Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog.
August 21, 2026
MIND MAGIC / MIND EXPERIMENTS Book Excerpt Series: Part 5
“Too many variables” is another way of defining the root cause of today’s mass hysteria. These variables are programmed into our lives, by words and pictures and gestures, etc., via people and media and nature. Six hundred years ago, it was mostly just people and nature. And fewer people contacts per day.
Why is the increased load of sensory messages so devastating?
Because:
- We get attached to having our lives come out a certain way (sometimes we get programmed into these attachments). This sets up a “maze” for us to get through, e., what we must do to get what we want.
- We have strong emotional charges connected to these attachments.
- The more messages we hear, the more complicated we make our maze—the more conditions we try to bring about at once.
- Everybody’s mazes get tangled.
- Everything “uncopeable with” we ultimately hypnotize away.
Unresolved experiences
These tug at the mind. It is an automatic secretary function of the brain which does this. These are items the brain recognizes as relevant to goals and about which it knows more clarity will be possible. It holds these messages for us and gives us these messages in odd moments.
When these items first came in through the senses, they were “question-producing” and achieved cortical recognition, although not necessarily conscious cortical recognition. This resulted in dissonance, and the items were put on “hold.”
Now, with the brain giving us six weeks worth of messages each day, needing clear meditation and learning so that we can improve our progress through our maze, we repress all of these messages. We refuse to learn. “We haven’t got the time.” Instead, we persist in our fixed, programmed pattern: this is not a normal condition but a pandemic pathological rigid shock reaction to today’s information overload.
We plan empirical studies to confirm or disconfirm that:
- A sensory overload relative to meditation time (to assimilate those inputs) causes a shift in how information is processed: different (simplified) biocomputer logics.
- By perpetuating robot repetition of conditioned programming, these simplified logics reduce free will, powers of observation, and sensory sensitivity, and in other ways, unnecessarily hamper one in achieving lasting satisfaction from Life.
- The simplified logics are intended by Nature to be used in short bursts for coping with actual emergency threats to survival, i.e., they are an alarm.
- The pandemic problem today is the inability to turn off the ever-constant alarm reaction.
- The difficulty in functioning through this alarm reaction is that learning is suspended.Experiences that need to be assimilated are repressed.
- Meditation is the most efficient method of assimilating human experience.
The source of tension
Unresolved experiences cause tension. This is the body’s way of “alarming” us so we figure out what’s bothering us. In a “natural” situation, we stop and meditate. On today’s sensory battlefield, there’s a general feeling that to stop is doom. Part of this is the subconscious awareness of how many messages are waiting inside, and how tangled together it all is.
So, we keep up the act as usual and wait for some outside force to maybe come along and save us someday. This leaves us with a lot of tension. Taking it out of the body directly (by massage, etc.) only treats the symptoms (though we highly recommend massage). The tension will, therefore, always return. “He can’t relax—he’s got so much on his mind.”
Clarity removes tension.
Tension is an alarm system prodding us to do something we are not noticing needs doing; like pain, a warning device. Tension is clutching—a keeping-tight. The mind does it first, then the body follows. Tension in the body mostly comes from tension in the mind; therefore, for example, fear makes us take up less space physically.
We find that when we achieve clarity on whatever has been bothering us, the tension eases. Then, the choices are clear, and one chooses at the proper time. It is clarity that turns off the alarm system “tension.”
Mind Experiment
Let yourself enjoy a long, slow, new, creative approach to all situations. There’s no hurry. There’s just the Eternal Now. How you relate to it at this moment is all.
Start your life NOW.
What are my attachments?
List the things, events, and conditions that must be maintained or brought about in your life in order for you to be happy—a particular job, a particular lover, a certain amount of money, physical security, having people think of you a certain way, and so on.
Then, list the things you fear that must not happen in your life, or you will be very unhappy—losing your current job, lover, status, etc.
Eventually, the items on these lists will be immaterial to you. You’ll want to keep the lists and keep looking at them from time to time until that point.
What bits of my past are holding me back?
List the moments in your life that still trouble you when you remember them.
(You might not get all of these listed at once since some particularly troubling memories might be being actively repressed by your subconscious. But you can keep adding to the list as you remember more of these experiences.)
Achieving clarity on just one situation
Take any one of the unresolved experiences on the list developed in item 4 above, set aside uninterruptible and open-ended time, and relive the experience in complete detail from beginning to end, one or more times, like a detective looking for clues.
What you are looking for is the truth of what bothers you about this situation. The truth of why it bothers you may not be why you think it bothers you.
Some part of you will tend to want to avoid these memories, fearing that they can only cause more hurt. In fact, each of these memories is an energy watershed you can turn to great advantage in your life simply by understanding your emotional charge with each situation.
This is why the mind tags these memories with alarm charges: so that eventually, you’ll pick up the phone.
After you get the knack of it, you’ll naturally clear out all the items on the list you made in item 4, mostly spontaneously, at moments when you don’t expect it.
If you’d like to speed up the process, just set aside time and relive the experiences in priority order.
Love to all,
