At this level  of empowerment, one is able to cope with
and ef fe ctively h andle the opportunities of life. At 200, for instance, there is
the ener gy to learn new job skill s. Growth and education become attainable
goals. T here is the capacity to face fears or character defects and to grow
despite them; anxiety also doe s not cripple endeavor as it would at the
lower le vels of evolution. Obstacles that defeat people whose co nsciousness
is be low 200 act  as stimulants to those who have ev olved into the first level
of true power .People a t this level put back into the world as much ener gy as they take;
at lower levels, populations, as well as individuals, drain ener gy from
society without reciprocating. B ecause accomplishments result in positive
feedback, reward and esteem become progressively self-reinforcing. This is
where productivity begins. The collective level of human consciousness
remained at 190 for many centuries and, curiously , only jumped over 200 in
the 1980s. ENERGY LEVEL  250 : NEUTRALITY
Ener gy becomes very positive as we get to the level that we have termed
Neutral, because it is epitomized by release from the positionality that
typifies lower levels. Below 250, consciousness tends to see dichotomies
and to take on ri gid positions, an impediment in a world that is complex and
multifactorial rather than black-and-white. T aking such positions creates polarization, and polarization in turn
creates oppositi on and division. As in the martial arts, a rigid position
becomes a point of vulnerabili ty; that which does not bend is liable to
break. R ising above barriers or o ppositions that dissipate one’ s ener gies, the
Neutral conditi on allows for flexibility and nonjudgment al, realistic
appraisal of problems. T o be N eutral means to be relatively unattached to
outcomes; not getting one’ s w ay is no longer experienced a s defeating,
frightening, or frustrating. At the Neutral level, a person can say , “W ell, if I don’ t get this job, then
I’ll g et another .” This is the beginning of inner confidence; se nsing one’ s
power , o ne ther efore is not eas ily intimidated. One is not driv en to prove
anything. The expectation that li fe, with its ups and downs, will be basically
okay if one can roll with the punches is a typical 250-level attitude. People o f Neutrality have a sens e of well-being; the mark of this level is
a confident capability to live in the world. This is, therefore, experientially a
level of safety . People at this level are easy to get along with and safe to be
around and associate with, be cause they are not interested in conflict,
competition, or guilt. They are comfortable and basically undisturbed
emotionally . This attitude is nonjudgmental and does not lead to any need to
control o ther pe ople’ s behaviors. Correspondingly , because Neutral people
value freedom, they are hard to control.ENERGY LEVEL  310 : WILLINGNESS
This very positive level of ener gy may be seen as the gateway to the
higher levels. Whereas, for insta nce, jobs are done adequately at the Neutral
level, at  the level of W illingne ss, work is done well and success in all
endeavors is common. Growt h is rapid; these are people chosen for
advancement. W illingness implies that they have overcome inner resistance
to li fe and are committed to participation. Below the 200 calib ration level,
people tend to be closed-minded, but by level 310, a great opening occurs. At t his level, pe ople become genuinely friendly , and social and economic
success seem to follow automatically . The W illing are not really troubled by
unemployment, for they will take any job when they have to, or create a
career or self-employment for t hemselves. They do not feel de meaned by
service jobs or by starting at the bottom. They are naturally helpful to others
and con tribute to the good of society . They are also willing to  face inner
issues and do not have major learning blocks. At this level, se lf-esteem is innately high and is reinforced by positive
feedback from society in the forms of recognition, appreciation, and reward. W illingness is sympathetic and responsive to the needs of others. W illing
people are builders of, and con tributors to, society . W ith their capacity to
bounce back from adversity and  learn from experience, they tend to become
self-correcting. Having let go of Pride, they are willing to look at their own
defects and learn from others. At the level of W illingness, people become
excellent students. They are easily teachable and represent a considerable
source of power for society . ENERGY LEVEL  350 : ACCEPT ANCE
At this level of awareness, a major transformation takes place, with the
understanding th at one is the source and creator of the experience of one’ s
life one self. T aking such responsibility is distinctive of this degree of
evolution, chara cterized by the capacity to live harmoniously with the
forces of life. All peop le at levels below 200 tend to be powerless and see themselves
as v ictims, at th e mercy of life. This stems from a belief that the source of
one’ s ha ppiness or the c ause of one’ s problems is “out there.” An enormousjump—taking b ack one’ s own power—is completed at this level, with the
realization that the source of h appiness is within oneself. At this more
evolved stage, nothing so-calle d out there has the capacity to make one
happy , and love is not something given or taken away by another but
created from within. Acceptance is not to be confused with passivity , which is a sym ptom of
Apathy . This form of Acceptance allows engagement in life on  life’ s own
terms, w ithout trying to make i t conform to an agenda. W ith Acceptance,
there is emotion al calm, and per ception is widened as denial is transcended. One now sees th ings without distortion or misinterpretation; th e context of
experience is expanded so that one is capable of “seeing the whole picture.”
Acceptance has to do essentially with balance, proportion, and
appropriateness. The indi vidual a t the level of Acceptance is not interested in de termining
right or wrong but instead is de dicated to resolving issues and finding out
what to do about problems. T ough jobs do not cause discomfort or dismay . Long-term goals take precedence over short-term ones; self-discipline and
mastery are prominent. At the level of Acceptance, we are not polarized by conflict or
opposition; we see that other people have the same rights as we do, and we
honor eq uality . W hile lower levels are characterized by rigidity , at this level
social plurality begins to eme r ge as a form of resolution of problems. Therefore, this level is free of discrimination or intolerance; there is the
awareness that equality does not preclude diversity . Acceptance includes
rather than rejects. ENERGY LEVEL 400: REASON
Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of
the lower levels is transcended. Reason is capable of handling lar ge,
complex amounts of data and making rapid, correct decisions—of
understanding the intricacies of relationships, gradations,  and fine
distinctions—and expert manipulation of symbols as abstra ct concepts
becomes increasingly important. This is the level of science, medicine, and
generally increa sed capability for conceptualization and com prehension. Knowledge and education are sought as capital. Understanding andinformation are the main tools o f accomplishment, which is the hallmark of
the 4 00 level. Th is is the level of Nobel Prize winners, great sta tesmen, and
Supreme Court justices. Einst ein, Freud, and many of the other great
thinkers of history also calibrate here. The authors of the Great Books of the
W estern W orld calibrate here. The sho rtcomings of this level are the failure to clearly distinguish the
dif ference between symbols and what they represent, and confusion
between the objective and subjec tive worlds that limits the unde rstanding of
causality . At this level, it is easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees, to
become infatuated with concept s and theories, ending up in intellectualism
and missing the essential poin t. Intellectualizing can become  an end in
itself. Reason is limited in that it does not af ford the capacity for the
discernment of essence or of th e critical point of a complex issue. And it
generally disregards context. Reason does not in and of itse lf provide a guide to truth. It produces
massive amoun ts of information and documentation, but lacks the
capability to resolve discrepancies in data and conclusions. All philosophic
ar guments soun d convincing on their own. Although Reason is highly
ef fective in a technical world where the methodologies of logic dominate,
Reason itself, paradoxically , is the major block to reaching higher levels of
consciousness. T ranscending this level is relatively uncommon—by only 4
percent of the world’ s population. ENERGY LEVEL  500 : LOVE
Love as depicted  in the mass media is not what this level implie s. On the
contrary , what the world generally refers to as love is an intense
emotionality , c ombining physical attraction, possessiveness, control,
addiction, eroticism, and novelt y . It is usually evanescent and fluctuating,
waxing and waning with varying conditions. When frustrated, this emotion
often rev eals an underlying anger and dependency that it had masked. That
love can  turn to hate is a commo n concept, but what is being spoken about,
rather than Love, is an addictive  sentimentality and attachment. Hate stems
from Pride, not Love. There probably never was actual Lov e in such a
relationship.The 500 level is characterized  by the development of a Love that is
unconditional, u nchanging, and permanent. It does not fluctuate, because its
source w ithin th e person who lo ves is not dependent on external conditions. Loving is a state of being. It is a way of relating to the world that is
for giving, nurturing, and suppo rtive. Love is not intellectual and does not
proceed from the mind. Love em anates from the heart. It has the capacity to
lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive. As this level of development, the capacity to discern essence becomes
predominant; the  core of an issue becomes the center of focus. A s Reason is
bypassed, there arises the capacity for instantaneous recogn ition of the
totality o f a problem and a majo r expansion of context, especially regarding
time and  process. Reason deals only with particulars, whereas Love deals
with wholes. This ability , often ascribed to intuition, is the capacity for
instantaneous understanding without resorting to sequential symbol
processing. This phenomenon may sound abstract but is, in  fact, quite
concrete; it is a ccompanied by a measurable release of endorp hins in the
brain. Love tak es no position and thus is global, rising above the sepa ration of
positionality . It is then possible to be “one with another ,” as t here are no
longer a ny barriers. Love is therefore inclusive and expands t he sense of
self progressive ly . Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its
expressions and augments that which is positive. It dissolves negativity by
recontextualizing it rather than by attacking it. This is the level of true happiness, but although the world is fascinated by
the subject of Love, and all viable religions calibrate at 500 or over , it is
interesting to note that only 4 percent of the world’ s population ever reaches
this leve l of the evolution of co nsciousness. Only 0.4 percent ever reaches
the level of Unconditional Love, at 540. ENERGY LEVEL 540: JOY
As Lov e becomes more and more unconditional, it begins to be
experienced as an inner Joy . Thi s is not the sudden joy of a pleasurable turn
of event s; it is a  constant accompaniment to all activities. Joy arises from
within each moment of existence, rather than from any external source; 540
is also the level of healing and of spiritually based self-help groups.Level 540 and up is the domain of saints, spiritual healers, and advanced
spiritual student s. Characteristic of this ener gy field is the c apacity for
enormous patience and the persistence of a positive attitude in the face of
prolonged adver sity . The hallmark of this state is compassion. People who
have attained this level have a notable ef fect on others. They ar e capable of
a prolonged, open visual gaze, which induces a state of love and peace. At t he high 50 0s, the world o ne sees is illuminated by the exquisite
beauty and perfection of creation. Everything happens ef fortlessly , by
synchronicity , and the world and everything in it is seen to be an expression
of lo ve a nd divi nity . Individual will mer ges into Divine will. A Presence is
felt whose power facilitates phenomena outside conventional e xpectations
of realit y , terme d miraculous by the ordinary observer . These phenomena
represent the power of the ener gy field, not that of the individual. One’ s sense of responsibility f or others at this level is of a  dif ferent
quality f rom tha t shown at the lower levels. There is a desire to use one’ s
state of consciou sness for the b enefit of life itself rather than for particular
individuals. This capacity to love many people simultaneously is
accompanied by  the discovery that the more one loves, the m ore one can
love. The level of r evelation in the high 500s, then, opens the way to
transfiguration and compassion that lead to ecstasy and the sta tes close to
600. These are states of Bliss and the beginning of states of illumination
and Enlightenment. They are often accompanied by feelings of Light. For
example, the room lit up when Bill W ilson of Alcoholics Anonymous had
his spiri tual exp erience. He said the room was lit by the Infini te Presence
(cal. 575 ). That was the beginning of the approach toward the ener gy field
of 600. The Radiance suf fused out into the world as the great worldwide 12-
step movement through which  AA has brought about the recovery of
millions of people. Near -death expe riences, charact eristically transformative in the ir ef fect,
have fre quently allowed people to experience the ener gy level between 540
and 600. ENERGY LEVEL  600 : PEACEThis ener gy field is associated with the experience designated by such
terms as transcendence , Self-r ealization , and God-consciousness . It is
extremely rare. When this state is reached, the distinction between subject
and obje ct disap pears, and there is no specific focal point of perc eption. Not
uncommonly , in dividuals at this level remove themselves from the world,
as the state of bliss that ensues precludes ordinary activity . Some become
spiritual teachers; others work anonymously for the betterment of
humankind. A few become great geniuses in their respective fields and
make major contributions to society . These people are sain tly and may
eventually be designated of ficia lly as saints, although at this level, formal
religion is commonly transcended, to be replaced by the pure spirituality
out of which all religion originates. Perception at the level of 600 and above is sometimes reported as
occurring in slow motion—suspended in time and space—thoug h nothing is
stationary; all is alive and radiant. Although this world is the same world as
the o ne seen by others, it has be come continuously flowing, ev olving in an
exquisitely coordinated evolutionary dance in which significance and
source are overwhelming. This awesome revelation takes place
nonrationally , so that there is an infinite silence in the mind, which has
stopped concep tualizing. That which is witnessing and that which is
