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Forewor d
Introduction
Chapter 1: Moving from the Ego to Service
Chapter 2: Calibration
Chapter 3: Spiritual Consciousness
Chapter 4: Obstacles to Spiritual Growth
Chapter 5: Surrender
Chapter 6: T ruth
Chapter 7: The 9 Fundamentals of Conscious Spiritual Growth
Chapter 8: Spiritual Practices
Chapter 9: Enlightened Healers
Chapter 10: Enlightenment
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OceanofPDF .comF O R E W O R D
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., affectionately called “Doc” by his spiritual
students, died peacefully at his home in Sedona, Arizona, on September 19,
2012, at the age of 85. Even up to the last breath, he gave his all to help
others. He left a body of work that includes over 15 books and hundreds of
hours of audio-visual programs. Those of us who had the great fortune to hear Dr. Hawkins speak in
person will neve r forget what it was like. People from all walks of life, even
from faraway countries, attende d the sold-out monthly seminars he offered. We heard the material he presen ted, yet we experienced something deeper
than words. The information was delivered via a carrier wave of Love,
silent and all-pervading. Historically , this nonverbal transmission has been
called the “Grace of the Teacher .” Through his oral teachings, he conveyed
profound truths in a personable  way that awakened the inner  Self of the
listener . A transformative  effect occurs also through his writing. The late spiritual
and self-help author , Wayne Dyer , called Dr. Hawkins’ s book Power vs.
Force “perhaps the most important and significant book I’ve read in the
past 10 years.” Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta wrote this to him after
reading his manuscript for Power vs. For ce: “Conti nue to use your beautifu l
gift of writing to the full.” Legendary musician Nipsey Hussle, shortly
before his untim ely death, said to an interviewer: “The most powerful book
I’ve read in the last ten years is called Power vs. For ce.”
Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins’ s first spiritual book, has sold more than a
million copies and has been translated into more than 25 languages. He had
wanted to publis h it anonymously , for he said it came “through” him rather
than “from” him. Of its signific ance, he observed: “The karma of mankind
changed with the writing of that book.”That book was followed by Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden
and I: Reality and Subjectivity . These three books, he said, are the
foundational “trilogy” of his teachings. From there, he wrote many more
books to apply his teachings to all areas of life, from physica l healing to
overcoming addiction, to succe ss and happiness. In 2019, a primer of his
work, The Map of Consciousness Explained , was published to illumine the
many facets of his key discovery , The Map of Consciousness®. Surprisingly , Dr. Hawkins did not begin his spiritual writing until he was
65. This in itself is an encourage ment to us, the readers, to trust his teaching
that our lives contain hidden potentials waiting to be actualized when the
time is right. In fact, the book you hold in your hand may be the catalyst
needed to actualize a potential within you. He explains:
That is the value of the presenc e of a Teacher whose energy field is
like a catalyst. The high energy field of the Self is already present in
the student. It does not have to be acquired but only activated, which
is a consequence of positive karmic potentiality . — Discovery of the
Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality  (2007), Chapter 7: The
Razor ’s Edge, p. 133. This book is a unique and wonderful resource of teachings from Dr.
Hawkins. It has been adapted from one of Dr. Hawkins’ s classic audio
programs, and it gives readers the ambience of his oral conve yance. You
might imagine that you are sitting there in his audience—listening and
watching, laughing and receiving. His wife, Susan Hawkins, who was always on stage with him as his
lovemate, co-researcher , and “right arm,” gave this account of his lectures:
When I was on stage with him, I saw how he would say thing s in a
powerful way and suddenly people’s faces would light up—they got
it! It was so fulfilling to see that response and to know that some one’s
life was changed. For Dave, it was never about himself—he cared
only about the message and its impact on others. He had a contagious
sense of humor; it was impossible not to laugh whenever he was
laughing. He didn’ t care about appearances or getting approval from
others, because he knew who and what he was. — The Map ofConsciousness Explained: A Proven Ener gy Scale to Actualize Your
Ultimate Potential  (2020), Preface, p. xiv . As you read this book, you will perhaps realize why someone described
his lecture style as a mixture of Einstein, the Buddha, and Mr. Magoo. He
was a liberated being—free, spontaneous, compassionate, humorous, and
totally available. His spaciousness welcomed everyone and everything. Being in his presence, you knew he saw into you, he saw through your
facades, and he loved you exactly as you were. He addressed himself to the
greater Self within you. Though he appeared in the form  of a man, he was somehow beyond male
and female, human and nonhuman. He knew the Divine Light in all things;
he recognized the sacredness even in the little beetle and the mother skunk. He was the “Eye of the I” from which nothing was hidden. Nothing existed
that was not included in this Love. He inhabited the rarefied realm of what the world calls “enlightenment,”
yet he was dedicated to helping others overcome the painful obstacles in
everyday life. He strove to be helpful and ordinary . As you go through this
book, you will encounter very advanced teachings coming through in the
simplest way possible. The purity of the message is due to his total
surrender of personal gain. There were no marketing schemes to make
money . There were no robes or rituals, saintly affects or special
incantations. There were no theatrics or miracles performed on stage. The
true teacher , he said, has no interest in special clothing, dramatic
performances, names or titles, for there is actually no “perso n” left who
would care about such things. As you will learn in this book, the trademark of Dr. Hawkins’ s research is
his pioneering, internationally known Map of Conscio usness. It
incorporates findings from quantum physics and nonlinear dynamics,
thereby confirm ing the classical stages of spiritual evolution found in the
world’ s sacred literature as actual attractor fields. These spiritual levels
have been delineated by saints, sages, and mystics, yet there had never been
a scientific framework by which to understand the inner terrain. The Map of Consciousness is clinically sophisticated in its depiction of
each level’ s emotional tone, view of God, and view of life. For example,
Fear views God as punitive, whereas Love views God as loving. The Map
of Consciousness illumines heretofore unknown aspects of consciousness.With each progressive rise in the level of consciousness, the frequency or
vibration of energy increases. Thus, higher consciousness radiates a
beneficial and healing effect on the world, verifiable in the human muscle
response, which stays strong in the presence of Love and Truth. In contrast,
negative energy fields that calibrate below the level of integrity induce a
weak muscle response. This stunning discovery of the difference between
power and force has influenced numerous fields of human endeavor ,
business, advertising, education, psychology , medicine, law, and
international relations. Susan Hawkins explains:
Nearly every day, I hear from someone who says that Dave’ s Map of
Consciousness changed their life. Some people have gotten free from
heroin, alcoholism, and other hopeless addictions. Others have healed
from various illnesses and emotional struggles. Whatever the life
problem, the Map gives them the way out of their suffering. — The
Map of Consciousness Explained: A Pr oven Ener gy Scale to Actualize
Your Ultimate Potential  (2020), Preface, p. xv . Throughout this book, you will come to understand why the most
important spiritual goal is to raise your level of consciousness. For example,
Dr. Hawkins explains that the positive levels on the Map are correlated with
greater immuni ty to disease, higher rates of happiness, higher job
satisfaction, and overall greater fulfillment in life. If these personal  benefits are not motivating enough, he also explains that
by raisin g our level of consciou sness, we benefit all of life. Even a single
forgiveness or a single act of kindness blesses everyone and everything. As
we surrender our small self, the intrinsic life energy of the Higher Self is
free to flow through us. As he says in this book: “The inner worth of every
human being is infinite. Its potential is infinite.”
