Bill Harris on consciousness technology

The image is from the book Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge, by B. Alan Wallace, founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. The book notes “There are certainly kinds of neuronal activity that causally contribute to the emergence of specific states of consciousness and mental activity.”
Bill Harris, Director of the Centerpointe Research Institute, writes about the development of the Holosync technology for providing the “benefits of meditation.” Here is an excerpt from an article of his:
In the early 1970s the Menninger Foundation studied some Indian yogis who were in the United States. They hooked these yogis to different machines in order to measure the yogis’ control over supposedly unconscious mental and physical functions.
These studies gave researchers the first peek at the electrical brain wave patterns of meditation.
At about the same time, but completely independently, a researcher named Dr. Gerald Oster of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York published a paper in Scientific American about research he had been conducting since the 1950s into the effects of sound waves on brain wave patterns.
Oster had discovered a method, using sound, to create any desired electrical pattern in the brain, including those of meditation.
A small field sprang up around this technology and a related technology that uses flickering lights to alter brain wave patterns.
This field has always focused (mistakenly, in my opinion) on what I would describe as the symptoms of exposure to these brain-altering technologies.
You will hear people say, for instance, “we will put you in an alpha brain wave pattern and such-and-such will be your experience” or “we will put you in a theta state and you will have an out-of-body experience” (or whatever).
This, to me, is like a runner thinking the important thing about running is that you breathe hard, you get sweaty, and your legs get tired.
These are symptoms of running, but the real essence of the experience is that the cardiovascular system and the muscles are reorganizing at higher levels of functioning.
Continued in How Holosync Works.






