What a great forum! Thank you all for your helpful responses.

Grant: Halleluia! At LAST, an effective technology that I can afford! All I will need is a pair of headphones and $40 (which I can save up in the next few weeks) for the BWGEN software, and I'll be good to go. THAT is an attainable objective for me.

I have been teaching myself computer skills (web design and graphics editing so far) as I go; looks like sound mixing and editing is next on the menu. [BTW: the computer was a gift.] A thousand thanks to you and Brian!

Claire: Thank you for your input. I think that, based on what I have read in Grant's and Brian's posts, a sufficiently resourceful person can, indeed, gain all the benefits you mentioned at a tiny fraction of Centerpointe's cost. Most people are NOT willing and/or able to go to the effort of downloading and mixing their own psychological "medicine" (I am), so Centerpointe is in no financial danger from those few of us who ARE willing and able to do so.

I also thank you for your good intentions. A little perspective I would like to share with you, though: Some of us are NOT able to cough up hundreds (or, in the case of all the CP levels, thousands) of dollars for ANY technology, regardless how wonderful or effective it may be. When you said "don't let the money stop you," it seemed to indicate that you were unaware of this.

The money HAS stopped me. Specifically, in the past few years it has stopped me from participation in the following (technologies which appeared promising):

1) Technologies for Creating training

2) Vivation certification training

3) Avatar training

4) NLP Practitioner training

5) The Sedona Method training

6) The Release Technique training

7) AND many of LSC's promising programs.

--all of which I investigated thoroughly, believed in completely, and found to be utterly beyond my financial reach.

You see, when it is a weekly struggle to keep the rent paid on the tiny apartment you share with your child and pets, and to feed said occupants, etc. then an expensive technology which purports to "fix" the income-producing problem might as well be offered in the next galaxy for all the good it can do.

It's the cruelest and most frustrating sort of "Catch-22": you need an effective technology to un-cripple yourself sufficiently to produce enough income so that you can afford the technology!!!

Please count your blessings that this has, apparently, never been part of your experience. And thank you again for your well-meaning input. Your testimonial to the effectiveness of binaural technology has indeed encouraged me to continue investigating along those lines.

Pete: More later. I am in the middle of moving--as well as in the end-of-month "rush"--so will give more feedback on tape use/results in a few days. Thanks for the input!

Namaste/gassho/blessings and thanks to all!

[This message has been edited by shinsei (edited March 29, 2001).]