Therefore, a prayer for readers of this book is to become  that innate inner
potential which is infinite . As Doc liked to say: “Straight and narrow is the
way. Waste no time!”
—Fran Grace, Ph.D.
OceanofPDF .comI N T R O D U C T I O N
Nearly 10 years ago, Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., died peacefully at
his home in Sedona, Arizona, and his profound message of spiritual truth,
enlightenment, and growth lives on to this day . In this book, you’ll explore the most classic teachings from Dr. Hawkins. In the followin g 10 chapters, his most important spiritual themes are
covered, amounting to an unfor gettable and life-changing experience. A natio nally renowned psych iatrist, physician, researcher , spiritual
teacher , and lecturer , Dr. Hawkins was the founding director of the Institute
for Spiritual Research Incorporated and the founder of the path of
devotional non-duality . He lectured widely at such places as Westminster
Abbey , Oxford Forum, the University of Notre Dame, the University of
Michigan, and Harvard Unive rsity. In addition, he was an advisor to
Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist monasteries. He conferred with foreign
governments on international diplomacy and was instrumental in resolving
longstanding conflicts that were major threats to world peace. He was
featured in documentary films, magazines, and radio interviews, such as
Oprah Radio and the Institute of Noetic Sciences, for his work in the areas
of health, healing, recovery , spirituality and modern life, meditation, and
consciousness calibration. You’ll learn more about the specifics of the
calibration process and the Map of Consciousness® in Chapter 2 of this
book. However , Dr. Hawkins will refer to calibration levels (such as a
calibration level  of 190 or a calibration level of 210) throughout the book,
so it can be helpful to have the Map handy as you read. The Map of
Consciousness can be found online at https://veritaspub.com/map-of-
consciousness . At the end of this book, you will find a bonus chapter taken from one of
Dr. Haw kins’ s lectures, “The Most Valuable Qualities for a SpiritualSeeker ,” in which he outlines the simple and powerful qualities that every
spiritual seeker will need on the path to Enlightenment. This is one of the
last lectures Dr . Hawkins delivered during his earthly journey . Are you ready? Let’ s get started. OceanofPDF .comChapter 1
MOVING 
FROM THE 
EGO TO SERVICE
The vast majority of self-help  teachers encourage people to follow
outwar d, assert ive, ego-oriente d methods to achieve long-lasting wealth
and happiness. But, having traveled that path himself early in his life, Dr.
Hawkins knew that the ego path was ultimately a dead end. In this section, Dr. Hawkins will encourage you to step off the ego path
onto a more rewar ding, fulfilling, and service-oriented enlightenment path. And as he explains, the path you will travel begins with your personal
choice. Everybody’ s aware when they are faced with a choice betwe en the high
road and the low road. That’ s a common experience. For example, you
could get a better grade by cheat ing or you could get an honest  grade by not
cheating. W e have to make those decisions over and over . To me, the dilemma of human existence is that you have to choose every
second . Every second of every minu te your mind is constantly making
choices. The challenge of human  existence is phenomenal when you look at
it. But because you’re used to it, you don’ t realize that. Every single moment, when I speak, my mind is choosing words—how
do I enunciate that word, how do I phrase my messages, contextualize them,amplify them. I’m deciding whether to explain myself more, or if I should
just let the other person worry about it. So for every single word I’m
choosing, there are probably 50 different possible options. I could suddenly
become comical and break the seriousness. And for some people, that
would help them ; other people would say, “Oh, I can’t believe what he’s
saying—he’ s just being lighthearted about things.” They don’t see the
spiritual value of humor . So the human, at every instant, every fractional instant, is choosing
between this thought and that thought, between this option and that option. Shall I shift in my chair? I just had to decide that; there are probably half a
dozen conscious options, and there’ s probably dozens of unconscious
options, ways that we could go. Should I encourage them to go in that
direction, or should I discourage them from following that track? We’re
always trying to influence, and we’re always making choices. I always feel
sorry for the human condition, in that you can never be content because the
minute you’re content, you’re even wondering if you should  be content. There’ s very little rest for humans, because our minds are constantly
presenting an endless array of options. People say they don’t believe in
karma. Well, you don’t have to use that word. What you can see is that your
mind is endlessly , constantly confronted with options, and your whole life is
going to change depending on which option you pick. It’s like a giant map,
an electr onic map, and if you choose this direction, you’re going to end up
hundreds of miles from if you’d chosen that other direction. So making
choices is the major human occupation. Yet nobody ever mentions it. The
major human preoccupation, and it eclipses all others, is the constant
making of choices. Should I look in that direction or not? Should I try to get
this job? Should I say this or say that? Should I wear this? Should I walk on
the other side of the sidewalk? Should I call so-and-so? Should I let this bill
wait another two weeks? • • •
What you see is a projection of your own consciousness. It’s what you
project out into the world, whether you see this world as sad, happy ,
ludicrous, beneficial, beautiful, divine, frustrating, corrupt, evil, or an
infinite good. If man is to progr ess to realize the ultimate divini ty, which is
the core of his existence, then it would require progressively growing intothat dimension of awareness. The karmic benefit of human lifetime, as the
Buddha said, would be self-rew arding. Fortunate it is to be born a human,
even more fortu nate it is to have heard of enlightenment; and rarer still is it
to be born, to have heard of enlightenment, and then proceed to pursue it. And I might add, rarer than that is to achieve enlightenment, because it
requires tenacity . The roadway to enlightenment takes you through difficult
terrain, like a walk through a swamp. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORCE AND POWER
Force is linear . Force is demarca ted. It has a form like a molecu le. It may
have ears on it, eyes, feet, anything. It has structure. Therefore, force is
limited. That which has form is obviously limited. It’s limited by form. That
which is formless is unlimited. Eventually , we can solve every riddle that’s
ever plagued mankind with this little simple formula. We know that E=mc2. This is force limited to form . Power , which is
nondual, is infinite. Power has no limitation. In fact, the greater the demand
you put on power , the greater it swells and meets the need. Force on the
other hand, is exhausted. Force goes from here to there. It extends its own
energy. You have to constantly stoke force with more and more energy. Money ,
bodies of soldiers, bodies of believers, their gold, their lives, their sweat—
you have to pull it out. The Roman empire, which was the greatest empire
the world had ever seen, petered out after a thousand years. So force is
limited; power , on the other hand, is unlimited. TRUTH AND SUBJECTIVITY
When you define what is truth , it’s impossible to define truth without
defining the context. And that is the reason all the greatest philo sophers that
have ever lived have never solved the problems of epistemology , because
