsure about because you care too much. You either are too optimistic or too pessimistic or somehow both at the same time or they flip-flop. Your degree of caring interferes
- [Truce Talks at the Border Between Science and the Spiritual](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/truce-talks-at-the-border-between-science-and-the-spiritual/) - Volume 4, Issue 3 As science releases its restrictive thinking clamps, what then remains if anything of the supposed war between science and religion? In our last conversation here, I explained that I see the “spiritual” as being historically the same domain as all inner experience, the same as consciousness. In my view our race
- [We Suddenly Know What Heaven We’re In](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/we-suddenly-know-what-heaven-were-in/) - Volume 4, Issue 2 In his song “Begin the Beguine”, Cole Porter describes that miraculous moment in time when you really experience being in a heavenly realm, even though you are still on Earth. It is one of the higher levels of the Flow state. Lovers can sometimes shift into that place together, as if
- [Your Unconscious Is in Control](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/your-unconscious-is-in-control/) - That much Science and I can agree upon Volume 4, Issue 1 I think now that I might have been borderline autistic. The stage performances, and Ned and Sandy’s social behavior coaching, eventually got me to a place where I could hang out with people. Hanging out led to ultimately receiving data from my mirror
- [Do What You Want, and Take It to the People](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/do-what-you-want-and-take-it-to-the-people/) - Volume 3, Issue 51 Kids setting out in life are best advised to have a two-level plan: the longterm plan to do only what they want and get paid enough for it, and the immediate plan of having a job in a field that pertains to that longterm goal. First of course they have to
- [What Is Humor?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-humor/) - Volume 3, Issue 50 Like life itself, and consciousness, love, oneness, even Flow state, and so many other things we take for granted just because of long familiarity, have you ever stopped to wonder what is this weird sound-and-breath spasm thing we do sometimes? Laughing, I mean. What is that? Feelings are one of the
- [A Whole Different and at Least Equally Valid Way of Looking at Things](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-whole-different-and-at-least-equally-valid-way-of-looking-at-things/) - Volume 3, Issue 48 The peachy-purple-gold sunset reflects with pink iridescence on the wet sand where the sea recedes from its last sally onto the beach. Soundlessly a squadron of hunting pelicans glides past my writing hand. These two-day escapes to Malibu reinvigorate my excitement at life. Simply clearing the decks of one’s mind and
- [Answering Any Question](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/answering-any-question/) - Volume 3, Issue 47 To continue what we’ve been saying about the alone space you need each day, one of the things you can do, if you really feel like it, is to play a game where you practice Flowing. Discrimination is a function that comes into play at a micro level of our moment-to-moment
- [Cultivating Your Own Enjoyment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/cultivating-your-own-enjoyment/) - Volume 3, Issue 46 The sky has never been a sharper blue before, it seems, as I stand in the subzero temperature looking at the frozen river. The hopping birds flocking the feeders seem at home in the snow, even sitting in it. Multiply layered and not cold at all I sense my own enjoyment
- [Inquire of your Feelings and Motivations](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/inquire-of-your-feelings-and-motivations/) - Volume 3, Issue 45 Raoul’s face showed no change, while inside he suddenly seethed with impatient anger at his spouse, whom he saw as going off onto a long negative diatribe tape he had heard too many times before without ever saying a word to her about it. Feelings are expressions of motivation — your
- [The Beneficial Effects of Achieving Mind Reopenability](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-beneficial-effects-of-achieving-mind-reopenability/) - Volume 3, Issue 42 Gaining the yogic power to control what are now self-propelled functions within your being is an end in itself. The point of this little story is not aimed at reopening your mind for the purpose of flooding it with my ideas. When you gain mastery over any previously involuntary aspect of
- [You Are Much More Exciting Than Any Character in a Movie](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/you-are-much-more-exciting-than-any-character-in-a-movie/) - Volume 3, Issue 42 This is only true if my theory is correct, that all that exists is one consciousness, a computerlike yet living entity, capable of self-metaprogramming, that is living through you right now. If my theory is correct, this is who you really are. Looked at that way, the reason you are more
- [Optimizing Startups in the Game of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/optimizing-startups-in-the-game-of-life/) - Volume 3, Issue 41 Before launching into this week’s post, I want to share details of the memorial for our esteemed and fabled colleague, Erwin Ephron — a legend in his own time. Erwin Ephron Tribute A memorial celebrating the life of Erwin Ephron will be held 5:30 pm on Dec. 5 at Simulmedia’s offices at 670
- [The Game of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-game-of-life/) - Volume 3, Issue 40 In my Cosmopoly, a game form of my cosmology, we seek to mirror the intuited Self having all these lives, including the life through us as an individual. To the Self it is just a game and since we are the Self why don’t we just wake up to our true
- [Useful Transcendence Techniques in Mental Wrestling](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/useful-transcendence-techniques-in-mental-wrestling/) - Volume 3, Issue 37 Fluttering saffron leaves wave at me through all the windows that surround. It is another ecstatic autumn day here in the Hudson Valley. Inside the house, décor projections of Lalita’s beauty catch my eye as I sit to write to you. The subject as always is living in the Flow state
- [What Is Death?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-death/) - Volume 3, Issue 35 A great man passed away the other day. Joseph Lambert served his country in Vietnam, never flinching from the dirtiest jobs to protect others from having to do them. It was possibly the latent effects of Agent Orange in which he was once hip deep that ultimately took him. Unbeknownst of
- [U.S. Shutdown and Showing the World What We Are Made Of](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/u-s-shutdown-and-showing-the-world-what-we-are-made-of/) - Volume 3, Issue 34 Although there have been 17 shutdowns since 1977, this is only the second time in our history that Congress has threatened not to raise the debt ceiling, which would result in a potential default or at least slowdown on paying U.S. debts and could occur as soon as October 17. We
- [Savor the Moment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/savor-the-moment/) - Volume 3, Issue 32 It’s true that all we have is this moment, the Now. The past and future are concepts, abstractions, ways the brain has of organizing experience so it seems to make sense. What is always real is the Now. To the extent that our attention is divided into the Now, the past
- [Atonement](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/atonement/) - Volume 3, Issue 31 Writing this on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in the Jewish religion. The day to atone for one’s shortfalls, forgive oneself for them, forgive everyone for whom one is still carrying a grudge. A perfect Jew, which I am not, would probably not be writing on this day. My friend
- [“Your Last Day on Earth” Lens](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/your-last-day-on-earth-lens/) - Volume 3, Issue 30 Whether we realize it or not, we are always managing our Selves. I’m capitalizing the word “Self” (and variants) for emphasis — to draw attention to the concept of Self, which may be of greater significance than any other concept in any language. To meditate on the Self and to penetrate
- [Shifting the Focus of Emotional Intensity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/shifting-the-focus-of-emotional-intensity/) - Volume 3, Issue 29 We are emotional beings. We are hardwired to have some emotional drama going on in the background at all times. Getting into the Zone aka Flow state requires awareness and management of that background emotional mood. If we are not proactively programming it, it will program itself. After a long series
- [Not Problems, Think of Them as Challenges](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/not-problems-think-of-them-as-challenges/) - Volume 3, Issue 28 The way the Game works is that the One Self living through each of us assigns optimal challenges to evolve each mini-self based on the Mission chosen to be embodied in that mini-self. At least that’s how I see the Game. The One Self I am sure has heard this old
- [Positive Thinking and Mindfulness Merged Method](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/positive-thinking-and-mindfulness-merged-method/) - Volume 3, Issue 27 In my theory of everything, we are all one Self. The consciousness of the universe is a single processor so intelligent it can pay attention while looking out through all our eyes at once. Whether or not my theory is right, it has certain benefits as a working hypothesis, or lens.