witnessed take on the same identity; the observer dissolv es into the
landscape and becomes equally the observed. Everything is connected to
everything else by a Presence whose power is infinite, exquisitely gentle,
yet rock-solid. Great w orks of art, music, and  architecture that calibrate between 600
and 700 can tran sport us temporarily to higher levels of consciousness and
are universally recognized as inspirational and timeless. ENERGY LEVELS  700–1,000 : ENLIGHTENMENT
This is the level  of the great ones of history who originated the spiritual
patterns that multitudes have followed throughout the ages. All are
associated with Divinity , with which they are often identified. This is the
level of powerful inspiration; these beings set in place attractor ener gy
fields th at influence all humankind down through the ages. A t this level,
there is no longer the experience of an individual personal self as separatefrom oth ers; rather , there is an identification of Self with Consciousness and
Divinity . The Unmanifest is experienced as Self beyond mind. This
transcendence of the ego also se rves by example to teach others  how it can
eventually be accomplished. This is the peak of the evolution of
consciousness in the human realm. Great te achings uplift the masses and raise the level of awareness of all
humanity . T o have such vision is called grace, and the gift it brings is
infinite peace, described as in ef fable, beyond words. At this level of
realization, the sense of one’ s existence transcends all time and all
individuality . Th ere is no longer any identification with the ph ysical body
as “m e,” and the refore, its fate is of no concern. The body is seen as merely
a tool of consci ousness through  the intervention of mind, its prime value
that of communication. The self mer ges back into the Self. This is the level
of nond uality , or complete Oneness. There is no localization of
consciousness; awareness is everywhere equally present. Great works of art depicting in dividuals who have reached the level of
Enlightenment characteristically show the teacher with a specific hand
position, called a mudra , wherein the palm of the hand radiates benediction. This is the act of the transmission of this ener gy field to the co nsciousness
of h umankind. This level of divine grace calibrates up to 1,000, the highest
level attained by any who have lived in recorded history—to wit, the great
A vatars for whom the title “L ord” is appropriate: Lord Krishna, Lord
Buddha, and Lord Jesus Christ. EVER YDA Y EXAMPLES OF HOW THE LEVELS
DETERMINE HUMAN BEHA VIOR
On the Map of  Consciousness, two critical fulcrums allow for major
advancement. The first is at level 200, the initial level of empowerment. Here arises
the w illingness to stop blaming a nd accept responsibility for one’ s own
actions, feelings, and beliefs. So long as cause and responsibility are
projected outsid e of oneself, one must remain in the powerless  mode
of v ictimhood. Clearly the o nly way to increase our hap piness,
prosperity , and spiritual ener gy is by a shift to a higher level ofconsciousness. The endless quests for happiness “out there”
(possessions, approval, awards, degrees, and so on) never bring lasting
happiness. Happiness is the automatic by-product of progression in
consciousness. The second is at the 500 level, reached by accepting lov e and
nonjudgmental for giveness as a lifestyle, exercising uncond itional
kindness to all p ersons, things, and events without exception . (In 12-
step recovery groups, it is said t hat there is no such thing as a justified
resentment. Even if somebody “did you wrong,” you are still free to
choose your response and let th e resentment go.) Once you ma ke this
commitment, you begin to experience a dif ferent, more benign world
as your perceptions evolve. Our research shows that levels of consciousness are the determining
factor in  many societal variables and individual behavior , as v isible in the
chart below:
Corr elation of Levels of Consciousness and Societal Pr oblems
Level of
ConsciousnessRate of
UnemploymentRate of
PovertyHappiness
Rate
(“Life Is
OK”)Rate of
Criminality
600+ 0% 0.0% 100% 0.0%
500–600 0% 0.0% 98% 0.5%
400–500 2% 0.5% 79% 2.0%
300–400 7% 1.0% 70% 5.0%
200–300 8% 1.5% 60% 9.0%
100–200 50% 22.0% 15% 50.0%
50–100 75% 40.0% 2% 91.0%
<50 97% 65.0% 0% 98.0%Let’ s attempt to better understand the determining ef fect of consciousness
levels through an example. Imagine a so-called bum on a street corner:
In a fashionable  neighborhood in a big city stands an old man in tattered
clothes, alone, leaning against the corner of an elegant brownsto ne. Look at
him from the pe rspective of various levels of consciousness, a nd note the
dif ferences in how he appears. From th e bottom of the scale, at a level of 20 (Shame), the bum  is dirty ,
disgusting, and disgraceful. From level 30 (Guilt), he would be blamed for
his condition. He deser ves what he gets; he is probably a lazy welfare cheat. At 50 (Apathy), his plight might appear desperate, evidence that society
cannot do anything about home lessness. At 75 (Grief), the old  man looks
tragic, friendless, and forlorn. At a  consciousness level of 100 (Fear), we might see the bum as
threatening, a social menace. Perhaps we should call the polic e before he
commits some crime. At 125 (Desire), he might represent a frustrating
problem—why d oes somebody not do something? At 150 (Anger), the old
man mig ht look like he could be violent; or , on the other hand, o ne could be
furious that such a condition exists. At 175 (Pride), he could be seen as an
embarrassment or as lacking the self-respect to better himself. At 200
(Courage), we might be motiva ted to wonder if there is a loc al homeless
shelter; all he needs is a job and a place to live. At 2 50 (Neutrality), the bum lo oks okay , maybe even interesting. “Live
and let live,” we might say; after all, he is not hurting anyo ne. At 310
(W illingness), w e might decide to go down there and see what w e can do to
cheer him up, or volunteer some time at the local mission. At 350
(Acceptance), th e man on the corner appears intriguing. He probably has an
interesting story  to tell; he is where he is for reasons we may never
understand. At 400 (Reason), he  is a symptom of the current ec onomic and
social m alaise, or perhaps a g ood subject for an in-depth ps ychological
study , worthy of a government grant. At t he higher le vels, the old ma n begins to look not only interesting but
friendly and even lovable. Perhaps we would then be able to see that he
was, in fact, one  who had transcended social limits and gone fr ee, a joyful
old g uy with the  wisdom of age in his face and the serenity that comes from
indif ference to material things. At level 600 (Peace), he is reve aled as our
own inner self in its temporary expression.When approached, the old man would also vary in his response to these
dif ferent levels of consciousness. W ith some people, he would feel secure;
with oth ers, frightened or dejected. Some would make him angry , and
others would delight him. Som e people he would therefore avoid, and
others greet with pleasure. (Thu s it is said that what we meet is actually a
mirror .) So m uch for th e manner in which our level of consciousnes s decides
what we see. It is equally true that having placed that construct upon the
reality b efore us , we will react to it in a fashion predicted by the level from
which we observe. External eve nts may define conditions, but they do not
determine the consciousness level of human response. W e can take the more
literal scene of our current penal system as an illustration. Placed in an identical and extremely stressful environment, dif ferent
inmates react in ways that vary  extraordinarily according to their level of
consciousness. P risoners whose consciousness is at the lowest  end of the
scale sometimes attempt suicide. Others become psychotic, and some
become delusional. Some in the same circumstances fall into d espondency ,
go m ute, and stop eating. Still others sit with head in hands, tr ying to hide
tears of grief. A very frequent experience is that of fear , including paranoid
defensiveness. I n the same cellb lock, we see other prisoners with a greater
degree of ener gy going to rage, violent and assaultive and homicidal. Pride
is everywhere present, in the form of macho bragging and struggles for
dominance. By contrast, some inmates find the courage to face the truth of why they
are ther e and begin to look at their own inner lives honestly . There are
always some who just “roll with the punches” and try to get some reading
done. At the level of Acceptanc e, we see prisoners who seek out help and
join support groups. It is not unu sual for an occasional inmate to take a new
interest in learning, start studying in the prison library , or  become a
jailhouse lawyer (some of history’ s most influential political books were
written behind bars). A few p risoners go through a transformation of
consciousness and become loving and generous caregivers to their fellows. And it is not unheard of for a prisoner aligned with higher ener gy fields to
become deeply spiritual, even to actively pursue Enlightenment. Here is the take -home point from the foregoing examples: how  we react
depends on the world we seem to be reacting to. Who we becom e as well aswhat we see are both determined by perception, which can be said, simply ,
to create the perceptual, experiential world. Contemplation of the Map of Consciousness can transform your
understanding of key areas of human life, beginning with the belief in
causality , which is a major ba rrier to advancement. As perception itself
evolves with your level of consc iousness, it becomes apparent that what the
world ca lls the domain of cause s is in fact the domain of ef fec ts. Nothing
“out there” causes your experience of life but rather what is “in here,”
which is  the ener gy field operating in your life. By taking respo nsibility for
the cons equences of your own perceptions, you can transcend the role of
victim a nd come  to an understan ding that “nothing out there has  power over
you.” It  is not l ife’ s events but how you react to them and your attitude
about them that determine whether the events have a positive or negative
ef fect on  your life, whether they are experienced as opportunity or as stress. Nothing has the power within itself to “create” stress. The loud music that
raises the blood pressure of one person can be a source of delight to another . A di vorce may b e traumatic if it  is unwanted, or a release into f reedom if it
is desired. Therefore, the only w ay to change your experience of life is to
evolve your consciousness v ia alignment with high-ener g y attractor
patterns. Q&A
Q: How is it possible that a person can go fr om a gr eat state to a r eally
lousy state in a matter of seconds? A:  Tha t’ s called b eing human! The prefrontal cortex, that which makes
us h uman, is an add-on to the o ld animal brain. The reptilian b rain is still
operative so that, if you were to choose it, you could become an instant
killer , lik e the Komodo dragon. Y ou’ve learned not to respond to it, but that
impulse to kill still comes up, as do other primitive impulses. Just notice
your killer impulse when someone cuts you of f in traf fic! In t erms of em otions, most people experience a wide range. Y our
consciousness le vel can be at a good level, and then suddenly you go into
Guilt, Sh ame, G rief, Fear , Desire, Anger , and so on. These are evanescent.Y our overall consciousness leve l is that which is dominant, but it doesn’ t
exclude the range of emotions c oming up from the individual u nconscious. Some of  them are t hings that y ou projected into the world. Now that you’re
taking spiritual responsibility , suddenly you feel guilty about  them. But
that’ s a transitory processing of the ener gy of guilt; it doesn’ t mean that
your consciousness has sunk down to the level of Guilt! Another conside ration is that it takes time to assimilate and grow into the
new patt ern. Ra ther than trying to change too much too quickly , which can
be very disrupti ve, it’ s good to grow with it and let it sort of settle. Each
person g rows at  the rate of their own capacity , their own intention, their
own readiness, their own karmi c ripeness. And you don’ t kno w what that
rate is. Q: Is it normal for a person to feel like they go up and down the entir e
Map? A:  Mo st sp iritual s eekers go through a variety of stages that may  range
from despair to joy or even e cstasy . There are also long pe riods where
nothing seems to be happening , and you may feel like you ar en’ t getting
anywhere. These are interspersed with periods of what seem like stagnation,
frustration, self-blame, and even hopelessness. All of these periods within
the overall process are normal. Perseverance and dedication carry you
through. The way is easier if  a true teacher or a dedicated group is
available. Y ou will  also discover that “Lov e brings up its opposite,” so that the very
intention to become unconditionally loving presents the obstacles that will
need to be transcended (that is, jealousy , resentment, impatience, and so
forth). L ove and  peace are the greatest threats to the “ego,” which defends
itself by resorting to entrench ed positionalities that lie hidden in the
unconscious. These nonloving attitu des arose in childhood from the
biologic, survival-oriented animal brain and were forced under ground by
parental and societal pressures via the well-known psychological
mechanisms of repression, d enial, suppression, reaction formation,
projection, and rationalization. C . G. Jung created the word shadow  to refer
to r ejected parts of the person ality that need to be acknow ledged and
worked with in the process of psychological development.It can be disturbing when these negativities erupt from the unconscious
just when you are aspiring to become more loving! Y ou can expect to
encounter them as a consequence of your commitment to evolve. Unknown to the aspirant is the past karma, which is also an influential
factor . Hence, you cannot com pare yourself to others as to timing and
details o f experience. As you rise on the Map and have acces s to greater
ener gy , it is possible that you earn the right to bring up and clear out
negative karma , and thus there may be periods of financia l dif ficulty ,
illness, and other unforeseeabl e challenges. What seems like a setback,
therefore, is actually an opportunity to evolve. Q: What is the best way to raise one’ s consciousness? A:  Con stancy . Ef fective spiritual e ndeavor is a consequence of con stancy
and persistence rather than fits and starts of enthusiasm. Each state of
spiritual evolution is self-rewarding, gratifying, and complete unto itself. The moments of prior anguish are found to have been worth the ef fort. And hum ility . Great leaps in lev el of consciousness are always preceded
by s urrender of the illusion that I know . Thus you have to be willing to let
go of secretly thinking I know , and to say , “I don’ t know .” Frequently , the
only wa y a person reaches this willingness to change is when they “hit
bottom”—that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat
of a  futile belie f system. Light cannot enter a closed box; the upside of
catastrophe can be an opening to a higher level of awareness. If life is
viewed as a teac her , it then becomes just that. Unless the painful lessons of
life are  transformed through humility into gateways of growth and