they never got that subtlety . You move from the objective to the subjective. The objective will take you up to 499 (on the Map of Consciousness), and
from there you move into the subjective. The presence of God is not
something one can experience  through thought, but experientially , it is
subjective.What kinesiology , or consciousness calibration, shows us is that
consciousness itself recognizes the presence of truth. At first, I thought it
was truth versus falsehood. I thought consciousness knows the truth from
the false. Actually , consciousness itself recognizes the presence of truth. It only
knows the truth and the not true. It knows what’ s true and fails to recognize
what is not true. You see how that gets us out of polarity—y ou see how
there’ s a subtlety  to this? It gets you out of the spiritual guilt of the polarity
of the opposites , where you like this and hate that, and you feel guilty
because you’re supposed to be spiritual and not hate anything. See, there’ s chocolate and vanilla. You can like chocolate without hating
vanilla. You don’t have to hate vanilla, you can just choose chocolate. You
can be conserva tive and not hate the liberals because they’re all vanilla. They can be vanilla liberals. And they don’t have to hate conservatives
because they’re chocolate. They  can just like vanilla, and say to themselves,
I don’t know how you digest that chocolate, but that’s your problem, you
know? One chocolate guy says, “Vanilla is for wimps. If you like vanilla,
you like vanilla. But us guys, we like chocolate.” You can champion your
cause. You can tell others that we’re the greatest, and tattoo yourself, and
make parades, and all that. But you don’ t have to get into hate. CALIBRA TING THE CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL OF
MANKIND
The purpose of our discussion, of course, is to potentiate the evolution of
consciousness. And the only purpose of the books I’ve written or the
lectures I’ve given is to support the progression of that consciousness
within the individual who has elected to pursue a highe r level of
consciousness. Most people think they’re in the ordinary world of causality . They think
that what they are is the product of their past. The reality is that it’s the
potentiality  of what you have chosen to become that is pulling you into the
present. So if you’re reading this book, it’s not because what you’ve been in
the past is pushing you up to this point. On the contrary , it’s because you
elected to be that which is beyond this point that is pulling you through this
point. It’ s because you have chosen  already by spiritual intention.People often ask, “What’ s karma about?” Well, karma is just the
automatic energy consequent of spiritual intention and spiritual decision. Every decision  you make then affects your calibrated level of
consciousness, which is another way of saying your karma . It starts first as
curiosity , and next thing you know, you find yourself automatically drawn
into spiritual growth and spiritual concepts and the desire to understand
them and to benefit from them. You begin to realize that as you grow ,
you’re benefitin g the world; that what you’re doing is affectin g everyone. The whole world benefits from you. We can prove that also with quantum
mechanics, the Heisenber g princ iple, and the collapse of the wave function
that then begins to affect the whole field of consciousness. Every individual
who commits to spiritual work is benefiting all of humanity . This is an
automatic consequence of his choices and decisions, because he’s
collapsing the potential into the actual, which is impacting the collective
consciousness of all mankind. We found it quite interesting when we were calibrating levels of
consciousness. We asked: What is the level of consciousness of mankind? Well, that led to a rather major discovery . We found that the consciousness
of mankind throughout the ages has been constantly , slowly , very slowly ,
progressing. At the time of the birth of Buddha, the consciousness level of
mankind was 90. At the time of the birth of Jesus Christ, the consciousness
level of mankind was 100. Then down through the ages this slowly evolved,
and through the 1200s, 1400s, and 1700s, it stayed at 190. It stayed at 190
century after century—didn’ t move. Then suddenly in the late 1980s, at
about the time of the Harmonic Conver gence—not caused by it, but at the
time of it—and at the time of the collapse of Monolithic Communism and
many other things, the consciousness level jumped from 190 to 207. Now ,
200 is the level of truth; 200 is the level of integrity . It is probably the most
significant event in the history of mankind. Unnoticed, the shift of
consciousness went from 190 to 207. That completely changes the field in
which all of us now live. So, how does it change mankind? Well, at 190, the destruction of all
mankind was inevitable. The great mega bomb that was going to destroy all
life was a considerable likelihood. At 207 now, there’ s a whole new
paradigm of reality . In the world in which I grew up, in the 1930s and on
through that century , the goal of life was success. You were supposed tomake money , be successful, go to college, get a name for yourself, and so
on. Now at 207, people are not interested in your success. I mean, you can
buy some stock and be a million aire tomorrow , and so what? No, now what
we’re looking at is integrity . All the great corporations whose  heads have
rolled have been criticized for lack of integrity . We see politicians being
called to task for integrity . Succ ess and money and having a big car and all
the stuff that used to make people happy in the ’50s no longer suffices. Now
people are asking, What is the integrity of this company? What is the
integrity  of this politician? We’re looking at how truthful they are. How can
they back up their statements? Integrity is the new signal of social value. We want to invest in people and politicians and teachers who have a proven
integrity . How can you prove it? Well, one way you can prove it is, frankly , by
calibrating its level. That which is integrous then has a value. Integrity has
power . Lack of integrity can have force, monetary force, for a moment, but
it collapses, which is why you can’t base your life on success. Therefore,
the new paradigm of value is integrity , and it’s by integrity now that
everyone is going to be measured. How integrous of a teacher are you? How integr ous is this spiritual mentor or organization? And when you
calibrate all these things, you see where integrity is sold out. We’ve calibrate d many , many things, so you can see where any
compromise in integrity shows up on the dotted line. Because you can now
measure it, and calibrate truth from falsehood, I think we will have a new
yardstick by which to measure man’ s growth, and he will grow faster than
before. We saw for centuries it stayed at 190, no movement; though from a
historical viewp oint, people say great events happened. (Great events from
a perceptual viewpoint, not from a spiritual viewpoint.) Man is now in a new dimension, and 207 is critical because it only takes
one feather to tip the balance from negative to positive. Every spiritual
decision we make can tip the scale to the positive side, and that totally
changes the destiny of our life. If you’re out at sea, a change of one degree
in the compass may not seem like much, but after a couple of days of
sailing, you’ll end up on a different continent. So one degree makes quite a
bit of difference. Freedom of choice, then—spiritual choice—is what we’re
confronted with instant by instant. Instant by instant, we’re constantlysaying yes or no to choices. And those choices then determine our spiritual
level and our calibrated level of consciousness and our karmic destiny . THE DUALITY OF THE EGO
This discovery led to my eventually becoming a spiritual teacher . I
