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by James Hardt (Author), Bill Harris (Foreword)
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Dr. Hardt's Alpha Training has given me more awareness and ability to increase these benefits for my clients and in my own life as well ...
-James Arthur Ray, Speaker, Author, Harmonic Wealth

If you're at all serious about your emotional and spiritual growth, this is going to absolutely blow your mind.
-Bill Harris, Founder, Centerpointe & Holosynch(tm) technology

There's a leap in me
And I must let go
To fall freely into the hands
Of life - To touch the core
Of my being- to be in the flow...
-Excerpt from poem written by Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith Inspired by Alpha Training at Biocybernaut Institute Reprinted with permission.

From the Introduction:

How would you like to access all of your brain s innate capacity to learn, invent, create and solve problems? Would it improve your life if you could think more clearly, access your intuition, reduce stress and anxiety, and prevent your brain from aging? We ve all heard that we use only a tiny percentage of our brain s natural capacity. If you've ever wondered why, The Art of Smart Thinking will provide some answers and solutions.

Every experience you have is the result of certain brain waves. Unfortunately, most of us are only accessing two of our four brain waves, and the two left out, Alpha and Theta, are actually the most important for exceptional creativity and intelligence! .

You can learn to produce these two types of brain waves on command, which will allow you to:

  • Restore your youthful brain wave patterns
  • Enhance your creativity, empathy and problem-solving ability
  • Improve your personal relationships
  • Reduce your feelings of stress, anxiety, anger and depression
  • Enhance your special skills and abilities
  • Achieve physical and mental peak performance states The Zone
  • Improve your mental clarity and memory


About the Author
For over 30 years Dr. Hardt has been studying the electrophysiological basis of spiritual states. He has traveled to India to study advanced Yogis, studied Zen meditators and Zen masters, and explored Christian prayer and contemplation. He has developed a technology based on electroencephalographic (EEG) measurement and feedback, combined, in a highly optimized methodology, with computerized measures of subjective states, depth interviews, and extensive coaching in forgiveness and non-attachment.

This technology has demonstrated significant effectiveness in healing and transforming core dimensions of personality, reducing stress and anxiety, reversing key aspects of the brain's aging process, increasing creativity by 50% and boosting IQ by nearly 12 points on average, enhancing peak performance, facilitating conflict resolution, and in expanding spiritual awareness and increasing access to advanced spiritual states.

Dr. James V. Hardt serves as the President and founder of Biocybernaut Institute, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and he has done post-doctoral training in Psychophysiology at the University of California at San Francisco.

Dr. Hardt has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers and professional presentations, and has authored, co-authored or has pending over 30 patents for the core technology, headset, training methodology and brain centered portion of virtual reality applications. He has dedicated his life in the research and development surrounding brain wave training.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 350 pages
  • Publisher: Biocybernaut Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0979573009
  • ISBN-13: 978-0979573002
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #307,409 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended, February 9, 2008
By Mindful One (Eureka Springs, AR) - See all my reviews
This book would be an excellent read for someone that is thinking of taking the Biocybernaut Training. It reads like a long advertisement for the training which costs a mere $15,000 per module! Good history of the training with a few interesting stories of people that took it but mostly razzle dazzle. It did make me wish I had a spare 15K laying around so I could be happier, more peaceful and on the road to Zen enlightenment.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars One long advertisement,, February 5, 2008
By Michael J. Gauthier (Dover, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This book tells us all about the wonderful things we could do by training our brains to make alpha waves, at their facility in Santa Clara, California. All you need is $15,000 - it's ok, you can borrow it from Wells Fargo.

I paid something like $25 for this advertisement.

I guess I believe we could learn to do some of those wonderful things, but there aren't all that many of us who can spare $15,000, with no guaranty. I guess I believe it took enough work and personpower to justify the cost, but not many of us will ever be able to take advantage of it.

So, I paid $25 to find out about wonderful things that I'll be unlikely to afford, at any time in the future.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I didnt know I was buying a brochure for 25 bucks!, February 19, 2008
This is my first review and I am writing this to warn everyone about NOT buying this book.
The title is totally misleading , there is absolutely no practical information about how to do what it proposes , unless of course you are thinking in spending 15,000 dollars to go to their training in California, yes you heard right 15,000 dollars!!
It really makes me angry because I naively believed in Bill HArris words "about finding a way to train alpha waves without having to do the expensive training at the institute and , what's what I got?? NO onions and no garlic as the only practical advice!! it makes me laugh .
Also this guy intenion of "helping" others are just B.S cause if his interest was real he would make this technology more available to people.
The following are words by Bill HArris about this book:

"You'll discover how this process achieves such powerful
results in such a short time. And you'll learn exactly what
steps to take at home - right now in your own living
room - to start on the journey to explode your own
spiritual growth." (B.S again unless you count not eating onions a garlic as THE way to explode your spiritual growth!)

"In fact, you'll even discover how you can begin to enhance
your own alpha waves - just by reading this book."( more and more B.S. unless you really believe not eating garlic and onions will be enough) .
So in short this is the first time that I buy a brochure and a very expensive one at that.
It brings nothing to the peaople interested in neurofeedback and it offers nothing to the ones interested in self growth ,that is , if you are not planning in investing 15000 for the 7 days training

I am going to write to Bill Harris about this very misleading invitation and let him know how abusive it is to address other people NEEDS for self growth and be concern only about gains and marketing...
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