development, they are wasted. Q: Y ou have said that just the act of consciousness calibration changes
the calibration of something by virtue of intention. How is that
possible? A:  W e  have disco vered that when people over 200 observe som ething
from lovingnes s, they are already raising its calibrated level of
consciousness measurably . For example, when we consider something or
someone adorab le, the calibration that was at 204 will jump to 310 or so.Do you see wha t this means? Y o u don’ t need to go out and do fancy things. Just witness the sacredness of al l existence, approach all life wit h reverence
and goodwill, and by doing so, you’re changing the world by virtue of
Heisenber g’ s principle, which states that the observation of something
changes it. I d on’ t know if the kitty’ s purr was at 500 before we
contemplated it, but it is now . The higher the level of consciou sness of the observation, the g reater the
impact on the o bserved. W e have literally been changing the calibrated
levels of consciousness and much of society by the sheer observation of the
work that we’re doing collective ly . Everything we look at loving ly raises its
calibration, even the Komodo dragon. He’ s just being what he is, a very
good Komodo dragon, who can kill with precision and eat you up with a
single bite! That’ s impressive, and we see the lovability of the Komodo
dragon a s an expression of Div inity within the unfoldment of Creation in
which everything serves the Ultimate. The world is be coming that which we hold in mind, and if it’ s  lovingly
intended, then it’ s very powerfu l. Look at all the power you w alk around
with and didn’ t know it! Everything we look at, if we love it and for give it
for being what it is—if we witness the sacredness of it, if we see it as an
expression of evolution, and that it serves some ultimate purpose—then our
observation influences it. W atching crocodiles on the nature channel is illuminating. If yo u want to
learn a lot abo ut spirituality , just watch the nature channel, because in
nature you see a  world without any prejudices. There’ s the hi ppopotamus
and the crocodile on the beach, and the hippopotamus has sort of a motherly
instinct toward crocodiles. I m ean, who could love a crocodile but a
hippopotamus? Everybody is afraid of the crocodile except the
hippopotamus. The hippo kills more people per year than most animals, but
even the  hippo has a capacity to care about the crocodile. The hippo goes
over and nudges the crocodile and even licks him, making sure the
crocodile is comfortable. How  could a hippo have a maternal instinct
toward a crocodile? They have apparently made friends over the millennia. The croc odile is  twitching, and t he hippo pushes the crocodile o ver until the
crocodile is happy . Imagine licking a crocodile! Now there’ s som e love and
acceptance! W e should be more like the hippopotamus, then, nurturing
toward everything that the world looks down upon as Homo horribilis !Some of the calibrations we did  in 2004 for T ruth vs. Falsehood  changed
merely as the consequence of our having calibrated them. Do you see how
consciousness is evolving simply by our being aware that it is evolving? The des ire to know the truth tends to pull the truth to us. The higher your
level of consciousness, the great er your lovingness, and thus the  greater the
impact of your observation and intention.CHAPTER THREE
T H E  E V O L U T I O N  O F
C O N S C I O U S N E S S
Since conscious ness is evolving simply by our being aware that it is
evolving, then we make an important contribution to life by noting the
evolution of consciousness in detail. HA VING-DOING-BEING
An ove rview of the Map of Consciousness reveals three p hases of
evolution: from havingness  to doingness  to beingness . ◆  At the lower levels of consciousness, it is what people have  that
counts. It is what they have  that is valued. It is what they have  that gives
them the ir self-i mage of worth and position in the world. They wear that
certain b rand of  clothing and drive that certain style of car that proves their
importance to their social group. Even close associates are mainly status
symbols to them, so they want the lover on the arm who will make them
look goo d to others, and they w ant to be seen with the cool crow d. In some
contexts, they kill or steal in order to have a certain brand of sn eakers or to
control a territory or to get whatever it is they value as a possession. Having  is equated with survival, com petitiveness, possessiveness, and
rivalry . At around calibration 190, there is the addition of group loyalty
such as the “pack.” My  community , my  group, my  turf.◆  Once  people have proved to themselves that they can have whatever
they want, that their basic needs can be fulfilled, that they have the power to
provide for their own needs and those of others who are depe ndent upon
them, th e mind begins to become more interested in what they do , and then
they move to a dif ferent social set in which what they do  i n the w orld is the
basis of their value and rating. What is one’ s position and func tion? What
degrees follow after one’ s name? How many boards do they serve on? They
link achievement with survival via the security that comes from wider
approval and esteem. They see group cooperation as helpful to achieve
shared goals, such as survival of their interests via community activities. ◆  As people mo ve up in loving ness, their doingness is less pre occupied
with sel f-promotion and becomes more oriented to being  of service to
others. As consciousness grow s, they experience that service, which is
lovingly oriente d toward others, automatically results in the fulfillment of
their own needs. (This does not mean sacrifice. Service is not sacrifice. It is
sharing from one’ s inner c ompleteness and joy .) Their actions are
automatically loving and nurturing of the life around them. At that point, it is no longer what they do in the world but what they ar e
that counts. They have proven to themselves that they can have what they
need, that they can do almost anything, given the willingness. And now
what they ar e , within themselves and to others, becomes most important. People s eek thei r company , not because of what they have , not  bec ause of
what they do  and society’ s labels, but because of what they have become . Because of the quality of their presence and love, people just  want to be
around them. Their social description then changes. They are no longer the
person who has a fashionable apartment or fancy car , nor are they labeled as
the President of the So-and-So Corporation or some other title . Now they
are described as a splendid person, as somebody “you just have to meet.”
This level of beingness is typical of anonymous self-help groups, where
no o ne i s interes ted in what othe rs do in the world, what they ha ve, or even
their last names. They are only interested in whether or not they have
achieved certain inner goals,  such as those of honesty , openness,
lovingness, willingness to help, humility , and awareness. They are
interested in the quality of beingness. W e see therefore that consciousness evolves from survival to love—that
is, from  a self-centered focus o n one’ s own survival to a wider radius ofconcern that encompasses the happiness and support of others as important
for one’ s survival, to finally transcending the belief that one’ s  survival is
due to any “cau se.” At that poi nt, one belongs to life itself, freely loving
and giving to others without needing anything in return. THE EV OLUTION FROM SUR VIV AL T O LOVE
T o understand the calibrated levels of consciousness, it is helpful to
recapitulate the emer gence of consciousness on the planet and its evolution
through the animal kingdom into its expression as humankind. O ur focus of
interest here is the evolution of the ego, with its innate limitat ions, which
calls for compassionate understanding. A key point: the ego is not an enemy; it is our biological inheritance. W ithout it, nobody would be alive to lament its limitations! By
understanding its origin and intrinsic importance to survival, the ego can be
seen as being of great benefit b ut prone to becoming unruly and causing
emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems if not resolved or
transcended. How did  life arise on the plane t? From the Unmanifest to the Manifest,
the ene r gy of consciousness itself interacted with matter , and as an
expression of Divinity , by that interaction life arose. In its earliest forms,
the animal expressions of life were very primitive and did not have an
innate, inner source of ener gy . Survival therefore depended on acquiring
ener gy e xternally . This was not a problem in the plant kingdom, where
chlorophyll auto matically transforms solar ener gy into necessary chemical
processes. Anim al life had to acquire what was needed from its
environment, an d that principle of survival then established the main core
of th e ego, whi ch is still primarily involved in self-interest, acquisition,
conquering, and rivalry with other or ganisms for survival. Importantly ,
however , it also had the characteristics of curiosity , searching, and,
therefore, learning. Calibration below 200Life initially survived out of self-centeredness. The ego, which is the core
of th is s urvival d rive, was merely doing what was necessary as life evolved
from bacteria (cal. 1) to insects (cal. 6) to the emer gence of reptiles and
dinosaurs. The Komodo drago n, with a calibration of 40, is a living
example of the dinosaur era. Its only intention is “me,” and in order for
“me” to  survive , it is necessary  to eat “you.” Indeed, some human beings
calibrate at that same level and are run by that ener gy field and its patterns. The Kom odo dr agon has perfected the process. After just one bite, it settles
down an d waits for you to die, and then it enjoys a warm dinner! Its
intention is not spiritually corrupt. It just intends to survive by eating you. As evo lution progressed, the survival mechanisms became more
elaborate with the quality of inte lligence, by which information is acquired,
stored, processed, compared, integrated, correlated, and stratified. Life has
innate intellige nce. This observation is the basis for the theory of
“intelligent desi gn” (cal. 480), which does not require any pres umption of
Divinity or a Creator . Life then evolved into progress ively higher lifeforms, and when this is
charted over great evolutionary epochs of time, its expression in the animal
kingdom becom es apparent. It is noticeable that at consciousness levels
below 200 (with the exception of most birds), life could be described as
rapacious. The tiger is gor geous  to look at but rapacious when it hunts and
kills its prey . Levels of consciousness below 200 acquire their ener gy at the
expense of others, and because survival is based on acquisitio n, they see
others as rivals, competitors, and enemies. In modern languaging, they
would be called possessive, pred atory , competitive, hostile, and, in extreme
expressions, aggressive and sa vage. W ith observation, we can see that
below 200, some humans are not so dif ferent—hostile, predatory ,
competitive, and so on—doing what they think is necessary in order to
survive. All the human ego’ s tricks are observable in the evolution of the
animal k ingdom over eons of time where deception, rivalry , c amouflage,
and force fostered survival. W ith wolves (cal. 190), we see group pack
formation, the dominant alpha male and female, the territoriality , and the
use of deceptive camouflage to get close to unsuspecting prey . These
patterns of the wolf characterize whole societies in today’ s world. Calibration above 200At consciousnes s level 200, there is a shift in the animal kingd om to the
more benign; that is, in addition to the carnivore, there e mer ges the
herbivore. A significant transformation of consciousness was the
appearance of grazing animals  on the great plains of Africa and North
America. At 200, the giraf fe and  zebra graze; they do not hunt a nd kill. The
grazing animals not only return nitrogen-rich fertilizer to the soil and
thereby sustain life; they spread seeds in their manure, thus supporting the
propagation of vegetation. The deer , elk, cow , elephant, sheep, and horse
calibrate over 200. From conscious ness level 200 up, the nature of life becom es more
harmonious as maternal carin g appears for the first time, along with
concern for others, and the beginning of what is later expressed in human
nature a s relatedness, socializing, play , family and pair bonding, and group
cooperation for shared goals, su ch as survival via community a ctivities. In
the mother bird, we see caring a bout her of fspring. The reptile d oes not care
about an other; t he mother reptile lays the eggs and wanders away . But in
the mother bird, there is concern about the survival of the eggs and the little
baby bi rds. W ith the evolution of mammalian life, we see the first
appearance of real sustained concern for others, in the form of maternal
love. Thus Love first presented  itself on the planet through the feminine,
which expresses concern and caringness. W ith the advancement of evolution, the bipeds, standing upright,
appeared with two limbs that they did not need for locomotion, so the two
free limbs developed manual dexterity and, as a consequence of the
development of the thumb, enabled tool-making crafts to develop. The
increased complexity was facilitated by the emer gence of the forebrain and
the prefrontal cortex as the anatomical seat of human intelligence. However ,
because of the predominance of animal instincts, intelligence initially
served primitive  instincts. Thus, the prefrontal cortex became subservient to
animal-survival motivations. Human Evolution
Primitive human ity appeared as sprouts of the evolutionary tree, starting
presumably with “Lucy” three million years ago, and then m uch later as
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Homo erectus, and others, all of whom
calibrated at approximately 80 t o 85. Each new genus of hominids does notdissolve into the other . Instead, a new branch constantly arises as its own
expression. Most recently , perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago,
there appeared in Africa the p robable predecessor of modern humanity ,
Homo sapiens idaltu, with consciousness level also at 80 to 85. Thus, below consciousness leve l 200, the prefrontal cortex remains under
the domination of animal inst incts, and all the animal surv ival tactics
become more sophisticated. H umans do not attack with teeth but with
words and other weapons. W arfare and rivalry go on as usual, and the front
page of any newspaper reports t he same events as what can be observed on
Monkey Island at any zoo. This monkey tribe is making that tribe “bad” and
another tribe “good”; this one is  trying to get dominance over that one; the
males ar e surreptitiously trying to grab all the females in the b ackground;
everybody is trying to make thei r piles of manure higher than their rival and
will sling it at anyone they see as threatening! Sound familiar? As consciousness evolves within the human, crossing over consciousness
level 20 0, the animal drives begin to conflict with the ener gy of spiritual
power , truth, and love. The ego ’ s deception is clever in that it deludes its
victim in to belie ving that the pe rpetrator is “out there,” whereas actually it
is innate to biological survival process and therefore “in here.”