wanted to share my own subjective state and things that have never really
been said before. What I teach, I call devotional non-duality . Devotional
because one is in love with the truth. One is in love with the pathway to
God through truth. And non-duality , meaning that to reach a state of
enlightenment, one has to transc end the ego. The ego is dualistic in nature. Human thinking  is dualistic in nature. There’ s an either or, this or that. The
spiritual student is usually confronted. It starts first with confronting the ego
and what has traditionally been called sin (and given all kinds of bad
names). The first thing I wanted my students to understand is the nature of the
ego and to become friendly with it, and understand where it comes from. You have to get away from demonizing it. You can’t see it as an enemy . The
ego is nothing but the animal nature. When you look at the animal kingdom,
all you see is what’ s called the human ego. When we see it in an animal, we
just say, “It’s nature.” But when we see it in a human, we say, “Oh, isn’t
that awful?” No, it’ s not awful. With evolution, we see the emergence of the mammalian brain from the
reptilian brain, and for the first time, we see the emer gence of love. Love
didn’ t emerge on this planet for millions of years, not until the mammalian
brain. When we see a mother bird caring for her eggs and baby birds, it’s
really the mammalian brain that we begin to see. So, we don’t see love until
we see really the emer gence of the maternal instinct. Love doesn’ t appear
until we see the mother ’s concern for the child, the infant, the fledgling. We
don’t see it arising primarily early in the evolution of the animal world. Love begins to emer ge as the expression of the maternal; then you begin
to see love blossom over the ages. Romantic love, which we take for
granted in today’ s world, is a rather recent occurrence. For many centuries,
people didn’ t get married for romantic love; it was a transfer of power . They
got married because the family arranged it. The kings and queens of
England, for all their power , weren’ t free to choose love. They figuredmarriage is one thing, love is another . So romantic love, as we see it, is a
rather recent and modern thing. When people go into spiritual work, they are always concerned about
overcoming the ego. So first we say, recontextualize it as the residual of the
animal within us. The old animal brain is still present in the back of the
human brain, and the prefrontal cortex is a rather recent emer gence. If you
calibrate the level of consciousness of hominids, as they evolve d over time,
you see Cro-Magnon, you see Neanderthal. A Neanderthal calibrates
around 75 (on the Map), a really animalistic level. Although it’s able to
speak and talk, it’s still pretty much an animal. It’s only with the emer gence
of the forebrain and the prefrontal cortex that you begin to see ethics,
morality , spiritu al awareness, and so on. What humans are trying to do,
then, is transcen d domination by their animal instincts. It helps  if you take
the ego out of the viewpoint of sin and begin to see it as animal . What is an
animal like? Well, you can see the human ego on display at any zoo. Go to
the monkey island in the zoo and you see territoriality , you see gangs; they
hang together in groups and then fight over turf. There are always turf wars going on around the world. Then you see the
exploitation or the subjugation of the weak. You see deceptio n and lying
and camouflage , and so all you see in today’ s headlines is the monkey
island with a human expression. Spiritual work is really about overcoming selfishness, self-centeredness,
and egocentrici ty in all of its various disguises. What are the various
disguises? Well, the compulsion to have, to own, to be success ful, to win,
and all the things that we know as egocentricity . How does one then begin
to transcend that? People say, “Well, I’m interested in evolving spiritually . What can I do from a practical viewpoint?” Because all what I’ve just
described can sound quite advanced and quite theoretical  and quite
imposing to somebody who’ s not familiar with the work. Actually , this work becomes rather easy; the more you practice,  the more
you arriv e at the feeling of I knew this all along. Of course, you did know it
all along, but you want to know  how to transform this feeling in everyday
life. So people say, “How can I grow spiritually? Do I have to go
somewhere? Do I have to get a guru? Do I have to join a medita tion group? Do I have to recite mantras or what?”
No, you don’ t have to do that at all.It’s so simple that it’s overlooke d all the time. It’s a decision to be loving
and kind toward all life, includi ng your own, at all times, no matter what. To be forgiving,  to be gentle, to be that which is supportive of life. So that
becomes not what you do, but what you are. You become that which
supports life, supports all endeavors. It encourages those who need
encouragement, and it becomes  the energy of life itself. It beco mes almost
like the manifestation of the Divine Mother , as well as the Divine Father , so
it’s the merging of the two: that which is nurturing and that which is
demanding of excellence. STARTING ON THE P ATHW AY OF NON-DUALITY
The pathway of non-duality , then, is the devotion to spiritual principles,
and as you become devoted to spiritual principles, you’re brought up face-
to-face with the mind’ s propensity for either/or: good or evil, liberal or
conservative. Y ou’re confronted constantly with the so-called polarities, and
to reach a very advanced state of consciousness, it is then necessary to
transcend the so-called polarities of either/or -ness. The ego would have you think that it’s responsible for your survival. Ego
says, “If I wasn’ t so clever . . . if I didn’ t remind you to take your vitamins
and all, you’d be deader than a mackerel.” The downside of duality, then, is
it creates the illusion that there’ s a separate I that is the cause  of everything
—that there’ s a personal I, separate from the infinite oneness of totality . The
core of the ego is this self-cen tered point, which one assumes to be the
cause of everything. As long as you believe in causality , you are stuck in a
duality of “a this causing a that.” The pathway to enlightenm ent through
non-duality dissolves the opposites. The ego is so impressed by popularity , wanting to be right, vanity, and
pridefulness. Give up the vanity  of wanting to be right. Spirituality is really
a way of being in the world. People think of spirituality in terms of the
ego’s function, of doingness . It’s not a doingness , howev er, it’s a way of
beingness  in the world. It’s a way of being with the world in which one is in
a constant state of appreciation and service. Why? Because you become
discerning of the beauty of existence, to become benign, to be cordial, to be
loving toward all things. If I had not felt loving toward that rattlesnake,
which I will talk about in Chapter 5 , I would never have lived long enough
to tell you the tale. The respect for all that exists. Truly spiritua l people arewilling to see the intrinsic beaut y of all of existence. To be benign and to be
unconditionally loving toward all things, at all times. If you want to become spirituall y evolved, it’s very simple. Let’s say the
ideal is, I wish to see the world the way it is. And the only way to see it, the
way it is, is to decide to be loving toward all, no matter what—to be
respectful and loving toward all that exists. To be committed to life in all its
expressions, to discern the beauty and perfection of all that exists, is a way
of being in the world. So, as I said, it’s not a doingness , it’s a beingness . To
make rapid spiritual advancement, you make a decision to be that which
fulfills the potential of life and to witness its beauty and perfection and all
