And so the form, which is there in the
collective uncon scious, the collective consciousness, social consciousness,
whatever you want to call it, is there in great detail. The pattern  of that and
the coming about of how the mechanics of that would happe n is already
there. If we buy into that thoug ht, if we go into agreement with it, it’s like
we bring it into our own unconscious and that then expresses itself within
the body . The body will do what  the mind believes. The healing of the body
then and the achievement of health, is achieved not by addressing the body
directly , but by addressing the mind. Moving right into the fields of
consciousness itself. If the body is expressing that which is held in consciousness, then what
we need to look at is what is being held in consciousness. Very often what’ s
being held in consciousness, we are not aware of. In that case, we call it
being unconscious of that. By looking at the body , we may have  no recall of
ever having had such a thought,  but the body is telling us what must be. It’s
like an X-ray . The X-ray is telling us what must be held in mind for this to
be prese nting itself in the body . If the person, let’s say develops clinical
diabetes, and he says, “I don’t remember anything in my family ever being
said about that. Nobody in my family had diabetes. I don’t see where it
could have arisen in my mind.” We know that somewh ere in the
unconscious is the belief in diabetes and all that goes with diabetes. If we do researc h with an indiv idual long enough and patiently enough,
we will uncover where the program came from. But what it tells us is that
the program is there, that the person thinks I am subject to that, and
therefore, the healing has to be of the belief system. We have to heal where
the origin of the illness starts. And so health comes out of mind. It comes
out of positive mental attitudes. It comes out of a field of consciousness. It
comes out of a level of conscio usness, which expresses itself on the lower
plane, the physical plane, as an expression of health coming out of these
fields above neutral. Out of willingness, out of the willingness to be
accepting, out of lovingness, out of inner joyfulness, and out of an inner
state of peace.That which is mental is in the 400s. Love is in the 500s, and of course
spirit is 600 and above. So therefore, the intellect is not man’s highest
faculty , contrary  to the age of reason and other learned works, or those
intellectuals who hold that the thing that differentiates man from the animal
is his intellect. The intellect is only in the 400s. There is something beyond
mind, beyond logic, beyond reason, where it jumps and transc ends into a
whole different paradigm, a whole different way of being. It’s necessary to
know about that. It’ s necessary to know then that which heals. It’ s necessary
to look at the contribution that is coming into an illness from these various
levels. We find that with an illness, if we don’t understand the illness , then we
will understand its reverse, which is health. These belief systems become
self-reinforcing. They become self-fulfilling prophecies. We hold the belief,
unwittingly , and it then manifes ts in our life. We look at that and we say,
“See.” And that justifies the belief system. By looking at our life, we can
tell what beliefs  we are holding. If we can’t recall them, then we say they’re
unconscious. Therefore, our movement is upward in consciousn ess. We said
health is the automatic expressio n of these higher energy fields. We see that
gratitude is at 540, forgivenes s is at 540, and healing is at 540. The
willingness to be forgiving and grateful in itself automatically begins to
heal. • • •
We need to talk about the energy field of love and what it means. It’s not
sentimentality . What the world calls love is coming out of an energy field of
dependency , control, sentimen talism, and emotionalism. An emotional,
sentimental attac hment in which there is control going back and forth, the
satisfaction of desiringness on both sides, is called love. It’s the Hollywood
version. When you hear somebody say, “I used to love Geor ge, but I don’t
anymore,” what they mean is that they never loved Geor ge. What that
means is they had a sentimental attachment. Sort of a solar plexus, kind of a
hanging onto, which the person  then romanticized and glamorized within
their life, and poured a lot of emotional energy into it. When that tie was
broken, up came a lot of negative emotion. The kind of love we’re talking about is unconditional love. What is
unconditional love? That’ s an inner decision that we make within ourselves.It’s coming out of the intention and the decision to be a loving person. If I
decide to love you, that is my inner decision. There is nothing you can do
about that. Therefore, I am not the victim of what goes on in the world,
because my decision to love creates a stable energy field of
unconditionality . The other person’s behavior may not please me, may not
contribute to what I desire, but it doesn’ t change the lovingness. The
mother , for instance, who visits  her son who is a murderer in prison for 20
years, loves the beingness, the ‘is-ness’, that which the person really is. Of
course, his behavior does not make her happy , but the love is unconditional,
no matter what he does. So, the closest to it that we see in our world is the
lovingness of the mother , which is unconditional. I’ve often used the lovingness of 12-Step groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous as an example of unconditional love. Unconditional love is not
concerned with what you have. The people at the lowe r levels of
consciousness are very concerned with havingness, and rate people back
and forth on what they have. People are preoccupied with doingness. And
people are rated and their status  depends on what they do, and all the titles
that go with their doingness. As you move toward the top, what people are
concerned with is what you are, what you have become. Your is-ness, your
beingness, that which you truly are. At that level, there is concern with a
person’ s status, their value, the kind of person that you are, that which you
have become. You have become that kind of person, and that is what is
valued. The willingness then to become a forgiving person who nurtures all
of life nonjudgmentally , automatically brings about withi n yourself,
because of the very healing nature of that energy field, a condition of good
health. We’re beginning to see the perfection of all things—how all things work
out for the good . How can illness be held in that context? Illness becomes
something that is coming up in order to be healed. We look at the illness
then as a lesson. The illness is saying, “Look at me. Please heal what I stand
for, what I symbolize. Please heal your guiltiness. Please heal your self-
hatred. Please heal your limiting thought forms. Please move up to loving
me so that I can be healed.” The illness is a demand to grow spiritually . It’s
an incessant gadfly that tells us that something needs to be looked at. Something need s to be held in a different way. You see, because it is not the
events of life, but how we hold them, that creates our reaction.Events in and of themselves have no power to affect how we feel one
way or another . It’s what our position is about them. It’s our judgment  about
them. It’s how we decide to be with them. It’s our attitude. It’s our point of
view . It’s the context, the overall meaning, that gives the event the
emotional powe r over us. We are the creator , then, of the mean ing, and the
impact that it has on us. Stress comes from that very thing. We give it
power over our lives, coming from the position of victim, putting the source
of happi ness outside of our life, denying the power of our own mind. The
healing comes about through the re-owning of the power , the realization
that we and we alone create the meaning of any circumstance, event, place,
position, thing, or person in our life. We are the ones who create the
meaning. Our position, the way we hold it—that either becomes  a source of
healing or a source of illness. W e are the ones who determine that. We begin to see that the body is like a little marionette. It sort of happily
goes about its way, coming out of these energy fields. It just sort of does
what it does automatically , witho ut much thinking. Being healthy means we
pay less and less attention to the body and that which we do, which the
world would call health-giving, is out of appreciation. It’s an expression of
how we are with that body . You see, we aren’ t giving away our power as
source. Being healthy means you’ve re-owned your power as source. We’re
not giving away the source of health of the body to the world. The
exercising we do is out of the joyfulness in experiencing the body . We don’t
say that swimming is what causes the body to be healthy . We come from the
position that because we enjoy the body , we enjoy its activity such as
swimming. Those activities, which the world considers healthy , then are coming out
of the expressio n of one’s inner  sense of aliveness. The joy is in allowing
the body ’s expression in ways that the world considers healt hy. It’s not
because they’re  causal; those expressions are the effect. The healthy
enjoyment of the body , then, is the effect of the mental attitude. And
therefore we come to a lovingness of the body . It’s not a narcissistic self-
glorification, or a muscle man picture in a magazine, but a pure lovingness
and gratitude. We think, Ah, body, you have served me well. I love you. I
appreciate you. I value you. If we put the source of our happiness on that
which is outside of ourselves—o ur job, our possessions, our relationships—
then we’re merely setting ourselves up for the laws of our health.What’ s going to come up, first of all, is fear of loss, even though that’s
not conscious. If the source of your happiness is your title, your address, the
kind of car that you have, or even your physical body , you are now
vulnerable. That vulnerability is in the unconscious, and it stores up a great
deal of fear. Therefore, people’ s lives become endlessly about reinforcing
and protecting themselves from the laws of those things upon which they
have put their survival. The healthy person realizes the true nature of who they really are—that
they are something far beyond that. They realize that they are the ones that
give those things value. Those things provide temporary enjoyment to them,
but their survival doesn’ t depen d on them. We said that when you move up
into this energy field called acceptance, one has stopped giving one’s power
away to the world. One has begun to accept that I am the source of my
happiness. If you put a person like that on a desert island and come back a
year later, they’ ll have a cocon ut business going and they’ll have found a
new relationship, and they’ll build a tree house in the tree, and they’ll be
teaching the children algebra. In other words, the capacity to recreate for
themselves, the source of happiness comes from the realization that I myself
am the source of that happiness . I myse lf am the source of healt h. It doesn’ t
depend on epidemics, it doesn’ t depend on what is out there in the world. It
doesn’ t depend on what I eat. When we really realize that, then we begin to transcend and no longer be
at the effect of all these false belief systems. Consciousness itself requires
something greater than itself, and that we call awareness. Aware ness is what
allows us to know what is going on in consciousness, reporting what is
happening withi n mind, which in turn is reporting what is happening via the
senses about the body . That which is essentially myself, then, is many levels
removed from the physical body. And it’s necessary for us to look at that
and get that correctly in mind, because now we see that it’s the mind that
has power over the body . We see the physics of it, that the energy fields of
the 400s just by their sheer power are greater than that of the physical body . The physical body does what the mind tells it to do. And therefo re, if the
mind says, I have this disease or that disease , the body comp lies. When we
look at this, we see the importan ce then of not buying into programs, all of
which are really limitations of the truth. We see the importance of
consciously canceling and saying something that is the truth. The truth is, “I
am an infinite being, not subject to that.”Let’s say we’re told that eggs are full of cholesterol, and choles terol will
give you heart disease. If you buy into the thought form, that belief system,
what happens is that the body agrees. You can experiment with this because
I’ve done it. And at one time I had very high cholesterol. And I began to
cancel the belief system. I kept saying, “I’m an infinite being. I’m not
subject to that. I’m only subject to what I hold in mind. This does not apply
to me. And I hereby cancel it and refuse it.” If the mind can empower you
with a negative  belief system, it can reverse itself. Therefore, you begin
telling yourself that they have no effect on you, that that’s only a belief
system. When I go into agreement with a belief, I give it the power of the
collective energy of that belief. When I refuse it, then I release myself from
the collective energy of that belief system. One attitude then is to not buy
into agreement with negative belief systems having to do with your health. This is very important when it comes to epidemics, the hysteria. The
programming that comes in is aided and abetted by an emotional program. All of this contributing then is setting the stage. You have the mental belief
system coming out of an energy field in the 400s, you have fear about it
coming out of a negative 100s,  and you have the guilt coming out of the
minus 30s. You have the exact setup for that, because the mind  will choose
that which it is impressed with. It will use that as a form of expression. In
the case of the cholesterol, the experiment I did with that, with my own self,
was to cancel the thought every time it came up. And as time went by, the
cholesterol level came down, and I could then eat three eggs for breakfast
every single morning, with lots of cheese. I live on a high cholesterol diet,
and yet my cholesterol is low , sometimes even below normal for my age. The body will do exactly what the mind believes. And, of course, we
have a credibilit y problem here. The person says, “Oh, how could just my
belief in that make it happen within my life?” It’s because of the nature of
the unconscious . It creates the opportunity for that to happen. We certainly
see that in accidents. If the person is accident prone, that’s the form that it
has taken in that person’ s mind . Unconsciously , they just managed to get
their body into the right place at the right time to get hit by the fender of the
car, slip down the stairs, or get hit in the head. Don’ t worry about how the
mind will find a way. The mind will find a way. People will just slip into
sort of a hypnotic trance and expose themselves to the correct opportunities
to make that manifest within their life.We know for instance, with the cold virus, there’ s many experiments
where we take 100 subject volunteers, and expose them to a very heavy
dose of cold virus. And we see that not everybody gets the cold virus. Only
a certain percentage will always  get it, only certain percent. In other words,
if the power was in the virus rather than within consciousn ess, all 100
would get it, because that virus would be so potent. Actually , what happens
is maybe only 65 percent will get it, a third don’t believe in it. There is
sufficient doubt within the mind. There’ s insuf ficient, unconscious guilt. It’ s