Understanding ( cal. 400) the e go and adopting it as a pet a llows its
eventual dissolution. It can be viewed as a cute little pet that needs
supervision, lest it hurt others or  oneself. Eventually , as one bec omes aware
of its proclivities, one can override them. Rarely d o peop le escape the ra tionality of the 400s by evolvi ng to the
nonlinear domai ns starting at Love (cal. 500). In the 500s, consciousness is
transformed. One is less con cerned with the objective world and lives
instead from the subjective state of A wareness, having realized that the
experience of life derives from within, an inner domain of grace that is not
measurable yet profoundly discernible. The persistence  of the primitiv e ego in humans is referred to as the
narcissistic core of “egotism,” which, at calibration levels below 200,
indicates the persistence of self-interest, disregard for the rights of others,
and seei ng others as enemies and competitors rather than as allies. For
safety’ s sake, humans coalesced  into groups and discovered th e benefit of
mutuality and cooperation, whic h again was a corollary to the a nimal world
of group, pack, and family formation in the mammalian and bird kingdoms.The calibrated consciousness level of humans evolved slowly . At the
time of the birth  of the Buddha, the collective consciousness c alibrated at
90. It then rose to 100 by the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and slowly
evolved over the last two millennia to 190, where it stayed for many
centuries, until the late 1980s. Then, at about the time of th e Harmonic
Conver gence in the late ’80s, it suddenly jumped from 190 to 204–205. This crossover seems to signify the opening up of a new era of human
evolution—that is, the emer ge nce of Homo spiritus  (see I: Reality and
Subjectivity ). Approximately 85 percent of the world’ s population is still b elow 200
and therefore dominated by animal instincts, motivations, and behaviors (as
reflected in the nightly news). T hese levels below 200 indicate reliance on
for ce , wh ether emotional, physical, s ocial, or force by whatever expr ession. Levels over 200, which progress logarithmically , indicate levels of power . Differ ences between “below 200” and “above 200”
Of m ajor significance is that the  brain’ s physiology changes dramatically
at consciousness level 200, which is the level where the quality of life
changes, not only in humankind but also in the animal king dom, from
predatory to benign. This is expressed by the emer gence of concern for the
welfare, survival, and happiness of others rather than just for the personal
self. The benefits of this evolu tion, caringness and spiritual growth, are
clearly s hown in the following chart. Above level of consciousn ess 200, an
etheric brain emer ges. It is n ot protoplasmic or anatomical  but rather
ener getic. The etheric brain no t only allows more ef fective pr ocessing of
stimuli but also registers higher  ener gy frequencies to which pr otoplasm is
unable to respond. This is similar to the physical world, where more
delicate instruments are required to discern higher -frequency ener gy fields
beyond the capacity of the s enses (the ear cannot hear radio waves
themselves). The etheric (ener gy) brain is capable of nonverbal, nonlinear
knowingness. R ight-handed people become right-brain domina nt, and left-
handed people become left-br ain dominant. These nondom inant brain
hemispheres are stimulated by art, music, altruism, and aesthetics. Brain Function and PhysiologyBelow 200 Above 200
Left-brain dominance in right-
handed peopleRight-brain dominance
Right-brain dominance in left-
handed peopleLeft-brain dominance
Linear Nonlinear
Stress—adrenaline Peace—endorphins
Fight or flight
(alarm/resistance/exhaustion)Positive emotion
Thymus stress Thymus support
Ð Killer cells and immunity Ð Killer cells and immunity
Disrupted acupuncture meridian Balanced acupuncture meridian
Disease Healing
Negative kinesiological response Positive kinesiological response
Ð Neurotransmitters (serotonin)1
Pupils dilate Pupils constrict
T rack to emotion twice as fast as
through prefrontal cortexT rack to  emotion slower than fr om
prefrontal and etheric cortexes
Lower -mind attitudes Higher -mind attitudes
The dif f erences between the two groups is major , as evidence d by the
following chart that distinguish es the attitudes of lower mind versus those
of higher mind. Lower Mind (Cal. 155) Higher Mind (Cal. 275)
Accumulation Growth
Acquire Savor
Remember ReflectMaintain Evolve
Think Process
Ruled by emotions, wants Ruled by reason, inspiration
Blames T akes responsibility
Careless Disciplined
Concrete, literal Abstract, imaginative
Morals Ethics
Definition Essence, meaning
Callous Merciful
Critical Accepting
Skepticism Comprehend
Literal Intuitive
Control Surrender
Competition Cooperation
Design Art
Guilt Regret
Force Power
Naive, impressionable Sophisticated, informed
Excess Balance
T erminal Germinal
Rate Evaluate
A void Face and accept
Sympathize Empathize
W ant Choose
Desire V alue
Childish Mature
Attacks A voidsCondemning For giving
Stingy Generous
Cynical Optimistic, hopeful
Suspicious T rusting
Short of money Adequate for needs
Insists Requests
Rush, hurry “Keep moving”
Lust Desire
Ungrateful Appreciative
V ulgar , gross Subtle, refined
Grim, heavy Humor , lighthearted
CONSIDERA TIONS ACROSS  7 SECT ORS OF LIFE
Certain pieces of information can jump one’ s consciousness just to be
aware o f them. Here are a few discoveries from consciousness -calibration
research that increase understanding of various sectors of life. T he very fact
that all life is evolutionary gives hope. Even periods of great dif ficulty can
be understood as part and parcel of the growth process. 1. Animals
The cali brated levels of the an imal kingdom represent averages of the
total pop ulation, within which there is individual variation, and there is also
variation in calibrated levels o f behavior . For example, “play” calibrates
about 10 points higher than the average level of function, which is
significant for both animals and humans. Another point of int erest is that
once a human fa mily adopts an animal, the animal’ s level of co nsciousness
advances by 5 or 10 points; in pa rticular , certain birds and animals that have
experienced prolonged interaction with caring humans actually calibrate at
400. Koko, the trained gorilla who demonstrated surprising capacity forlanguage and maternal love (she adopted and named a kitten), calibrated at
405. Th is calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason;
thus, the calibration level helps to resolve the ar gument among
experimental scientists about whether or not certain animal behaviors
actually reflect the capacity for Reason. Furthermore, a unique discovery is
that a cat’ s purr , a songbird’ s s ong, and a dog’ s wagging tail all calibrate
extremely high (500)—in fact, higher than a lar ge portion of  the human
population. Leve l 500 is the ener gy of the heart. That pet animals have the
capacity to interact and emanate  Love indicates an area for further research
to disco ver why  these beloved c reatures are capable of Love—that is, they
exhibit an advanced developme nt of the “heart chakra” and are known to
have a therapeutic healing ef fect on people with a variety of illnesses. 2. The Impact of Love
Love ha s only recently emer ged  on the planet, with its first appe arance in
birds and mammals through mat ernal love. It is helpful to know that to care
about ot hers, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the
planet, i s extremely recent in the  evolution of consciousness over millennia. This fact elicits appreciation for  the presence of love in our current era, and
this very appreciation has the ef fect of increasing it. Indeed, anythin g done with love increases its calibration, seen in the
everyday arena of the food we eat. Machine-made food calibrates at 188–
200, but  homem ade food rises to 209, and if it is blessed, it r ises to 215. Machine-made b read at the supermarket calibrates at 188, but if the bread
comes from the bakery in the same supermarket, it rises to 20 3 and then
higher if it is blessed. Cookies made for the family calibrate at 520. These
calibration dif ferences are a unique demonstration an alogous to
Heisenber g’ s principle in that the introduction of human consciousness and
intention alter the field. It also gives evidence that prayer itself i s more than
just wishful thinking. It follows that we bring more love into our lives
simply by consciously focusing  on its presence as a motivator in everyday
life. For  example, this can be noticed in the love involved in making the
family d inner , in  cleaning the kitty boxes, or in going to work  to pay the
bills. Ordinary endeavors, d one out of love, carry great power . Consciousness calibration confirms the truth of Mother T eresa’ s famous
statement: “Do small things with great love.”3. Societal Leadership
High-ener gy fields in societal leadership are rare, but recent historical
examples give evidence of their power to overcome seemingly impossible
societal divides and to usher i n major breakthroughs by peaceful means
rather than force. Force, through its insistence that “the end justifies the
means,” sells out freedom fo r expediency . Force of fers quick, easy
solutions. In power , the means  and the end are the same, but its “ends”
require greater maturity , discipline, and patience to be brought to fruition. Great le aders inspire us to hav e faith and confidence because of the
power of their a bsolute integrity and alignment with inviolate  principles. Such figures understand that you cannot compromise principle and still
retain yo ur power . W inston Churchill (cal. 510) never needed to use force
with the British people; Gand hi (cal. 760) defeated the Bri tish Empire
without raising a hand in ange r; Nelson Mandela (cal. 505) underwent a
profound inner transformation during his 27 years in prison under apartheid,
from trib al fighter to a unifying  humanistic visionary who inaugurated the
first democracy in South Africa; Mikhail Gorbachev (cal. 500) brought
about to tal revo lution in the lar g est political monolith in the world without
firing a shot, in only a few short years, through his inspiration and vision. One of the chara cteristics of force is arrogance; power is characterized by
humility . Force is pompous; it has all the answers. Power is unassuming. Stalin, who strutted military supremacy , has gone down in h istory as an
arch-criminal. In contrast, the humble Mikhail Gorbachev , who wore a plain
suit and easily admitted to faults, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite error or defects, true “ greatness” is recognized worldwide as a
composite of strengths, character traits, and virtues as exemplified by
leaders in various fields of human endeavor (cal. 460–760):
Abraham Lincoln
Mother T eresa
Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Helen KellerW inston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Mahatma Gandhi
Parks Reece
Michelangelo
Beethoven
Mozart
Nijinsky
The astronauts
Susan B. Anthony
Martin Luther King, Jr . Nelson Mandela
Oprah W infrey
C. G. Jung
Joe DiMaggio
Rachel Carson
Louis Armstrong
Lily T omlin
Mary Oliver
. . . and many others. These all exemplify stature and allia nce with
integrity , excellence, beauty , and valor . Lower levels of consciousness routinely attack great leaders. Historically ,
all presidents, especially durin g times of war (Abraham Lincoln, for
example), have been subjected to critical attack, extremes of vilification, or
even ass assination and have had to go through agonizing moral crucibles,
such as T ruman ’ s painful decision whether to resort to the atomic bomb to
end W orld W ar II. His decision calibrates at 475; it was a dif fic ult situationof triage, having to weigh the moral impact of killing 180,000 civilians in
order to prevent the estimated death of six or seven million people. 4. Realism
The evo lution o f consciousness reveals that it is a major error t o assume
that others share one’ s same va lues. From the Brain Physiology chart, we
see t hat people w ho calibrate below 200 and those who calibrate above 200
are liter ally two dif ferent kinds of people in how they perceive, process
information, and  respond in the  world. As noted earlier , 85 percent of the
world population is below 200, motivated by greed, hate, pride, and other
self-centered goals. They are not trustworthy or teachable. Thus it is naïve
to assume that other people have one’ s same integrity . Throughout history we see the cost of this naïveté. T ens of millions of
lives are  lost as a result of decen t people projecting their own inner decency
onto indecent others, and thereby failing to discern the “wolf  in sheep’ s
clothing.” Calibrating just under 200, the wolf has a lot of intelligence,
capability , and aggressive confidence in its pack to hunt and kil l prey much
lar ger t han itself. W olves use camouflage (deceit) to get near their
unsuspecting prey . The sheep, at 210, is a very dif ferent ener gy; it is a
peaceable, nonp redatory herbivore that grazes for its food. Humans and
some entire societies calibrate a t 190, and they are masters at camouflage
by hiding their r eal intention in the “sheep” guise of agree-ability , goodwill,
and eve n “peacemaking.” Consciousness calibration instantly reveals the
essence of the wolf hidden in the appearance of a sheep. The calibration of “wolf in sheep’ s clothing,” at 120, is w orse than
expected, as most of the political methods calibrate around 190 (prideful
egotism). The calibration of 120 means that it is extremely important to
become sophisticated and realize that essence and perception are two
completely dif fe rent things. It is a serious er r or to misper ceive, not a minor
one. T o think that the Komodo dragon is safe because you are a
“humanitarian” and “animal lover” does not mean that you can step into its
cage we aring sa ndals. The downside of W estern civilization is acting on the
belief that “we h ave to be nice to all Komodo dragons and invite  them here,
as they are just nice animals.” That error is quite severe.It was the error of U.K. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who met
with Adolf Hitler during W orld W ar II to sign a mutual peace treaty and
returned to London proudly proclaiming “peace for our time.” Hitler
scof fed at Chamberlain’ s “stupidity .” In signing the Munich Agreement,
Hitler had promised Chamberlai n that, if given certain territorie s, he would
not invade others. W ithin a year , as bombs rained down on the U.K.,
Chamberlain wa s seen as a fool for his lack of reality testing. Of course,
Hitler w as playi ng the wolf in sheep’ s clothing and had never intended to
honor th eir agreement. Chamberlain’ s lack of realism (cal. 185) led to his
failure t o protec t his country . C hamberlain’ s intention was virt uous (500),
but his capability was weak. Similar dynamic s occur in rece nt times when political leaders naïvely
trust in the goodwill of nations who actually have every intention of using
nuclear weapons to destroy us. Appeasement of terrorism calibrates at the
level of “lower mind” (155) and is viewed by terrorists as we akness and
cowardice. T o predators, sitting ducks “deserve” what they get, like car
owners who leave the keys in unlocked cars. “T olerance” (cal. 190 as a
slogan) is the er ror of “far left”  apologists who unknowingly welcome the
T rojan h orse by  demonizing honest assessment of high- risk fac tors. Just
like a wolf pack senses the we akness of its prey , so do aggressors take
advantage of America’ s naïve idealism. Consciousness calibration reveals the truth of any political or d iplomatic
conflict, as the underlying intention of each side can be discovered
instantly . As noted in the list o f countries in T ruth vs. Falsehood , certain
countries and/or their leaders calibrate at a level that warrants acute
discernment, es pecially if they possess, or are actively gaining, nuclear
capacity . The U.S., at 421, appr oaches its nuclear capacity with rationality
and restraint, high-level values t hat are ridiculed as “weak” by lower levels
of co nsciousness. Countries or political movements that calibrate under 200
are, in contrast, driven by values such as hatred. While it is currently
politically fashionable to be “tolerant,” it could be said that it is  better to be
a live realist than a dead relativist. The media contribute to the lack of realism as a consequence of the
illusion created by the catchy meme “Fair and balanced.” The implication,
of course, is that, via relativism, falsehood is of equal value to truth, a rather
absurd presumption just on face value. As an example, we can take that the
earth is flat as a fair -and-balanced af firmative to the view that the earth isround. T his can be further elaborated based on the fallacious meme “There
are two sides to any question.” (This calibrates as false and was  actually the
comment of a p ublic of ficial caught red-handed on video while stealing
cash and stashing it in tin cans in the basement of his house.) United States society collectively calibrates at 421 (as of November
2007). I n contrast, the critics of America collectively calibrate at 190. Whereas peace vigils calibrate at 305, peace demonstrations are at 170. Free
speech as a concept calibrates at 340, but free speech as it is pra cticed in the
U.S. calibrates at 187, the level of narcissism. In current society there is the
popularity of having an overt, strident anti-American anties tablishment
attitude (“Hollywoodism,” cal. 170 to 190) that profits f rom media
attention. Whereas the bumper sticker “Question Authority” is hostile and
calibrates at 160, honest disagreement calibrates at 495. 5. Safeguards
A study of W estern civilization indicates that its overall level of
consciousness is  currently in de cline such that even formal edu cation is no
longer a safeguard against blat ant nonintegrity and the gross falsehoods
pervasive in the media and academia. The most practical countermeasures are:
1 . Spiritual alignm ent with truth (which facilitates a favorable shift in
brain chemistry)
2 . Intellectual sophistication via familiarity with the Great Books  of the
W estern W orld
3 . A wareness of the Map of Consciousness
4 . Advancing one’ s own level of consciousness by following and
practicing verifi ed spiritual teachings and principles of disce rnment
(for example, see Chapters 8  and 9  of this book)
6. Compassion
It is thanks to t he ego’ s tenacity that anyone is even alive to read this
book.