of its expressions. The ego sees everything in terms of cause; it sees everything as going
from imperfection to perfection, from incomplete to complete. With
spiritual vision, you begin to see everything is going from perfection to
perfection. Ever ything is moving from perfection, and everything is already
complete at the moment. Everything is completely what it is, as the
consequence of the evolution of creation up to this point. And you see that
everything is moving, not from incomplete, but from complete to complete,
from perfection to perfection. This is a perfect cut on the back of my hand. It’s a perfect expression of what happens as a perfect scab forms, and then
it’ll get to be a perfect healing, and it’ll leave a perfect scar. Everything is
being perfectly what it’s destined to be, and fulfilling its potential. So
instead of causality , what you begin to see is emer gence. The world is not a
world of cause at all. We live in a world of emer gence . Everything, every instant has a certain
potentiality . So you begin to see that things are not happening due to
causality , not due to a personal self. You see the emer gence of potentiality
into actuality. The fulfillment as the rose blooms and becomes a full rose—
nothing is causing it, nothing is forcing it, and nothing is even deciding it. The potentiality to open fully, open its petals, already resides  within the
rose every instant. It’s not an imperfect rose half opened; it’s a rose that’s
perfectly half opened. So there you transform your experience of life and
the world and reality , by seeing that everything is perfect every instant. People ask me, “How can you improve this world?” I tell them not to
bother . This world is perfect the way it is. There’ s no point in trying to
improve the world, because the world you see, it doesn’ t even exist. If thepurpose of the world is karmic benefit and evolution of conscio usness, then
this world is perfect as it is. This is a very high, spiritual understanding. OceanofPDF .comChapter 2
CALIBRATION
Now that you have the ideas, inspiration, and encouragement  to begin
walking the path of enlightenment, how do you determine the steps to take
in order to stay on this path? And how can you be sure that you’r e
progressing along the path, and not simply walking in cir cles? Dr. Haw kins used a well-known method and developed a breakthrough
spiritual tool to help answer these questions. The method he used was that
of kinesiology , in order to calib rate spiritual truth from falsehood, so one
could be sure that he or she was following the precepts of a person of
integrity , for example, rather than a wolf in sheep’ s clothing. Using this method of calibrati on, Dr. Hawkins developed his Map of
Consciousness, which outlines calibrated levels of consciousne ss from 0 to
1,000, essentially providing a map in which to progress up the
enlightenment path. In this chapter , Dr. Hawkins explains the calibration method and the Map
of Consciousness, so you can r each the very highest levels of enlightenment. It’s a biological  fact that truth makes your body go strong, and falsehood
makes it go weak. You don’t have to label it anything; it’s just a matter of
fact. If I hold that which is negative in mind, and somebody tests the
strength of my arm muscles, they will go weak. Moreover , if I hold
something uplif ting, true, and of a high calibration in mind, the arm goes
strong.Now , I don’t have anything to do with that. That’ s a physiolog ic
response. In the lectures, I give the reason for this. The likely reasons are
evolutionary—that animal life does not have within it a source of energy. Plant life has chlorophyll. It just sits in the sun and absorbs energy. It
doesn’ t have to acquire or get. Animal life is protoplasmic. It does not have
within it any source of energy. It has to acquire it. In order  to survive,
animal life—protoplasmic life, of which humans are, of course, an example
—has to be able to find out what is nutritious and helpfu l and life-
sustaining. So the first thing the amoeba has to learn is what will increase its strength
and survival, and what will kill it. It therefore has to learn, at a very low
level of conscio usness, what is pro-life and what is anti-life. What is pro-
life makes you strong, vigorous . You multiply and are succes sful. And if
you don’t have the capacity , you die. You only have to make one mistake,
confusing what’ s nutritious and what’ s poisonous. You don’t get a second
chance to relearn, because those who didn’ t learn are dead. Consequently , the only reason humans are here is because we learned
that. If we hadn’ t learned that, we would’ve been dead a long time ago. So,
protoplasmic entities that fail to learn how to differentiate truth from
falsehood, poisonous from nutritious, don’t survive. The fact that any kind
of organism is still living means  it has within it, innately , some capacity to
discern that which is pro-life from that which is anti-life. If it didn’ t, it
would be dead. The people in Europe who could not differentiate a dictator who was
malevolent from  a great leader who was beneficial lost their lives. To not
know the difference between that which calibrates over 200 and that which
calibrates extremely below 200, cost 10 million lives. In my lifetime, in
Europe, 10 million people died. If you hold Hitler in mind, and try to hold
your arm straight parallel to the ground, you’ll find you’re weak. You can
hardly hold up a small book. If you hold Jesus Christ in mind, your arm is
powerfully strong. If you hold Churchill in mind, your arm goes strong. And if you hold Stalin in mind, your arm goes weak. Now , this is true even if you don’t know anything about the person. Let’s
say I take a picture of this perso n, and I hold it in mind. The way I do the
test is I ask the person whose arm I’m using. I don’t want to influence their
response in any way, so I’ll say, “What I’m holding in mind calibrates astrue.” Then, I press down. If it’s true, their arm goes strong. If it’s false, it
goes weak. Or I could say, “It calibrates over 200. Yes? Yes? No. Calibr ates over
300. Yes, no. Okay .” So, what is true, then, is life-sustaining, and what is
life-sustaining, through the acupuncture energy system, in the acupuncture
meridians, makes your body go strong instantly . Once you learn how to
approach it, you know how to handle it, like anything else. Just because you
understand physiology doesn’ t mean you can go without oxygen at 10,000
feet. You can’t. Once you understand the basic principles, muscle testing is
extremely easy . THE IMPORT ANCE OF INTEGRITY IN CALIBRA TION
Now , about 10 percent of the population cannot use this method, for
reasons we don’t know yet—maybe karmic reasons. People under
consciousness level 200 cannot use it with any degree of accuracy . They
have to be integr ous, and the intention of the question has to be integrous. If
you’re going to use the techni que to find the best way to rob the bank,
you’re not going to get reliable answers! Let’s say you want to donate money to a fund, and you ask, “This fund is
integrous, yes, no?” And then if you get a yes, you say, “It’s over 200, 300,
400. How integrous is this organization?” And then once you know all that,
you see there are some organizations that sound like the greatest
philanthropies in the world, but they must spend billions of dollars on
advertising. And when you calibrate them, it makes your arm go weak. If
the fund was truly integrous, it would make your arm go strong, would it
not? Each person is different. I look at it pragmatically , and I use muscle
testing to solve things that are not readily apparent, or to confirm  something
that I presume  is apparent, but I want to make sure that I’m not
misperceiving it. So, you use it sporadically . Sometimes you use it