not acceptable to the person to express it in that form. And so nothing is
universal. W e see the same thing with healings. Every medical treatment has only a certain percentage of people  who will
respond. And what is the difference? It is because the others don’t have
sufficient unconscious guilt. It’s not operative. This particular illness
doesn’ t fit any particular thoug ht form that they have bough t into. Both
sides of it, the sickness and the healing, are reflecting then the energy that
we’ve put into a certain belie f system. We see then that health is the
willingness to let go of buying into negativity . Why should a person buy into negativity anyway? Why is it some people
are so programmable? W e know people that go into hysteria every time they
open a magazine. The latest illness sends them into a panic. And it has to do
then with the amount of fear and the amount of guilt. The amou nt of fear is
really coming out of the amount of unconscious guilt. It’s as though the
person knows what to be afraid of. It’ s as though they’re only too aware that
because they have so much of this, for them to even hear about it and
become mentally programmed, is almost enough to make it happen in their
life. What does this tell us then about the steps toward optimal health ? We see
power in the willingness to adopt mental attitudes that are positive and
constructive, and letting go of the negative ones. We see how buying into
negative programming impacts the power of mind. Going into denial and
blaming it on others is giving your power away . We see that these energy
fields below courage are all levels in which the person has become a victim. What’ s happened is they’ve given their power away and put it on something
outside of themselves. And these people in these lower levels have said to
themselves unconsciously , the source of my happiness is outside of myself. They’ve put their survival on something outside of themselves.As we move into the levels of truth above the levels of courage , and the
energy fields are now going positive, we see that the person is re-owning
their power . The person is saying, “I and I alone have the power to create
happiness and opportunity in my life. It is coming from within me.” And so
these people then own that health is something that comes from within. They see they are not the victim  of viruses, accidents, cholesterol, or uric
acid levels. They’re not the victim of those things. When we re-ow n our own power , we say, “Hey , it’s my mind that’s been
creating that. My mind believe s that eating liver and kidneys is going to
give you a high uric acid level , and that’s going to give you an attack of
gout. My mind is so powerful that if I believe that it will literally make it
happen.” That’ s a hard thing for many people to accept, that their mind has
that much power . • • •
The next thing the mind says is, “I don’t want to give up the pleasure of
eating.” Sounds like you’re going to come into a loss, right? You’re not
going to be able to enjoy a malted milk or hot fudge sundae or a hambur ger
smothered in onions? Quite the contrary . What happens to the enjoyment of
eating once you do this is that appetite arises out of the eating itself. I’ll sit
down with no hunger and no appetite at all. But the minute I begin to eat, it
creates appetite. And the pleasur e of eating is more than it ever was. I enjoy
food now more than I ever did, because it’s not accompanied by guilt
anymore. It’s not accompanied by self-blame or anxiety . I don’t worry if
I’m eating too many calories or going to gain weight. Those worries are
eliminated. So you’re not going to give up the pleasure of eating at all. You’ll find that when you eat, that you’re enjoying the food considerably . You start enjoying the food the minute you take a bite. There’ s no loss of
enjoyment. I don’t believe in letting go of enjoyment and pleasure. On the
contrary , I believe in increasing it. You can have the enjoyment and the pleasure of eating, as well as the
enjoyment and pleasure and pride in having a body that’s more appropriate
to your own aesthetic ambitions. It has nothing to do with your self-worth. It has nothing to do with the fact that you’re self-indulgent. It has nothing to
do with oral narcissistic needs or whatever the psychoanalytic theory might
be—oral aggres sion, oral passivity—it’ s got nothing to do with that. Itmerely has to do with this simpl e, very primary type of conditio ning, which
has been favored in our society . You picked it up from your own social
conditioning as a child. That’ s all. The body is experienced in mind, and the
mind is experienced in consciousness. Where you’re really experiencing
that, what you’v e called hunger in the past, is in your consciou sness. And
where is that localized? You’ll notice that it’s only a belief system that
hunger is experienced in the stomach. It’s actually experienced everywhere. The thought that it is in the stomach is just a belief system from  childhood. The body cannot experience anything. Hunger is experienced  in a more
diffused, generalized area. Another techniq ue in letting go of suffering of any kind, whether it’s pain
or illnes s or physical symptoms (in this case, what we’ve been calling
hunger), is knowing that it is nothing but a physical symptom. As I said, it
is being experienced in a diffused kind of way. It’s being experienced
everywhere. Because where do we experience all experience? Actually , it’s
being experienced in an everywhereness rather than a localized situation. The localization is coming from the strong belief systems. W e have all these
thoughts from childhood. As we let go resisting the energy of this sensation,
it finally disappears. • • •
It’s generally thought that these negative feelings are the cause of weight
problems. If you look into it, you’ll see, this is really not so. You’ll see that
negative feelings are the reaction  to the weight problem. Most of us have
been down at the level of guilt. Guilt is an energy field of 30. It’s very
weak. If you try to handle your weight problem or any problem at all—
alcohol, relation ships, you name it—from the level of guilt, you can see
how much energy you’ve got to work with. You’ve got like 30 bucks, as
compared to love, which is 500 bucks. So, 30 bucks isn’t going to buy you
much progress in anything. Not only that, but the energy field is negative,
meaning you’re going to feel lousy about the whole thing. You’re going to
be full of self-h atred, and actually the process itself is destruc tive. People
have actually committed suicide over their weight problems, their self-
indulgence. Even if you don’t handle it from guilt, you move up to
hopelessness, which has an energy field of 50. This means my case is
hopeless. I’ve tried all the diets. I’ve lost the energy to even address thisproblem anymore. I’m the victim of it, and I just surrender to it and give up. I am hopeless. The next level above it is grief. This is the depression about the problem:
the regret, feeling despondent and dispirited, or the fear of the problem and
its consequences. These are all negative feelings, which include thoughts
like I’m going to die of a heart attack  or This disease is going to kill me. This field is full of worry , anxiety, and panic. And of course your self-
esteem is deflated. People with a weight problem often socially withdraw . They compensate in other ways because they feel inadequate due to this
energy field. They’re not inadequate people at all; it’s just that they’re
holding that about their situatio n, and then the negativity of it affects their
emotions. And we move up to the next field, which is anger . The person is angry
about their weight problem, they resent it, they’re full of grievances about
it. At 150, they’re probably going to be more effective utiliz ing anger—
certainly instead  of guilt or hopelessness. If you’re angry enough about
your weight problem, you can move up to pride, which is 175. There’ s a lot
of powe r in pride, but you try to move through pride. It’s not exactly a great
place to hang out in, because of the inflation of the ego that happens there,
so you hopefully move up to courage. Now that you know some tools that are really going to work, you have
the courage to try them out. Courage is at 200, which is a lot of power as
compared to 30 or 50. Courage enables you to face, to cope, to handle, and
what happens there is you become empowered. The truth of it is, you
haven’ t known how to handle it up to now, otherwise you would have
handled it. That’ s the truth of it. You use these releasing techn iques, these
letting-go techniques, and you become detached from the whole problem. If
the weight stays, it stays, and if it doesn’ t stay, it doesn’ t make any
difference. At this point, you say, it’s not apathy , it’s not hopel essness. On
the other hand, you’re released from the weight problem, and therefore
you’re feeling good, and you move up to a willingness. Willingness at 310 is a lot of energy. Compare it to guilt, compare it to
grief. You see how much power you’ve got now. And here you’re in
agreement, you’re aligned with this technique. Your intention is finally up. You’re finally going to handle it, and you accept that it can be handled. You
realize that you’re an adequate person, and you start becoming confident. And there’ s a transformation now occurring because you realiz e the powerto handle this is within you and you start moving up into lovingness. The
desire to really love yourself. To love this body , now that you don’t identify
with it as me. This body is not me. You take off my left leg, I’m still me. You get that the me is me, and I’m not the body . So whether it weighs 200
pounds, or 85 pounds, that whic h I am is unassailable, and I must learn to
love that body now. You begin to really value it, and see that it’s just an
enjoyable little puppet. The body goes about its way, and the less attention
you pay to it, the better it really  handles itself. It just does what it’s doing
automatically . And if you get to love the body , your brain begins to release endorphins. When endorphins are released, a process goes on in consciousness called
revelation. You begin to see things differently . What do you see differently? You see how wonderful your little body is. You begin to love it and get a
kick out of it. When you’re overweight, are you getting a kick out of your
body? No. Every time you look at it, it throws you back into guilt again. At
this level, you start getting a kick out of it. You start getting playful with it,
sort of a joyfulness. A joyfulness and a happiness about the body . It
bounces around , and you’re just sort of dimly aware of it, because you’re
experiencing your existence from a position of allness. Once you become
conscious about where experience is happening, you get that experience is
happening everywhere. You begin to identify with everywhereness, instead
of stomachness or bulgeness, all those localized things. That which I am is a
conscious being . Consciousness is everywhere. I begin to experience my
existence as being almost everywhere in space. We start to come from the Heart about it then. Heart with a capital H.
Heart not meaning the physical or gan, Heart meaning that quality of valuing
your existence. Coming from that greatness, coming from the bigness,
coming from the joy of alivene ss, and seeing the body as a contributor to
that, as something that’s enjoyable. It’s something that you can have fun
with, something you can play with, and something to have a good time
with. It’s really  fun to sit down and watch this phenomena happen. It’s
really joyful. Within a day or two, it’s all over. Within a couple of days,
once you’re released off this appetite hunger cycle, the rest of it is
automatic. Y ou don’ t have to do another thing. It’s different than being at the effect of, or run by the guilt. Now you have
choice. Another trick that works is to put an envelope inside your
refrigerator . In the envelope, place a picture of yourself as you as an adult,so that you remember you’ve got a choice of whose arm is going to be
reaching into the refrigerator . Keep the kid out, because the kid is going to
help himself to whatever he wants. The whole thing  becomes a very enjoyable experience, one in which you
truly begin to love yourself. The basis of all these self-healing  techniques
that we talk about are merely ways of loving yourself, ways of really
beginning to value yourself, and that which you really are in truth. You’ll see that the mind, the ego has played a trick on you. You think that
you make a decision, and then the body does that. Actually , it’s doing it by
itself, it’s on automatic. Once you’ve released it out of a nega tive pattern,
the body will just handle itself very well. We know this with scientific
experiments with young children . If you allow them to spontaneously select
their diet, they will automaticall y select a balanced diet. So you begin to get
a return of faith in nature. You allow the body now to sort of be itself. That
which is natural within the body itself will automatically handle its
nutritional needs. Once we get off the social programming, then that which is automatically
self-healing and healthy within the body takes over. It looks after itself, and
it chooses what it needs to eat and what it wants to eat. And it does
extremely well. My body eats lots of cholesterol, and it loves cheese and
eggs, and my diet would make any dietitian faint. Any nutritionist I’m sure
would faint when they see what I have for breakfast. And yet the
cholesterol is normal, the blood sugar is normal, all the blood chemistries
are normal. I have a faith, then you might say, in the God within nature
itself, with the body being part of the beautiful nature of this planet. • • •
One of the best ways to handl e depression is to discuss it with other
people. People will give you feedback. There’ s a trust in the general human
energy. There is really a surprisi ng willingness to help other human beings. I discovered that in New Y ork City . For instance, if you’re feeling down and
you’re standing outside of a building and there’ s a doorman, and you say to
the doorman, “I don’t know what’ s wrong with me, I’m really feeling down
today ,” surprisingly , the doorma n will usually say to you, “Yeah, I get those
periods too and here’ s what I do about it . . .” There’ s a general helpfulness
in mankind that you don’ t realize until you call upon it.I think joining a therapeutic organization can also help. People go to
church, or group therapy , where  there is some kind of group dynamic. The
12-Step groups have been one of the most profoundly power ful ways of
overcoming a great variety of problems, social isolation among others. There are great many avenues for help in today’ s world that really didn’ t
exist when I was younger . • • •
There’ s actually a physiologic change in the brain that occurs as a result
of beco ming spiritually oriented, spiritually committed, joining spiritual
groups, practicing spiritual principles, just simply praying, genuflecting—
all things that are symbolic of acknowledgment of the presence of God as
divinity . They begin to transform  you. You begin to experience  and see the
world differently . A lot of peopl e live in pride . Let’s take spiritually
oriented people: at 500 and over, the chances are probably 90 percent that
you’re relatively happy . You’re  so used to being happy that if you’re not
happy for a moment, you think you’re unhappy . When you get a negative
thought like that you ask God to remove it, “Dear God, please help me to
get over this angry thought, and replace it with a pleasant thought.”