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        At this level  of empowerment, one is able to cope with
and ef fe ctively h andle the opportunities of life. At 200, for instance, there is
the ener gy to learn new job skill s. Growth and education become attainable
goals. T here is the capacity to face fears or character defects and to grow
despite them; anxiety also doe s not cripple endeavor as it would at the
lower le vels of evolution. Obstacles that defeat people whose co nsciousness
is be low 200 act  as stimulants to those who have ev olved into the first level
of true power. People a t this level put back into the world as much ener gy as they take;
at lower levels, populations, as well as individuals, drain ener gy from
society without reciprocating. B ecause accomplishments result in positive
feedback, reward and esteem become progressively self-reinforcing. This is
where productivity begins. The collective level of human consciousness
remained at 190 for many centuries and, curiously, only jumped over 200 in
the 1980s. ENERGY LEVEL  250 : NEUTRALITY
Ener gy becomes very positive as we get to the level that we have termed
Neutral, because it is epitomized by release from the positionality that
typifies lower levels. Below 250, consciousness tends to see dichotomies
and to take on ri gid positions, an impediment in a world that is complex and
multifactorial rather than black-and-white. T aking such positions creates polarization, and polarization in turn
creates oppositi on and division. As in the martial arts, a rigid position
becomes a point of vulnerabili ty; that which does not bend is liable to
break. R ising above barriers or o ppositions that dissipate one’ s ener gies, the
Neutral conditi on allows for flexibility and nonjudgment al, realistic
appraisal of problems. T o be N eutral means to be relatively unattached to
outcomes; not getting one’ s w ay is no longer experienced a s defeating,
frightening, or frustrating. At the Neutral level, a person can say, “W ell, if I don’ t get this job, then
I’ll g et another. ” This is the beginning of inner confidence; se nsing one’ s
power, o ne ther efore is not eas ily intimidated. One is not driv en to prove
anything. The expectation that li fe, with its ups and downs, will be basically
okay if one can roll with the punches is a typical 250-level attitude. People o f Neutrality have a sens e of well-being; the mark of this level is
a confident capability to live in the world. This is, therefore, experientially a
level of safety. People at this level are easy to get along with and safe to be
around and associate with, be cause they are not interested in conflict,
competition, or guilt. They are comfortable and basically undisturbed
emotionally. This attitude is nonjudgmental and does not lead to any need to
control o ther pe ople’ s behaviors. Correspondingly, because Neutral people
value freedom, they are hard to control. ENERGY LEVEL  310 : WILLINGNESS
This very positive level of ener gy may be seen as the gateway to the
higher levels. Whereas, for insta nce, jobs are done adequately at the Neutral
level, at  the level of W illingne ss, work is done well and success in all
endeavors is common. Growt h is rapid; these are people chosen for
advancement. W illingness implies that they have overcome inner resistance
to li fe and are committed to participation. Below the 200 calib ration level,
people tend to be closed-minded, but by level 310, a great opening occurs. At t his level, pe ople become genuinely friendly, and social and economic
success seem to follow automatically. The W illing are not really troubled by
unemployment, for they will take any job when they have to, or create a
career or self-employment for t hemselves. They do not feel de meaned by
service jobs or by starting at the bottom. They are naturally helpful to others
and con tribute to the good of society. They are also willing to  face inner
issues and do not have major learning blocks. At this level, se lf-esteem is innately high and is reinforced by positive
feedback from society in the forms of recognition, appreciation, and reward. W illingness is sympathetic and responsive to the needs of others. W illing
people are builders of, and con tributors to, society. W ith their capacity to
bounce back from adversity and  learn from experience, they tend to become
self-correcting. Having let go of Pride, they are willing to look at their own
defects and learn from others. At the level of W illingness, people become
excellent students. They are easily teachable and represent a considerable
source of power for society. ENERGY LEVEL  350 : ACCEPT ANCE
At this level of awareness, a major transformation takes place, with the
understanding th at one is the source and creator of the experience of one’ s
life one self. T aking such responsibility is distinctive of this degree of
evolution, chara cterized by the capacity to live harmoniously with the
forces of life. All peop le at levels below 200 tend to be powerless and see themselves
as v ictims, at th e mercy of life. This stems from a belief that the source of
one’ s ha ppiness or the c ause of one’ s problems is “out there. ” An enormousjump—taking b ack one’ s own power—is completed at this level, with the
realization that the source of h appiness is within oneself. At this more
evolved stage, nothing so-calle d out there has the capacity to make one
happy, and love is not something given or taken away by another but
created from within. Acceptance is not to be confused with passivity, which is a sym ptom of
Apathy. This form of Acceptance allows engagement in life on  life’ s own
terms, w ithout trying to make i t conform to an agenda. W ith Acceptance,
there is emotion al calm, and per ception is widened as denial is transcended. One now sees th ings without distortion or misinterpretation; th e context of
experience is expanded so that one is capable of “seeing the whole picture. ”
Acceptance has to do essentially with balance, proportion, and
appropriateness. The indi vidual a t the level of Acceptance is not interested in de termining
right or wrong but instead is de dicated to resolving issues and finding out
what to do about problems. T ough jobs do not cause discomfort or dismay. Long-term goals take precedence over short-term ones; self-discipline and
mastery are prominent. At the level of Acceptance, we are not polarized by conflict or
opposition; we see that other people have the same rights as we do, and we
honor eq uality. W hile lower levels are characterized by rigidity, at this level
social plurality begins to eme r ge as a form of resolution of problems. Therefore, this level is free of discrimination or intolerance; there is the
awareness that equality does not preclude diversity. Acceptance includes
rather than rejects. ENERGY LEVEL 400: REASON
Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of
the lower levels is transcended. Reason is capable of handling lar ge,
complex amounts of data and making rapid, correct decisions—of
understanding the intricacies of relationships, gradations,  and fine
distinctions—and expert manipulation of symbols as abstra ct concepts
becomes increasingly important. This is the level of science, medicine, and
generally increa sed capability for conceptualization and com prehension. Knowledge and education are sought as capital. Understanding andinformation are the main tools o f accomplishment, which is the hallmark of
the 4 00 level. Th is is the level of Nobel Prize winners, great sta tesmen, and
Supreme Court justices. Einst ein, Freud, and many of the other great
thinkers of history also calibrate here. The authors of the Great Books of the
W estern W orld calibrate here. The sho rtcomings of this level are the failure to clearly distinguish the
dif ference between symbols and what they represent, and confusion
between the objective and subjec tive worlds that limits the unde rstanding of
causality. At this level, it is easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees, to
become infatuated with concept s and theories, ending up in intellectualism
and missing the essential poin t. Intellectualizing can become  an end in
itself. Reason is limited in that it does not af ford the capacity for the
discernment of essence or of th e critical point of a complex issue. And it
generally disregards context. Reason does not in and of itse lf provide a guide to truth. It produces
massive amoun ts of information and documentation, but lacks the
capability to resolve discrepancies in data and conclusions. All philosophic
ar guments soun d convincing on their own. Although Reason is highly
ef fective in a technical world where the methodologies of logic dominate,
Reason itself, paradoxically, is the major block to reaching higher levels of
consciousness. T ranscending this level is relatively uncommon—by only 4
percent of the world’ s population. ENERGY LEVEL  500 : LOVE
Love as depicted  in the mass media is not what this level implie s. On the
contrary, what the world generally refers to as love is an intense
emotionality, c ombining physical attraction, possessiveness, control,
addiction, eroticism, and novelt y. It is usually evanescent and fluctuating,
waxing and waning with varying conditions. When frustrated, this emotion
often rev eals an underlying anger and dependency that it had masked. That
love can  turn to hate is a commo n concept, but what is being spoken about,
rather than Love, is an addictive  sentimentality and attachment. Hate stems
from Pride, not Love. There probably never was actual Lov e in such a
relationship. The 500 level is characterized  by the development of a Love that is
unconditional, u nchanging, and permanent. It does not fluctuate, because its
source w ithin th e person who lo ves is not dependent on external conditions. Loving is a state of being. It is a way of relating to the world that is
for giving, nurturing, and suppo rtive. Love is not intellectual and does not
proceed from the mind. Love em anates from the heart. It has the capacity to
lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive. As this level of development, the capacity to discern essence becomes
predominant; the  core of an issue becomes the center of focus. A s Reason is
bypassed, there arises the capacity for instantaneous recogn ition of the
totality o f a problem and a majo r expansion of context, especially regarding
time and  process. Reason deals only with particulars, whereas Love deals
with wholes. This ability, often ascribed to intuition, is the capacity for
instantaneous understanding without resorting to sequential symbol
processing. This phenomenon may sound abstract but is, in  fact, quite
concrete; it is a ccompanied by a measurable release of endorp hins in the
brain. Love tak es no position and thus is global, rising above the sepa ration of
positionality. It is then possible to be “one with another,” as t here are no
longer a ny barriers. Love is therefore inclusive and expands t he sense of
self progressive ly. Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its
expressions and augments that which is positive. It dissolves negativity by
recontextualizing it rather than by attacking it. This is the level of true happiness, but although the world is fascinated by
the subject of Love, and all viable religions calibrate at 500 or over, it is
interesting to note that only 4 percent of the world’ s population ever reaches
this leve l of the evolution of co nsciousness. Only 0. 4 percent ever reaches
the level of Unconditional Love, at 540. ENERGY LEVEL 540: JOY
As Lov e becomes more and more unconditional, it begins to be
experienced as an inner Joy. Thi s is not the sudden joy of a pleasurable turn
of event s; it is a  constant accompaniment to all activities. Joy arises from
within each moment of existence, rather than from any external source; 540
is also the level of healing and of spiritually based self-help groups. Level 540 and up is the domain of saints, spiritual healers, and advanced
spiritual student s. Characteristic of this ener gy field is the c apacity for
enormous patience and the persistence of a positive attitude in the face of
prolonged adver sity. The hallmark of this state is compassion. People who
have attained this level have a notable ef fect on others. They ar e capable of
a prolonged, open visual gaze, which induces a state of love and peace. At t he high 50 0s, the world o ne sees is illuminated by the exquisite
beauty and perfection of creation. Everything happens ef fortlessly, by
synchronicity, and the world and everything in it is seen to be an expression
of lo ve a nd divi nity. Individual will mer ges into Divine will. A Presence is
felt whose power facilitates phenomena outside conventional e xpectations
of realit y, terme d miraculous by the ordinary observer. These phenomena
represent the power of the ener gy field, not that of the individual. One’ s sense of responsibility f or others at this level is of a  dif ferent
quality f rom tha t shown at the lower levels. There is a desire to use one’ s
state of consciou sness for the b enefit of life itself rather than for particular
individuals. This capacity to love many people simultaneously is
accompanied by  the discovery that the more one loves, the m ore one can
love. The level of r evelation in the high 500s, then, opens the way to
transfiguration and compassion that lead to ecstasy and the sta tes close to
600. These are states of Bliss and the beginning of states of illumination
and Enlightenment. They are often accompanied by feelings of Light. For
example, the room lit up when Bill W ilson of Alcoholics Anonymous had
his spiri tual exp erience. He said the room was lit by the Infini te Presence
(cal. 575 ). That was the beginning of the approach toward the ener gy field
of 600. The Radiance suf fused out into the world as the great worldwide 12-
step movement through which  AA has brought about the recovery of
millions of people. Near -death expe riences, charact eristically transformative in the ir ef fect,
have fre quently allowed people to experience the ener gy level between 540
and 600. ENERGY LEVEL  600 : PEACEThis ener gy field is associated with the experience designated by such
terms as transcendence, Self-r ealization, and God-consciousness. It is
extremely rare. When this state is reached, the distinction between subject
and obje ct disap pears, and there is no specific focal point of perc eption. Not
uncommonly, in dividuals at this level remove themselves from the world,