intensely . When I’m doing research, I use it rather intens ely. If I’m
diagnosing today’ s world, I want to calibrate every politician out there,
every big-time spokesman, everybody who gets on there with a big spiel,
and people’ s stories and excuses. I say, “What’ s the ener gy of this candidate? This candidate tells this story . Is that so? All right, this candidate hung out with so and so. What does thatperson calibrate  at?” I get a whole picture of multiple aspects, because
pretty soon what happens is a whole picture begins to fill in. Your whole
movie set fills in. First you get the walls, then you get the carpet, then your
pictures on the walls and the various actors. And the picture begins to fit in,
and then the storyline becomes quite obvious—why this person said this at
this time. And you constantly verify . Now , people also change. So, you may see a change in a prominent
person. And you can ask, “Is this person still at the same level? Or has this
one been bought out?” Y ou have to be prepared to find out things you’re not
going to like. Of course, don’t forget: the more often you do this, the more things you
calibrate, the more experience you have, the greater your degree of
accuracy . After you’ve done it 10,000 times, you could look at almost
anything and know what it’ s going to calibrate at within a couple degrees. It’s a great learning tool. You learn a lot about your own consciousness. You learn a lot about your own motivations. You’re not going to get an
accurate answer , unless you can remove your own personal prejudice of
wanting this answer or that answer . Somebody that you think is a scurrilous,
horrible person,  you find out that they calibrate over 200. Somebody else
that you think is going to be the savior of the world, you find out they’re
under 200, that they’re actually full of hot wind. They’re a very adept
politician, but a good politician is dif ferent than a statesman. Generally speaking, Americans don’t appreciate the difference. To them,
a politician and a statesman are one and the same. They’re quite different,
and they calibrate quite differently . The politician is interested in me, me,
me, and is very glib. They get what they want for their own personal gain. A statesman is what he is for the sake of the world and the sake of the
country . An example is Winston Churchill: Britain would’ve been beaten
senseless if it wasn’ t for W inston. He calibrated 500. GETTING ST ARTED
You can do muscle testing by yourself. On your left hand, touch your
middle finger and your thumb so that they make an O. Now , with your right
hand, take your forefinger and hook it inside the O. Try to pull the middle
finger and thumb apart. Now , if something is true, you’ll find it takes a lotof effort to try and break that O. If what you’re holding in mind is negative,
you’ll find it’ s weak. Muscle testing can also be cond ucted with multiple people. Here’ s how:
hold your right arm or your left arm out parallel with the ground . Now , have
somebody else press down on your wrist with two fingers—maybe four,
five ounces of pressure. We’re not trying to break the arm down. As always,
the accuracy of this method depends on the consciousness level of the
participants. If you’re both over 200, then the likelihood is you’ll get an
accurate result. Remember: both participants have to be integrous to begin
with. What does integr ous really mean, anyway? It means that you’re more
interested in the truth than trying to prove some preconsidered notion. So, if
I hold something that has a negative energy against the solar plexus of a
person with their arm stretched out to the side and press down on their
wrist, their arm will fall down. Their arm will drop. They’re very weak. If I
think about certain kinds of music such as types of heavy metal or rap, or
pesticides, or anything that’s negative—there’ s a whole lot of things—
within the aura of the person being tested, and I press down, their arm will
go weak. Conversely , if I hold something or someone in mind that is
positive, their arm will go strong. Now , the difference is quite marked. The person who’ s very strong will
be very strong, and with two fingers, you’re not going to push them down. And with some thing that makes them go weak, a child could push them
down with two fingers. When they go weak, they go weak. So, for instance,
if I take a volume by Plato or Socrates and hold it against the solar plexus,
the person goes strong. If I take The Communist Manifesto  and hold it
against their stomach, their arm goes weak. Karl Marx calibrates at 130. You might ask, “How do you know Marx’ s calibration level?” Well,
Marx calibrates over 110, 120, 130. When I get to 130, that’s the end of the
yes and no. Does he calibrate over 130? The answer is no. I can do the same thing with President Reagan. I can do it with Abraham
Lincoln. I can do it with the great pyramids in Egypt. I can do it with
anything on the planet. Truth makes you go strong; falsehood makes you
weak. So, this has a biologic basis. The capacity to discern essence from
appearance is essential for life. If a bacterium doesn’ t know the difference
between that which is poisonous and that which is nutritious, it will soondie . . . and there won’ t be any bacteria left. Survival depends, from a
protoplasmic point of view , on the capacity to discern that which is pro-life
from that which is anti-life. And falsehood is anti-life, and truth is pro-life. It’s like riding a bicycle. It takes  some experience. Some people are quite
adept at it. First of all, they take my word for what I say as absolute truth,
and don’t put up a lot of doubt blocks and quizzicalness. If I say it works, it
works. If it didn’ t work, why would I say it works? You have to have a
certain trust in the authenticity of people. I share the muscle testing method with people because it’s extremely
helpful. There are societies in which it is very common. When I was in the
East, it was very common. You’d see a person shopping, holding a tomato
in his hand, pressing down on it, and if it went weak it was not a good
tomato. Some people incorporate it into their culture. The fact that truth
makes you strong and falsehood makes you weak seems to be such basic
common sense, you wouldn’ t think that intellectual people would argue
with it. Let’s say I’m the person who’ s doing the testing, and my partner is
resisting, and I’m pressing down  with two fingers. I don’t want to influence
that person’ s thinking or tip them off to what I’m thinking. With integrous
people, you could say it out loud and it’s not going to affect them . But most
people are not that integrous. So what I’ll say is, “What I’m holding in
mind calibrates over 100, 150, 200, 250, 300,” until I get a yes from the
participant. That way, I’m not influencing the answer , because the person
whose arm I’m pressing down on doesn’ t know what I’m holding in my
mind. I don’ t want to contaminate the answer . I’m not going to waste my time getting a false answer , eithe r. People
think, Oh, you’r e out to get a false answer . Why would I waste my time
getting a false answer , chasing my own tail for amusement? I don’t think
it’s very enterta ining. I want to make it count. So I say, “Now , what I’m
holding in mind . . . calibrates over so and so,” such as political candidates
or programs. I don’t influence the response, because I myself want to know
the answer . If both participants want to know what is the truth for truth’ s
sake, then you’re going to have a successful team. Like anything, it takes a little practice. Some things will blow  you out,
like the negative  heavy metal music we tested. I suggest turnin g off music,
television, and other distraction s. There’ s all kinds of negative energiescoming through , so you’re going to get false negatives. That’ s because of
the background ener gy of the sounds, so you’ve got to turn those of f.
