Rinse & Repeat

Entering Norton Street

There is nothing you have to believe.

There is nothing you have to understand.

Simply allow yourself to enter.

Find a comfortable place where you won’t be interrupted. Sit or lie down. If you’re using a SuperBeacon, place it on a table in front of you and hold the two electrodes comfortably throughout the session. If you’re simply listening, that’s perfectly fine too.

Turn off distractions. Dim the lights if you wish.

Take a slow breath in.

Let it out.

Again. (Rinse & Repeat)

Don’t try to analyze the story as it unfolds. Norton Street isn’t designed to be solved like a puzzle. It is more like walking through a dream, or wandering through a strange neighborhood where everything somehow knows your name.

The characters are not asking you to agree with them. They’re inviting you to notice your own reactions.

If a line makes no sense, let it pass. If something suddenly becomes funny, laugh. If something feels strangely familiar, simply notice it.

You don’t have to hold onto every word. The atmosphere is often more important than the dialogue. Allow the music, voices, sound effects, and silences to carry you.

At times you may feel as though you’ve lost the thread of the story. That’s perfectly all right. Often the most interesting moments occur just after you stop trying to follow it.

When the experience ends, remain still for another minute or two before getting up. Notice whether anything has shifted. Perhaps nothing has. Perhaps everything has.

There is no right experience. Every visit to Norton Street is different. The only requirement is curiosity.

Welcome to Norton Street.

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One thing I especially like about this approach is that it doesn’t promise altered states or extraordinary experiences. It simply gives people permission to relax, suspend judgment, and let the piece do what it does. That’s very much in the spirit of our work over the years: the teaching isn’t imposed; it’s discovered by the participant. I think that makes the invitation both more credible and more effective.

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Here’s the Bardo bus now.

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