In 1968, on the occasion of my 12th birthday, I met Brother Craig 212 –– a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder that was my first teacher of directed, focused listening. The Craig 212 was a battery operated tape recorder that used 1/4” wide recording tape spooled onto 3” diameter reels. The cassette tape format had been…
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N.O.W. produces sounds that help us experience “right”, or harmonious relationship. Right relationship in sound is a “reference”, a feeling-state that helps us recognize and experience right relationship with people, places and things. Let us define “right relationship” as being a harmonious, peaceful, loving, respectful, compassionate, accepting and non-discordant co-existence of forms. A co-existence where…
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The prevalence of thought this morning so completely occurred my vision it took me several minutes to realize the trees were moving. Noticing is so powerful it made the trees move. Once one has achieved a state of noticing, there is just a small leap to realize one is noticing. The act is the same.…
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N.O.W. is immediately pleasing and relaxing to hear. Because it’s so pleasant many people ask “can it play longer than just three minutes?” We’ve written at length (click Q&A’s in the navigation bar above) why N.O.W.’s speakers, by design, each produce a three-minute listening session. However, there is a very interesting and powerfully meditative alternate use…
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One of you is a problem to yourself. The other is not. Did you realize there are two of you and one of them is a troublemaker? Before we can talk about sound listening exercises as a way to change your life circumstances for the better we need to talk about the Two You Problem.…
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There is a twenty six foot, 1977 GMC Royale motorhome living on Cape Cod called “Presence”. I named it Presence for two reasons. The first was to give a tip of the hat to Eckhart Tolle, and the second –– it takes a great deal of Presence to be the owner of a classic 40…
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There are many non obvious features of the product called N.O.W. One of these is a design feature that extends the N.O.W. experience beyond the time and space limits of the physical system itself. In use, N.O.W.’s New Origin Waveform tones play for approximately three minutes. A short time after the tones have ceased, the…
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Gratitude does not requires words of thanks. Gratitude happens spontaneously when the mind is free of thought –– especially thoughts about what is lacking in one’s life or what is wrong with what is present in one’s life. Loving gratitude is the natural response-quality when one resonates to what is. We see an examples of…
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With N.O.W., sometimes we bring particular focus to the end of the New Origin Waveform tone sequence –– we pay particular attention to the fading of the tones into the background ambient sound in which N.O.W. has been used. At other times, we bring particular attention to the beginning of the listening session. There is…
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N.O.W. reduces mental noise so you can hear more of the essential you and change your life for the better. Let’s look at what I mean by mental noise and essential you –– and why you would want less of the former and more of the latter. In the field of audio communications the term…
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Each fog has its own character, but they all share a common trait –– that of being a teacher of stillness and joy. The fog today in West Tisbury becomes visible as a soft grey haze at a distance of a hundred yards or so. It appears as a soft thickening of the spaces between…
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