- [What’s Your Kryptonite?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/whats-your-kryptonite/) - Volume 3, Issue 26 Who among us does not sometimes hold himself/herself to an excessively high standard, like playing Iron Man or Superwoman? Believing one’s own press releases, as they say in showbiz? A client recently said he wanted to be more like me — always smiling, always happy, able to leap tall challenges in
- [Making Major Strategic Moves Each Day](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/making-major-strategic-moves-each-day/) - By Prioritizing Mental State over the To-Do List Volume 3, Issue 25 Seize the day! Why not make major strategic moves each day? Sometimes what serves as the day’s strategic move is an insight that is invisible externally, yet makes you feel good about the day. Imagine yourself throbbing with impulse to creatively leverage the
- [What Is Mindfulness?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-mindfulness/) - Volume 3, Issue 24 In the prior post we made the point that better decision-making and higher performance in the end reduce to two main drivers, Positive Thinking and Mindfulness. Positive Thinking, which we also call Solution Orientation, is easier said than done, and we pointed to our book Mind Magic as a compendium of
- [Positive Thinking + Mindfulness = Mind Magic](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/positive-thinking-mindfulness-mind-magic/) - Volume 3, Issue 23 People are always saying to me, “Bill, you’re one of the most positive people around.” While I take it as a high compliment, I am always thinking “How do I convey that positive thinking is not enough?” Positive thinking is one of the cornerstones of success, Zone level performance, ability to
- [The Future Evolution of Marketing/Media Research](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-future-evolution-of-marketingmedia-research/) - What will happen next in the advertising industry’s important research wing? Where is it all going? What will be the face of advertising/media/BI (Business Intelligence) research in 2015? First, the drivers: Decision makers want speed They want answers to burning questions that specify the recommended decision with compelling rationale – so their job of taking
- [Not Doing Can Be an Exquisite State of Being](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/not-doing-can-be-an-exquisite-state-of-being/) - Volume 3, Issue 18 In the prior post we offered an exercise and a discussion about the merits of balancing “doing” with “not doing” in one’s life. The object as always is greater effectiveness in one’s life, achieving emotional and higher goals on all fronts including love, creativity, and ultimately spiritual fullness. Our definition of
- [Doing Is Just One Way of Being](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/doing-is-just-one-way-of-being/) - Volume 3, Issue 17 Effectiveness peaks in Flow state when the mind/body duality collapses and everything is One — the Zone. One of the obstacles to this condition is the predisposition that one must always be doing something. This “Doing” hidden assumption has deep roots: the Work Ethic and industriousness virtue we were taught, the
- [Humanists May Not Be Using All of Their Powers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/humanists-may-not-be-using-all-of-their-powers/) - Volume 3, Issue 16 Humanism is a wonderful thing. As a teenager I came to the conclusion that people’s decisions reflect not only pragmatism and ethics but also one’s aesthetics. Based on all three sets of criteria, pragmatic (getting the job done), ethical (doing so with least harm and most gain to all), and aesthetic
- [Humanism and the Conscious Universe: Impacts on Decision Making](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/humanism-and-the-conscious-universe-impacts-on-decision-making/) - Volume 3, Issue 15 In our last post we began to clarify the main themes of this blog and their inter-relationships. Ultimately our purpose is to help you make better decisions and to spend more time in the more effective states of consciousness where better decision making happens automatically. How does our Theory of the
- [What Does the Nature of Reality Have to Do with Decision Making? What Does Either One Have to Do with Flow State/Zone?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-does-the-nature-of-reality-have-to-do-with-decision-making-what-does-either-one-have-to-do-with-flow-statezone/) - Volume 3, Issue 14 In other words, how do these themes of our blog fit together? Why are they necessary to complete the mission of The Human Effectiveness Institute, whose charter is to improve human decision making? And how can understanding these linkages improve your decision making in business and in life? In answering this,
- [Flow Goes Mainstream](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/flow-goes-mainstream/) - Volume 3, Issue 6 March 18-20, 2013 — the Advertising Research Foundation Re:THINK 2013 program sports a lunchtime speaker, Steven Kotler, two days in a row on the subject of Flow state (the Zone) and how to instill it in business. Bravo! (See Review next issue.) I’d like to think that my blogs on Flow,
- [Bring a Sense of the Epic into Your Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/bring-a-sense-of-the-epic-into-your-life/) - Volume 3, Issue 11 Science can no longer rule out the possibility that a Single Universal Intelligence is the only thing that exists, per our Theory of the Conscious Universe. Our theory explains how this Intelligence is able to simultaneously play an infinite number of chess games called lives. The You who looks out your
- [ If You’re Not Getting Enough Pleasure out of Your Life, You’ve Got to Fix That](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-youre-not-getting-enough-pleasure-out-of-your-life-youve-got-to-fix-that/) - Volume 3, Issue 12 No one else is going to do it for you. All that exists is the Now, so you can’t be putting off fun to some hoped-for future. If you’re not getting it right now, this very day, you’re not playing to win at the game of life; you’re trapping yourself in
- [Going Through the Worst to Get to the Best](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/going-through-the-worst-to-get-to-the-best/) - Volume 3, Issue 10 The two biggest blocks to the Zone/Flow state are distraction and attachment. Attachment is also the only block to happiness, joy, delight, fun, ananda (from Hinduism, Buddhism, Extreme happiness, one of the highest states of being.) — the natural (built-in) target state of all experiencers. An experiencer is any entity that
- [Flow State — How Can I Know It Will Work for Me?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/flow-state-how-can-i-know-it-will-work-for-me/) - Volume 3, Issue 8 In the last episode about the recent ARF Re:THINK 2013 conference, I left off at the point where Bob Barocci was about to relate a conversation with Steven Kotler, a thinker and writer on Flow state (in other words, another “me” :-D who was twice on the conference docket as luncheon
- [The Flow Genome Project](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-flow-genome-project/) - Volume 3, Issue 7 At ARF’s Re:THINK 2013, Steven Kotler was the luncheon speaker on two days, the second time accompanied by his colleagues Jamie Wheal and Dave Stanton in the Flow Genome Project, which is aimed at helping us become a race of “supermen” through a scientific understanding of what Flow is and how
- [When a Man Loves a Woman](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/when-a-man-loves-a-woman/) - Volume 2, Issue 43 “He’d give up all his comforts, sleep out in the rain If that’s the way she said it ought to be”—from Percy Sledge’s Grammy Hall of Fame song He had magically met and married the woman of his dreams. She was the same as he was in so many ways. Both devoted
- [Rediscovering that Ancient Territory: Your Own Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/rediscovering-that-ancient-territory-your-own-mind/) - Volume 2, Issue 33 All of us are naturally curious about our own selves. When someone who knew us when, someone older than ourselves, tells us a story about something we did when we were too young to remember it, we are raptly attentive. If it were not for the culturally ubiquitous time pressure, we
