I say don't be afraid to grow your own stuff by trial and error. Each person is different and you don't have to conform to the mass produced market. We're so used to relying on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products. I do not feel that anyone's CDs are the best, otherwise I'd only keep that CD around. You can learn from everybody.

I've seen a bwgen preset for Anna Wise's Awakened Mind state around. Start with that and play with it. (I don't like listening to just binaural beat tones - it's just too boring and it doesn't put enough stress or challenge on my mind.) Write down your experimental results in a daily journal. Take measurements using programs like ThinkFast, BrainBuilder, ESP tester programs, Interactive Metronome, etc.

For example, take hypnosis tapes and CDs. I've seen so many out there, scouring the world, but I rarely, if ever, find anything ideal that's suited to my personal tastes. If I make my own, I can customize a program to fit my needs at a particular point in time. And needs have a tendency to change over time.

I'm free to choose whatever affirmations, trance inductions, music, freqs, imagery, subliminals, paraliminals, nlp, silva, huna, yogic, tibetan, chinese, japanese, korean, shamanic, energy system, healing modality, etc., techniques that I can personally engineer to meet my constantly changing requirements.

One advantage of adding speech-to-text software is that I can vary the rate of speed the words are spoken from very slow to fast like the speed talking stuff on Genius Code, as well as change pitch, tone.

If you've read the Centerpointe literature, then you know that their goal is to put stress on your brain making it grow stronger, just like you would stress a muscle to make it bigger and stronger. The intent of working out with weights is to stress the muscle into overload. If you do martial arts and break boards and bricks, then you know that you have to injure the bones in the hands so that it regenerates itself to become more dense and you can break more boards and bricks.

You grow by meeting greater and greater challenges. Self-growth is a personal thing. But if you're just a beginner starting out, just ignore everything here.

[This message has been edited by shr33m (edited December 04, 2003).]