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“Losing oneself and becoming a rolebot” and how to undo this

Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
September 18, 2026

MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 9

Losing oneself and becoming a rolebot and how to undo this

People run on programs.
Programs are action patterns. For example. the way we get out of bed in the morning is an action pattern. Observe how you do it for a few days in a row, and you’ll see the pattern. The way you throw off the covers, swing your feet to the floor, how your body feels, what you think about, your mood, the people you think about, the emotions that strike you, and your attitude as you stand up, etc.

All this is an action pattern. Nothing is exactly the same from day to day, but everything stays within a relatively narrow range of variation. This is because there are now sets of interlacing programs in our biocomputers upstairs. They bring us through this action pattern daily without us having to consciously think about each move.

These automatic programs run 99% of our lives.

Of course, we all override the autopilot at times.
For example, when some potential danger snaps us into full alertness, we don’t make a move without thinking about it first. For example, when we are able to rise above “automatic-pilot” anger. For example, at moments of “peak realization”, “expanded consciousness”, or “satori”. But most of the rest of the time, although we repress knowledge of the fact religiously, we have no free will in what we do, because the body’s and mind’s movements follow conditioned paths from which deviation is improbable.

We always react to the same types of situations in the same ways. The programs go through their steps while we sleepily look on, along for the ride.

We consciously participated in creating these programs.
Some of the “autopilot” program punchcards in our heads were keypunched by our “conscious-mind-pilot”. For example, when we discovered how well we looked smiling that way, we decided offhandedly to keep doing it that way (at least at those times). Then our “conscious-mind-pilot” forgot about it.

The “autopilot” does it faithfully to this day whenever those times come up. Good “autopilot”!

On the other hand, the great preponderance of our “automatic pilot” programming appears to be of the Pavlovian variety, whereby we grew up addicted to certain shallow rewards without this being anyone’s conscious intention.

Mind Experiments

1. Watch action patterns.

  • Pick a day. On that day, from the moment you awaken, stay alert all day and watch your actions down to the smallest gesture.
  • When you seem to be observing an action pattern that appears significant to some part of your mind, ask yourself: “Why did I do that?” (Or, “Why am I doing this?”)

2. “Autopilot addictions” meditation

  • What were your mother and father “addicted” to (attached to getting or avoiding)?
  • How about your peers at school and others known to have influenced you: to what were they “addicted”?
  • To what extent do you now automatically mirror any of these addictions?

3. Meditate on the extent to which you “need” approval.

  • Whom do you “need” approval from? Why?
  • Clue: What do you work hardest at? Who would approve of you the most for working so hard at it?

Love to all,
Bill

The Independent Mind: Breaking Free from the Partisan Spell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It has become literally mass hypnosis.

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

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

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

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

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

Love to all,
Bill

A Message from The One Self of the Universe

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

Greetings my children!

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

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

Talk about an identity crisis! Just kidding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consider it my Eleventh Commandment, please.

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

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

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

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

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

Love, Your Cosmic Self

Release Your Self From the Hypnotic Power of Words

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Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created June 5, 2026

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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 in navigating through life. To give you a feel for the way the text of Mind Magic and the Mind Experiments will work together, in most of our posts starting here, we will serialize the beginning of the new edition. Hope you enjoy it!
All my best, Bill 

The Human Heritage: Word Pollution

Because words are so powerful, we tend to believe them rather than assimilate our own experiences.

Word intoxication: All words hypnotize to some ex­tent.

Where did words come from? From the depths of our soul. They were discovered inside us, not invented.

The evidence of similar-root-noises-for-similar-concepts across separated peoples, attests to this. We all discov­ered something like the noise mama for mother. Even apes apparently make similar sounds for the same concepts as we.

It is as if we were all discovering the same master lan­guage, distorted into various different directions by the effects of different genetic/environmental conditions.

Words just became important recently.

We came down out of trees over 1,000,000 generations ago. (1)

  • “Generation” = 20 years

For 999,750 of these, humans used or heard only a few words each day. Over just the last 250 generations, this has increased to tens of thousands of words going through the average human head each day.

Words have tremendous programming power.

Words are not arbitrary sounds we can choose to ignore. They are tailored by physical (pre-human interference) nature to fit our sensori-cognitive biochemistry.

Like a key in a lock: words were discovered from inside of us. They can be used by a talking head to a separate listen­ing or reading head, and when they are so used, they tend to exert a behavior-impacting influence on the listening/reading head.

When the ancients talked about spellcasting, it wasn’t just their superstitious ignorance at work. They were recogniz­ing the hypnotic power of communication, lifted to a new level by the use of words.

How do words compound the power of communica­tion?

By making it far easier for conceptualization to occur. Conceptualization is the structuring of individual percep­tion-items (percepts) stored in memory, into association-clusters with specific “relationship bonds” between per­cepts associated. Like making a tinker toy.

Your concept of freedom, for example, is a tinker toy of all of the specific words, pictures, and feelings you have stored inside, associated with the retrieval-keyword “freedom”. Until words were popularized, people tended not to build such elaborate tinkertoys in their minds. Associations among percepts tended to cluster into “attraction” and “repulsion”, without many finer breakdowns. This meant that we tended, when we wanted an effect, to repeat all of the “causes” which we associated with that effect.

This is undoubtedly how the program of throwing salt over the shoulder, the program of blessing people for sneezing, and all other “magical” programs first arose: they had happened in the “first instance” and were there­after regarded as causally essential.

Our magical phase preceded words and was pushed out by words. Words gave us the power to more easily separate things into parts. We didn’t have to conceptualize only with wholes anymore. We could put a word-label on a part of an event, to more easily trace whether or not that part always went along with the event or not.

Words appear to have kicked off a phase of developing the left lobe of the cortex, which handles data sequentially–analytically rather than holistically. When we were con­centrating on our right cortex, we were able to achieve certain effects of persuasion, “getting our way”, etc. we didn’t understand at all—but we knew they worked and we used them.

Childhood is a time through which each of us has the opportunity to re-experience the whole evolution of the race, firsthand, in microcosm. As children, we do have “magical” means of getting our way through gestures and moods that somehow work.

So, the race has always wielded a lot of right-brain power it never understood. Then it took up words, wielding vast

left-brain power, which the race also used with only faint understanding.

As words can hypnotize,

they can also dehypnotize.

Out with the bad air,

in with the good air.

Mind Experiment

  1. World without words

Imagine that words had never been invented. Catch your tongue in your mouth. Use your eyes. Breathe.

Words cannot come into your head. Those that others speak are meaningless and are whisked away before they reach your ears.

At some point, you will remember having read the above description, and although you will not remember the words, the state they describe will come over you: your mind will, for a moment, give up its attachment to words.

You will look around you and see in a new way.

Your mind will look at issues and see deeply into them—without words. In this state, remember to look at the important issues.

Whenever you are confused by a situation, go into this “world without words” state and let the situation sink in.

Love to all,
Bill