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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Preface ix 
Foreword xi 
Introduction xiii 
Chapter 1 A Map of Consciousness 17 
Table: Map of Consciousness 16 
Table: Consciousness/Societal Problems 30 
Diagram: Brain Function and Physiology 42 
Chapter 2 Assisting Healing 43 
Chapter 3 Stress 75 
Chapter 4 Health 107 
Chapter 5 Spiritual First Aid 141 
Chapter 6 Sexuality 173 
Chapter 7 The Aging Process 199 
Chapter 8 Handling Major Crises 229 
Chapter 9 Worry, Fear, andAnxiety 263 
Chapter 10 Pain and Suffering 299 
Chapter 11 Losing Weight 329 
Chapter 12 Depression 363 
Chapter 13 Alcoholism 395 
Chapter 14 Cancer 425 
Chapter 15 Death and Dying 451 
Appendices 
Appendix A Map of the Scale of Consciousness 475 
AppendixB How to Calibrate Levels of Consciousness 477 
Appendix C References 489 
About the Author 493 
vii viii
 PREFACE
 
These are transcriptions of a series of popular lectures 
originally presented in a videotape format and now 
edited and updated for convenience in written form. They originated at the request ofthe original publisher 
of A Course in Miracles (The Foundation for Inner 
Peace), subsequent to a large joint meeting in the 
1980s in Detroit, Michigan, of members of several 
self-help groups, including Alcoholics Anonymous, 
A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Attitudinal Healing 
Centers, and a number of clinicians and recovery 
groups. Although the lectures have been adapted for 
written format, they remain close to the original pre­
sentations and include references to discoveries in 
consciousness research as well as clinical and spiritual 
premises. There is purposeful repetition of basic infor­
mation as each lecture was complete within itself. A 
benefit of repetition is that the material becomes 
familiar and absorbed without putting forth mental 
effort or memorization. It is intrinsically simple, and 
the inherent truths become obvious and easy to 
assimilate. The information prOVided is of a general 
nature and is not meant to displace or replace 
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 FOREWORD
 
Information tends to become compartmentalized, 
especially in academic versus clinical science and 
practice (Hawkins, 2006, "Paradigm Blindness"). These areas in turn become separated from spiritual 
principles and realities, which are subsequently also 
isolated from depth psychology, psychoanalysis, and 
group dynamics. Psychopharmacology research pro­
ceeds in its own development independently of all 
the above, as does advanced theoretical physics and 
the emergence of nonlinear dynamics and chaos 
theory. Each discipline developed within the limita­
tions of its own parameters because there had been 
no context of sufficient dimension to include all of 
them until the development of the clinical science 
of consciousness research. This provided a common 
context of reference and an all-inclusive paradigm of 
reality via the now well-known "Map of the Scale of 
Consciousness" (Hawkins, 1995, Power vs. Force). Traditional sciences were limited to the linear 
dimensions and primarily to the Newtonian con­
cepts of cause and effect, included in the 
consciousness level of the 400s (see Map, pg. 16, 
Chapter 1), whereas experiential reality is nonlinear 
and subjective (and proceeds from level 500 and 
up). Phenomena are the consequence of the emer­
gence of potentiality as actuality, a process whereby 
content is subject to overall context. Thus, healing is 
the result of not just clinical processes but also of 
overall biological potentialities that often do not 
materialize without the unseen power of spiritual 
alignment. Chemistry is within the predictable 
xi Newtonian discipline of scientific (linear content) 
expectation, but health recovery is greatly facilitated 
by the unseen power of the spiritual dimensions of 
intentionality of consciousness itself (nonlinear con­
text). The clinical power and influential impact of spir­
itual context is overwhelmingly displayed by the 
millions of recoveries from medically hopeless ill­
nesses as exhibited by worldwide membership in 
faith-based organizations of which Alcoholics 
Anonymous and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are 
prime examples. Since the basic principles of faith­
based recoveries are outside the paradigm of the 
reality of academic science, their importance was 
not studied or comprehended because academic sci­
ence was concerned with just content and not 
context. The emergence of the Heisenberg 
Uncertainty Principle finally accorded respectability 
for the recognition of the reality and influence of 
the effect of consciousness itself.Thus, the power of 
intention came to be recognized as an important 
critical factor in catalyzing potentiality into actu­
ality. (See Stapp's MindfUl Universe for correlation 
of quantum theory, consciousness, and intention. :xii INTRODUCTION
 
