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Managing Evolutionary Growth; How to Create Deep Change Without Falling Apart
Possibly the greatest skill one can acquire as a participant in The Holosync Solution is the ability to identify, take responsibility for, and move through the upheaval which sometimes accompanies deep meditation. We call this evolutionary catharsis because w/out it there is no growth, no expansion of awareness, no evolution. Catharsis is, in fact, the proof that evolution is happening, that the process is working. The guidelines in this booklet are the result of many years of research and many thousands of hours of meditation practice. They will allow you to move through your experience with minimum discomfort and maximum growth. The end result is a powerful experience of your own perfection; an experience of connectedness, peace, and happiness; a life experience cleansed of fears, dysfunctional and self-distructive behaviors, conflict, and debilitating emotional pain. Along the way, you will meet all the aspects of yourself and your world tha you knowingly or unknowingly have deemed to be inappropriate and have tried to repress. Some of this you will not want to look at; some you will move through easily. Your experience, whatever it may be, is the result of what lies inside you and will be unique to you. That this booklet emphasizes the more difficult and unpleasant aspects of personal growth should not lead you to believe that this will be your predominant experience. This program is a great adventure filled with peace, happiness, joy, and aliveness. Our purpose is not to scare you but rather to ensure that you will have all the information you need to deal successfully with whatever happens. Positive core-level change at the accelerated pace brought about by The Holosync Solution can be cathartic. It is also a fascinating journey where each breakthrough is more amazing and fulfilling than the last. Catharsis need not be painful - you are the creator of your experience, and much of this program is about learning how to create growth without suffering.
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60 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
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May 15, 2016
I was sent this book by the author as part of his Holosync meditation programme.
He explains about evolutionary catharsis, which he defines as “the ability to identify, take responsibility for, and move through the upheaval which sometimes accompanies deep meditation”.
While doing the Holosync programme we sometimes experience discomfort, or upheaval, as old programmes come up to be dissolved. Bill tells us that the end result of our meditation work is “a life experience cleansed of fears, dysfunctional and self-destructive behaviours, conflict, and debilitating emotional pain”. Along the way we will meet all aspects of ourselves and of our world that we knowingly or unknowingly have deemed inappropriate or have tried to repress.
Although I have been on the programme for a year or so and am nearing the end of Awakening level 1, i.e. the second level, I have not yet experienced much upheaval, if any, though I have experienced that I am gradually becoming a person who is getting rid of procrastination, says what has to be said, however unpopular, etc. What others think of me bothers me less and less. I do and say what has to be done and said.
There is a chapter about catharsis, and one on “order out of chaos” about the work of Ilya Prigogine. He discovered that order arises not in spite of entropy (a measure of the amount of randomness or chaos in a system) but because of it.
I found Bill Harris´s previous books, Thresholds of the mind and The new science of super awareness, easy to read and enlightening, but found this little book more challenging. Though he writes clearly and articulately, Bill rarely defines his terms, and when reading the book I continued to have difficulty in understanding what he meant by the “dissipative structures” he kept talking about.
He tells us that the universe is “not one of independent things, but rather one of process, a changing, flowing, evolving, and intimately interconnected system of interactions”.
Evolutionary growth is “Escape into a higher order”.
There´s a chapter about the human brain as a dissipative structure (there´s that phrase again!). Bill explains that when we get overwhelmed, the system is forced either to break down or to reorganize at a higher, more evolved level: first things make sense, then as chaos increases, they no longer make sense, and finally, after reorganization, they make sense again, but in a whole new way, never before imagined.
There are chapters about emotional release, mental release, resistance and the six stages of evolutionary change. These six stages are as follows: 1) Awareness 2) Identification 3) Focusing 4) Expansion 5) Resolution and 6) Reintegration and Reprogramming.
In conclusion, this is no easy read but if you manage to get through and digest it, you will find it rewarding.
He explains about evolutionary catharsis, which he defines as “the ability to identify, take responsibility for, and move through the upheaval which sometimes accompanies deep meditation”.
While doing the Holosync programme we sometimes experience discomfort, or upheaval, as old programmes come up to be dissolved. Bill tells us that the end result of our meditation work is “a life experience cleansed of fears, dysfunctional and self-destructive behaviours, conflict, and debilitating emotional pain”. Along the way we will meet all aspects of ourselves and of our world that we knowingly or unknowingly have deemed inappropriate or have tried to repress.
Although I have been on the programme for a year or so and am nearing the end of Awakening level 1, i.e. the second level, I have not yet experienced much upheaval, if any, though I have experienced that I am gradually becoming a person who is getting rid of procrastination, says what has to be said, however unpopular, etc. What others think of me bothers me less and less. I do and say what has to be done and said.
There is a chapter about catharsis, and one on “order out of chaos” about the work of Ilya Prigogine. He discovered that order arises not in spite of entropy (a measure of the amount of randomness or chaos in a system) but because of it.
I found Bill Harris´s previous books, Thresholds of the mind and The new science of super awareness, easy to read and enlightening, but found this little book more challenging. Though he writes clearly and articulately, Bill rarely defines his terms, and when reading the book I continued to have difficulty in understanding what he meant by the “dissipative structures” he kept talking about.
He tells us that the universe is “not one of independent things, but rather one of process, a changing, flowing, evolving, and intimately interconnected system of interactions”.
Evolutionary growth is “Escape into a higher order”.
There´s a chapter about the human brain as a dissipative structure (there´s that phrase again!). Bill explains that when we get overwhelmed, the system is forced either to break down or to reorganize at a higher, more evolved level: first things make sense, then as chaos increases, they no longer make sense, and finally, after reorganization, they make sense again, but in a whole new way, never before imagined.
There are chapters about emotional release, mental release, resistance and the six stages of evolutionary change. These six stages are as follows: 1) Awareness 2) Identification 3) Focusing 4) Expansion 5) Resolution and 6) Reintegration and Reprogramming.
In conclusion, this is no easy read but if you manage to get through and digest it, you will find it rewarding.
August 13, 2011
This little book has helped me a great deal in coping with periods of huge internal displacements that have occurred as a result of my practice, It offers insigghts into common experiences of people going through these spiritual paradigm shifts outlining the mental, emotional and physical side effects of the process. It has really helped me when I thought I has lost me way and the plot and that I was just going crazy. It took away a lo of the fear and allowed me to accept openly and willingly if not always happily what was going on. It's a must have for anyone on a path of spiritual search and change.
September 2, 2011
For the brevity of the book it cover the intended topic well.
July 3, 2014
great book - great information
I need to reread this book every few months...it is little but has so much info on catharsis and the mind
I need to reread this book every few months...it is little but has so much info on catharsis and the mind
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