I believe calling upon God is the most powerful and effective energy
field that’s available to you. And then because of divinity , you then have the
courage to speak to another human being about the fact that you’re feeling
down, and you get a chance to talk about it. And when you talk about it,
somehow the feeling diminishe s. Any feeling that you have, if you talk
about it, eventually you run it out. You can only feel so depres sed about a
certain number of things, and after you get through talking abou t it, you sort
of work out that depression. That’ s one of the reasons psychotherapy works, because you have a
chance to share your concerns with another human being, and a
psychotherapist has your well-being as his or her primary goal. It’ s useful. ACTIVE AND P ASSIVE SUICIDE
Passive suicide is not resisting the negative within you. Active suicide is
seeking it. There’ s more of an emer gency response. The activ e suicide is
more like an emer gency response of desperation. Passive suicide is morefailing to take the necessary measures to survive. And of course, passive
suicide is a guiltless way of doing it, whereas active suicide would make
you feel guilty . There’ s a moral  objection to active suicide. Passive suicide
is a way of getting around the moral dilemma and being able to excuse it. That it’s the world that did it, not you. People stop eating, and they stop
taking whatever medications they need, and they don’t do what’ s necessary
to survive. If you picture the source of happiness is something out there, well, what
happens if you lose that something out there? The title, money , job,
relationship? Again, you have to see that the source of happiness is really
within you. Even if there was something outside of you, that was only the
trigger . The source of happ iness was still within you, and the
accomplishment of something in the external world merely released it. What it released  is the capacity to experience happiness that emanates from
within. And all the external was, was a trigger . In other words, money can’t make you happy . If I say to somebody ,
“Here’ s a million dollars,” and I hand them a briefcase full of money , the
person feels instantly happy . But their life doesn’ t change. They’re just
sitting in the same chair , with the same bills. It’s the thought—the thought
that now they’re suddenly going to be rich—that makes them very happy . What made them happy was this wild and crazy thought that money is
going to make them happy . It wasn’t the money , after all; it was the thought of it. If you put the
source of happin ess in something outside of you, then you live in the fear of
losing that whatever it is outside of you. If you see that the source of
happiness is only within yourself, all the external did was release something
that is internal to begin with. Nothing out there can make you happy . Nothing can make you happy in the world. Why? Because happiness
radiates from within. All I could  do is trigger that potentiality within you. If
I tell you there’ s a lot of money in this case, and I’m putting it up in the
closet, and if you need it, it’ll always be here, you’ll feel happy . You’ll feel
safe and secure. It doesn’ t have anything to do with whether there’ s real
money in there or not. The belief  that there’ s money in there is all you need. There was a famous story from many years ago, Mama’ s Bank Account. A family was very worried during the Great Depression. Everybody was
very poor, and sort of panicked. Mama said, “Well, don’t worry about it
because if we really needed the money for that, I’ll get it from my bankaccount.” Every body would calm down. The son said, “If I lose my job,
we’re not going  to be able to pay the rent.” Mama went, “Never mind, I’ll
get it from my bank account.” The family would lose this fear from just the
idea of it, that Mama’ s bank account could solve their problems. And then
after Mama finally died, they found out she never even had a bank account. Underneath the depression, there is a fear or a combination of fears. And
one way out of the depression is to look at all the fears that you’re handling,
and forget about the depression and just handle the fears. And if you handle
the fears and look at the fears and resolve them, the depression will
disappear . So clinically , depression is always based on a fear: a fear that
you’re not good enough, that you will not accomplish, a fear of the future, a
fear of God’ s punishment, a fear of self-approval. If you handle the fears,
the depression will disappear . • • •
Health then comes out of a positive mental attitude. That’ s the thing
we’ve heard many times, haven’ t we? In fact, many people are annoyed by
this idea, because that infers if I have a sickness, I don’t have a positive
mental attitude. Let’s look at mental attitude then. Let’s look at what is
meant by that and the part that plays in health, and freedom of sickness and
suffering. We said the one thing that goes on in the unhealthy person is this
unconscious guilt. The cure for that is the willingness to be forgiving, to
actually take courses in forgiven ess if that is necessary , such as A Course in
Miracles , which is specifically designed to let go of that tendency of the
mind, to criticize, to attack, and to judge. The willingness then is to let go of
judgmentalism. Now the mechanism is unconscious. The person may not
see the connection between the fact that their mind is critical, judgmental. If
your mind is critical and judgmental of others, of course, it is critical and
judgmental of yourself. The creation of the unconscious guilt then goes up a certain energy which
expresses itself through the autonomic nervous system, and the acupuncture
energy system. That is the cure of that. The contribution from  mind, the
belief system, we said is the power of refusal to deny it. The willingness to
own back your power now, that it is the mind and the mind itself that is the
cause of the illness. The willingness to give up the position of victim. Thewillingness to re-own one’s own power is part and parcel of the third thing
that’s necessary  for health, and that is one’s overall spiritual growth and
development. It is the overall moving out of these negative energy patterns,
the willingness to face truths within ourselves, and the moving into a
positive ener gy field. This can be done rather rapidly . How so? Because willingness, you see, is
the key. Through the willingness to look at it, the willingness to say, “Well,
I don’t really believe this, but it is said that my mind has the power to create
an illnes s within my body . So I’m willing to look at that, because I have an
open mind. I have an open mind, and I’m willing to agree my intention
aligns then, and I begin to move into accepting that which I discover . I
begin to find that moving into a lovingness has a curative and healing
power .” And how do we do that? We do that with our willingness to
forgive, and if we do that we can quickly move ourselves into the
willingness to be compassionate. What does comp assion mean? Compassion means the willingn ess to see
the innocence within all thing s. That coincides with the willingness to
forgive. Out of compassion comes the power , the capacity , coming out of
our inten tion, to really see into the hearts of others. And when we see into
the hearts of others, what we discover is the innocence of the child within
each and every one of us. Because it is intrinsic to the nature of
consciousness itself, that intrinsic innocence, which never dies, no matter
how long we live. The innocence of the child is what brought the mistake,
which brought the negative program in the first place. It’s being aware that that intrins ic innocence of the child is ever with us. It’s the innocence of the child that sits there in front of the television set,
and buys the negative programming, out of its naivete, out of its lack of
discernment. The innocence of the child has no warning within it. Nothing
within the innoc ence of the child thinks, This is a world that is out there to
program you with as much negativity as you’r e willing to buy . In fact, it gets
well paid to do that, because advertising is usually based on playing off of
these negative energy fields—a ll of our fears, all of our desires, all of our
pridefulness. The willingness then is to be aware that within us is our
innocence, and understand that the innocence needs to be protected. We come into what’ s called self-care. Self-care, the capacity to love
oneself now, means taking responsibility to protect ourselve s from that
innocence, and the willingness to undo the mistakes that the mind picked upas a result of its innocence. We can handle now looking at ourselves and
healing that which we find within us, if we’re coming from the compassion
of the awareness of the intrinsi c innocence of our consciousness. We see
that it was innoc ence that God programmed. Now we take responsibility for
that and we say, “Well, in my innocence, I bought all that. In my innocence,
I didn’t know any better . In my innocence, I thought that the right thing to
do was to be judgmental, to condemn people, to judge them as right and
wrong. Now , I see that that has made me sick, and so I’m going to let it go.”
This capacity then to be forgiving is within us. The capacity for
compassion, out of it comes a general attitude, a way in which we look at
ourselves. From our bigness, from our greatness, we look at our humanness
through forgiving eyes, and we begin to forgive ourselves for all the things
that were limitations and denials of the truth. The body is reflecting what the mind believes, and the mind is reflecting
our spiritual position. Spirit has the greatest power of all. And therefore, our
spiritual positio n literally determines whether we will have a healthy
physical body or not. Once we’re willing to accept the power of mind, now
we have to be attentive, and we have to persevere, and we can’t let it get
away with expressing negativity  without stopping it. We get to develop an
ear for negativity and begin to recognize it for what it is. We let go of false
humility , and we start questioning such remarks like, I’m not very bright  or
My handwriting is poor  or I gained so much weight. The minute we hear ourselves saying these limiting, self-defeating, self-
attacking thoughts, they have to be stopped and canceled. The handwriting
is poor, because  there’ s a belief  system that I have poor handwriting, and
not vice versa. What we’re doing then, is reversing the whole programming
of the mind as far as cause and effect. We’re coming back to a principle that
you can demonstrate through your own experience, that the physical is the
expression of the mental, and not vice versa. It isn’t that we came to the
conclusion that our handwriting is poor because our handwriting is poor. The handwriting is poor because the cause was in mind, the belief system,
perhaps a remark picked up in childhood. Somebody says your handwriting
is poor , from that point on that program now becomes operative. OceanofPDF .comChapter 10
ENLIGHTENMENT
In this final chapter in The Wisdom of Dr. David R. Hawkins, Dr.
Hawkins expan ds his view from one of individual enlightenment to
enlightenment on a national and global level. And as you’ll learn in the
sections that follow , enlightenment on any level of life experience is
achieved by applying the same spiritual principles. The challenge for each of us is to become an enlightened leader
ourselves, so we can inspir e a generation of enlightened leade rs, who can
help to raise the calibration level of our country , and ultimately our world. Dr. Hawkins begins this section  by discussing the ever-divided political
climate, and concludes on a spirit of unity with a prayer to send you happily
and courageously further down the path to enlightenment. In recen t years, the political dialogue has calibrated at consciousness level
200. In my generation, the political dialogue calibrated at about 280 or 290,
so it’s of a lower nature now. It’s just on the edge of 200, neither good nor
bad, but at the same time, neither one. It’s because of the influence of the media, which we just discus sed in the
previous chapter . People are not interested in what you are in reality . They’re interest ed in what kind of an image is projected of you. The
projected image  is what they are hoping will sway the populace. And as I
say, it’s done by popularity , not by capability . It’s like being the most
popular surgeon on the staff. It doesn’ t mean you’re the best one. When Iget operated on for a brain tumo r, I’m not interested in a popularity contest,
I’m interested in expertise. Our society is not looking at expertise; they’re looking at popularity . They figure popularity is what gets the votes, so the aim of the political
dialogue then is being very conscious of the media and then trying to play
the media and play to people’ s prejudices and belief systems  rather than
lead them. Some people think this is a great emer gence forward, but it is
not. It’s just a play on popularity . We have sexism and racism, and then, of
course, we have ageism. All these -isms are battling for each other . As we
say, the minute you add -ism to the end of a thing, it drops below 200. The
actual impact of the dialogue is below 200. In the media, we see people
trying to suppre ss certain things and amplify other things. It’s sort of the
usual manipulation. The desire for political office is ravenous, and once people are bitten by
it, it seems like they will do or say anything to get into that office. As I say,
the minute you get elected, 50 percent of the people hate you because they
all voted against you. Why the office is so popular is hard to say . . . narcissism, I guess. I would view the office as being one of responsibility , that you’re elected
because of the recognition of your capability to be the best leader at the
time. And of course, I, having lived through a different generation, I
remember the start of World War II. Winston Churchill was drafted to be
who he was because of his capability , not his popularity . After winning the
war, in the next election, after saving their lives, the populace did not vote
him in. That was the thanks he got, the thanks he got for engineering the
winning of the war and holding the British people together . With
consciousness level 500, they didn’t even re-elect him! That was a real kick
in the head, wasn’ t it? You sacrifice everything for your country to save
your country , and they don’t even re-elect you, which is what I think about
politics. Integrity is upfront; character and integrity plus capability . You would
want somebody with great expe rience and great integrity and a good sense
of reality , who understands politics and who’ s been in it long enough. Y ou’d
just be looking for positive characteristics. Now , none  of those
characteristics have anything to do with race or gender . Gender doesn’ t
make you a better politician, neither does race or color or age or any ofthose things, any more than it would make you a better physician. I don’t
care what color a brain sur geon is. I want the best brain sur geon around. • • •
The political form of democracy doesn’ t last more than a couple of
hundred years. And sometimes it only survives because it’s restricted or put
in other directio ns. Democracy is how old in our country? And it still seems
to be operating quite well. But the more ignorant people, the more selfish
people, the people who have lower levels of consciousness, are going to
vote based on personal gain. They are not voting for the good of the
community , the good of the populace, out of good will, or health, or public
relations, but out of selfishness. Calibration levels below 200 are all narcissistic. It’s all me, me, me, what
can I get? The higher the level of it, the greater the percentage of the
population is below 200, the greater the danger to the survival of
democracy . At this point, they neglect their duties to society , to their fellow
Americans. They make decisions based on certain intrinsic values. So when we talk about raising consciousness, it sounds sort of
purposeful, like we’re going to do this and then the consciousness is going
to raise. But what you do is you reaffirm the value of that which is
integrous. Y ou reaf firm it by constant respect. WAR AND PEACE
People think war and peace are opposites. They’re not opposites at all. People think if nobody’ s getting shot, you have peace. You don’t have
peace. Because that which lives off war is very alive. In fact, war has peace
demonstrations. Peace is the natural state when  truth prevails. It’s the field. In the field
itself, the natural state is peace. When truth prevails, you automatically
have peace. War has nothing to do with violence. It has to do with the
automatic condition when false hood prevails. The opposite of war is not
peace. Therefore, the basis of war, if it’s falsehood, would be ignorance, the
inability to tell truth from falsehood. The stunning thing about Power vs. For ce—I can say that because there’ s
no me to feel egotistical about it, I was simply the witness to the writing ofPower vs. Force—was it discerned for the first time in all of human history
how to tell the truth from falsehood. The karma of mankind changed with
that book. Until that point, nobody , nowhere in time could tell the
difference between truth and falsehood, except an advanced mystic, and
they stayed in safe places. They didn’ t get on the front lines. The basis of war then is ignoran ce. When you watch the history of Nazi
Germany on the History Channel, how the Hitler Youth grew up, it breaks
your heart because they thought they were going to Boy Scout camp. They
had fires and they held hands and they did brave things for the fatherland. You can see the innocence. The human mind is incapable of telling truth
from falsehood because it’s only hardware. And what society puts in is
software. The hardware is uncha nged. A Course in Miracles  says innocence
is untarnished no matter what. The hardware is not affected by the software. Society puts in the software. You can take these innocent children. In the last century , 100 million
people have died because of that innocence, 100 million. And Jesus Christ
said, “There’ s only one problem : ignorance. Forgive them. They know not
what they do.” Ignorance. Buddha said, “Only one sin, ignorance.”