as the state of bliss that ensues precludes ordinary activity. Some become
spiritual teachers; others work anonymously for the betterment of
humankind. A few become great geniuses in their respective fields and
make major contributions to society. These people are sain tly and may
eventually be designated of ficia lly as saints, although at this level, formal
religion is commonly transcended, to be replaced by the pure spirituality
out of which all religion originates. Perception at the level of 600 and above is sometimes reported as
occurring in slow motion—suspended in time and space—thoug h nothing is
stationary; all is alive and radiant. Although this world is the same world as
the o ne seen by others, it has be come continuously flowing, ev olving in an
exquisitely coordinated evolutionary dance in which significance and
source are overwhelming. This awesome revelation takes place
nonrationally, so that there is an infinite silence in the mind, which has
stopped concep tualizing. That which is witnessing and that which is
witnessed take on the same identity; the observer dissolv es into the
landscape and becomes equally the observed. Everything is connected to
everything else by a Presence whose power is infinite, exquisitely gentle,
yet rock-solid. Great w orks of art, music, and  architecture that calibrate between 600
and 700 can tran sport us temporarily to higher levels of consciousness and
are universally recognized as inspirational and timeless. ENERGY LEVELS  700–1,000 : ENLIGHTENMENT
This is the level  of the great ones of history who originated the spiritual
patterns that multitudes have followed throughout the ages. All are
associated with Divinity, with which they are often identified. This is the
level of powerful inspiration; these beings set in place attractor ener gy
fields th at influence all humankind down through the ages. A t this level,
there is no longer the experience of an individual personal self as separatefrom oth ers; rather, there is an identification of Self with Consciousness and
Divinity. The Unmanifest is experienced as Self beyond mind. This
transcendence of the ego also se rves by example to teach others  how it can
eventually be accomplished. This is the peak of the evolution of
consciousness in the human realm. Great te achings uplift the masses and raise the level of awareness of all
humanity. T o have such vision is called grace, and the gift it brings is
infinite peace, described as in ef fable, beyond words. At this level of
realization, the sense of one’ s existence transcends all time and all
individuality. Th ere is no longer any identification with the ph ysical body
as “m e,” and the refore, its fate is of no concern. The body is seen as merely
a tool of consci ousness through  the intervention of mind, its prime value
that of communication. The self mer ges back into the Self. This is the level
of nond uality, or complete Oneness. There is no localization of
consciousness; awareness is everywhere equally present. Great works of art depicting in dividuals who have reached the level of
Enlightenment characteristically show the teacher with a specific hand
position, called a mudra, wherein the palm of the hand radiates benediction. This is the act of the transmission of this ener gy field to the co nsciousness
of h umankind. This level of divine grace calibrates up to 1,000, the highest
level attained by any who have lived in recorded history—to wit, the great
A vatars for whom the title “L ord” is appropriate: Lord Krishna, Lord
Buddha, and Lord Jesus Christ. EVER YDA Y EXAMPLES OF HOW THE LEVELS
DETERMINE HUMAN BEHA VIOR
On the Map of  Consciousness, two critical fulcrums allow for major
advancement. The first is at level 200, the initial level of empowerment. Here arises
the w illingness to stop blaming a nd accept responsibility for one’ s own
actions, feelings, and beliefs. So long as cause and responsibility are
projected outsid e of oneself, one must remain in the powerless  mode
of v ictimhood. Clearly the o nly way to increase our hap piness,
prosperity, and spiritual ener gy is by a shift to a higher level ofconsciousness. The endless quests for happiness “out there”
(possessions, approval, awards, degrees, and so on) never bring lasting
happiness. Happiness is the automatic by-product of progression in
consciousness. The second is at the 500 level, reached by accepting lov e and
nonjudgmental for giveness as a lifestyle, exercising uncond itional
kindness to all p ersons, things, and events without exception. (In 12-
step recovery groups, it is said t hat there is no such thing as a justified
resentment. Even if somebody “did you wrong,” you are still free to
choose your response and let th e resentment go. ) Once you ma ke this
commitment, you begin to experience a dif ferent, more benign world
as your perceptions evolve. Our research shows that levels of consciousness are the determining
factor in  many societal variables and individual behavior, as v isible in the
chart below:
Corr elation of Levels of Consciousness and Societal Pr oblems
Level of
ConsciousnessRate of
UnemploymentRate of
PovertyHappiness
Rate
(“Life Is
OK”)Rate of
Criminality
600+ 0% 0. 0% 100% 0. 0%
500–600 0% 0. 0% 98% 0. 5%
400–500 2% 0. 5% 79% 2. 0%
300–400 7% 1. 0% 70% 5. 0%
200–300 8% 1. 5% 60% 9. 0%
100–200 50% 22. 0% 15% 50. 0%
50–100 75% 40. 0% 2% 91. 0%
<50 97% 65. 0% 0% 98. 0%Let’ s attempt to better understand the determining ef fect of consciousness
levels through an example. Imagine a so-called bum on a street corner:
In a fashionable  neighborhood in a big city stands an old man in tattered
clothes, alone, leaning against the corner of an elegant brownsto ne. Look at
him from the pe rspective of various levels of consciousness, a nd note the
dif ferences in how he appears. From th e bottom of the scale, at a level of 20 (Shame), the bum  is dirty,
disgusting, and disgraceful. From level 30 (Guilt), he would be blamed for
his condition. He deser ves what he gets; he is probably a lazy welfare cheat. At 50 (Apathy), his plight might appear desperate, evidence that society
cannot do anything about home lessness. At 75 (Grief), the old  man looks
tragic, friendless, and forlorn. At a  consciousness level of 100 (Fear), we might see the bum as
threatening, a social menace. Perhaps we should call the polic e before he
commits some crime. At 125 (Desire), he might represent a frustrating
problem—why d oes somebody not do something. At 150 (Anger), the old
man mig ht look like he could be violent; or, on the other hand, o ne could be
furious that such a condition exists. At 175 (Pride), he could be seen as an
embarrassment or as lacking the self-respect to better himself. At 200
(Courage), we might be motiva ted to wonder if there is a loc al homeless
shelter; all he needs is a job and a place to live. At 2 50 (Neutrality), the bum lo oks okay, maybe even interesting. “Live
and let live,” we might say; after all, he is not hurting anyo ne. At 310
(W illingness), w e might decide to go down there and see what w e can do to
cheer him up, or volunteer some time at the local mission. At 350
(Acceptance), th e man on the corner appears intriguing. He probably has an
interesting story  to tell; he is where he is for reasons we may never
understand. At 400 (Reason), he  is a symptom of the current ec onomic and
social m alaise, or perhaps a g ood subject for an in-depth ps ychological
study, worthy of a government grant. At t he higher le vels, the old ma n begins to look not only interesting but
friendly and even lovable. Perhaps we would then be able to see that he
was, in fact, one  who had transcended social limits and gone fr ee, a joyful
old g uy with the  wisdom of age in his face and the serenity that comes from
indif ference to material things. At level 600 (Peace), he is reve aled as our
own inner self in its temporary expression. When approached, the old man would also vary in his response to these
dif ferent levels of consciousness. W ith some people, he would feel secure;
with oth ers, frightened or dejected. Some would make him angry, and
others would delight him. Som e people he would therefore avoid, and
others greet with pleasure. (Thu s it is said that what we meet is actually a
mirror. ) So m uch for th e manner in which our level of consciousnes s decides
what we see. It is equally true that having placed that construct upon the
reality b efore us, we will react to it in a fashion predicted by the level from
which we observe. External eve nts may define conditions, but they do not
determine the consciousness level of human response. W e can take the more
literal scene of our current penal system as an illustration. Placed in an identical and extremely stressful environment, dif ferent
inmates react in ways that vary  extraordinarily according to their level of
consciousness. P risoners whose consciousness is at the lowest  end of the
scale sometimes attempt suicide. Others become psychotic, and some
become delusional. Some in the same circumstances fall into d espondency,
go m ute, and stop eating. Still others sit with head in hands, tr ying to hide
tears of grief. A very frequent experience is that of fear, including paranoid
defensiveness. I n the same cellb lock, we see other prisoners with a greater
degree of ener gy going to rage, violent and assaultive and homicidal. Pride
is everywhere present, in the form of macho bragging and struggles for
dominance. By contrast, some inmates find the courage to face the truth of why they
are ther e and begin to look at their own inner lives honestly. There are
always some who just “roll with the punches” and try to get some reading
done. At the level of Acceptanc e, we see prisoners who seek out help and
join support groups. It is not unu sual for an occasional inmate to take a new
interest in learning, start studying in the prison library, or  become a
jailhouse lawyer (some of history’ s most influential political books were
written behind bars). A few p risoners go through a transformation of
consciousness and become loving and generous caregivers to their fellows. And it is not unheard of for a prisoner aligned with higher ener gy fields to
become deeply spiritual, even to actively pursue Enlightenment. Here is the take -home point from the foregoing examples: how  we react
depends on the world we seem to be reacting to. Who we becom e as well aswhat we see are both determined by perception, which can be said, simply,
to create the perceptual, experiential world. Contemplation of the Map of Consciousness can transform your
understanding of key areas of human life, beginning with the belief in
causality, which is a major ba rrier to advancement. As perception itself
evolves with your level of consc iousness, it becomes apparent that what the
world ca lls the domain of cause s is in fact the domain of ef fec ts. Nothing
“out there” causes your experience of life but rather what is “in here,”
which is  the ener gy field operating in your life. By taking respo nsibility for
the cons equences of your own perceptions, you can transcend the role of
victim a nd come  to an understan ding that “nothing out there has  power over
you. ” It  is not l ife’ s events but how you react to them and your attitude
about them that determine whether the events have a positive or negative
ef fect on  your life, whether they are experienced as opportunity or as stress. Nothing has the power within itself to “create” stress. The loud music that
raises the blood pressure of one person can be a source of delight to another. A di vorce may b e traumatic if it  is unwanted, or a release into f reedom if it
is desired. Therefore, the only w ay to change your experience of life is to
evolve your consciousness v ia alignment with high-ener g y attractor
patterns. Q&A
Q: How is it possible that a person can go fr om a gr eat state to a r eally
lousy state in a matter of seconds. A:  Tha t’ s called b eing human. The prefrontal cortex, that which makes
us h uman, is an add-on to the o ld animal brain. The reptilian b rain is still
operative so that, if you were to choose it, you could become an instant
killer, lik e the Komodo dragon. Y ou’ve learned not to respond to it, but that
impulse to kill still comes up, as do other primitive impulses. Just notice
your killer impulse when someone cuts you of f in traf fic. In t erms of em otions, most people experience a wide range. Y our
consciousness le vel can be at a good level, and then suddenly you go into
Guilt, Sh ame, G rief, Fear, Desire, Anger, and so on. These are evanescent. Y our overall consciousness leve l is that which is dominant, but it doesn’ t
exclude the range of emotions c oming up from the individual u nconscious. Some of  them are t hings that y ou projected into the world. Now that you’re
taking spiritual responsibility, suddenly you feel guilty about  them. But
that’ s a transitory processing of the ener gy of guilt; it doesn’ t mean that
your consciousness has sunk down to the level of Guilt. Another conside ration is that it takes time to assimilate and grow into the
new patt ern. Ra ther than trying to change too much too quickly, which can
be very disrupti ve, it’ s good to grow with it and let it sort of settle. Each
person g rows at  the rate of their own capacity, their own intention, their
own readiness, their own karmi c ripeness. And you don’ t kno w what that
rate is. Q: Is it normal for a person to feel like they go up and down the entir e
Map. A:  Mo st sp iritual s eekers go through a variety of stages that may  range
from despair to joy or even e cstasy. There are also long pe riods where
nothing seems to be happening, and you may feel like you ar en’ t getting
anywhere. These are interspersed with periods of what seem like stagnation,
frustration, self-blame, and even hopelessness. All of these periods within
the overall process are normal. Perseverance and dedication carry you
through. The way is easier if  a true teacher or a dedicated group is
available. Y ou will  also discover that “Lov e brings up its opposite,” so that the very
intention to become unconditionally loving presents the obstacles that will
need to be transcended (that is, jealousy, resentment, impatience, and so
forth). L ove and  peace are the greatest threats to the “ego,” which defends
itself by resorting to entrench ed positionalities that lie hidden in the
unconscious. These nonloving attitu des arose in childhood from the
biologic, survival-oriented animal brain and were forced under ground by