- [Entering and Sustaining Flow by How Much of the Mind Is Cooperating At One Time II](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-and-sustaining-flow-by-how-much-of-the-mind-is-cooperating-at-one-time-ii/) - Volume 3, Issue 5 This continues the conversation we started last week on the oneness of being in the Flow state. We were talking about mindfulness, which Buddha combined with comprehension as the desired end state. Yet as reported in earlier posts, Zen Buddhists do not esteem mindfulness, which as a term they associate with
- [Entering and Sustaining Flow by How Much of the Mind Is Cooperating at One Time](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-and-sustaining-flow-by-how-much-of-the-mind-is-cooperating-at-one-time/) - Volume 3, Issue 4 Continuing our theme of recent posts, we are contemplating and “unpacking” Buddha’s root notion that mindfulness plus comprehension is the one route to true human happiness. And we are relating that notion to our theory of Holosentience, wherein the brain and mind operate most perfectly and effectively when the sentience, or
- [Entering Flow State by Casting Your Net](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-flow-state-by-casting-your-net/) - Volume 3, Issue 3 To recap this series of posts, instructions on entering the Zone willfully, the model posits three states of consciousness, EOP, Observer and Flow, each one driven by the manner in which attention is deployed. We have seen how the koan operates as catalyst between Observer and Flow. In this post, another
- [Entering Flow State by Koan](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-flow-state-by-koan/) - Volume 3, Issue 2 Continuing on our theme from the prior post, we are sharing nuances of mind that can act as triggers to two successively higher states of consciousness, Observer and Flow. The assumption is that one is presently in what is known here in the West as “normal waking consciousness”, what we call
- [Entering Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-flow-state/) - Volume 3, Issue 1 An Elegant Bargain In the prior post we were talking about mindfulness. The Buddha said that a life of true happiness will be led once one has settled into a permanent state of mindfulness and comprehension. Note that the comprehension part typically requires certain life experiences that expand mindfulness into more
- [Optimized Mindfulness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/optimized-mindfulness/) - Volume 2, Issue 44 The usage of the word “mindfulness” is increasing rapidly, in connection with the benefits of meditation and the cultivation of emotional intelligence. Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson are among those who have popularized this useful word. There are two basic kinds of meditation: deep relaxation that uses the breath, mantra, japa
- [Each of Us Is Many People, yet There Is Only One of You](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/each-of-us-is-many-people-yet-there-is-only-one-of-you/) - Volume 2, Issue 42 Is this oxymoronic? Or if not, then what am I talking about? In You Are The Universe, which will be out in the Spring, I explain my Theory of the Conscious Universe in simple terms. The theory is not speculation but science, given my definition of science being its verifiability. This
- [What Can Be Done When You Are Experiencing Emotions You Don’t Want?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-can-be-done-when-you-are-experiencing-emotions-you-dont-want/) - Volume 2, Issue 41 Such as when you are unhappy, anxious, scared, feeling guilty, mad at yourself, ashamed, bored, depressed, or not enjoying simply being alive and who you are? Measured against the alternative, just being alive is an amazing opportunity one must logically be grateful for, except perhaps during rare cases such as physical
- [The “Not Petty” Filter](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-not-petty-filter/) - Volume 2, Issue 35 Letting Stuff Go By In the barrage of incoming stimuli you have a choice which pieces to respond to in some way and which pieces to let fly by. This is an opportunity to practice Observer state. In Observer state, attention is deployed both internally and externally at the same time,
- [How to Tune the Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-to-tune-the-mind/) - Volume 2, Issue 34 In my theory of Holosentience, neuron clusters are formed by experiences both assimilated and non-assimilated. The non-assimilated experiences generate cascades of ego-protective distortions in the perceptual/feeling lens of consciousness. The energy in this endless waterfall of Emergency Oversimplification Procedure (where reality distortion becomes the feedback control loop to maintain self-comfort) draws
- [Extending Stay in Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/extending-stay-in-flow-state/) - Volume 2, Issue 32 Flow state aka the Zone is when you are functioning perfectly without effort. Everything is flowing along as if doing itself and the reaction at large to your performance is ideal. When you are there, what often happens is that you let out the clutch a little bit too far on
- [What is it that is tearing us apart? MONEY!?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-it-that-is-tearing-us-apart-money/) - Volume 2, Issue 31 At least it isn’t anything important like hatred — there’s still hope for us then. Obviously money is what has brought the two major political parties into greater animus than I can ever remember existing before. The Republican Party insists it will not back legislation that adds any tax burden to
- [Now Is the Time to Heal the Rift in America through Creativity in Compromise](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/now-is-the-time-to-heal-the-rift-in-america-through-creativity-in-compromise/) - Volume 2, Issue 30 The election is over and Obama has a second term. Both parties’ base constituencies came out to vote, signifying high motivation that their side must win, which means a lot of people feel they have lost. Some of these people are not going to agree to bring the country back together,
- [A Certain Dislocation in Time](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-certain-dislocation-in-time/) - Volume 2, Issue 29 Flow state is within our reach at any moment. Think for a second how small your average challenge is at any given moment in time. Mostly you are not overmatched — if anything there is too little challenge at any given moment to evoke Flow. As Czikszentmihalyi taught us all, Flow
- [Next Time, Let’s Replace Black Box Debates — Four Out-of-the- Box Ideas ](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/next-time-lets-replace-black-box-debates-four-out-of-the-box-ideas/) - Volume 2, Issue 29 The presidential debates may give us some further insight into the individuals but they tell us nothing really about any plans the candidates and their parties might have. The possibility exists that there might exist only the most superficially developed plans. In this scientific age of computer models — intensive research
- [Mr. P was given six months to live](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mr-p-was-given-six-months-to-live/) - Volume 2, Issue 27 When he heard this, his mind immediately accelerated. In the space of a breath before saying anything to the doctor, he experienced: A seemingly irrelevant thought about his rival at work; Realization that he no longer cared a whit about that rivalry, in light of his new fate; Insight that the
- [Where Does Value Reside?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/where-does-value-reside/) - Volume 2, Issue 23 I had the pleasure recently of attending the Summer Board meeting of MASB, the Marketing Accountability Standards Board created by Meg Blair. Top marketing people from some of the largest advertisers met with world leaders in the business of estimating value of companies and their brands, to discuss the linking of
- [Antidoting Toxible People](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/antidoting-toxible-people/) - Volume 2, Issue 22 We hear the expression “toxic people” and think: there are no toxic people, but there are people whom we allow to be toxic to ourselves. So rather than being toxic they are merely toxible. They would not be toxic to us if we knew how to handle the experience of them.
