Hi Gals and Guys:
I've spent the last several hours going through several threads on this web-site dealing with Holosync, it's pro's and con's, the merits of the Centerpointe program, etc. I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective. I've chosen this thread as it is the most recent and relevant to my remarks.
First, I am a Holosync user, currently in the final stages of Level 1, as well as having delved into Sedona, Success Principles, Paraliminals (recently), and some training through Peak Potentials. I learned of Holosync through another forum about a year ago. Six months passed before I bumped into it again. At the time I first learned about it, I was suicidal, having suffered two near nervous breakdowns in as many years from "corporate stress".
In the course of healing, I studied for and became a Certified Hypnotherapist, however, I still needed to do a fair amount of work on myself after the certification process before I was ready to actually help others through the hypnotherapy. The original reason I took the course was to get the benefits of knowing exactly how it worked, and to be able to use it long-term on myself, without the need of running to someone to do it to me. That's part of my background.
The other part is that I am a deep trance channeler - and having been doing very deep meditation for over 20 years, I had a really good handle on how my mind responded to things. I had also been involved in the earlier years (1980's mostly) in New Age thought and the positive programming stuff. I had also been using something called "Astral Sounds" for most of those 20+ years, which also utilized different sound frequencies, etc. to create brain entrainment and a few other nifty effects.
So I tried the HS demo - and I immediately could feel the effect it had, and I ordered AP. I also indulged myself in an Inner Circle membership when a good deal on that presented itself in November (I had been in the program just a bit over a month at the time), to ensure that I would see the program through to completion (as I had come to recognize one of my main flaws in getting anything done in life was to put things off, procrastinate and quit before I saw things through).
I had a rough few months during AP, particularly with the stuff it brought up concerning my attempted suicides (5 attempts over 35 years). I enrolled in Sedona, and that helped immensely. I did my own daily hypnosis routine. I read everything I could get my hands about Holosync and Centerpointe. I emailed and called the hotline whenever I felt like I was ready to just throw in the towel, and got massive amounts of support - and not just sugar-coated platitudes either. I recognized a long time ago (pre HS) that anything worthwhile having had it's price - monetary or in terms of lifes lessons learned, and some of them might be painful. I did the Firewalk back in '84, and only had a few minor blisters - they were painful for a week, and then went away. The lesson I learned in Self-confidence (trusting the Higher Self) stuck!
I also did something else, though. I started to pay attention to all of the marketing stuff I was getting from Bill, and eventually became involved in some of the other programs he was supporting, such as Sedona, Peak Potentials and the Paraliminals. Instead of taking the tact that this was just another money-making scheme, I started looking at things from the perspective of a group of business people who had found a need, and who had decided that they could supply solutions that worked, and which (IMHO) didn't negate the "spiritual" aspects I needed (and I suspect many others have felt the same way, given the 1400 plus people who turned up at the 3-day Toronto Millionaire Mindset Intensive I attended a few weeks ago, many of whom having travelled this same route). And, from my point of view, more power to them if they also made some good cash in the process.
When I look at the billions of dollars the drug companies make to keep people chained to drugs that only mask their problems, and then I see the benefits I've derived from spending my money on Holosync instead, I'm really glad I had the choice to do that.
I'm no longer suicidal (and doubt I could ever again approach that mindset). I've regained much of my long-term trauma-related memory loss; my short-term memory is now sharp; my focus and clarity on issues is sharp, and my ability to absorb and understand what I'm reading has sky-rocketed. On the psychic side, a whole host of psychic abilities that had only rode below surface have now come into full use, and my trance levels have propelled me where I didn't think it was possible for me to go - and now I'm doing it at a conscious level. It would take too long to explain here, but briefly, I think I may have taken remote viewing to a new level.
Years and years of intense, long meditations perhaps had prepared me for a different experience than most, however, I am still blown away by what I'm now able to do. As a fairly accomplished classical musician I could play reasonably well before - now I'm sight-reading stuff I didn't dare approach on a practise level before.
Yes, I still have bad days - I'm only in the very beginning stages of the Holosync levels, and I concur with the starting post in this thread that there may be further upsets as the whole system re-organizes. I'm quite willing to take the risk that the system may not "re-boot" after one of those thresholds, because I'm convinced that the programs that Bill has guided participants into will help keep things on track, if everyone just got over themselves, and particularly their concern for how much it's costing them, or more particularly, how much money someone else might be making in the process. I don't make a lot of money (yet) at what I'm doing, but I certainly don't begrudge any of these organizations one penny I have provided for the value in help I've received. My life is worth it!
I may be somewhat naive, but I believe Bill's motives in directing us towards these programs has far less to do with the money he might make (most affiliate programs pay reasonably well, and they're nice passive income to have), than knowing that once you get on track in realizing just how grand you ARE as a human being, you're going to want to learn how to use those capabilities. IMHO he's doing us a tremendous favour in pointing out the different paths we can take in our Self-realization.
That's my story and my perspective from my own experiences in life, from the standpoint of a psychic, as a healer, as a hypnotist, and as a business-person. And most particularly as a woman whose lived a lot, and hopes to do a whole heck of a lot more of it.
Cheers!
Unis