About Michael Harris
Michael spent twenty-five years solving problems with thinking.
MBA. Executive roles. Sales book (click). Articles in Harvard Business Review (click). Every solution used strategy, analysis, performance optimization.
It worked. Until it didn’t.
Not because his life was broken—career stable, family intact, no obvious crisis. But there was activation running in the background. Constant. Unresolved.
So he did what high performers do: threw himself at fixing it.
Meditation. Retreats. Plant medicine. Spiritual frameworks. Therapeutic models. Years of intensive seeking.
Each approach produced insight. None ended the pattern.
Here’s what he eventually saw:
His nervous system was applying threat-based logic to internal sensations as if they were external dangers. The brain was running a Windshield Check on activation, creating targets, generating valleys to cross.
The mind was creating problems. Then selling solutions.
And every solution—therapy, meditation, spiritual practice—was another form of ownership. More thinking trying to undo what thinking created.
CLEAR SEEING documents what happened when that mechanism became visible. Not as theory. As lived experience. Fifty instances of the same pattern collapsing when sensation was felt directly instead of converted into problem.
Michael holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering. He built UNWIND—a web application designed to make the mechanism observable in real time. No interpretation. No reassurance. Just direct exposure of how the Windshield Check operates.
He lives on Ward’s Island near Toronto with his family. Sails. Plays hockey. Lives a normal life.
Patterns still arise. Activation still happens. What no longer runs is the war against experience.
He doesn’t teach enlightenment. He doesn’t offer techniques.
His work is for people who’ve read enough, understood enough, and tried enough—and are ready to see why none of it stuck.
For exhausted seekers who want the mechanism, not another map.
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