- [Rooting Out Hidden Fear](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/rooting-out-hidden-fear/) - Volume 2, Issue 21 Negative emotion and Flow state cannot happen simultaneously within a person. If the objective is Flow state, the ecstasy of simply being, with freedom in place of fear, then to thine own self be true and use the Observer state to root out things you are hiding even from yourself, and
- [In the First Waking Moments, Remember Observer State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/in-the-first-waking-moments-remember-observer-state/) - Volume 2, Issue 20 Observer state is a mindset in which you are not so caught in the process of your own emotions, and thus you are able to also simultaneously observe and analyze them somewhat impassively. This is a lens you sometimes find yourself wearing which makes you more effective and creative at changing
- [Bringing On the Observer State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/bringing-on-the-observer-state/) - Volume 2, Issue 19 As we wrote in the last post, the best strategy for getting into the Zone is to start by slipping into the far more easily achieved Observer state. Doing anything to master oneself cognitively and/or emotionally involves mental trickery of the culturally-induced false self we call the ego. I prefer the
- [Heroes Outnumber Emotionally-Damaged Evildoers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/heroes-outnumber-emotionally-damaged-evildoers/) - Volume 2, Issue 18 What is it about the beautiful state of Colorado that explains first Columbine and now Aurora? The cowboys and today’s anarchistic militias, fiercely independent, have been associated with the Western frontier that started over 400 years ago in New England and then rolled out across the Rockies to the Pacific shore.
- [The Importance of Observer State in Relation to the Zone](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-importance-of-observer-state-in-relation-to-the-zone/) - Volume 2, Issue 17 We all love to see people performing in the Zone. The Olympics is only one of the more obvious proofs of this. Actors, musicians, singers, athletes — these people are the focus of a large proportion of our time spent in conversation, especially athletes. We tacitly assume it’s just because we’re
- [Gaining Conscious Control over Involuntary Reactions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/gaining-conscious-control-over-involuntary-reactions/) - In this post we will begin to share what have been considered esoteric secrets by hidden schools for thousands of years. Today they would be classified as methods of applied cognitive psychology. For thousands of years, mystery schools have existed at the core of each religion, where the religion at large is a diluted, simplified
- [The Role of Attention in the Zone](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-role-of-attention-in-the-zone/) - Volume 2, Issue 15 Our nonprofit organization,The Human Effectiveness Institute, may be unique among nonprofit foundations in providing people with heuristics specifically designed to increase individual experience of the Observer and Flow (Zone) states of consciousness. Books that contain ancient scriptural texts from India, and other psychotechnologies derived from these teachings or rediscovered experientially, also
- [Being Amused by the Accelereality Comedy of Errors](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/being-amused-by-the-accelereality-comedy-of-errors/) - Volume 2, Issue 12 Have you experienced being in a meeting where someone shoots down your idea dismissively and then presents a longwindedly crude expression of the same idea, without seeing that it is the same idea? Have you pitched something to a company that is so clearly what they need, and then have them
- [The Force Is Conscious](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-force-is-conscious/) - Volume 2, Issue 11 In his inspired space epic film series Star Wars, George Lucas postulates a religion based on the notion that a single Force pervades all of spacetime, and can be used by adepts in combat and other situations. It imparts powers of telekinesis (the ability to move matter with the mind), prescience/precognition
- [What Is A Friend?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/what-is-a-friend/) - Volume 2, Issue 10 Being a friend to everyone is conducive to the Zone Flow state, aka the Zone, is behind the purpose of The Human Effectiveness Institute. In last week’s post we focused on the internal maintenance of a good mood as a precursor to the autotelic (doing it for its own sake not
- [Creating Joy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/creating-joy/) - Volume 2, Issue 9 The more you enjoy yourself the more likely you are to shift into the Zone, bringing your friends with you We continue to report on behaviors we have found to be correlated with Flow state over decades of making such observations. Flow, aka the Zone, closely resembles a supernatural experience because
- [Keep Positive Emotions Focused in the Present](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/keep-positive-emotions-focused-in-the-present/) - Volume 2, Issue 8 Transmute negative emotion instantly We continue our discussion of how to get into the Zone. Gene Roddenberry was aware of the higher levels of life. He used the fictitious race of the Vulcans to demonstrate a species aware of these same higher levels, and who practiced severe control of their emotions.
- [Google Validates Psychotechnology for Business](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/google-validates-psychotechnology-for-business/) - Volume 2, Issue 6 The Human Effectiveness Institute defines psychotechnology as methods which increase human effectiveness. With the collaboration of my old friend and former brainwave research partner Dan Goleman, Google is offering its employees a seven-week course called S.I.Y. for “Search Inside Yourself”. The course is delivered by its prime creator, Chade-Meng Tan, a
- [Go for Flow in Your Métier First](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/go-for-flow-in-your-metier-first/) - Volume 2, Issue 7 Valuable lessons from two great scientists — one of the mind, the other of marketing The Human Effectiveness Institute defines Flow as the state of autotelic perfect action. It is a brain/mind state where all parts of you are in synch, and is now popularly known as the Zone. “Autotelic” means
- [Entering the Age in Which Business and The People Are On The Same Side](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/entering-the-age-in-which-business-and-the-people-are-on-the-same-side/) - Volume 2, Issue 5I first met Bob Herbold (see www.bobherbold.com) when he was at P&G, before he went on to be COO of Microsoft where he’s credited with a fourfold increase in revenue and a sevenfold increase in EBITDA. Last week I got to reconnect with Bob by phone and as in all my conversations with him
- [The Total Ineffectiveness of Negative Moods](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-total-ineffectiveness-of-negative-moods/) - Volume 2, Issue 4 Our motivations are the original rock that starts an avalanche. Motivations turn into goals, and then cascade into emotions that flare negative or positive when events/people are perceived to interfere with or enable us in reaching our goals. This all happens whether we are aware of any of it or not.