To help resolve doubt, and all the controversies and gossip and all, often I
will get up and say, “This guy calibrates over so and so. I wonder where
he’s coming from. He sounds like about 160 to me.” Well, he was coming
from 160. In other words, I want to confirm my own impression. So, there’ s
perception and then there’ s essence . So what I do is I use calibration  to confirm the essence of a thing—that
I’m not just falling for perception. Because a smooth talker can sound pretty
persuasive when  you first encou nter them. You say, “Boy , that sounds like a
swell guy.” And then you do the arm test, and he comes out 180. You say,
“Oh. What’ s the answer? Now I’ve got a problem.” It’s when  perception
does not match essence that I use it to calibrate unknown factors, and I want
a quick idea of how integrous this thing is. If you don’t have any idea what a thing is altogether , say, “This  is above
200 or this is below 200.” Or “This is above 200,” to give you some idea of
the range of it. You get pretty perspicacious after you’ve done a few
thousand of these. I can usually guess the number within a coup le of points. You’re training your intuition. It’s an area of life we don’t usually train,
because we have no way to check its veracity , usually . But by constantly calibrating things, as I say, you become pretty skilled
at it. I’d say at least nine out of ten times, you’re at least within the ballpark
of what the reality is. The average person is not. The average person is
pretty easy to fool. They like to pride themselves on the fact they can’t be
deceived, but the statistics show that the contrary is true. CALIBRA TION, A THEISTS, AND NARCISSISM
Well-known professors pooh-poohed this method, and it doesn’ t work for
atheists. If you negate the truth, the reality of the truth of God, which is one
of the aspects of divinity , then you become disallowed and disenfranchised
from using the methodology . Therefore, an atheist cannot use it. I don’t
want them to waste time trying it. That takes you out of the ring right to
begin with. The people who argue with it are often atheists. You’ll find that atheists
hate this method, because they hate absolutism. They want everything to be
relativism. The idea that there is an absolute to whom one is answerable isan antonym. God is confrontatio nal to the narcissism of the ego. The ego’s
narcissism is unbridled. It will disavow God. It’ s greater  than God. Here’ s Joe Blow down from nowhere, who’ s in his sophomor e year in
college, and he already “knows” that there is no divinity . He calibrates at
192, and divinity calibrates at infinity . So here’ s this one guy at 192,
refuting the reality of that which calibrates at infinity . There are no limits to
the expansiveness of the human ego. The atheist is tied into a belief system, but the primary motive behind it is
narcissism. The primary motive  behind it is naivete. They’re unaware that
the intellect, which calibrates in the 400s, is not in the paradigm to even
consider spiritual realities, which are 500 and up. You can’t prove or
disprove canoei ng on the basketball court. And I tell people who don’t
believe in my work, “Don’ t belie ve in it!” I have no interest in whether they
believe it or not. Who cares if they believe it or not? I can tell you which
way I found is east, and if you want to go your own way, you can go your
own way . But I know which way is east—that’ s all. Some people don’t understand that I am obligated to speak the truth. I’m
not sayin g this for the listener . I’m saying it because I’m responsible, and I
am answerable to God. It’s because I’m answerable to God that I give you
the truth  as I understand it. It’s because I’m accountable  to divinity . A
person who doesn’t believe in divinity is accountable to no one except the
narcissistic core of his own ego. People who are more spiritually evolved
realize that at the moment of death’ s door, they’re about to become
answerable, in capital letters. They’re going to either notice something with
devils with horns or tails, or they’re going to hear angels singing. THE CALIBRA TED MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Through muscle testing, then, I discovered a phenomenon, and that
phenomenon then allowed for calibrating the levels of consciousness. The
phenomenon is innate to life. Out of this arose a calibrated Map of
Consciousness, a logarithmic scale, one to 1,000, which includes all
possibility within this domain, with 1,000 being the level of the great
avatars: Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster . It’s as high as you can go
in this domain. Why? Because  human protoplasm can’t handle energies
beyond that. In fact, from about 800 and up, it’s very difficult for thenervous system to handle that kind of energy. It gets very uncom fortable in
the 800s—often quite painful and agonizing at times. If your consciousness goes beyond 1,000, you belong in a different
realm, and you leave here. You can hear your protoplasm sizzling in the
sun, and it’s time to let go of the protoplasmic. So, because of the
limitations of the human nervous system and protoplasm, the Map of
Consciousness only goes up to 1,000. Archangels calibrate at such high frequencies. The one who once noticed
me calibrated at 50,000, and a passing notice changed my life completely . It
was like a devastating shot of lightning. So, just pray that no archangel
really thinks about you too much. Higher isn’ t always better . Descartes said man doesn’ t know whether reality is what he perceives is
reality . There’ s res interna and then there’ s res externa. The world the way it
is or nature itself. And of course, Socrates, who’ s my favorite old teacher ,
said the same thing. All men are innocent by virtue of the fact that they’re
unable to discern appearance from essence, truth from falsehood, and that
they pursue illusion. They always pursue what they perceive to be the good. That helps us put in place, then, forgiveness, or Christ’ s statement, that
the only human error is one of ignorance. People make errors, and the
innocence of the child still resides within all of us. That’ s why we are
dupable and programmable; like the child, the mind tends to believe
everything that it hears. Of course, what we learn through this technique is devastating. What
actually goes on in the world, as compared to its appearance, is quite
remarkable. Although the world doesn’ t know what’ s going on, we do
within a matter of seconds. The whole world studies the thing, and doesn’ t
even know what it’ s about! Remember: only people who themselves calibrate over 200 can use the
technique, and only if their intention is integrous. You can’t use the
technique to try and prove a point—to try and get the world to agree with
you. You have to be dedicated to truth for its own sake. And then when you
find out the truth, you can worry about what to do about it later . But the first
thing is, you don’t know what the problem is until you ask what the truth of
the matter is. Our dedication is to truth, and the basis is that truth is the
straight way to God. And nonlinear duality means to let go of the linear
appearance of things, and to align with the essence, which is the fastest way
to enlightenment.The view of God, then, depends on your level of conscio usness—
whether you see God as punitive or frightening, or whethe r you’re an
atheist and don’t believe in God at all. Your view of yourself depends on