THE 7 STEPS T O BENEFIT THE WORLD
#1: Form an Advisory Council
Well, this isn’t going to please everyone, but any kind of academic study
or clinical study comes out with recommendations at the end, based on
these findings. As I have recommended, before you invest money in
research it is very important to calibrate the level of integrity of the research
design, the researcher , the intention of the study . We did a study in
international politics, the levels of various governments, types of
government, political leaders going all the way back in history . We ended
up with what we thought was maybe a basic structure for a science of
diplomacy based not on perception and the media image, but on the reality . Studying our own society from a political viewpoint and others, and
looking at the history of war, and analyzing the details of various wars, you
see, we arrived at some suggestions.The level of knowledge of the affairs about which they legisla te among
politicians is extremely low. For instance, they pass laws on medicine and
all kinds of aspects of society , international commerce, et cetera, and yet
their knowledge of these things is abysmal. The catastrophes of society and civilization have been made over and
over again. If we calibrate the various forms of government, we find that
democracy is near the top, but not the actual top. Interestingly , we find that
a gover nment based on an advisory council, or a so-called oligarchy ,
calibrates even higher . An adva nce of five degrees or five points is quite
significant. If we look at political systems, we just calibrate them abstractly . We see that oligarchy at 415 is the highest of all these areas. Democracy is
at 410, which is quite high. Iroquois Nation is about 400, coalition 345,
socialism 300, monarchy 200, et cetera. It goes down from there. Oligarchy is a very ancient system. It’s not familiar to Americans. The
survival of most tribal society is based on the wisdom and sagacity of the
tribal elders, who are revered. The chief is not the same as the oligarchic
council of the elders. What our country seems to lack is a counc il of elders. We have  a cabinet. All the political power positions are political appointees. What’ s important is which party you belong to and who your friend is and
who are you obligated to. In essence, who do you have to pay off? Because
of my own particular alignment toward integrity and truth, and what is
beneficial to society and the world, without any particular positionality , my
belief is that we need a counc il of the elders. Now , the equivalent of a
council of the elders is an advisory council. In the old days, a true oligarchy , the council of the elders, has the power . Because of the nature of our government, this really couldn’ t be
operationally done. Our const itution is not set up for that. However ,
something beyond the cabinet level is needed. This has to be made up of
statesmen and not politicians. A statesman calibrates much higher than a
politician, because the politician has an agenda. A statesman, Churchill,
held together the British peopl e during World War II. That’ s a spiritual
energy, you see. An advisory council is composed of people who have nothing more to
gain. They’ve got it made. They don’t need anything. So what do you do
when you’ve got it all? You offer yourself to be of service. Take people
who’ve been extremely success ful in business: They don’t need any more
money , titles, or power . But they do have wisdom. How do you build thebiggest giant corporation in the world? How do you make General Motors
run? You take the wisdom of these people who have nothing personally to
gain, which they share with each other about the country’ s problems, and
then they’re available as consultants to the politicians. They’re not going to
tell you what to do, but they will see that if you make this move, you’re
forgetting about this other consequence. A real statesman would point out,
“I would make that move, but I would do it slow so that you don’t create
the opposition. You’re going to create a counter wave. You’re going to
defeat yourself. You’re going to get the propositions through the first vote. But then the repercussion is going to hit, and they’re going to wipe you out
again.”
The advisory council is there to guide in policy and decision-making
because they can contextualize it, tell you what’ s the upside, the downside. #2: Learn how to diagnose malignant messianic narcissism,
and thereby identify and counter dangerous leaders before they
threaten the world. This is crucial. This is a matter of public education. As you get more
advanced, then the capacity to recognize and identify this psych opathology ,
parading as some politician, grows. If people are attuned and aware of this,
they begin to recognize it early  in the game, not after the narcissists have
established the Gestapo or the OGPU, not after they’ve killed off all the
best generals, not after they’ve  exterminated all the intellectuals, and not
after they’ve transported all the Jews out of Germany , not after they’ve
sacrificed all kinds of things in their society . Then, belatedly , they might
say, “Oh boy, did we ever make a mistake?” The death of 10 million. It
takes the death of 10 million people before people begin to wonder , “Gee, I
wonder if we made the right decision.”
That’ s one thing  that an advisor y council does, is make people  aware in
the diplomatic world of what it is you’re dealing with. You hear silly
propositions like, “If we’re sweet and nice to them, they’ll love us.” You
know that’s ridiculous. If you calibrate that right now, you’ll get no. The
malignant kind of pseudo masculinity hates the feminine. You’re talking
from the feminin e to a consciousness that hates  the feminine. You calibrate
the posit ion of women and child ren in those repressive, totalitarian cultures,and they’re abou t the level of dogs. They’re not allowed to own anything,
go out in public, go anywhere, be anything. To survive then, there has to be
a means to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic narcissism before
it’s out of hand, because once they’ve killed off all the intellectuals, and all
the people who are capable of recognizing it, it’ s too late. The cost of not being able to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic
narcissism cost 100 million lives in the last century . In my lifetime, 100
million people went to their deaths for this one single ignorance. And it’s so
easy to diagnose. #3: Identify dangerously fallacious ideologic trends before they
become epidemics. Fallacy masquer ades as truth, and the naive mind, and especiall y the evil
mind, is unable to discern truth from falsehood. That which can be sold as
plausible is sold as chic, superior , and elite. And it’s brought down the
calibration level of the integrity of academia. And now you see academics
saying things that are so outrage ous that even a grade school child wouldn’ t
believe it, and they’re taking it seriously . We have  a different syndrome, you see, and that is the distortion of truth
to subse rve egoistic ends. In my books, we’ve traced recent philosophies,
calibrated all the most prominent philosophers who promulgate  the various
versions of relativism, and what you end up with is the distorted
hermeneutics of relativistic epistemology . In layman’ s terms, that means
how to distort truth in such a way that you’re like Alice in Wonderland and
you say, “Well, the thing means what I mean it to mean.” It doesn’ t mean
what it means in the dictionary . Let’s take it to its extreme. Now you have
freedom of speech, and you can say, “Well, speech is also expression.” So
speech means expression. It means you can do anything you want,
anywhere, and any time you want. When does speech stop being speech? If
we interpret speech means expression, then expression is action, and
therefore the Ku Klux Klan is quite legal, isn’t it? So is sedition, so is
treason. So why not assassinati on? Oh, because there you hurt somebody
else. Is that the only line between truth and falsehood? You can do, say,
behave in any way so long as it doesn’ t injure somebody else physically . That brings us down to the very lowest dimension. That’ s lower than
primitive tribes. Primitive tribes operated at a much higher level of moralintegrity and social responsibil ity than whether or not your behavior is
going to cause an actual physical ener gy. #4: Contract the expertise of a very successful private
enterprise to conduct vital operations. An advisory council identifies this trend. By calibrating levels of
consciousness, you can calibrate the energy of these various philosophies. The consequence of the perpetrators and supporters of relativism linking up
with fascist theocracies in the far right are sufficient to destroy this
civilization we call America. Now calibrate that. It’s the combination of those two, by means of
iteration, nonlinear dynamics. One principle is sensitive dependence on
initial conditions. If you have a defect in the 26th decimal point, which
occurred in one of the most famous computers of recent times, you might
say, “Oh, well, the twenty-sixth decimal point, so what.” But by iteration,
meaning by pushing that key tens of millions of times, you can bring down
an entire  building. The combination of those two together , I’ll tell you as a
self-appointed member of the advisory council, is sufficient to bring down
our society. Before they become epidemic, the council would spot this. I
think it’s very neat from observation to have our calibrations to utilize
private enterprise to conduct vital operations in business. #5: Utilize an accurate, sophisticated intelligence capability ,
using consciousness calibration techniques to tell us what in
the world is actually going on. Let’s look at the intelligence operations traditionally . If you operated a
private big corpo ration, and you didn’ t know what your competition was up
to, you’d soon be bankrupt. The calibrated level of integ rity of our
intelligence operations, before Pearl Harbor , 9/11, and so on, was a
complete and total failure. An advisory council, which has nothing to gain or nothing to lose, would
say, “You’ve got to have some expert diagnosis. You don’t just go and
operate based on a guess or political viewpoint.” It’s like having the family
join in on the operation. Now we’re all going to vote. Can you imaginehaving a family looking over your shoulder while you’re doing brain
surgery? Not on my watch, I’ll tell you. With an advisory council and calibration techniques, we would have a
much better grasp on these issues and better strategies to deal with them.#6: Develop an international diplomacy based on precise,
specific information obtainable by the techniques that we
describe in this book and in this series of lectures. International diplomacy . What is the country’ s nuclear intention? What is
their nuclear capability? That’ s not up to politicians to guess about. Our
survival depends on knowing what is the truth and the facts. That’ s not a time for politics. You see, the advisory council is beyond
politics. They’re  not interested in politics, except as an expression of that
which is supportive and benef icial to the country and to the world in
general. As I’ve mentioned in some of my lectures, I’ve been embarrassed
by the way some representative s of America have behaved toward leaders
of other  countries. I can reme mber a TV interviewer interviewing the
president of China. The president of China is president of the biggest
country in the entire world, and this interviewer is going on about how
China should look at this policy and adopt that policy . The president of
China handled him very well, but I thought the interviewer was
disrespectful, insulting, and showed a lack of sensitivity . An advisory
council would advise against presenting yourself abrasively to other leaders
of the world. #7: Use trade alliances rather than power politics to facilitate
and benefit our relationships with other countries. Below 200, the only interest a country has is, “What’ s in it for us?” Well,
one thing that’s in it for us, we can see China, despite its supposedly a
theoretical economic threat to the US, was a possible, very severe enemy . And even now some people would like to inflame it so that they could be. Why would they be? Their whol e economy , the success of their economy , is
based on their trade with the US. I think businesses like Walmart are doing
more to prevent war with China probably than all the diplomats put together
in the world. International trade agreements are one way to preclude war, not just by
buying out other countries. I don’t believe in bribing them. If the US
provides grants to foreign countries that hate them and those countries use
the money to build missiles to destroy the US, the advisory council wouldsay, “That’ s ridiculous.” No, you have to make considerations intrinsic, that
the trade then is dependent on certain factors. And these factors then ensure
your security. You don’t need ballistic missiles, unless you get a maniac as
head of state because the maniac will kill his own population. Saddam
called all his people dogs. Hitler said, “Burn down Paris. Burn down
Germany . They deserve to die because they lost the war.” Well, by the time
they surface to the degree that even the most unconscious person can
recognize who they are, it’ s too late. So the advice is you diagnose cancer early in the game. You don’t wait
until it’s metasta sized to all the vital organs of the body . As a physician, I’m
very interested in using this technique for early diagnosis to prevent the
disease of mankind called death and destruction, starvation, and horrors of
war. What does it cost to do this? Nothing. Right now, it would take us about
two seconds. We can reconfirm the positions of every country in the world
—their nuclear capacity , their intention, et cetera, the level of their leaders
—in five minutes flat. We would know in five minutes, more than all the
collective diplomacy and intelligence operations in the whole world know
right now. So you see why telling truth from falsehood is so mind-boggling. In one second, we can find out things that the international intelligence
community is unable to discover . And even what they do discover is only a
possibility or a probability , and the information may turn out to be false
later on. I’m interested in using muscle testing as a physician, for the benefit of
society , for the prevention of war and in service of wisdom, because
wisdom is truth and it’s the service to God, to be of service to God. It’s a
selfless service, to utilize one’s talents, one’s abilities, one’s energy, one’s
years of life to be of service to all of humanity as an expression of love,
devotional non-duality . They call it devotion. To close this section, Dr. Hawkins offers a prayer for readers to connect
with the source of all existence, infinite silence, and to experience a feeling
of being center ed and grateful. • • •
DEVOTIONAL NON-DUALITY PRA YER“And therefore, I thought that which is the voice of God is silence, that
we sink into the voice of God. We sink into the silence, which is indicative
of divin e presence. Behind the thought, behind the thinkingness is an
infinite silence. And the infinite  silence is the source of all existence. And
between the thoughts, under the thoughts is the profound silen ce.
