This morning I had the unmistakable experience of N.O.W. becoming more “dialed in” with each repeated three minute session.

N.O.W. has two physical controls (ON and Volume) and one metaphysical control –– the attention we bring during the final seconds of a session. This third control, attention-during-fade, shapes the qualities of the next tone therapy session heard.

I start my day with a period of N.O.W. listening, stillness and then writing. There are a number of projects going on in our house, things get moved around and covered over. This morning I couldn’t find our “house set” of N.O.W., the set I usually listen to alone in the morning and then later with Alene during coffee time.

Eager to start my tone time, I took one of the open box “loaner” N.O.W. sets and used that instead. Physically this set is exactly the same as any other N.O.W. set. The only difference being that this set had been sent out to a reviewer or early evaluator and returned to us.

So from a physical perspective there should be no difference if I used my usual house set or a loaner set. But there was a difference.

The very first time I turned on the loaner N.O.W. set I noticed it seemed slightly disorganized and less recognizable. There was a bit of distance, a separation between myself and N.O.W.

The Sufi master and musician Hazrat Inyat Khan has described how we can sense the subtle energy left behind in a room, on chair … of someone who was angry, confused or distraught. We can sense the “bad vibes” left there.

My usual experience with N.O.W. (while using the normal house set) is that it is sublimely correlated –– both within and amongst the tones it produces and correlated to me and my life situations.

But this morning I had the unmistakable impression that this loaner set had been out in the world and had been returned to us by someone who didn’t “get” N.O.W. and had embedded some of their discordant energy in it.

This is possible because, by design, N.O.W. has a feature of being exceptionally open and receptive to the state of mind of its user just prior to shut off. I’ve written at length about N.O.W.’s random number generator being influenced by the attention of its users and how this sets up the quality of the tone sequence that will be heard during the next listening session.

This loaner set had to be cleansed and re-tuned!

I started N.O.W. again, but this time paid particular attention during the final fade of tones. I wanted to be sure to remain completely thought free during the final fade, through the following silent period and through the last second prior to shut down. I needed to “reprogram” this particular N.O.W. set by applying clear, open, non-judgmental acceptance during the period in which N.O.W.’s random number generators would select the tone sequences that would be heard during the next session. I wanted to remove the mild layer of discord, confusion, non-acceptance and lack of focus I first sensed when I turned on this particular N.O.W. set.

As a side note, N.O.W. stands for New Origin Waveforms. In the last second just prior to power off, N.O.W.’s random number generators (in conjunction with its users) set up a “New Origin” –– the new arrangement of tones that will play during the next session. By design, N.O.W. teaches that we are the authors of our “future”, right now.

It took six listening sessions in a row to get this particular N.O.W. set cleansed of its history of being out in world and being misunderstood. After the sixth session this N.O.W. set seamed friendlier, more familiar, more easy to listen to, and yes –– more effective.

A good N.O.W. session always bestows a “peace that passeth all understanding” (peace beyond conceptual understanding and thought forms). Both N.O.W. and I seemed more joyous after that sixth session.

Just know that N.O.W., by design, is an exceptionally sensitive “product” that is paying attention to your state of mind during the final tone fade into silence, and generation of the next New Origin Waveform sequence (which occurs at the end of the present tone sequence, not at the beginning of the next. A “feed forward” design to use an engineering term).

You can use this to your advantage. Pay particular attention during the final fade. Let thoughts go. Perhaps hold a silent, nearly formless intention such as gratitude, abundance, true love, trust, security or peace of mind. N.O.W. will help you take those realities with you into your day, and bring them back to you in your next N.O.W. session.

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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 year old motor coach.

Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher most well known for his best-selling books “The Power of NOW” and “A New Earth”. He speaks and travels widely and co-hosted, with Oprah Winfrey, a web based video series based on “A New Earth”. This web series was described by authors Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal in their book “Stealing Fire” as the largest spiritual gathering in the history of the world.

The message Eckhart delivers (he, like all true spiritual teachers is emphatic that he is a messenger and not the author of the message) is that we can transcend our normal state of mind that is so often filled with problematic thoughts that make us suffer. Simply stated, Eckhart teaches a concept of Presence –– of being intently aware of the present moment while consciously letting go of thoughts. The result of doing so is to be vitally alive and “aware of being aware”, to sense one’s true essence identity –– consciousness, free from egoic identification (job, title, gender, personal history, future strivings … ). Why would one want to practice being in a state of Presence?

Because it feels good, and these good feelings of peaceful joyousness are our birthright. In other words, one would want to be aware of, and practice Presence because it lessens the sufferings that arise when we become identified with our thoughts –– when our egoic identity runs the show. And further, something remarkable happens as Presence is increasingly experienced in one’s life. Life seems easier, more synchronistic and is propelled along by a power not of our own making, the power of, and inherent in, the NOW.

I purchased my 1977 GMC Royale from the commercial landlord of my boutique studio microphone workshop in Hyannis, MA, Bill Anderson. Bill is a lively octogenarian who’s full of stories. Some of his most entertaining are stories about being a marine helicopter pilot in the Korean war and his subsequent piloting adventures. There is a story about Ethiopia, it’s legendary emperor Haile Selassie and gold smuggling that I have still not gotten a straight answer about.

In 2015 after I returned from getting “beamed” in Frankfurt, Germany (a sort of satori experience that changed my life as I’ve written about elsewhere) I looked on Bill’s GMC motorhome with new eyes. He had put a “For Sale” sign on it a couple of years earlier. He and his wife Audrey were no longer using it as much as they had been in previous yeas and it was time to find a new caretaker. 

As part of my life change underway at the time (wrapping up a failed marriage, selling my house and liquidating my recording studio) an insight occurred to me –– I could buy Bill’s classic motorhome, live in it, and tour recording studios around the country with my “girlfriend” Lucy (a Yorkshire terrier) my $30,000 collection of classic Neumann microphones and have a grand time comparing these classics to my own, much more affordable mics.

Insight provides impetus, but rarely manifests in the exact form one imagines 😉

So I bought Bill’s reasonably well-maintained motorhome in April of 2015. But I didn’t realize I was buying a teacher of Presence that time and time again, to this day, would challenge me to develop my capacities to trust, be patient, be aware, be grateful, feel abundant, ask for help and most challenging –– to accept the “is-ness” of the moment.

When I park Presence, emerge from its side entry door and glance back lovingly over my shoulder I don’t see a twenty six foot, 6-wheeled, two tone (brown and tan) spaceship on land. I see a being, one of my “brothers”.

This idea of a machine-brother needs some explanation. I’ll tell you about walking my daughters Zoe, Coco and Eva to school and spotting my “brothers” in the trash, on the street, in Boston’s South End …