- [Choosing Your Lens at Will](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/choosing-your-lens-at-will/) - Science in all its amazing advances still admits it does not know the ultimate truths of our existence — who we are, why we are here, what reality is. In place of this knowing some choose faith as one lens e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, et al. Even though perhaps attending a specific church, many
- [A Founding Father Reincarnates](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-founding-father-reincarnates/) - What If? Consider this post to be metaphorical rather than something we are proposing is possible. Of course, neither is it impossible, based on the current state of science. Picture a day like all days, one day in the near future, say around the start of election season. Out of the blue, there on television,
- [The Most Difficult Game on Earth](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-most-difficult-game-on-earth/) - Last week we published here the Human Effectiveness Institute’s “highly incomplete checklist” of things to do each day in 2012 to define and meet your goals for the year. One could write a book on each item in that list. For starters, here’s a drill-down on one item in the list that in a way
- [Optimizing the value of feelings in decision making](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/optimizing-the-value-of-feelings-in-decision-making/) - What are feelings? How are feelings optimized? Besides the input from the five physical senses, human consciousness receives feelings. Upcoming posts will offer experiments focused on this input stream, which you can conduct yourself. These experiments will establish whether you can achieve measurable improvements in your own effectiveness stemming from better channeling or processing of
- [America, the New World](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/america-the-new-world/) - The name America is widely believed to derive from Amerigo (Americus in Latin) Vespucci, a contemporary and eventual friend of Christopher Columbus who not only explored unknown regions of the “New World” but who also invented a system of computing exact longitude and arrived at a figure computing the earth’s equational circumference only fifty miles
- [The Eternal Fight over The Holy Land](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-eternal-fight-over-the-holy-land/) - Unlimited Productions, Inc. DESTINY'S CHILDREN Pilot Concept for a Television Drama Series Students of many nationalities at the United Nations International School (UNIS) in Manhattan are concerned about the Israel-Palestine crisis. They find themselves forming a group to do something about it. Arguments break out about what they can do, and what the solution is.
- [If You’re Not Enjoying Your Self, Something’s Wrong](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/if-you’re-not-enjoying-your-self-something’s-wrong/) - Most of the time if we are not having fun we just assume “what else is new.” This method asks you to assume differently. Assume that if you are in a bad mood or feel a negative physical symptom, this is a communication to you. The highest priority then is to decode the message and
- [David Brooks the Star of ARF AMS 6.0](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/david-brooks-the-star-of-arf-ams-6-0/) - I really enjoyed the Advertising Research Foundation’s Audience Measurement Symposium 6.0, the largest audience measurement conference in the world. I always do — and this time, with my own papers co-presented there, and David Brooks’ keynote, it was better than ever. Best-selling author and well-known columnist for The New York Times, David eloquently summarized some
- [Sarge](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/sarge/) - Oh, hi sonny, come in — good to see you — come here and sit down by the bed. Sure I remember you. What’s in a name? I remember you. Heh-heh. What’s that you say sonny? School project? Interviewing old people? Yeah I lived through it, I can tell you about it, I guess —
- [The Future Evolution of Media Research](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-future-evolution-of-media-research/) - In this posting I continue looking into the future of marketing and advertising research, today focusing on helping media decisionmakers. What will media research look like in 2015? First, the drivers: Today the strongest driver is the universal CMO/CFO mandate to move from eyeball counts to ROI This shift has to take place without incurring
- [The Bill Harvey newsletter is back](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-bill-harvey-newsletter-is-back/) - Many of you will remember and may have subscribed to the newsletter I wrote from 1979 to 2000, which predicted many of today’s media/technology trends: reality TV, audiences creating media, the proliferation of interactive screens, addressable commercials (1979), passive portable peoplemeters (1979), the privacy principles of full disclosure/consumer choice/anonymity before they became the ANA/AAAA/ARF CASIE

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- [<div align="center"><b><i>Welcome to</i> The Human Effectiveness Institute</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/) - The Mission of The Human Effectiveness Institute is to make available new tools to focus the mind, enabling higher performance. And to continue basic research.
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 24px; color: #8b2791;"><strong>THE GREAT BEING</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-great-being/) - Episode 1 of Agents of Cosmic Intelligence The 2025 Gold Award for Visionary Fiction THE GREAT BEING chronicles from the beginning of the Multiverse through Melchizedek’s teaching of Abraham. A Great Rebellion is going on in Heaven and therefore throughout the Universe, all of which is a single Mind at play—call it “Cosmic Intelligence” or
- [<div align="center"><b>AGENTS OF COSMIC INTELLIGENCE</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/agents-of-cosmic-intelligence/) - The book series by Bill Harvey, Agents of Cosmic Intelligence, is a sweeping saga that unfolds forward and backward in time to become a story of the Universe.
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 23px; color: #0553b3;"><b>A THEORY OF EVERYTHING</b></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/a-theory-of-everything/) - Emmy® Award winning author Bill Harvey draws on quotes by Albert Einstein and John Wheeler, as well as on his own unorthodox imagination, in making his case.
- [<div align="center"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>MIND MAGIC</strong><br> Reimagine your Life</span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mind-magic/) - MIND MAGIC: Doorways into Higher Consciousness is a guide to discovering who you really are beneath all the influences of other people and things in your life. What do you really want to do with the rest of your life—what will be fun and will bring out the best of you to share with the
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 23px; color: #800080;"><b>PANDEMONIUM: Live to All Devices</b></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pandemonium-live-to-all-devices/) - Agents of Cosmic Intelligence An Alternative View of History Episodes 12 & 13 In this fast-moving thriller, a heady amalgam of hidden war, psychics, Nazis, aliens, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and transcendental love takes place against a backdrop wherein the latest media technology enables sudden seismic changes in world politics. It’s Pandemonium - Live to
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 23px; color: #800080;"><strong>THE MESSAGE</span><br><span style="font-size: 21px; color: #800080;">by Bill Harvey</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-message-by-bill-harvey/) - One day every psychic on Earth receives the same message—but who sent it? The US Theta Force and the Russian Psychotronic Division both want to find them first.
- [Misrepresentation of God May Be the Greatest Sin (full article)](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/misrepresentation-of-god-may-be-the-greatest-sin-full-article/) - I’m pretty sure that none of my readers fit in the category of needing to read this column. What I’m hoping for is that you all realize what I’m trying to do and agree with the notion that if everyone who sees this column posts a link to it on social media, we could make
- [How Do We Protect Our Elections and Voting Rights At The Same Time?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-do-we-protect-our-elections-and-voting-rights-at-the-same-time-paper/) - The question of non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is a major point of public discussion. Extensive data, recent state-level audits, and nonpartisan research show that verified cases of non-citizen voting are vanishingly rare, representing a minute fraction of a percent of overall votes cast. While federal law strictly prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, a comprehensive
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 23px; color: #17078f;"><b>POWERFUL MIND 12 Simple Keys</b></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/powerful-mind-12-simple-keys/) - The next level of Bill's first book, MIND MAGIC E-Book now available on Kindle and Barnes & Noble An innovative tool for self-discovery and creative liberation. — Self Publishing Review A comprehensive guide to reclaiming mental autonomy in an age of overwhelming noise. The greatest merit of this book is its wisdom and the tools
- [About Bill Harvey](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/about/) - Bill Harvey is a world renowned media researcher who has changed the course of the media industry, and is credited with research and business process innovations.