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        And so the form, which is there in the
collective uncon scious, the collective consciousness, social consciousness,
whatever you want to call it, is there in great detail. The pattern  of that and
the coming about of how the mechanics of that would happe n is already
there. If we buy into that thoug ht, if we go into agreement with it, it’s like
we bring it into our own unconscious and that then expresses itself within
the body. The body will do what  the mind believes. The healing of the body
then and the achievement of health, is achieved not by addressing the body
directly, but by addressing the mind. Moving right into the fields of
consciousness itself. If the body is expressing that which is held in consciousness, then what
we need to look at is what is being held in consciousness. Very often what’ s
being held in consciousness, we are not aware of. In that case, we call it
being unconscious of that. By looking at the body, we may have  no recall of
ever having had such a thought,  but the body is telling us what must be. It’s
like an X-ray. The X-ray is telling us what must be held in mind for this to
be prese nting itself in the body. If the person, let’s say develops clinical
diabetes, and he says, “I don’t remember anything in my family ever being
said about that. Nobody in my family had diabetes. I don’t see where it
could have arisen in my mind. ” We know that somewh ere in the
unconscious is the belief in diabetes and all that goes with diabetes. If we do researc h with an indiv idual long enough and patiently enough,
we will uncover where the program came from. But what it tells us is that
the program is there, that the person thinks I am subject to that, and
therefore, the healing has to be of the belief system. We have to heal where
the origin of the illness starts. And so health comes out of mind. It comes
out of positive mental attitudes. It comes out of a field of consciousness. It
comes out of a level of conscio usness, which expresses itself on the lower
plane, the physical plane, as an expression of health coming out of these
fields above neutral. Out of willingness, out of the willingness to be
accepting, out of lovingness, out of inner joyfulness, and out of an inner
state of peace. That which is mental is in the 400s. Love is in the 500s, and of course
spirit is 600 and above. So therefore, the intellect is not man’s highest
faculty, contrary  to the age of reason and other learned works, or those
intellectuals who hold that the thing that differentiates man from the animal
is his intellect. The intellect is only in the 400s. There is something beyond
mind, beyond logic, beyond reason, where it jumps and transc ends into a
whole different paradigm, a whole different way of being. It’s necessary to
know about that. It’ s necessary to know then that which heals. It’ s necessary
to look at the contribution that is coming into an illness from these various
levels. We find that with an illness, if we don’t understand the illness, then we
will understand its reverse, which is health. These belief systems become
self-reinforcing. They become self-fulfilling prophecies. We hold the belief,
unwittingly, and it then manifes ts in our life. We look at that and we say,
“See. ” And that justifies the belief system. By looking at our life, we can
tell what beliefs  we are holding. If we can’t recall them, then we say they’re
unconscious. Therefore, our movement is upward in consciousn ess. We said
health is the automatic expressio n of these higher energy fields. We see that
gratitude is at 540, forgivenes s is at 540, and healing is at 540. The
willingness to be forgiving and grateful in itself automatically begins to
heal. • • •
We need to talk about the energy field of love and what it means. It’s not
sentimentality. What the world calls love is coming out of an energy field of
dependency, control, sentimen talism, and emotionalism. An emotional,
sentimental attac hment in which there is control going back and forth, the
satisfaction of desiringness on both sides, is called love. It’s the Hollywood
version. When you hear somebody say, “I used to love Geor ge, but I don’t
anymore,” what they mean is that they never loved Geor ge. What that
means is they had a sentimental attachment. Sort of a solar plexus, kind of a
hanging onto, which the person  then romanticized and glamorized within
their life, and poured a lot of emotional energy into it. When that tie was
broken, up came a lot of negative emotion. The kind of love we’re talking about is unconditional love. What is
unconditional love. That’ s an inner decision that we make within ourselves. It’s coming out of the intention and the decision to be a loving person. If I
decide to love you, that is my inner decision. There is nothing you can do
about that. Therefore, I am not the victim of what goes on in the world,
because my decision to love creates a stable energy field of
unconditionality. The other person’s behavior may not please me, may not
contribute to what I desire, but it doesn’ t change the lovingness. The
mother, for instance, who visits  her son who is a murderer in prison for 20
years, loves the beingness, the ‘is-ness’, that which the person really is. Of
course, his behavior does not make her happy, but the love is unconditional,
no matter what he does. So, the closest to it that we see in our world is the
lovingness of the mother, which is unconditional. I’ve often used the lovingness of 12-Step groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous as an example of unconditional love. Unconditional love is not
concerned with what you have. The people at the lowe r levels of
consciousness are very concerned with havingness, and rate people back
and forth on what they have. People are preoccupied with doingness. And
people are rated and their status  depends on what they do, and all the titles
that go with their doingness. As you move toward the top, what people are
concerned with is what you are, what you have become. Your is-ness, your
beingness, that which you truly are. At that level, there is concern with a
person’ s status, their value, the kind of person that you are, that which you
have become. You have become that kind of person, and that is what is
valued. The willingness then to become a forgiving person who nurtures all
of life nonjudgmentally, automatically brings about withi n yourself,
because of the very healing nature of that energy field, a condition of good
health. We’re beginning to see the perfection of all things—how all things work
out for the good. How can illness be held in that context. Illness becomes
something that is coming up in order to be healed. We look at the illness
then as a lesson. The illness is saying, “Look at me. Please heal what I stand
for, what I symbolize. Please heal your guiltiness. Please heal your self-
hatred. Please heal your limiting thought forms. Please move up to loving
me so that I can be healed. ” The illness is a demand to grow spiritually. It’s
an incessant gadfly that tells us that something needs to be looked at. Something need s to be held in a different way. You see, because it is not the
events of life, but how we hold them, that creates our reaction. Events in and of themselves have no power to affect how we feel one
way or another. It’s what our position is about them. It’s our judgment  about
them. It’s how we decide to be with them. It’s our attitude. It’s our point of
view. It’s the context, the overall meaning, that gives the event the
emotional powe r over us. We are the creator, then, of the mean ing, and the
impact that it has on us. Stress comes from that very thing. We give it
power over our lives, coming from the position of victim, putting the source
of happi ness outside of our life, denying the power of our own mind. The
healing comes about through the re-owning of the power, the realization
that we and we alone create the meaning of any circumstance, event, place,
position, thing, or person in our life. We are the ones who create the
meaning. Our position, the way we hold it—that either becomes  a source of
healing or a source of illness. W e are the ones who determine that. We begin to see that the body is like a little marionette. It sort of happily
goes about its way, coming out of these energy fields. It just sort of does
what it does automatically, witho ut much thinking. Being healthy means we
pay less and less attention to the body and that which we do, which the
world would call health-giving, is out of appreciation. It’s an expression of
how we are with that body. You see, we aren’ t giving away our power as
source. Being healthy means you’ve re-owned your power as source. We’re
not giving away the source of health of the body to the world. The
exercising we do is out of the joyfulness in experiencing the body. We don’t
say that swimming is what causes the body to be healthy. We come from the
position that because we enjoy the body, we enjoy its activity such as
swimming. Those activities, which the world considers healthy, then are coming out
of the expressio n of one’s inner  sense of aliveness. The joy is in allowing
the body ’s expression in ways that the world considers healt hy. It’s not
because they’re  causal; those expressions are the effect. The healthy
enjoyment of the body, then, is the effect of the mental attitude. And
therefore we come to a lovingness of the body. It’s not a narcissistic self-
glorification, or a muscle man picture in a magazine, but a pure lovingness
and gratitude. We think, Ah, body, you have served me well. I love you. I
appreciate you. I value you. If we put the source of our happiness on that
which is outside of ourselves—o ur job, our possessions, our relationships—
then we’re merely setting ourselves up for the laws of our health. What’ s going to come up, first of all, is fear of loss, even though that’s
not conscious. If the source of your happiness is your title, your address, the
kind of car that you have, or even your physical body, you are now
vulnerable. That vulnerability is in the unconscious, and it stores up a great
deal of fear. Therefore, people’ s lives become endlessly about reinforcing
and protecting themselves from the laws of those things upon which they
have put their survival. The healthy person realizes the true nature of who they really are—that
they are something far beyond that. They realize that they are the ones that
give those things value. Those things provide temporary enjoyment to them,
but their survival doesn’ t depen d on them. We said that when you move up
into this energy field called acceptance, one has stopped giving one’s power
away to the world. One has begun to accept that I am the source of my
happiness. If you put a person like that on a desert island and come back a
year later, they’ ll have a cocon ut business going and they’ll have found a
new relationship, and they’ll build a tree house in the tree, and they’ll be
teaching the children algebra. In other words, the capacity to recreate for
themselves, the source of happiness comes from the realization that I myself
am the source of that happiness. I myse lf am the source of healt h. It doesn’ t
depend on epidemics, it doesn’ t depend on what is out there in the world. It
doesn’ t depend on what I eat. When we really realize that, then we begin to transcend and no longer be
at the effect of all these false belief systems. Consciousness itself requires
something greater than itself, and that we call awareness. Aware ness is what
allows us to know what is going on in consciousness, reporting what is
happening withi n mind, which in turn is reporting what is happening via the
senses about the body. That which is essentially myself, then, is many levels
removed from the physical body. And it’s necessary for us to look at that
and get that correctly in mind, because now we see that it’s the mind that
has power over the body. We see the physics of it, that the energy fields of
the 400s just by their sheer power are greater than that of the physical body. The physical body does what the mind tells it to do. And therefo re, if the
mind says, I have this disease or that disease, the body comp lies. When we
look at this, we see the importan ce then of not buying into programs, all of
which are really limitations of the truth. We see the importance of
consciously canceling and saying something that is the truth. The truth is, “I
am an infinite being, not subject to that. ”Let’s say we’re told that eggs are full of cholesterol, and choles terol will
give you heart disease. If you buy into the thought form, that belief system,
what happens is that the body agrees. You can experiment with this because
I’ve done it. And at one time I had very high cholesterol. And I began to
cancel the belief system. I kept saying, “I’m an infinite being. I’m not
subject to that. I’m only subject to what I hold in mind. This does not apply
to me. And I hereby cancel it and refuse it. ” If the mind can empower you
with a negative  belief system, it can reverse itself. Therefore, you begin
telling yourself that they have no effect on you, that that’s only a belief
system. When I go into agreement with a belief, I give it the power of the
collective energy of that belief. When I refuse it, then I release myself from
the collective energy of that belief system. One attitude then is to not buy
into agreement with negative belief systems having to do with your health. This is very important when it comes to epidemics, the hysteria. The
programming that comes in is aided and abetted by an emotional program. All of this contributing then is setting the stage. You have the mental belief
system coming out of an energy field in the 400s, you have fear about it
coming out of a negative 100s,  and you have the guilt coming out of the
minus 30s. You have the exact setup for that, because the mind  will choose
that which it is impressed with. It will use that as a form of expression. In
the case of the cholesterol, the experiment I did with that, with my own self,
was to cancel the thought every time it came up. And as time went by, the
cholesterol level came down, and I could then eat three eggs for breakfast
every single morning, with lots of cheese. I live on a high cholesterol diet,
and yet my cholesterol is low, sometimes even below normal for my age. The body will do exactly what the mind believes. And, of course, we
have a credibilit y problem here. The person says, “Oh, how could just my
belief in that make it happen within my life. ” It’s because of the nature of
the unconscious. It creates the opportunity for that to happen. We certainly
see that in accidents. If the person is accident prone, that’s the form that it
has taken in that person’ s mind. Unconsciously, they just managed to get
their body into the right place at the right time to get hit by the fender of the
car, slip down the stairs, or get hit in the head. Don’ t worry about how the
mind will find a way. The mind will find a way. People will just slip into
sort of a hypnotic trance and expose themselves to the correct opportunities
to make that manifest within their life. We know for instance, with the cold virus, there’ s many experiments
where we take 100 subject volunteers, and expose them to a very heavy
dose of cold virus. And we see that not everybody gets the cold virus. Only
a certain percentage will always  get it, only certain percent. In other words,
if the power was in the virus rather than within consciousn ess, all 100
would get it, because that virus would be so potent. Actually, what happens
is maybe only 65 percent will get it, a third don’t believe in it. There is
sufficient doubt within the mind. There’ s insuf ficient, unconscious guilt. It’ s
not acceptable to the person to express it in that form. And so nothing is
universal. W e see the same thing with healings. Every medical treatment has only a certain percentage of people  who will
respond. And what is the difference. It is because the others don’t have
sufficient unconscious guilt. It’s not operative. This particular illness
doesn’ t fit any particular thoug ht form that they have bough t into. Both
sides of it, the sickness and the healing, are reflecting then the energy that
we’ve put into a certain belie f system. We see then that health is the
willingness to let go of buying into negativity. Why should a person buy into negativity anyway. Why is it some people
are so programmable. W e know people that go into hysteria every time they