parental and societal pressures via the well-known psychological
mechanisms of repression, d enial, suppression, reaction formation,
projection, and rationalization. C. G. Jung created the word shadow  to refer
to r ejected parts of the person ality that need to be acknow ledged and
worked with in the process of psychological development. It can be disturbing when these negativities erupt from the unconscious
just when you are aspiring to become more loving. Y ou can expect to
encounter them as a consequence of your commitment to evolve. Unknown to the aspirant is the past karma, which is also an influential
factor. Hence, you cannot com pare yourself to others as to timing and
details o f experience. As you rise on the Map and have acces s to greater
ener gy, it is possible that you earn the right to bring up and clear out
negative karma, and thus there may be periods of financia l dif ficulty,
illness, and other unforeseeabl e challenges. What seems like a setback,
therefore, is actually an opportunity to evolve. Q: What is the best way to raise one’ s consciousness. A:  Con stancy. Ef fective spiritual e ndeavor is a consequence of con stancy
and persistence rather than fits and starts of enthusiasm. Each state of
spiritual evolution is self-rewarding, gratifying, and complete unto itself. The moments of prior anguish are found to have been worth the ef fort. And hum ility. Great leaps in lev el of consciousness are always preceded
by s urrender of the illusion that I know. Thus you have to be willing to let
go of secretly thinking I know, and to say, “I don’ t know. ” Frequently, the
only wa y a person reaches this willingness to change is when they “hit
bottom”—that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat
of a  futile belie f system. Light cannot enter a closed box; the upside of
catastrophe can be an opening to a higher level of awareness. If life is
viewed as a teac her, it then becomes just that. Unless the painful lessons of
life are  transformed through humility into gateways of growth and
development, they are wasted. Q: Y ou have said that just the act of consciousness calibration changes
the calibration of something by virtue of intention. How is that
possible. A:  W e  have disco vered that when people over 200 observe som ething
from lovingnes s, they are already raising its calibrated level of
consciousness measurably. For example, when we consider something or
someone adorab le, the calibration that was at 204 will jump to 310 or so. Do you see wha t this means. Y o u don’ t need to go out and do fancy things. Just witness the sacredness of al l existence, approach all life wit h reverence
and goodwill, and by doing so, you’re changing the world by virtue of
Heisenber g’ s principle, which states that the observation of something
changes it. I d on’ t know if the kitty’ s purr was at 500 before we
contemplated it, but it is now. The higher the level of consciou sness of the observation, the g reater the
impact on the o bserved. W e have literally been changing the calibrated
levels of consciousness and much of society by the sheer observation of the
work that we’re doing collective ly. Everything we look at loving ly raises its
calibration, even the Komodo dragon. He’ s just being what he is, a very
good Komodo dragon, who can kill with precision and eat you up with a
single bite. That’ s impressive, and we see the lovability of the Komodo
dragon a s an expression of Div inity within the unfoldment of Creation in
which everything serves the Ultimate. The world is be coming that which we hold in mind, and if it’ s  lovingly
intended, then it’ s very powerfu l. Look at all the power you w alk around
with and didn’ t know it. Everything we look at, if we love it and for give it
for being what it is—if we witness the sacredness of it, if we see it as an
expression of evolution, and that it serves some ultimate purpose—then our
observation influences it. W atching crocodiles on the nature channel is illuminating. If yo u want to
learn a lot abo ut spirituality, just watch the nature channel, because in
nature you see a  world without any prejudices. There’ s the hi ppopotamus
and the crocodile on the beach, and the hippopotamus has sort of a motherly
instinct toward crocodiles. I m ean, who could love a crocodile but a
hippopotamus. Everybody is afraid of the crocodile except the
hippopotamus. The hippo kills more people per year than most animals, but
even the  hippo has a capacity to care about the crocodile. The hippo goes
over and nudges the crocodile and even licks him, making sure the
crocodile is comfortable. How  could a hippo have a maternal instinct
toward a crocodile. They have apparently made friends over the millennia. The croc odile is  twitching, and t he hippo pushes the crocodile o ver until the
crocodile is happy. Imagine licking a crocodile. Now there’ s som e love and
acceptance. W e should be more like the hippopotamus, then, nurturing
toward everything that the world looks down upon as Homo horribilis. Some of the calibrations we did  in 2004 for T ruth vs. Falsehood  changed
merely as the consequence of our having calibrated them. Do you see how
consciousness is evolving simply by our being aware that it is evolving. The des ire to know the truth tends to pull the truth to us. The higher your
level of consciousness, the great er your lovingness, and thus the  greater the
impact of your observation and intention. CHAPTER THREE
T H E  E V O L U T I O N  O F
C O N S C I O U S N E S S
Since conscious ness is evolving simply by our being aware that it is
evolving, then we make an important contribution to life by noting the
evolution of consciousness in detail. HA VING-DOING-BEING
An ove rview of the Map of Consciousness reveals three p hases of
evolution: from havingness  to doingness  to beingness. ◆  At the lower levels of consciousness, it is what people have  that
counts. It is what they have  that is valued. It is what they have  that gives
them the ir self-i mage of worth and position in the world. They wear that
certain b rand of  clothing and drive that certain style of car that proves their
importance to their social group. Even close associates are mainly status
symbols to them, so they want the lover on the arm who will make them
look goo d to others, and they w ant to be seen with the cool crow d. In some
contexts, they kill or steal in order to have a certain brand of sn eakers or to
control a territory or to get whatever it is they value as a possession. Having  is equated with survival, com petitiveness, possessiveness, and
rivalry. At around calibration 190, there is the addition of group loyalty
such as the “pack. ” My  community, my  group, my  turf. ◆  Once  people have proved to themselves that they can have whatever
they want, that their basic needs can be fulfilled, that they have the power to
provide for their own needs and those of others who are depe ndent upon
them, th e mind begins to become more interested in what they do, and then
they move to a dif ferent social set in which what they do  i n the w orld is the
basis of their value and rating. What is one’ s position and func tion. What
degrees follow after one’ s name. How many boards do they serve on. They
link achievement with survival via the security that comes from wider
approval and esteem. They see group cooperation as helpful to achieve
shared goals, such as survival of their interests via community activities. ◆  As people mo ve up in loving ness, their doingness is less pre occupied
with sel f-promotion and becomes more oriented to being  of service to
others. As consciousness grow s, they experience that service, which is
lovingly oriente d toward others, automatically results in the fulfillment of
their own needs. (This does not mean sacrifice. Service is not sacrifice. It is
sharing from one’ s inner c ompleteness and joy. ) Their actions are
automatically loving and nurturing of the life around them. At that point, it is no longer what they do in the world but what they ar e
that counts. They have proven to themselves that they can have what they
need, that they can do almost anything, given the willingness. And now
what they ar e, within themselves and to others, becomes most important. People s eek thei r company, not because of what they have, not  bec ause of
what they do  and society’ s labels, but because of what they have become. Because of the quality of their presence and love, people just  want to be
around them. Their social description then changes. They are no longer the
person who has a fashionable apartment or fancy car, nor are they labeled as
the President of the So-and-So Corporation or some other title. Now they
are described as a splendid person, as somebody “you just have to meet. ”
This level of beingness is typical of anonymous self-help groups, where
no o ne i s interes ted in what othe rs do in the world, what they ha ve, or even
their last names. They are only interested in whether or not they have
achieved certain inner goals,  such as those of honesty, openness,
lovingness, willingness to help, humility, and awareness. They are
interested in the quality of beingness. W e see therefore that consciousness evolves from survival to love—that
is, from  a self-centered focus o n one’ s own survival to a wider radius ofconcern that encompasses the happiness and support of others as important
for one’ s survival, to finally transcending the belief that one’ s  survival is
due to any “cau se. ” At that poi nt, one belongs to life itself, freely loving
and giving to others without needing anything in return. THE EV OLUTION FROM SUR VIV AL T O LOVE
T o understand the calibrated levels of consciousness, it is helpful to
recapitulate the emer gence of consciousness on the planet and its evolution
through the animal kingdom into its expression as humankind. O ur focus of
interest here is the evolution of the ego, with its innate limitat ions, which
calls for compassionate understanding. A key point: the ego is not an enemy; it is our biological inheritance. W ithout it, nobody would be alive to lament its limitations. By
understanding its origin and intrinsic importance to survival, the ego can be
seen as being of great benefit b ut prone to becoming unruly and causing
emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems if not resolved or
transcended. How did  life arise on the plane t. From the Unmanifest to the Manifest,
the ene r gy of consciousness itself interacted with matter, and as an
expression of Divinity, by that interaction life arose. In its earliest forms,
the animal expressions of life were very primitive and did not have an
innate, inner source of ener gy. Survival therefore depended on acquiring
ener gy e xternally. This was not a problem in the plant kingdom, where
chlorophyll auto matically transforms solar ener gy into necessary chemical
processes. Anim al life had to acquire what was needed from its
environment, an d that principle of survival then established the main core
of th e ego, whi ch is still primarily involved in self-interest, acquisition,
conquering, and rivalry with other or ganisms for survival. Importantly,
however, it also had the characteristics of curiosity, searching, and,
therefore, learning. Calibration below 200Life initially survived out of self-centeredness. The ego, which is the core
of th is s urvival d rive, was merely doing what was necessary as life evolved
from bacteria (cal. 1) to insects (cal. 6) to the emer gence of reptiles and
dinosaurs. The Komodo drago n, with a calibration of 40, is a living
example of the dinosaur era. Its only intention is “me,” and in order for
“me” to  survive, it is necessary  to eat “you. ” Indeed, some human beings
calibrate at that same level and are run by that ener gy field and its patterns. The Kom odo dr agon has perfected the process. After just one bite, it settles
down an d waits for you to die, and then it enjoys a warm dinner. Its
intention is not spiritually corrupt. It just intends to survive by eating you. As evo lution progressed, the survival mechanisms became more
elaborate with the quality of inte lligence, by which information is acquired,
stored, processed, compared, integrated, correlated, and stratified. Life has
innate intellige nce. This observation is the basis for the theory of
“intelligent desi gn” (cal. 480), which does not require any pres umption of
Divinity or a Creator. Life then evolved into progress ively higher lifeforms, and when this is
charted over great evolutionary epochs of time, its expression in the animal
kingdom becom es apparent. It is noticeable that at consciousness levels
below 200 (with the exception of most birds), life could be described as
rapacious. The tiger is gor geous  to look at but rapacious when it hunts and
kills its prey. Levels of consciousness below 200 acquire their ener gy at the
expense of others, and because survival is based on acquisitio n, they see
others as rivals, competitors, and enemies. In modern languaging, they
would be called possessive, pred atory, competitive, hostile, and, in extreme
expressions, aggressive and sa vage. W ith observation, we can see that
below 200, some humans are not so dif ferent—hostile, predatory,
competitive, and so on—doing what they think is necessary in order to
survive. All the human ego’ s tricks are observable in the evolution of the
animal k ingdom over eons of time where deception, rivalry, c amouflage,
and force fostered survival. W ith wolves (cal. 190), we see group pack
formation, the dominant alpha male and female, the territoriality, and the
use of deceptive camouflage to get close to unsuspecting prey. These
patterns of the wolf characterize whole societies in today’ s world. Calibration above 200At consciousnes s level 200, there is a shift in the animal kingd om to the
more benign; that is, in addition to the carnivore, there e mer ges the
herbivore. A significant transformation of consciousness was the
appearance of grazing animals  on the great plains of Africa and North
America. At 200, the giraf fe and  zebra graze; they do not hunt a nd kill. The
grazing animals not only return nitrogen-rich fertilizer to the soil and
thereby sustain life; they spread seeds in their manure, thus supporting the
propagation of vegetation. The deer, elk, cow, elephant, sheep, and horse
calibrate over 200. From conscious ness level 200 up, the nature of life becom es more
harmonious as maternal carin g appears for the first time, along with