- [Colleges That Have Used MIND MAGIC](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/colleges-that-have-used-mind-magic/) - Since MIND MAGIC was first published, many colleges and institutions have offered courses in which our book was studied. Here is a list of colleges. USA West Point Pennsylvania State University UCLA New York University State University of New York/ Albany Long Island University San Diego State University University of Missouri Washington State University San
- [YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE Imagine That](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/you-are-the-universe/) - You Are The Universe: Imagine That presents a totally new way of looking at the world. It inspires you to realize that you are a vital part of the Universe.
- [MIND MAGIC Reviews](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mind-magic-reviews/) - Reviews of MIND MAGIC 2024 review A top recommendation for self-help readers interested in not only self-examination, but keys to authenticity, better reactions and actions, and lasting transformation … Bill Harvey applies philosophical, spiritual, and psychological keys to better understanding, taking the form of succinct admonitions and advice even the busiest reader can easily absorb
- [<div align="center"><strong>THE FIRST SON</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-first-son/) - Episode 2 of Agents of Cosmic Intelligence A novel based on real events Five warrior priests, known as Agents of Cosmic Intelligence, have been sent to a far distant outpost, Earth, where the Rebel leader is training a race of humans to become ruthless fighters to aid in the takeover of the Multiverse. It is
- [<div align="center"><strong>The Great Being <br>Reviews & Reader Comments</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/the-great-being-reviews-reader-comments/)
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- [<div align="center"><b>METAPROGRAMS</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/metaprograms/) - These are very compact little bits – trigger phrases – which when remembered, somehow empower a person to be more effective in the situation confronted.
- [<div align="center"><b>SCIENCE UNDERLYING THEI</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/science-underlying-thei/) - THEI would be classified as cognitive therapy. Psychologists would see influences from practically every school of philosophy and psychology in written history.
- [<div align="center"><b>METACOGNITION</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/metacognition/) - The more one practices metacognition, making it a part of one’s life, the more one lapses into the Observer state, eventually becoming firmly established in it.
- [<div align="center"><strong>TOWARD A COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGY</strong><div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/toward-a-complete-psychology/) - The purpose of THEI is: improve human decision making by investigating how decisions are made at the most granular level, and how to improve internal processes.
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- [MIND MAGIC ADS Test 1](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/blog-banner-test-1/) - FINAL MIND MAGIC, TFS and PAN ads and links to pages with the line about Amazon Send a free sample. Click on each ad - it is linked to its unique landing page.
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: #273991;"><strong>RELIEVE ANXIETY/DEPRESSION</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mm-download-50-pages-1/) - Whether you are a high performer or strive to become one, MIND MAGIC will effortlessly rechannel your energies to clarify your life's mission and achieve it - #1
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: #273991;"><strong>HOW TO THINK BETTER </strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mm-download-50-pages-6/) - Whether you are a high performer or strive to become one, MIND MAGIC will effortlessly rechannel your energies to clarify your life's mission and achieve it - #6 #
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- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: #273991;"><strong>LEARN THE ART OF THINKING</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mm-download-50-pages-3/) - Whether you are a high performer or strive to become one, MIND MAGIC will effortlessly rechannel your energies to clarify your life's mission and achieve it - #3
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: #273991;"><strong>COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mm-download-50-pages-7/) - Whether you are a high performer or strive to become one, MIND MAGIC will effortlessly rechannel your energies to clarify your life's mission and achieve it - #7
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>The First Three Chapters of THE FIRST SON Free</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/get-the-first-son-free-preview/) - On Amazon page, click “Send a free sample “ in right column on computer, scroll down on mobile. Buy THE FIRST SON today Paperback - $19.99 also at and available on $8.99
- [<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: #273991;"><strong>ENJOY MORE PEAK EXPERIENCES </strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mm-download-50-pages-2/) - Whether you are a high performer or strive to become one, MIND MAGIC will effortlessly rechannel your energies to clarify your life's mission and achieve it - #2
- [MIND MAGIC Testimonials](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/mind-magic-testimonials/) - Over the years we have received 1000s of testimonials from people of all ages, from all walks of life, from all over the world who were moved to let us know how MIND MAGIC has worked for them. "Highly recommended... will loosen your moorings and open you to creative vistas." - Dr. Daniel Goleman, author
- [<div align="center"><strong>PANDEMONIUM <br>Reviews & Reader Comments</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pandemonium-reviews/) - Harvey continually upends reader expectations… daring to go bigger and stranger, the in-the-moment suspense connected to the mind-blowingly cosmic. Pandemonium lives up to its title, moving fast, continually raising the stakes, and never settling into predictability. The pleasures of Harvey’s sprawling novel rise from its cheerful abundance, its gush of ideas, puzzles, and even jokes…
- [Blog Banner Test 3](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/blog-banner-test-3/) - TEST EXAMPLE TEXT from You’ll Know You Are in the Flow State You’ll know you’re in the Flow state when your mind sees the futility of saying anything to itself, because words can never tell the whole truth about what you are already sensing and need no words to sense. When it first happened to
- [Blog Banner Test 2](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/blog-banner-test-2/) - Blog Banner Test 2 TEST EXAMPLE TEXT from Do What You're inspired to Do At Any Given Moment Volume 4, Issue 21 Our moment of history may be called “The Accelerolithic Era” by those living thousands of years from now who study records of our period (even if they’re Martians). Since written records began (and
- [<span style="font-size:15px;"><strong>PANDEMONIUM <em>Preview continued</em></strong></span>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pandemonium-sample/) - Shortly before dawn, he had woken up briefly but had decided to go back to sleep and catch a few more winks. He found himself dreaming of the same woman again. Sometimes she was a girl and sometimes a woman, but always with the same beautiful face. This time she was being taken away by
- [<div align="center" ><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><strong>Hi, I'm Bill Harvey.</strong></span></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pandemonium-at-local-bookstores/) - Thanks for checking out my new science fiction novel—now in these bookstores. Read the reviews and a preview of PANDEMONIUM below. I hope you enjoy it all! ~ Bill Theta Force methods were bizarre, by the Army standards Templegard knew. Tim had explained the method they were now practicing as his own interpretation of something
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- [<div align="center">PANDEMONIUM Review</div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/pandemonium-review/) - This novel, by the Emmy Award- winning media technologist Bill Harvey, is Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost transported into the mid-twenty-first century and translated into an action packed, sex filled, page-turning political thriller. Relevant even to a secular reader, it tells the story of the war for Heaven and Earth, and is a meditation on
- [Nonresponse in TV Meter Panels](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/nonresponse-in-tv-meter-panels/) - click here to view as PDF
- [When Will It Be Time To Change The TV Currency?](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/when-will-it-be-time-to-change-the-tv-currency/) - I don’t mean Nielsen. I mean the method. Nielsen is a superb research company. Luckily for the industry, there are quite a number of superb research companies in the world. They have survived and thrived on the rigorous training they have received from the industry. What has not killed them has made them better. If
- [<div align="center"><strong>TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MIND MAGIC</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/testing-the-effectiveness-of-mind-magic/) - Mind Magic provides guidance usable by the average person for achieving metacognition, a relatively detached perspective on one’s own thoughts and feelings.