open a magazine. The latest illness sends them into a panic. And it has to do
then with the amount of fear and the amount of guilt. The amou nt of fear is
really coming out of the amount of unconscious guilt. It’s as though the
person knows what to be afraid of. It’ s as though they’re only too aware that
because they have so much of this, for them to even hear about it and
become mentally programmed, is almost enough to make it happen in their
life. What does this tell us then about the steps toward optimal health. We see
power in the willingness to adopt mental attitudes that are positive and
constructive, and letting go of the negative ones. We see how buying into
negative programming impacts the power of mind. Going into denial and
blaming it on others is giving your power away. We see that these energy
fields below courage are all levels in which the person has become a victim. What’ s happened is they’ve given their power away and put it on something
outside of themselves. And these people in these lower levels have said to
themselves unconsciously, the source of my happiness is outside of myself. They’ve put their survival on something outside of themselves. As we move into the levels of truth above the levels of courage, and the
energy fields are now going positive, we see that the person is re-owning
their power. The person is saying, “I and I alone have the power to create
happiness and opportunity in my life. It is coming from within me. ” And so
these people then own that health is something that comes from within. They see they are not the victim  of viruses, accidents, cholesterol, or uric
acid levels. They’re not the victim of those things. When we re-ow n our own power, we say, “Hey, it’s my mind that’s been
creating that. My mind believe s that eating liver and kidneys is going to
give you a high uric acid level, and that’s going to give you an attack of
gout. My mind is so powerful that if I believe that it will literally make it
happen. ” That’ s a hard thing for many people to accept, that their mind has
that much power. • • •
The next thing the mind says is, “I don’t want to give up the pleasure of
eating. ” Sounds like you’re going to come into a loss, right. You’re not
going to be able to enjoy a malted milk or hot fudge sundae or a hambur ger
smothered in onions. Quite the contrary. What happens to the enjoyment of
eating once you do this is that appetite arises out of the eating itself. I’ll sit
down with no hunger and no appetite at all. But the minute I begin to eat, it
creates appetite. And the pleasur e of eating is more than it ever was. I enjoy
food now more than I ever did, because it’s not accompanied by guilt
anymore. It’s not accompanied by self-blame or anxiety. I don’t worry if
I’m eating too many calories or going to gain weight. Those worries are
eliminated. So you’re not going to give up the pleasure of eating at all. You’ll find that when you eat, that you’re enjoying the food considerably. You start enjoying the food the minute you take a bite. There’ s no loss of
enjoyment. I don’t believe in letting go of enjoyment and pleasure. On the
contrary, I believe in increasing it. You can have the enjoyment and the pleasure of eating, as well as the
enjoyment and pleasure and pride in having a body that’s more appropriate
to your own aesthetic ambitions. It has nothing to do with your self-worth. It has nothing to do with the fact that you’re self-indulgent. It has nothing to
do with oral narcissistic needs or whatever the psychoanalytic theory might
be—oral aggres sion, oral passivity—it’ s got nothing to do with that. Itmerely has to do with this simpl e, very primary type of conditio ning, which
has been favored in our society. You picked it up from your own social
conditioning as a child. That’ s all. The body is experienced in mind, and the
mind is experienced in consciousness. Where you’re really experiencing
that, what you’v e called hunger in the past, is in your consciou sness. And
where is that localized. You’ll notice that it’s only a belief system that
hunger is experienced in the stomach. It’s actually experienced everywhere. The thought that it is in the stomach is just a belief system from  childhood. The body cannot experience anything. Hunger is experienced  in a more
diffused, generalized area. Another techniq ue in letting go of suffering of any kind, whether it’s pain
or illnes s or physical symptoms (in this case, what we’ve been calling
hunger), is knowing that it is nothing but a physical symptom. As I said, it
is being experienced in a diffused kind of way. It’s being experienced
everywhere. Because where do we experience all experience. Actually, it’s
being experienced in an everywhereness rather than a localized situation. The localization is coming from the strong belief systems. W e have all these
thoughts from childhood. As we let go resisting the energy of this sensation,
it finally disappears. • • •
It’s generally thought that these negative feelings are the cause of weight
problems. If you look into it, you’ll see, this is really not so. You’ll see that
negative feelings are the reaction  to the weight problem. Most of us have
been down at the level of guilt. Guilt is an energy field of 30. It’s very
weak. If you try to handle your weight problem or any problem at all—
alcohol, relation ships, you name it—from the level of guilt, you can see
how much energy you’ve got to work with. You’ve got like 30 bucks, as
compared to love, which is 500 bucks. So, 30 bucks isn’t going to buy you
much progress in anything. Not only that, but the energy field is negative,
meaning you’re going to feel lousy about the whole thing. You’re going to
be full of self-h atred, and actually the process itself is destruc tive. People
have actually committed suicide over their weight problems, their self-
indulgence. Even if you don’t handle it from guilt, you move up to
hopelessness, which has an energy field of 50. This means my case is
hopeless. I’ve tried all the diets. I’ve lost the energy to even address thisproblem anymore. I’m the victim of it, and I just surrender to it and give up. I am hopeless. The next level above it is grief. This is the depression about the problem:
the regret, feeling despondent and dispirited, or the fear of the problem and
its consequences. These are all negative feelings, which include thoughts
like I’m going to die of a heart attack  or This disease is going to kill me. This field is full of worry, anxiety, and panic. And of course your self-
esteem is deflated. People with a weight problem often socially withdraw. They compensate in other ways because they feel inadequate due to this
energy field. They’re not inadequate people at all; it’s just that they’re
holding that about their situatio n, and then the negativity of it affects their
emotions. And we move up to the next field, which is anger. The person is angry
about their weight problem, they resent it, they’re full of grievances about
it. At 150, they’re probably going to be more effective utiliz ing anger—
certainly instead  of guilt or hopelessness. If you’re angry enough about
your weight problem, you can move up to pride, which is 175. There’ s a lot
of powe r in pride, but you try to move through pride. It’s not exactly a great
place to hang out in, because of the inflation of the ego that happens there,
so you hopefully move up to courage. Now that you know some tools that are really going to work, you have
the courage to try them out. Courage is at 200, which is a lot of power as
compared to 30 or 50. Courage enables you to face, to cope, to handle, and
what happens there is you become empowered. The truth of it is, you
haven’ t known how to handle it up to now, otherwise you would have
handled it. That’ s the truth of it. You use these releasing techn iques, these
letting-go techniques, and you become detached from the whole problem. If
the weight stays, it stays, and if it doesn’ t stay, it doesn’ t make any
difference. At this point, you say, it’s not apathy, it’s not hopel essness. On
the other hand, you’re released from the weight problem, and therefore
you’re feeling good, and you move up to a willingness. Willingness at 310 is a lot of energy. Compare it to guilt, compare it to
grief. You see how much power you’ve got now. And here you’re in
agreement, you’re aligned with this technique. Your intention is finally up. You’re finally going to handle it, and you accept that it can be handled. You
realize that you’re an adequate person, and you start becoming confident. And there’ s a transformation now occurring because you realiz e the powerto handle this is within you and you start moving up into lovingness. The
desire to really love yourself. To love this body, now that you don’t identify
with it as me. This body is not me. You take off my left leg, I’m still me. You get that the me is me, and I’m not the body. So whether it weighs 200
pounds, or 85 pounds, that whic h I am is unassailable, and I must learn to
love that body now. You begin to really value it, and see that it’s just an
enjoyable little puppet. The body goes about its way, and the less attention
you pay to it, the better it really  handles itself. It just does what it’s doing
automatically. And if you get to love the body, your brain begins to release endorphins. When endorphins are released, a process goes on in consciousness called
revelation. You begin to see things differently. What do you see differently. You see how wonderful your little body is. You begin to love it and get a
kick out of it. When you’re overweight, are you getting a kick out of your
body. No. Every time you look at it, it throws you back into guilt again. At
this level, you start getting a kick out of it. You start getting playful with it,
sort of a joyfulness. A joyfulness and a happiness about the body. It
bounces around, and you’re just sort of dimly aware of it, because you’re
experiencing your existence from a position of allness. Once you become
conscious about where experience is happening, you get that experience is
happening everywhere. You begin to identify with everywhereness, instead
of stomachness or bulgeness, all those localized things. That which I am is a
conscious being. Consciousness is everywhere. I begin to experience my
existence as being almost everywhere in space. We start to come from the Heart about it then. Heart with a capital H. Heart not meaning the physical or gan, Heart meaning that quality of valuing
your existence. Coming from that greatness, coming from the bigness,
coming from the joy of alivene ss, and seeing the body as a contributor to
that, as something that’s enjoyable. It’s something that you can have fun
with, something you can play with, and something to have a good time
with. It’s really  fun to sit down and watch this phenomena happen. It’s
really joyful. Within a day or two, it’s all over. Within a couple of days,
once you’re released off this appetite hunger cycle, the rest of it is
automatic. Y ou don’ t have to do another thing. It’s different than being at the effect of, or run by the guilt. Now you have
choice. Another trick that works is to put an envelope inside your
refrigerator. In the envelope, place a picture of yourself as you as an adult,so that you remember you’ve got a choice of whose arm is going to be
reaching into the refrigerator. Keep the kid out, because the kid is going to
help himself to whatever he wants. The whole thing  becomes a very enjoyable experience, one in which you
truly begin to love yourself. The basis of all these self-healing  techniques
that we talk about are merely ways of loving yourself, ways of really
beginning to value yourself, and that which you really are in truth. You’ll see that the mind, the ego has played a trick on you. You think that
you make a decision, and then the body does that. Actually, it’s doing it by
itself, it’s on automatic. Once you’ve released it out of a nega tive pattern,
the body will just handle itself very well. We know this with scientific
experiments with young children. If you allow them to spontaneously select
their diet, they will automaticall y select a balanced diet. So you begin to get
a return of faith in nature. You allow the body now to sort of be itself. That
which is natural within the body itself will automatically handle its
nutritional needs. Once we get off the social programming, then that which is automatically
self-healing and healthy within the body takes over. It looks after itself, and
it chooses what it needs to eat and what it wants to eat. And it does
extremely well. My body eats lots of cholesterol, and it loves cheese and
eggs, and my diet would make any dietitian faint. Any nutritionist I’m sure
would faint when they see what I have for breakfast. And yet the
cholesterol is normal, the blood sugar is normal, all the blood chemistries
are normal. I have a faith, then you might say, in the God within nature
itself, with the body being part of the beautiful nature of this planet. • • •
One of the best ways to handl e depression is to discuss it with other
people. People will give you feedback. There’ s a trust in the general human
energy. There is really a surprisi ng willingness to help other human beings. I discovered that in New Y ork City. For instance, if you’re feeling down and
you’re standing outside of a building and there’ s a doorman, and you say to
the doorman, “I don’t know what’ s wrong with me, I’m really feeling down
today,” surprisingly, the doorma n will usually say to you, “Yeah, I get those
periods too and here’ s what I do about it. ” There’ s a general helpfulness
in mankind that you don’ t realize until you call upon it. I think joining a therapeutic organization can also help. People go to
church, or group therapy, where  there is some kind of group dynamic. The
12-Step groups have been one of the most profoundly power ful ways of
overcoming a great variety of problems, social isolation among others. There are great many avenues for help in today’ s world that really didn’ t
exist when I was younger. • • •
There’ s actually a physiologic change in the brain that occurs as a result
of beco ming spiritually oriented, spiritually committed, joining spiritual
groups, practicing spiritual principles, just simply praying, genuflecting—
all things that are symbolic of acknowledgment of the presence of God as
divinity. They begin to transform  you. You begin to experience  and see the
world differently. A lot of peopl e live in pride. Let’s take spiritually
oriented people: at 500 and over, the chances are probably 90 percent that
you’re relatively happy. You’re  so used to being happy that if you’re not
happy for a moment, you think you’re unhappy. When you get a negative
thought like that you ask God to remove it, “Dear God, please help me to
get over this angry thought, and replace it with a pleasant thought. ”
I believe calling upon God is the most powerful and effective energy
field that’s available to you. And then because of divinity, you then have the
courage to speak to another human being about the fact that you’re feeling
down, and you get a chance to talk about it. And when you talk about it,
somehow the feeling diminishe s. Any feeling that you have, if you talk
about it, eventually you run it out. You can only feel so depres sed about a
certain number of things, and after you get through talking abou t it, you sort
of work out that depression. That’ s one of the reasons psychotherapy works, because you have a
chance to share your concerns with another human being, and a
psychotherapist has your well-being as his or her primary goal. It’ s useful. ACTIVE AND P ASSIVE SUICIDE
Passive suicide is not resisting the negative within you. Active suicide is
seeking it. There’ s more of an emer gency response. The activ e suicide is
more like an emer gency response of desperation. Passive suicide is morefailing to take the necessary measures to survive. And of course, passive
suicide is a guiltless way of doing it, whereas active suicide would make
you feel guilty. There’ s a moral  objection to active suicide. Passive suicide
is a way of getting around the moral dilemma and being able to excuse it. That it’s the world that did it, not you. People stop eating, and they stop
taking whatever medications they need, and they don’t do what’ s necessary
to survive. If you picture the source of happiness is something out there, well, what
happens if you lose that something out there. The title, money, job,
relationship. Again, you have to see that the source of happiness is really
