You Are The Universe: Imagine That

by Bill Harvey

You Are The Universe: Imagine That presents a “theory of everything” that reconciles science and religion in a way that anyone can understand and visualize. Unlike the unified field theories of Albert Einstein and modern unified field theorists, Bill’s picture of the universe can be visualized by non-mathematicians.

Thought experiments in You Are The Universe: Imagine That involve readers as active participants in exploring answers to questions such as:

• Is the universe conscious?
• Can you communicate with the universe and receive communication back?
• Does the universe provide you with clues as to the best action to take?
• Do you have an inner guidance system that can be tuned into?
• Are the words of the great spiritual leaders of all time a single “code”?

In his warm and often humorous manner, Bill invites readers to experiment with the ideas, be open-minded, and experience for yourself what may well be the true nature of reality.

272 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2014

About the author

About Bill Harvey

Bill first experienced the Zone, that space where innovative and successful ideas and actions flow out of you effortlessly, as a young child. The son of legendary orchestra leader/master of ceremonies Ned Harvey and former Ziegfield Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four, dancing with showgirls and exchanging lines with comedic greats like Jack E. Leonard. He liked this feeling of being “on” and wanted to learn how to be “on” more often. And so began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same.

Along the way he anchored his dream with a degree in philosophy, the first school subject he had ever loved. He began to materialize the dream by founding the Human Effectiveness Institute, with the goal of sharing the techniques he had learned and developed as his own internal system for bringing himself to his highest level of creative effectiveness.

Bill’s ideas didn’t all come from the inside, as he was inspired by something that Milton Berle had told him: “Always steal from the best, kid.” He was turned on to Alan Watts, Buddhism, Zen, and hipness by his adopted older brother, the multitalented Bill Heyer, second trumpet in Ned’s band.

Unique and ahead of its time, Bill’s first book, Mind Magic: The Science of Microcosmology, met with rave reviews in the late 70s and was lauded by thousands of readers whose lives, they say, were changed by it. The book has been used at 34 universities including NYU, UCLA and West Point, and by numerous organizations. It is now available in its 6th edition, Mind Magic: Doorways into Higher Consciousness.

In You Are The Universe: Imagine That, Bill has expanded the frame of reference of his lifelong study of consciousness to focus more on the spiritual dimension of life.

With a brilliant mind for research, innovation and invention, Bill started his career in the media business with a dream of making one-way media into something that the audience co-creates. With his trailblazing vision, he accurately described today’s media reality with his MediaWorld 1990 report to the industry, and in his widely-read Media Science Newsletter. He invented many things arcane to the average person but talismans in the media field, including some now written into FCC regulations. He holds four issued US patents and has consulted for over 100 Fortune 500 companies. A leader in the field as media morphed into being more interactive, putting the viewer in charge, Bill’s peers recognized him with the Great Mind Award in 2008 to celebrate his achievements. In June 2014, Bill became the first recipient of the Advertising Research Foundation’s Erwin Ephron Demystification Award.

Bill is a popular speaker, the subject of numerous articles, and a prolific writer. He writes two weekly blogs, BillHarveyBlog.com (“Pebbles in the Pond”, now in its fourth year), and MediaBizBloggers.com/Bill-Harvey (“In Terms of ROI”). He is interviewed weekly on the digital videoseries RBDR, and is a frequent guest on WDST-FM’s Woodstock Roundtable with Doug Grunther.

Bill lives with his wife Lalita and their three cats in the beautiful Hudson Valley. He has a daughter Nicole, and with Lalita has four grandchildren.

Reviews

[Christina]

I felt this was written well but it was quite confusing. There was so much that I couldn't understand. It makes me wonder if others will be able to understand the meaning of this book.

[Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)]

As a book of philosophy I would rate this book 3 stars, but as a book intended to inspire thinking and discussion this is more of a 4 star book. I HATE the way books like this treat science as if it is all one big monolithic entity, Science, with only one perspective and methodology. I also really dislike books that try to prod science into being something it is not, by accepting allegorical information that is not replicable, or by considering hypotheses proven when they are not logically refutable. By using loose definitions and cherrypicking, Mr. Harvey presents a pretty picture of the universe as he hypothesizes it might be, and tells a tale in which the reader is presented with several false dichotomies leading to a perspective that Harvey's concept of the universe makes perfect sense. It might actually make sense, in its basic form, despite the loose definitions and logical proofs that skip steps and make huge unfounded assupmtions. I am not fully convinced, but since the point of this book, according to its author was to get people thinking about the questions and possibilities he introduces, I'd have to say it worked well enough. I do strongly recommend reading this book with a pencil or pen in hand to write notes in the margins as needed.

[Kim Hampton]

I won this book through a Goodreads giveaway. If I was going to describe it to someone, I would say that it is the book you would use if you were trying to prove to Sheldon Cooper of "Big Bang Theory" that God existed. I wouldn't recommend reading it if you would be offended by God being referred to as "she" or "it," although the author uses those terms to merely get the atheist's mind open to the possibility that there is a Higher Power. I am a Christian and I found the book fascinating. If you know someone who loves science and computers and doesn't believe in the possibility of God's existence, buy them this book. It just might do the trick.

[Kim]

I just received this book through Goodreads First Reads Giveaway. Thank you...

My husband and I read it together this evening...

It is way above my head for understanding, but my husband understood it and loved it. Thanks!

[Xavier Zhapan]

It's being an inner being adventure... Amazing...