- [<div align="center"><strong>HOW MIND MAGIC WORKS</strong></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/how-mind-magic-works/) - A simplified explanation A chief characteristic of the Flow State is focus. Attention is single pointed. Distractions aren't distracting. Simply reading this book automatically instills new ways of thinking which tend toward this state automatically. The mind can work in many ways. Common ways of using the mind tend to be self-defeating. Time is wasted.
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- [<div align="center"><b>Effectiveness</b></div>](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/effectiveness/) - by Bill Harvey “Effectiveness” is a word that is coming into increasing use in the advertising business – where it means a shift from relatively superstitious or “soft” measures of performance, to down-to-earth ones such as sales. In my profession as a media researcher I have come to frequently use measures of effectiveness as part
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- [Creating Joy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/creating-joy/)
- [Mindfulness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/mindfulness/)
- [Positive Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/positive-thinking/)
- [The Game Of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/the-game-of-life/)
- [The Great Being](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/the-great-being/)
- [Miscellaneous](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/miscellaneous/)
- [Creative Process](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/creative-process/)
- [The Meaning of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/the-meaning-of-life/)
- [Power of Respect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/power-of-respect/)
- [Resolutions and Intentions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/resolutions-and-intentions/)
- [Classic Bill](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/classic-bill/)
- [You Are the Universe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/you-are-the-universe/)
- [Forgiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/forgiveness/)
- [Enlightenment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/enlightenment/)
- [The First Son](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/the-first-son/)
- [Mind Magic](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/mind-magic/)
- [Cooperation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/cooperation/)
- [Diplomacy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/diplomacy/)
- [Collaboration](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/collaboration/)
- [Civility](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/civility/)
- [Metacognition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/metacognition/)
- [PANDEMONIUM](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/pandemonium/)
- [Powerful Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/powerful-mind/)
- [Emergency Oversimplification Procedure](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/emergency-oversimplification-procedure/)
- [Accidentalism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/classic-bill/accidentalism/)
- [Staying Focused](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/staying-focused/)
- [highest Good](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/highest-good/)
- [Special Edition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/special-edition/)
- [Israel](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/israel/)
- [Service](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/service/)
- [AI](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/ai/)
- [Gratitude](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/gratitude/)
- [Power of Words](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/power-of-words/)
- [Mind Experiments](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/mind-experiments/)
- [Scientific Approach to Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/category/scientific-approach-to-life/)

## Tags

- [Bill Harvey](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bill-harvey/)
- [Media Science Newsletter](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-science-newsletter/)
- [media optimization](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-optimization/)
- [ROI](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/roi/)
- [The Marketing Pulse](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-marketing-pulse/)
- [Arbitron](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/arbitron/)
- [Human Effectiveness Institute](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/human-effectiveness-institute/)
- [Freeing Creative Effectiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/freeing-creative-effectiveness/)
- [brain states](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/brain-states/)
- [media landscape](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-landscape/)
- [Arpanet](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/arpanet/)
- [Contemplation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/contemplation/)
- [Meditation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/meditation/)
- [Quantum Mechanics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/quantum-mechanics/)
- [Information Overload](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/information-overload/)
- [P300 Waves](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/p300-waves/)
- [Addressable Commercials](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/addressable-commercials/)
- [Addressable Advertising](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/addressable-advertising/)
- [Next Century Media](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/next-century-media/)
- [Privacy Solutions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/privacy-solutions/)
- [Agencies](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/agencies/)
- [New Media](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/new-media/)
- [Television Production](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/television-production/)
- [Video Content](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/video-content/)
- [Gratitude Sponsorship](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gratitude-sponsorship/)
- [Brand Affinity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/brand-affinity/)
- [Sponsorship](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/sponsorship/)
- [Commercial](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/commercial/)
- [Cause Marketing](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/cause-marketing/)
- [ARF](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/arf/)
- [Reality Television](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/reality-television/)
- [Audience](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/audience/)
- [Media Technology Revolution](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-technology-revolution/)
- [Repressed Nations](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/repressed-nations/)
- [Freedom](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/freedom/)
- [Agnes Smedley](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/agnes-smedley/)
- [Gratitude Reach Units](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gratitude-reach-units/)
- [Gratitude Marketing](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gratitude-marketing/)
- [Neuroscience](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/neuroscience/)
- [Set Top Box](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/set-top-box/)
- [Extremism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/extremism/)
- [Cultures](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/cultures/)
- [Researchers](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/researchers/)
- [Information Age](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/information-age/)
- [Privacy Protection](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/privacy-protection/)
- [Personally Identifiable Information](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/personally-identifiable-information/)
- [Anonymization](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/anonymization/)
- [ISO 27001](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/iso-27001/)
- [Media Agencies](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-agencies/)
- [Waking States](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/waking-states/)
- [Waking Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/waking-consciousness/)
- [Written Language](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/written-language/)
- [Emergency Oversimplification Procedure](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/emergency-oversimplification-procedure/)
- [Democracy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/democracy/)
- [EOP](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/eop/)
- [Online Services](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/online-services/)
- [Spiritual Ideals](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/spiritual-ideals/)
- [The Economy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-economy/)
- [Intuition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/intuition/)
- [Emotion](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/emotion/)
- [Cognitive Toolkit](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/cognitive-toolkit/)
- [David Brooks](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/david-brooks/)
- [Equipoise](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/equipoise/)
- [The Social Animal](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-social-animal/)
- [Holosentience](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/holosentience/)
- [Physics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/physics/)
- [Psychology](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/psychology/)
- [Qabala](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/qabala/)
- [Vedas](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/vedas/)
- [Neurons](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/neurons/)
- [Einstein](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/einstein/)
- [The Observer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-observer/)
- [Heisenberg](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/heisenberg/)
- [Bell's Theorem](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bells-theorem/)
- [Cell Selves](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/cell-selves/)
- [Meaning of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/meaning-of-life/)
- [Universal Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/universal-consciousness/)
- [Nirvana](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/nirvana/)
- [mental optimization](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mental-optimization-2/)
- [respect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/respect/)
- [Choices](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/choices/)
- [Options](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/options/)
- [Creative Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creative-thinking/)
- [The Observer State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-observer-state/)
- [Imagination](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/imagination/)
- [Positive Television Programming](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/positive-television-programming/)
- [Plan for America](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/plan-for-america/)
- [National Purpose](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/national-purpose/)
- [Relativity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/relativity/)
- [Mind Cleanse](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mind-cleanse/)
- [America](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/america/)
- [Game Theory](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/game-theory/)
- [Numinosity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/numinosity/)
- [Gestalting](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gestalting/)
- [Memes](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/memes/)
- [Three Historic Shocks and The Modern Trance](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/three-historic-shocks-and-the-modern-trance/)
- [Predreaming](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/predreaming/)
- [Postdreaming](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/postdreaming/)