your level of consciousness. It doesn’ t depend on sociologic conditions,
poverty , or wealth, or any of these things. Your view of yourself is a
consequence of your own level of consciousness. We gave these levels useful names. The spiritualization of these  levels go
all the way from enlightenment, down to the high levels—600 is a
phenomenal level. In the human  domain, very few people get to 500. Fewer
yet get to uncon ditional love, at 540. In the world’ s population, 0.4 percent
ever reaches unconditional love. People ask, “How can I reach
unconditional love?” I say, “Well, become an alcoholic and join AA. It’s at
540.” Or you can study A Course in Miracles . These ways all depend on simp licity and the willingness to be forgiving
—the willingness to live one day at a time. You put them into your life and
daily application, to make them part of your life. That means you have to
give up the pleasure of condemning people. Reason is at the 400s. Love is 500. There’ s unconditional love, and
beyond  unconditional love. We start out with shame, disaster , guilt, apathy,
fear, and anger . This level of 200 is very critical. At level 200, we have the
willingness to be honest. Self-honesty is the only requirement of any of
these spiritual programs. Self-honesty automatically puts you above level
200. From here up, you’re interested in the truth for its own sake. And what
happens here is extremely important, because the brain chemistry shifts. You shift from left brain, anim al, instinctual dominance of the ego. The
Kundalini energy arises, and you now shift to right brain, which sees things
in a benign way, processes information differently , and also releases
neurotransmitters and neurohormones that alter the way your brain
physiology works. People hoping that everybody in the world’ s going to get together and
sing songs and join hands, and that we’re all going to be happy , are
forgetting that the people below  200 have a different brain physiology , and,
frankly , to them you sound like an idiot. So all the do-goode r peaceniks
who want to envision a new , peaceful world are for getting that 85 percent of
the world calibrates below 200. In America, approximately 50 percent. And
these people have a different brain physiology . This means that what you’resaying to them is nonsensical, meaningless, and probably absurd, and for
which, in their minds, you actually deserve to be killed. That makes it a little difficult—how are you going to turn this into one
peaceful world? People are always asking, “What can I do to help the
world?” Well, being quiet and minding your own business are a good start! Why? Because what actually helps the world is your personal spiritual
evolution. That’ s what helps the world. Your kindness to others begins to
lift the overall level of consciousness of mankind, which unfortunately was
up high and now it’ s come down again. As we know , the consciousness  level of mankind was at 190 for many ,
many thousands  of years. At the time of Jesus Christ, it was at about 100. It
slowly came up to 190, and it stayed at 190 over the centuries, through the
1800s and early 1900s. And then in the late ’80s, at the time of the
Harmonic Concordance or Conv ergence, it suddenly jumped to 205. And it
stayed at 205. The next time there was a Harmonic Conc ordance or
Conver gence, we were giving a lecture in San Francisco. And at the exact
time of this event, consciousness level of mankind went from 205 to 207. This was documented and recorded: it went to 207. Since that time, it stayed steady , and then it slowly started to decrease
again. So it was at 207, then it came down 206, 205, and now it’s come
down to 204, which is a little close to the line, because 200 is really the
critical line, due to two things: the effect of the philosophy of relativism,
and all of its invasion of integrity and truth, together with the people
dedicated to violence. So betwe en violence on one side, and apologists for
the violent people on the other side, the world has come down. But that’s not really our concern. We’ll let God worry about that. The
world is perfect as it is. It offers the maximum karmic potentia l of choice. The spirit cannot evolve unless it has choice. If you’re forced to always be a
certain way , there’ s no karmic merit. Because you take the respons ibility for the evolution of your own
consciousness, every second you are making choices. The human spirit is
sort of like a karmic track. I always picture that it’s like a little, tiny iron
filing, and the infinite field of consciousness is like an infinitely powerful
electromagnetic field, so that by virtue of that which you have become, you
position yourself within the field. There’ s no judgmental God who says you’re being bad and you’re being
good. No one says if you’re good, we’ll reward you and move you overhere, and if you’re bad, we’ll put you down here. You have  your own
choice; nobody steers your canoe but you. You, by your own choices and by
your own agreement, more or less, change the charges on yourself. Let’s
look at this in terms of positive and negative. I’ll say, “You’re an SOB, and
I hate you,” and then you go a little more negative. And then you say , “But I
forgive you,” and then you go a little more positive. You probably didn’ t know what you were doing, like Socrates said. On
the other hand, you ought to know by now, and move on a little bit. So, you
see, you’re like a little thing like this, fluctuating in the electromagnetic
spectrum. And the spirit is what survives, and when it leaves the body , it
goes to that which it is. So, I agree with Freud that the negative depictions of God are projections
from the human unconscious. However , Freud then went on and made a
mistake. He went further than that. He said, “Therefore, a true God doesn’ t
exist.” No. Just because a false God doesn’ t exist, doesn’ t mean a true one
doesn’ t. So, that’ s why Freud calibrated 499. The 400s are extremely powerful and important. Love is 500; joy is 540. And as you reach the higher levels, you find unconditional love, which, I
think, is the best goal to aim for in human life. Unconditio nal love is
reachable within the human domain. The states of enlightenment are very
difficult to reach in today’ s world, but unco nditional love means that you
leave and you move into heavenly and celestial realms. If you want to save the world, I would suggest the first thing you do is let
go and surrender the world to God, which is the same thing other great
teachers have said. The world that you see doesn’ t even exist. It’s all a
projection of your own perception.
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Who is the author of the book "Power vs. Force"?
To raise the level of consciousness and actualize one's ultimate potential.
What is the primary goal of the author's teachings?
To transcend the ego and focus on spiritual principles and the path of devotional nonduality.
What is the author's approach to spiritual growth and enlightenment?
It provides a framework to understand the inner terrain and make choices that align with the divine.
What is the significance of the Map of Consciousness, according to the author?
He emphasizes that integrity is essential for accurate calibration and spiritual growth, and that it's not about getting approval from others.
What is the author's view on the importance of integrity in calibration?