concern for others, and the beginning of what is later expressed in human
nature a s relatedness, socializing, play, family and pair bonding, and group
cooperation for shared goals, su ch as survival via community a ctivities. In
the mother bird, we see caring a bout her of fspring. The reptile d oes not care
about an other; t he mother reptile lays the eggs and wanders away. But in
the mother bird, there is concern about the survival of the eggs and the little
baby bi rds. W ith the evolution of mammalian life, we see the first
appearance of real sustained concern for others, in the form of maternal
love. Thus Love first presented  itself on the planet through the feminine,
which expresses concern and caringness. W ith the advancement of evolution, the bipeds, standing upright,
appeared with two limbs that they did not need for locomotion, so the two
free limbs developed manual dexterity and, as a consequence of the
development of the thumb, enabled tool-making crafts to develop. The
increased complexity was facilitated by the emer gence of the forebrain and
the prefrontal cortex as the anatomical seat of human intelligence. However,
because of the predominance of animal instincts, intelligence initially
served primitive  instincts. Thus, the prefrontal cortex became subservient to
animal-survival motivations. Human Evolution
Primitive human ity appeared as sprouts of the evolutionary tree, starting
presumably with “Lucy” three million years ago, and then m uch later as
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Homo erectus, and others, all of whom
calibrated at approximately 80 t o 85. Each new genus of hominids does notdissolve into the other. Instead, a new branch constantly arises as its own
expression. Most recently, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago,
there appeared in Africa the p robable predecessor of modern humanity,
Homo sapiens idaltu, with consciousness level also at 80 to 85. Thus, below consciousness leve l 200, the prefrontal cortex remains under
the domination of animal inst incts, and all the animal surv ival tactics
become more sophisticated. H umans do not attack with teeth but with
words and other weapons. W arfare and rivalry go on as usual, and the front
page of any newspaper reports t he same events as what can be observed on
Monkey Island at any zoo. This monkey tribe is making that tribe “bad” and
another tribe “good”; this one is  trying to get dominance over that one; the
males ar e surreptitiously trying to grab all the females in the b ackground;
everybody is trying to make thei r piles of manure higher than their rival and
will sling it at anyone they see as threatening. Sound familiar. As consciousness evolves within the human, crossing over consciousness
level 20 0, the animal drives begin to conflict with the ener gy of spiritual
power, truth, and love. The ego ’ s deception is clever in that it deludes its
victim in to belie ving that the pe rpetrator is “out there,” whereas actually it
is innate to biological survival process and therefore “in here. ”
Understanding ( cal. 400) the e go and adopting it as a pet a llows its
eventual dissolution. It can be viewed as a cute little pet that needs
supervision, lest it hurt others or  oneself. Eventually, as one bec omes aware
of its proclivities, one can override them. Rarely d o peop le escape the ra tionality of the 400s by evolvi ng to the
nonlinear domai ns starting at Love (cal. 500). In the 500s, consciousness is
transformed. One is less con cerned with the objective world and lives
instead from the subjective state of A wareness, having realized that the
experience of life derives from within, an inner domain of grace that is not
measurable yet profoundly discernible. The persistence  of the primitiv e ego in humans is referred to as the
narcissistic core of “egotism,” which, at calibration levels below 200,
indicates the persistence of self-interest, disregard for the rights of others,
and seei ng others as enemies and competitors rather than as allies. For
safety’ s sake, humans coalesced  into groups and discovered th e benefit of
mutuality and cooperation, whic h again was a corollary to the a nimal world
of group, pack, and family formation in the mammalian and bird kingdoms. The calibrated consciousness level of humans evolved slowly. At the
time of the birth  of the Buddha, the collective consciousness c alibrated at
90. It then rose to 100 by the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and slowly
evolved over the last two millennia to 190, where it stayed for many
centuries, until the late 1980s. Then, at about the time of th e Harmonic
Conver gence in the late ’80s, it suddenly jumped from 190 to 204–205. This crossover seems to signify the opening up of a new era of human
evolution—that is, the emer ge nce of Homo spiritus  (see I: Reality and
Subjectivity ). Approximately 85 percent of the world’ s population is still b elow 200
and therefore dominated by animal instincts, motivations, and behaviors (as
reflected in the nightly news). T hese levels below 200 indicate reliance on
for ce, wh ether emotional, physical, s ocial, or force by whatever expr ession. Levels over 200, which progress logarithmically, indicate levels of power. Differ ences between “below 200” and “above 200”
Of m ajor significance is that the  brain’ s physiology changes dramatically
at consciousness level 200, which is the level where the quality of life
changes, not only in humankind but also in the animal king dom, from
predatory to benign. This is expressed by the emer gence of concern for the
welfare, survival, and happiness of others rather than just for the personal
self. The benefits of this evolu tion, caringness and spiritual growth, are
clearly s hown in the following chart. Above level of consciousn ess 200, an
etheric brain emer ges. It is n ot protoplasmic or anatomical  but rather
ener getic. The etheric brain no t only allows more ef fective pr ocessing of
stimuli but also registers higher  ener gy frequencies to which pr otoplasm is
unable to respond. This is similar to the physical world, where more
delicate instruments are required to discern higher -frequency ener gy fields
beyond the capacity of the s enses (the ear cannot hear radio waves
themselves). The etheric (ener gy) brain is capable of nonverbal, nonlinear
knowingness. R ight-handed people become right-brain domina nt, and left-
handed people become left-br ain dominant. These nondom inant brain
hemispheres are stimulated by art, music, altruism, and aesthetics. Brain Function and PhysiologyBelow 200 Above 200
Left-brain dominance in right-
handed peopleRight-brain dominance
Right-brain dominance in left-
handed peopleLeft-brain dominance
Linear Nonlinear
Stress—adrenaline Peace—endorphins
Fight or flight
(alarm/resistance/exhaustion)Positive emotion
Thymus stress Thymus support
Ð Killer cells and immunity Ð Killer cells and immunity
Disrupted acupuncture meridian Balanced acupuncture meridian
Disease Healing
Negative kinesiological response Positive kinesiological response
Ð Neurotransmitters (serotonin)1
Pupils dilate Pupils constrict
T rack to emotion twice as fast as
through prefrontal cortexT rack to  emotion slower than fr om
prefrontal and etheric cortexes
Lower -mind attitudes Higher -mind attitudes
The dif f erences between the two groups is major, as evidence d by the
following chart that distinguish es the attitudes of lower mind versus those
of higher mind. Lower Mind (Cal. 155) Higher Mind (Cal. 275)
Accumulation Growth
Acquire Savor
Remember ReflectMaintain Evolve
Think Process
Ruled by emotions, wants Ruled by reason, inspiration
Blames T akes responsibility
Careless Disciplined
Concrete, literal Abstract, imaginative
Morals Ethics
Definition Essence, meaning
Callous Merciful
Critical Accepting
Skepticism Comprehend
Literal Intuitive
Control Surrender
Competition Cooperation
Design Art
Guilt Regret
Force Power
Naive, impressionable Sophisticated, informed
Excess Balance
T erminal Germinal
Rate Evaluate
A void Face and accept
Sympathize Empathize
W ant Choose
Desire V alue
Childish Mature
Attacks A voidsCondemning For giving
Stingy Generous
Cynical Optimistic, hopeful
Suspicious T rusting
Short of money Adequate for needs
Insists Requests
Rush, hurry “Keep moving”
Lust Desire
Ungrateful Appreciative
V ulgar, gross Subtle, refined
Grim, heavy Humor, lighthearted
CONSIDERA TIONS ACROSS  7 SECT ORS OF LIFE
Certain pieces of information can jump one’ s consciousness just to be
aware o f them. Here are a few discoveries from consciousness -calibration
research that increase understanding of various sectors of life. T he very fact
that all life is evolutionary gives hope. Even periods of great dif ficulty can
be understood as part and parcel of the growth process. 1. Animals
The cali brated levels of the an imal kingdom represent averages of the
total pop ulation, within which there is individual variation, and there is also
variation in calibrated levels o f behavior. For example, “play” calibrates
about 10 points higher than the average level of function, which is
significant for both animals and humans. Another point of int erest is that
once a human fa mily adopts an animal, the animal’ s level of co nsciousness
advances by 5 or 10 points; in pa rticular, certain birds and animals that have
experienced prolonged interaction with caring humans actually calibrate at
400. Koko, the trained gorilla who demonstrated surprising capacity forlanguage and maternal love (she adopted and named a kitten), calibrated at
405. Th is calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason;
thus, the calibration level helps to resolve the ar gument among
experimental scientists about whether or not certain animal behaviors
actually reflect the capacity for Reason. Furthermore, a unique discovery is
that a cat’ s purr, a songbird’ s s ong, and a dog’ s wagging tail all calibrate
extremely high (500)—in fact, higher than a lar ge portion of  the human
population. Leve l 500 is the ener gy of the heart. That pet animals have the
capacity to interact and emanate  Love indicates an area for further research
to disco ver why  these beloved c reatures are capable of Love—that is, they
exhibit an advanced developme nt of the “heart chakra” and are known to
have a therapeutic healing ef fect on people with a variety of illnesses. 2. The Impact of Love
Love ha s only recently emer ged  on the planet, with its first appe arance in
birds and mammals through mat ernal love. It is helpful to know that to care
about ot hers, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the
planet, i s extremely recent in the  evolution of consciousness over millennia. This fact elicits appreciation for  the presence of love in our current era, and
this very appreciation has the ef fect of increasing it. Indeed, anythin g done with love increases its calibration, seen in the
everyday arena of the food we eat. Machine-made food calibrates at 188–
200, but  homem ade food rises to 209, and if it is blessed, it r ises to 215. Machine-made b read at the supermarket calibrates at 188, but if the bread
comes from the bakery in the same supermarket, it rises to 20 3 and then
higher if it is blessed. Cookies made for the family calibrate at 520. These
calibration dif ferences are a unique demonstration an alogous to
Heisenber g’ s principle in that the introduction of human consciousness and
intention alter the field. It also gives evidence that prayer itself i s more than
just wishful thinking. It follows that we bring more love into our lives
simply by consciously focusing  on its presence as a motivator in everyday
life. For  example, this can be noticed in the love involved in making the
family d inner, in  cleaning the kitty boxes, or in going to work  to pay the
bills. Ordinary endeavors, d one out of love, carry great power. Consciousness calibration confirms the truth of Mother T eresa’ s famous
statement: “Do small things with great love. ”3. Societal Leadership
High-ener gy fields in societal leadership are rare, but recent historical
examples give evidence of their power to overcome seemingly impossible
societal divides and to usher i n major breakthroughs by peaceful means
rather than force. Force, through its insistence that “the end justifies the
means,” sells out freedom fo r expediency. Force of fers quick, easy
solutions. In power, the means  and the end are the same, but its “ends”
require greater maturity, discipline, and patience to be brought to fruition. Great le aders inspire us to hav e faith and confidence because of the
power of their a bsolute integrity and alignment with inviolate  principles. Such figures understand that you cannot compromise principle and still
retain yo ur power. W inston Churchill (cal. 510) never needed to use force
with the British people; Gand hi (cal. 760) defeated the Bri tish Empire
without raising a hand in ange r; Nelson Mandela (cal. 505) underwent a
profound inner transformation during his 27 years in prison under apartheid,
from trib al fighter to a unifying  humanistic visionary who inaugurated the
first democracy in South Africa; Mikhail Gorbachev (cal. 500) brought
about to tal revo lution in the lar g est political monolith in the world without
firing a shot, in only a few short years, through his inspiration and vision. One of the chara cteristics of force is arrogance; power is characterized by
humility. Force is pompous; it has all the answers. Power is unassuming. Stalin, who strutted military supremacy, has gone down in h istory as an
arch-criminal. In contrast, the humble Mikhail Gorbachev, who wore a plain
suit and easily admitted to faults, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite error or defects, true “ greatness” is recognized worldwide as a
composite of strengths, character traits, and virtues as exemplified by
leaders in various fields of human endeavor (cal. 460–760):
Abraham Lincoln
Mother T eresa
Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Helen KellerW inston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Mahatma Gandhi
Parks Reece
Michelangelo
Beethoven
Mozart
Nijinsky
The astronauts
Susan B. Anthony
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nelson Mandela
Oprah W infrey
C.
How is it possible that a person can go fr om a gr eat state to a r eally
At this level, one is able to cope with and effectively handle opportunities, and growth and education become attainable goals.
What is the significance of the level 200 in the context of the Map of Consciousness?