within you. Even if there was something outside of you, that was only the
trigger. The source of happ iness was still within you, and the
accomplishment of something in the external world merely released it. What it released  is the capacity to experience happiness that emanates from
within. And all the external was, was a trigger. In other words, money can’t make you happy. If I say to somebody,
“Here’ s a million dollars,” and I hand them a briefcase full of money, the
person feels instantly happy. But their life doesn’ t change. They’re just
sitting in the same chair, with the same bills. It’s the thought—the thought
that now they’re suddenly going to be rich—that makes them very happy. What made them happy was this wild and crazy thought that money is
going to make them happy. It wasn’t the money, after all; it was the thought of it. If you put the
source of happin ess in something outside of you, then you live in the fear of
losing that whatever it is outside of you. If you see that the source of
happiness is only within yourself, all the external did was release something
that is internal to begin with. Nothing out there can make you happy. Nothing can make you happy in the world. Why. Because happiness
radiates from within. All I could  do is trigger that potentiality within you. If
I tell you there’ s a lot of money in this case, and I’m putting it up in the
closet, and if you need it, it’ll always be here, you’ll feel happy. You’ll feel
safe and secure. It doesn’ t have anything to do with whether there’ s real
money in there or not. The belief  that there’ s money in there is all you need. There was a famous story from many years ago, Mama’ s Bank Account. A family was very worried during the Great Depression. Everybody was
very poor, and sort of panicked. Mama said, “Well, don’t worry about it
because if we really needed the money for that, I’ll get it from my bankaccount. ” Every body would calm down. The son said, “If I lose my job,
we’re not going  to be able to pay the rent. ” Mama went, “Never mind, I’ll
get it from my bank account. ” The family would lose this fear from just the
idea of it, that Mama’ s bank account could solve their problems. And then
after Mama finally died, they found out she never even had a bank account. Underneath the depression, there is a fear or a combination of fears. And
one way out of the depression is to look at all the fears that you’re handling,
and forget about the depression and just handle the fears. And if you handle
the fears and look at the fears and resolve them, the depression will
disappear. So clinically, depression is always based on a fear: a fear that
you’re not good enough, that you will not accomplish, a fear of the future, a
fear of God’ s punishment, a fear of self-approval. If you handle the fears,
the depression will disappear. • • •
Health then comes out of a positive mental attitude. That’ s the thing
we’ve heard many times, haven’ t we. In fact, many people are annoyed by
this idea, because that infers if I have a sickness, I don’t have a positive
mental attitude. Let’s look at mental attitude then. Let’s look at what is
meant by that and the part that plays in health, and freedom of sickness and
suffering. We said the one thing that goes on in the unhealthy person is this
unconscious guilt. The cure for that is the willingness to be forgiving, to
actually take courses in forgiven ess if that is necessary, such as A Course in
Miracles, which is specifically designed to let go of that tendency of the
mind, to criticize, to attack, and to judge. The willingness then is to let go of
judgmentalism. Now the mechanism is unconscious. The person may not
see the connection between the fact that their mind is critical, judgmental. If
your mind is critical and judgmental of others, of course, it is critical and
judgmental of yourself. The creation of the unconscious guilt then goes up a certain energy which
expresses itself through the autonomic nervous system, and the acupuncture
energy system. That is the cure of that. The contribution from  mind, the
belief system, we said is the power of refusal to deny it. The willingness to
own back your power now, that it is the mind and the mind itself that is the
cause of the illness. The willingness to give up the position of victim. Thewillingness to re-own one’s own power is part and parcel of the third thing
that’s necessary  for health, and that is one’s overall spiritual growth and
development. It is the overall moving out of these negative energy patterns,
the willingness to face truths within ourselves, and the moving into a
positive ener gy field. This can be done rather rapidly. How so. Because willingness, you see, is
the key. Through the willingness to look at it, the willingness to say, “Well,
I don’t really believe this, but it is said that my mind has the power to create
an illnes s within my body. So I’m willing to look at that, because I have an
open mind. I have an open mind, and I’m willing to agree my intention
aligns then, and I begin to move into accepting that which I discover. I
begin to find that moving into a lovingness has a curative and healing
power. ” And how do we do that. We do that with our willingness to
forgive, and if we do that we can quickly move ourselves into the
willingness to be compassionate. What does comp assion mean. Compassion means the willingn ess to see
the innocence within all thing s. That coincides with the willingness to
forgive. Out of compassion comes the power, the capacity, coming out of
our inten tion, to really see into the hearts of others. And when we see into
the hearts of others, what we discover is the innocence of the child within
each and every one of us. Because it is intrinsic to the nature of
consciousness itself, that intrinsic innocence, which never dies, no matter
how long we live. The innocence of the child is what brought the mistake,
which brought the negative program in the first place. It’s being aware that that intrins ic innocence of the child is ever with us. It’s the innocence of the child that sits there in front of the television set,
and buys the negative programming, out of its naivete, out of its lack of
discernment. The innocence of the child has no warning within it. Nothing
within the innoc ence of the child thinks, This is a world that is out there to
program you with as much negativity as you’r e willing to buy. In fact, it gets
well paid to do that, because advertising is usually based on playing off of
these negative energy fields—a ll of our fears, all of our desires, all of our
pridefulness. The willingness then is to be aware that within us is our
innocence, and understand that the innocence needs to be protected. We come into what’ s called self-care. Self-care, the capacity to love
oneself now, means taking responsibility to protect ourselve s from that
innocence, and the willingness to undo the mistakes that the mind picked upas a result of its innocence. We can handle now looking at ourselves and
healing that which we find within us, if we’re coming from the compassion
of the awareness of the intrinsi c innocence of our consciousness. We see
that it was innoc ence that God programmed. Now we take responsibility for
that and we say, “Well, in my innocence, I bought all that. In my innocence,
I didn’t know any better. In my innocence, I thought that the right thing to
do was to be judgmental, to condemn people, to judge them as right and
wrong. Now, I see that that has made me sick, and so I’m going to let it go. ”
This capacity then to be forgiving is within us. The capacity for
compassion, out of it comes a general attitude, a way in which we look at
ourselves. From our bigness, from our greatness, we look at our humanness
through forgiving eyes, and we begin to forgive ourselves for all the things
that were limitations and denials of the truth. The body is reflecting what the mind believes, and the mind is reflecting
our spiritual position. Spirit has the greatest power of all. And therefore, our
spiritual positio n literally determines whether we will have a healthy
physical body or not. Once we’re willing to accept the power of mind, now
we have to be attentive, and we have to persevere, and we can’t let it get
away with expressing negativity  without stopping it. We get to develop an
ear for negativity and begin to recognize it for what it is. We let go of false
humility, and we start questioning such remarks like, I’m not very bright  or
My handwriting is poor  or I gained so much weight. The minute we hear ourselves saying these limiting, self-defeating, self-
attacking thoughts, they have to be stopped and canceled. The handwriting
is poor, because  there’ s a belief  system that I have poor handwriting, and
not vice versa. What we’re doing then, is reversing the whole programming
of the mind as far as cause and effect. We’re coming back to a principle that
you can demonstrate through your own experience, that the physical is the
expression of the mental, and not vice versa. It isn’t that we came to the
conclusion that our handwriting is poor because our handwriting is poor. The handwriting is poor because the cause was in mind, the belief system,
perhaps a remark picked up in childhood. Somebody says your handwriting
is poor, from that point on that program now becomes operative. OceanofPDF. comChapter 10
ENLIGHTENMENT
In this final chapter in The Wisdom of Dr. David R. Hawkins, Dr. Hawkins expan ds his view from one of individual enlightenment to
enlightenment on a national and global level. And as you’ll learn in the
sections that follow, enlightenment on any level of life experience is
achieved by applying the same spiritual principles. The challenge for each of us is to become an enlightened leader
ourselves, so we can inspir e a generation of enlightened leade rs, who can
help to raise the calibration level of our country, and ultimately our world. Dr. Hawkins begins this section  by discussing the ever-divided political
climate, and concludes on a spirit of unity with a prayer to send you happily
and courageously further down the path to enlightenment. In recen t years, the political dialogue has calibrated at consciousness level
200. In my generation, the political dialogue calibrated at about 280 or 290,
so it’s of a lower nature now. It’s just on the edge of 200, neither good nor
bad, but at the same time, neither one. It’s because of the influence of the media, which we just discus sed in the
previous chapter. People are not interested in what you are in reality. They’re interest ed in what kind of an image is projected of you. The
projected image  is what they are hoping will sway the populace. And as I
say, it’s done by popularity, not by capability. It’s like being the most
popular surgeon on the staff. It doesn’ t mean you’re the best one. When Iget operated on for a brain tumo r, I’m not interested in a popularity contest,
I’m interested in expertise. Our society is not looking at expertise; they’re looking at popularity. They figure popularity is what gets the votes, so the aim of the political
dialogue then is being very conscious of the media and then trying to play
the media and play to people’ s prejudices and belief systems  rather than
lead them. Some people think this is a great emer gence forward, but it is
not. It’s just a play on popularity. We have sexism and racism, and then, of
course, we have ageism. All these -isms are battling for each other. As we
say, the minute you add -ism to the end of a thing, it drops below 200. The
actual impact of the dialogue is below 200. In the media, we see people
trying to suppre ss certain things and amplify other things. It’s sort of the
usual manipulation. The desire for political office is ravenous, and once people are bitten by
it, it seems like they will do or say anything to get into that office. As I say,
the minute you get elected, 50 percent of the people hate you because they
all voted against you. Why the office is so popular is hard to say. narcissism, I guess. I would view the office as being one of responsibility, that you’re elected
because of the recognition of your capability to be the best leader at the
time. And of course, I, having lived through a different generation, I
remember the start of World War II. Winston Churchill was drafted to be
who he was because of his capability, not his popularity. After winning the
war, in the next election, after saving their lives, the populace did not vote
him in. That was the thanks he got, the thanks he got for engineering the
winning of the war and holding the British people together. With
consciousness level 500, they didn’t even re-elect him. That was a real kick
in the head, wasn’ t it. You sacrifice everything for your country to save
your country, and they don’t even re-elect you, which is what I think about
politics. Integrity is upfront; character and integrity plus capability. You would
want somebody with great expe rience and great integrity and a good sense
of reality, who understands politics and who’ s been in it long enough. Y ou’d
just be looking for positive characteristics. Now, none  of those
characteristics have anything to do with race or gender. Gender doesn’ t
make you a better politician, neither does race or color or age or any ofthose things, any more than it would make you a better physician. I don’t
care what color a brain sur geon is. I want the best brain sur geon around. • • •
The political form of democracy doesn’ t last more than a couple of
hundred years. And sometimes it only survives because it’s restricted or put
in other directio ns. Democracy is how old in our country. And it still seems
to be operating quite well. But the more ignorant people, the more selfish
people, the people who have lower levels of consciousness, are going to
vote based on personal gain. They are not voting for the good of the
community, the good of the populace, out of good will, or health, or public
relations, but out of selfishness. Calibration levels below 200 are all narcissistic. It’s all me, me, me, what
can I get. The higher the level of it, the greater the percentage of the
population is below 200, the greater the danger to the survival of
democracy. At this point, they neglect their duties to society, to their fellow
Americans. They make decisions based on certain intrinsic values. So when we talk about raising consciousness, it sounds sort of
purposeful, like we’re going to do this and then the consciousness is going
to raise. But what you do is you reaffirm the value of that which is
integrous. Y ou reaf firm it by constant respect. WAR AND PEACE
People think war and peace are opposites. They’re not opposites at all. People think if nobody’ s getting shot, you have peace. You don’t have
peace. Because that which lives off war is very alive. In fact, war has peace
demonstrations. Peace is the natural state when  truth prevails. It’s the field. In the field
itself, the natural state is peace. When truth prevails, you automatically
have peace. War has nothing to do with violence. It has to do with the
automatic condition when false hood prevails. The opposite of war is not
peace. Therefore, the basis of war, if it’s falsehood, would be ignorance, the
inability to tell truth from falsehood. The stunning thing about Power vs. For ce—I can say that because there’ s
no me to feel egotistical about it, I was simply the witness to the writing ofPower vs. Force—was it discerned for the first time in all of human history
how to tell the truth from falsehood. The karma of mankind changed with
that book. Until that point, nobody, nowhere in time could tell the
difference between truth and falsehood, except an advanced mystic, and
they stayed in safe places. They didn’ t get on the front lines. The basis of war then is ignoran ce. When you watch the history of Nazi
Germany on the History Channel, how the Hitler Youth grew up, it breaks
your heart because they thought they were going to Boy Scout camp. They
had fires and they held hands and they did brave things for the fatherland. You can see the innocence. The human mind is incapable of telling truth
from falsehood because it’s only hardware. And what society puts in is
software. The hardware is uncha nged. A Course in Miracles  says innocence
is untarnished no matter what. The hardware is not affected by the software. Society puts in the software. You can take these innocent children. In the last century, 100 million
people have died because of that innocence, 100 million. And Jesus Christ
