Bill Harvey first experienced the Zone--that space where creative ideas and actions flow out of you effortlessly--as a young child. The son of orchestra leader/emcee Ned Harvey and former Ziegfield Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four. He liked this feeling of being "on" and wanted to learn how to be "on" more often, so he began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same. Earning his degree in philosophy, the first school subject he ever loved, Bill founded the Human Effectiveness Institute, with the goal of sharing the consciousness techniques he had learned and developed. His ideas were further inspired by Alan Watts, Buddhism, Zen, and by his adopted older brother, trumpeter Bill Heyer. Bill's first book, MIND MAGIC: The Science of Microcosmology, has been lauded by thousands of readers. It is now in its sixth edition, MIND MAGIC: Doorways into Higher Consciousness.In his second book, YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE: Imagine That, Bill speculates about the true nature of reality, in which all that exists is a single divine consciousness.
In this view, religion is not at odds with science. Bill turned his theory into fiction, and conceived an epic series of novels entitled Agents of Cosmic Intelligence. THE FIRST SON is the first to be released in the series.With an imaginative, unorthodox mind for research, innovation and invention, Bill started his career in the media business with a dream of making one-way media into something the audience co-creates. He predicted today's media reality with his MediaWorld 1990 report to the industry, and in his widely-read Media Science Newsletter. A leader in the field as media morphed into putting the viewer in charge, he received the Advertising Research Foundation Great Mind Award in 2008. In 2014, he became the first recipient of ARF's Erwin Ephron Demystification Award. Bill lives with his wife Lalita and their two cats in the beautiful Hudson Valley.
He has a daughter Nicole, and with Lalita has four grandchildren, Nicholas, Gabrielle, Jessica and Alexander.