- [Democracy and Social Media](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/democracy-and-social-media/)
- [Education and Human Potential](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/education-and-human-potential/)
- [New Money System](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/new-money-system/)
- [Enlightenment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/enlightenment/)
- [Kabbalah](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/kabbalah/)
- [Media Business](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-business/)
- [Gratitude Effect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gratitude-effect/)
- [Technological Innovation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/technological-innovation-2/)
- [Advertising Business](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/advertising-business/)
- [Technology](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/technology/)
- [Ego](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/ego/)
- [Daily Vacation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/daily-vacation/)
- [Hidden Switch](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/hidden-switch/)
- [Yerkes-Dodson Law](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/yerkes-dodson-law/)
- [ALEC](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/alec/)
- [Highest Good](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/highest-good/)
- [Robot](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/robot/)
- [Adavertising Today](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/adavertising-today/)
- [Bill Clinton](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bill-clinton/)
- [Creative Effectiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creative-effectiveness/)
- [Losability](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/losability/)
- [Value](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/value/)
- [Win/Win](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/winwin/)
- [Council for Research Excellence](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/council-for-research-excellence/)
- [Xyte](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/xyte/)
- [Bucket List](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bucket-list/)
- [Death](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/death/)
- [Wharton Advertising 2020 Project](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/wharton-advertising-2020-project/)
- [Playshop](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/playshop/)
- [Being](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/being/)
- [Creativity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creativity/)
- [Trigger Words](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/trigger-words/)
- [Effectiveness State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/effectiveness-state/)
- [Fiscal Cliff](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/fiscal-cliff/)
- [Social Security](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/social-security/)
- [Resolutions](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/resolutions/)
- [Mins Magic](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mins-magic/)
- [The Navigator](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-navigator/)
- [Mind Magic](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mind-magic/)
- [Change](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/change/)
- [Valentine](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/valentine/)
- [Zen](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/zen/)
- [Mindquiet](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mindquiet/)
- [Flow Genome Project](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/flow-genome-project/)
- [Flow](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/flow/)
- [You Are the Universe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/you-are-the-universe/)
- [Universal Intelligence](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/universal-intelligence/)
- [Accidentalism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/accidentalism/)
- [Materialism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/materialism/)
- [Ouroboros](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/ouroboros/)
- [Multitasking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/multitasking/)
- [Accidental Materialism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/accidental-materialism/)
- [Humanism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/humanism/)
- [Materialist Accidentalism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/materialist-accidentalism/)
- [Effectiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/effectiveness/)
- [Aha Moment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/aha-moment/)
- [I Ching](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/i-ching/)
- [Gratitude](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/gratitude/)
- [To-Do List](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/to-do-list/)
- [Guru Principle](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/guru-principle/)
- [Guru](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/guru/)
- [moia](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/moia/)
- [Wellness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/wellness/)
- [Higher States of Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/higher-states-of-consciousness/)
- [Higher Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/higher-self/)
- [U.S. Shutdown](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/u-s-shutdown/)
- [Obamacare](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/obamacare/)
- [Creativity in Government](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creativity-in-government/)
- [you Are the Universe: Imagine That](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/you-are-the-universe-imagine-that/)
- [Biocomputer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/biocomputer/)
- [Game of Life](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/game-of-life/)
- [One Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/one-self/)
- [Winter Solstice](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/winter-solstice/)
- [Self-Knowledge](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/self-knowledge/)
- [Automatic Writing](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/automatic-writing/)
- [Oneness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/oneness/)
- [Yoga](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/yoga/)
- [Multiverse](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/multiverse/)
- [Bliss](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bliss/)
- [Noia](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/noia/)
- [Precognition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/precognition/)
- [Liberation](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/liberation/)
- [Moksha](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/moksha/)
- [Reptilian Brain](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/reptilian-brain/)
- [Resiliency](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/resiliency/)
- [Positive Emotion](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/positive-emotion/)
- [Erwin Ephron](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/erwin-ephron/)
- [DriverTags](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/drivertags/)
- [DTag](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/dtag/)
- [Facebook](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/facebook/)
- [Accelerolithic Era](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/accelerolithic-era/)
- [Net Neutrality](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/net-neutrality/)
- [Anti-Terrorism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/anti-terrorism/)
- [ISIS](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/isis/)
- [ISIL](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/isil/)
- [Propaganda](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/propaganda/)
- [Koran](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/koran/)
- [Terrorists](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/terrorists/)
- [Creative Process](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creative-process/)
- [World Changer](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/world-changer/)
- [Agents Of Cosmic Intelligence](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/agents-of-cosmic-intelligence/)
- [Media Research](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/media-research/)
- [Psychotechnology](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/psychotechnology/)
- [Flow State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/flow-state/)
- [Conscious Universe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/conscious-universe/)
- [Consciousness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/consciousness/)
- [Acceleritis](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/acceleritis/)
- [Observer State](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/observer-state/)
- [The Zone](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-zone/)
- [Mission](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mission/)
- [Theory of the Conscious Universe](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/theory-of-the-conscious-universe/)
- [Self](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/self/)
- [Happiness Now](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/happiness-now/)
- [Creating Joy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/creating-joy/)
- [Mindfulness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mindfulness/)
- [Positive Thinking](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/positive-thinking/)
- [The Great Being](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-great-being/)
- [Anti-Poverty](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/anti-poverty/)
- [End Poverty](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/end-poverty/)
- [Pope Francis](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/pope-francis/)
- [Freedom From Fear](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/freedom-from-fear/)
- [Life Dream](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/life-dream/)
- [Power of Respect](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/power-of-respect/)
- [Positive Attitude](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/positive-attitude/)
- [Forgiveness](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/forgiveness/)
- [Winter Solstice celebration](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/winter-solstice-celebration/)
- [Memory](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/memory/)
- [Thanksgiving](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [grace](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/grace/)
- [The First Son](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/the-first-son/)
- [Metacognition](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/metacognition/)
- [Powerful Mind](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/powerful-mind/)
- [Decision making](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/decision-making/)
- [RMT](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/rmt/)
- [Executive Control Network](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/executive-control-network/)
- [Focus](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/focus/)
- [Depression](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/depression/)
- [Negativity](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/negativity/)
- [BioAI](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/bioai/)
- [Human inteeligence](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/human-inteeligence/)
- [ADHD](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/adhd/)
- [Autism](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/autism/)
- [spirituality](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/spirituality/)
- [telepathy](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/telepathy/)
- [Quantum Physics](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/quantum-physics/)
- [AI](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/ai/)
- [Courage](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/courage/)
- [Subconscious](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/subconscious/)
- [Mind Experiment](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/mind-experiment/)
- [advice](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/advice/)
- [Overload](https://www.humaneffectivenessinstitute.org/tag/overload/)