said, “There’ s only one problem : ignorance. Forgive them. They know not
what they do. ” Ignorance. Buddha said, “Only one sin, ignorance. ”
THE 7 STEPS T O BENEFIT THE WORLD
#1: Form an Advisory Council
Well, this isn’t going to please everyone, but any kind of academic study
or clinical study comes out with recommendations at the end, based on
these findings. As I have recommended, before you invest money in
research it is very important to calibrate the level of integrity of the research
design, the researcher, the intention of the study. We did a study in
international politics, the levels of various governments, types of
government, political leaders going all the way back in history. We ended
up with what we thought was maybe a basic structure for a science of
diplomacy based not on perception and the media image, but on the reality. Studying our own society from a political viewpoint and others, and
looking at the history of war, and analyzing the details of various wars, you
see, we arrived at some suggestions. The level of knowledge of the affairs about which they legisla te among
politicians is extremely low. For instance, they pass laws on medicine and
all kinds of aspects of society, international commerce, et cetera, and yet
their knowledge of these things is abysmal. The catastrophes of society and civilization have been made over and
over again. If we calibrate the various forms of government, we find that
democracy is near the top, but not the actual top. Interestingly, we find that
a gover nment based on an advisory council, or a so-called oligarchy,
calibrates even higher. An adva nce of five degrees or five points is quite
significant. If we look at political systems, we just calibrate them abstractly. We see that oligarchy at 415 is the highest of all these areas. Democracy is
at 410, which is quite high. Iroquois Nation is about 400, coalition 345,
socialism 300, monarchy 200, et cetera. It goes down from there. Oligarchy is a very ancient system. It’s not familiar to Americans. The
survival of most tribal society is based on the wisdom and sagacity of the
tribal elders, who are revered. The chief is not the same as the oligarchic
council of the elders. What our country seems to lack is a counc il of elders. We have  a cabinet. All the political power positions are political appointees. What’ s important is which party you belong to and who your friend is and
who are you obligated to. In essence, who do you have to pay off. Because
of my own particular alignment toward integrity and truth, and what is
beneficial to society and the world, without any particular positionality, my
belief is that we need a counc il of the elders. Now, the equivalent of a
council of the elders is an advisory council. In the old days, a true oligarchy, the council of the elders, has the power. Because of the nature of our government, this really couldn’ t be
operationally done. Our const itution is not set up for that. However,
something beyond the cabinet level is needed. This has to be made up of
statesmen and not politicians. A statesman calibrates much higher than a
politician, because the politician has an agenda. A statesman, Churchill,
held together the British peopl e during World War II. That’ s a spiritual
energy, you see. An advisory council is composed of people who have nothing more to
gain. They’ve got it made. They don’t need anything. So what do you do
when you’ve got it all. You offer yourself to be of service. Take people
who’ve been extremely success ful in business: They don’t need any more
money, titles, or power. But they do have wisdom. How do you build thebiggest giant corporation in the world. How do you make General Motors
run. You take the wisdom of these people who have nothing personally to
gain, which they share with each other about the country’ s problems, and
then they’re available as consultants to the politicians. They’re not going to
tell you what to do, but they will see that if you make this move, you’re
forgetting about this other consequence. A real statesman would point out,
“I would make that move, but I would do it slow so that you don’t create
the opposition. You’re going to create a counter wave. You’re going to
defeat yourself. You’re going to get the propositions through the first vote. But then the repercussion is going to hit, and they’re going to wipe you out
again. ”
The advisory council is there to guide in policy and decision-making
because they can contextualize it, tell you what’ s the upside, the downside. #2: Learn how to diagnose malignant messianic narcissism,
and thereby identify and counter dangerous leaders before they
threaten the world. This is crucial. This is a matter of public education. As you get more
advanced, then the capacity to recognize and identify this psych opathology,
parading as some politician, grows. If people are attuned and aware of this,
they begin to recognize it early  in the game, not after the narcissists have
established the Gestapo or the OGPU, not after they’ve killed off all the
best generals, not after they’ve  exterminated all the intellectuals, and not
after they’ve transported all the Jews out of Germany, not after they’ve
sacrificed all kinds of things in their society. Then, belatedly, they might
say, “Oh boy, did we ever make a mistake. ” The death of 10 million. It
takes the death of 10 million people before people begin to wonder, “Gee, I
wonder if we made the right decision. ”
That’ s one thing  that an advisor y council does, is make people  aware in
the diplomatic world of what it is you’re dealing with. You hear silly
propositions like, “If we’re sweet and nice to them, they’ll love us. ” You
know that’s ridiculous. If you calibrate that right now, you’ll get no. The
malignant kind of pseudo masculinity hates the feminine. You’re talking
from the feminin e to a consciousness that hates  the feminine. You calibrate
the posit ion of women and child ren in those repressive, totalitarian cultures,and they’re abou t the level of dogs. They’re not allowed to own anything,
go out in public, go anywhere, be anything. To survive then, there has to be
a means to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic narcissism before
it’s out of hand, because once they’ve killed off all the intellectuals, and all
the people who are capable of recognizing it, it’ s too late. The cost of not being able to recognize and diagnose malignant messianic
narcissism cost 100 million lives in the last century. In my lifetime, 100
million people went to their deaths for this one single ignorance. And it’s so
easy to diagnose. #3: Identify dangerously fallacious ideologic trends before they
become epidemics. Fallacy masquer ades as truth, and the naive mind, and especiall y the evil
mind, is unable to discern truth from falsehood. That which can be sold as
plausible is sold as chic, superior, and elite. And it’s brought down the
calibration level of the integrity of academia. And now you see academics
saying things that are so outrage ous that even a grade school child wouldn’ t
believe it, and they’re taking it seriously. We have  a different syndrome, you see, and that is the distortion of truth
to subse rve egoistic ends. In my books, we’ve traced recent philosophies,
calibrated all the most prominent philosophers who promulgate  the various
versions of relativism, and what you end up with is the distorted
hermeneutics of relativistic epistemology. In layman’ s terms, that means
how to distort truth in such a way that you’re like Alice in Wonderland and
you say, “Well, the thing means what I mean it to mean. ” It doesn’ t mean
what it means in the dictionary. Let’s take it to its extreme. Now you have
freedom of speech, and you can say, “Well, speech is also expression. ” So
speech means expression. It means you can do anything you want,
anywhere, and any time you want. When does speech stop being speech. If
we interpret speech means expression, then expression is action, and
therefore the Ku Klux Klan is quite legal, isn’t it. So is sedition, so is
treason. So why not assassinati on. Oh, because there you hurt somebody
else. Is that the only line between truth and falsehood. You can do, say,
behave in any way so long as it doesn’ t injure somebody else physically. That brings us down to the very lowest dimension. That’ s lower than
primitive tribes. Primitive tribes operated at a much higher level of moralintegrity and social responsibil ity than whether or not your behavior is
going to cause an actual physical ener gy. #4: Contract the expertise of a very successful private
enterprise to conduct vital operations. An advisory council identifies this trend. By calibrating levels of
consciousness, you can calibrate the energy of these various philosophies. The consequence of the perpetrators and supporters of relativism linking up
with fascist theocracies in the far right are sufficient to destroy this
civilization we call America. Now calibrate that. It’s the combination of those two, by means of
iteration, nonlinear dynamics. One principle is sensitive dependence on
initial conditions. If you have a defect in the 26th decimal point, which
occurred in one of the most famous computers of recent times, you might
say, “Oh, well, the twenty-sixth decimal point, so what. ” But by iteration,
meaning by pushing that key tens of millions of times, you can bring down
an entire  building. The combination of those two together, I’ll tell you as a
self-appointed member of the advisory council, is sufficient to bring down
our society. Before they become epidemic, the council would spot this. I
think it’s very neat from observation to have our calibrations to utilize
private enterprise to conduct vital operations in business. #5: Utilize an accurate, sophisticated intelligence capability,
using consciousness calibration techniques to tell us what in
the world is actually going on. Let’s look at the intelligence operations traditionally. If you operated a
private big corpo ration, and you didn’ t know what your competition was up
to, you’d soon be bankrupt. The calibrated level of integ rity of our
intelligence operations, before Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and so on, was a
complete and total failure. An advisory council, which has nothing to gain or nothing to lose, would
say, “You’ve got to have some expert diagnosis. You don’t just go and
operate based on a guess or political viewpoint. ” It’s like having the family
join in on the operation. Now we’re all going to vote. Can you imaginehaving a family looking over your shoulder while you’re doing brain
surgery. Not on my watch, I’ll tell you. With an advisory council and calibration techniques, we would have a
much better grasp on these issues and better strategies to deal with them. #6: Develop an international diplomacy based on precise,
specific information obtainable by the techniques that we
describe in this book and in this series of lectures. International diplomacy. What is the country’ s nuclear intention. What is
their nuclear capability. That’ s not up to politicians to guess about. Our
survival depends on knowing what is the truth and the facts. That’ s not a time for politics. You see, the advisory council is beyond
politics. They’re  not interested in politics, except as an expression of that
which is supportive and benef icial to the country and to the world in
general. As I’ve mentioned in some of my lectures, I’ve been embarrassed
by the way some representative s of America have behaved toward leaders
of other  countries. I can reme mber a TV interviewer interviewing the
president of China. The president of China is president of the biggest
country in the entire world, and this interviewer is going on about how
China should look at this policy and adopt that policy. The president of
China handled him very well, but I thought the interviewer was
disrespectful, insulting, and showed a lack of sensitivity. An advisory
council would advise against presenting yourself abrasively to other leaders
of the world. #7: Use trade alliances rather than power politics to facilitate
and benefit our relationships with other countries. Below 200, the only interest a country has is, “What’ s in it for us. ” Well,
one thing that’s in it for us, we can see China, despite its supposedly a
theoretical economic threat to the US, was a possible, very severe enemy. And even now some people would like to inflame it so that they could be. Why would they be. Their whol e economy, the success of their economy, is
based on their trade with the US. I think businesses like Walmart are doing
more to prevent war with China probably than all the diplomats put together
in the world. International trade agreements are one way to preclude war, not just by
buying out other countries. I don’t believe in bribing them. If the US
provides grants to foreign countries that hate them and those countries use
the money to build missiles to destroy the US, the advisory council wouldsay, “That’ s ridiculous. ” No, you have to make considerations intrinsic, that
the trade then is dependent on certain factors. And these factors then ensure
your security. You don’t need ballistic missiles, unless you get a maniac as
head of state because the maniac will kill his own population. Saddam
called all his people dogs. Hitler said, “Burn down Paris. Burn down
Germany. They deserve to die because they lost the war. ” Well, by the time
they surface to the degree that even the most unconscious person can
recognize who they are, it’ s too late. So the advice is you diagnose cancer early in the game. You don’t wait
until it’s metasta sized to all the vital organs of the body. As a physician, I’m
very interested in using this technique for early diagnosis to prevent the
disease of mankind called death and destruction, starvation, and horrors of
war. What does it cost to do this. Nothing. Right now, it would take us about
two seconds. We can reconfirm the positions of every country in the world
—their nuclear capacity, their intention, et cetera, the level of their leaders
—in five minutes flat. We would know in five minutes, more than all the
collective diplomacy and intelligence operations in the whole world know
right now. So you see why telling truth from falsehood is so mind-boggling. In one second, we can find out things that the international intelligence
community is unable to discover. And even what they do discover is only a
possibility or a probability, and the information may turn out to be false
later on. I’m interested in using muscle testing as a physician, for the benefit of
society, for the prevention of war and in service of wisdom, because
wisdom is truth and it’s the service to God, to be of service to God. It’s a
selfless service, to utilize one’s talents, one’s abilities, one’s energy, one’s
years of life to be of service to all of humanity as an expression of love,
devotional non-duality. They call it devotion. To close this section, Dr. Hawkins offers a prayer for readers to connect
with the source of all existence, infinite silence, and to experience a feeling
of being center ed and grateful. • • •
DEVOTIONAL NON-DUALITY PRA YER“And therefore, I thought that which is the voice of God is silence, that
we sink into the voice of God. We sink into the silence, which is indicative
of divin e presence. Behind the thought, behind the thinkingness is an
infinite silence. And the infinite  silence is the source of all existence. And
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Addressing the mind and moving into a positive mental attitude, and letting go of negative programming.
According to the text, what is the key to healing the body?
The author is saying that the source of happiness is not external things, but rather the willingness to own one's own power and take responsibility for one's own happiness.
What is the author saying is the source of happiness?
The author is suggesting that one should look at the underlying fears and beliefs that are causing the depression, and then let go of them.
What is the author suggesting as a way to handle depression?
The author is saying that the body is simply a reflection of the mind and that the mind is the source of all power and control over the body.
What is the author saying about the relationship between the body and the mind?
The author is suggesting that an advisory council be established to provide accurate and precise information, and to use this information to prevent war and promote international diplomacy.
What is the author suggesting as a way to diagnose and prevent war?