The lectures on healing and recovery represent the 
integration and concordance of experience and infor­
mation from multiple fields, including more than fifty 
years of clinical practice that encompasses diverse 
fields of healing, such as holistic health, psychiatry, 
psychology, psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology, 
medicine, and the application of spiritual principles as 
well as concepts and discoveries from the emerging 
clinical science of consciousness research, 
The development of consciousness research was 
reported in multiple lecture series (Hawkins, 2002­
2008) as well as in a series of books: Qualitative and 
Quantitative Analysis and Calibration of the Levels 
of Human Consciousness (Bell and Howell, 1995; 
Veritas Publishing, 1995); Power vs. Force (Veritas, 
1995; Hay House, 2002); The Eye of the I (Veritas, 
2001);l'Reality and Subjectivity (Veritas, 2003); Truth 
vs. Falsehood (Axial Publishing, 2005); Transcending 
the Levels ofConsciousness (Veritas, 2007); Discovery 
of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality 
(Veritas, 2007); and Reality, Spirituality, and Modern 
Man (Axial, 2008). A collection of lecture slides and a 
comprehensive Index of Calibrations are also in prepa­
ration. All the above give detailed descriptions as well as 
explanations of theory, along with the application of a 
simple, calibrated scale of levels of consciousness and 
Truth as exemplified by the Map of Consciousness on 
page 16. The fields of suffering calibrate below level 
200, and the progressive levels of truth are above 200. Science is in the 400s; spiritual realities begin at 500 
xiii (Love) and progress upward to 540 (Unconditional 
Love), to 570 (saintly), and then to the levels of joy, the 
stages of illumination, and, [mally, Enlightenment. The fields below level 200 potentiate illness; those 
above 200 support healing, including medical science, 
which calibrates in the 400s.The spiritual power of the 
consciousness levels of the 500s facilitates further 
recoveries that are not otherwise possible. All illnesses are physical, mental, and spiritual, and 
the highest levels of recovery are the consequence of 
Simultaneously addressing all three levels and seeing 
them as being of equal importance. Spiritual intention 
and contextualization increase the percentage of posi­
tive responses to strictly medical treatment. Innate to 
the human condition, however, are inherent limitations 
consequent to evolutionary design, some of which can 
be transcended and some of which cannot be. Therefore, hope and faith need to be accompanied by 
surrender to and acceptance of a Higher Will. As our 
research has validated, life cannot be destroyed; it can 
only change expression from the limited physical 
linear reality to the unlimited nonlinear spiritual 
reality. xiv MAP OF THE SCALE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 
God-view Self-view 
self Is 
All·being Perfect 
One Complete 
Loving Benign 
Wise Meaningful 
Merciful Harmonious 
Inspiring Hopeful 
Enabling Satisfactory 
Pennitting Feasible 
Indifferent Demanding 
Vengeful Antagonistic 
Denying Disappointing 
Punitive Frightening 
Uncaring Tragic 
Condemning Hopeless 
Vindictive Evil 
Despising Hateful Level Log Emotion Process 
Enlightenment 700-1,000 Ineffllble Pure 
Consciousness 
Peace 600 Bliss illumination 
Joy 540 Serenity Transfiguration 
Love 500 Reverence Revelation 
Reason 400 Understanding Abstraction 
Acceptance 350 Forgiveness Transcendence 
Willingness 310 Optimism Intention 
Neutrality 250 Trust Release 
Courage 200 Affirmation Empowerment 
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LEVELS OF TRUTH 
LEVELS OF FALSEHOOD 
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Pride 175 SCorn Inflation 
Anger 150 Hate Aggression 
Desire 125 Craving Enslavement 
Fear 100 Anxiety Withdrawal 
Grief 75 Regret Despondency 
Apathy, hatred 50 Despair Abdication 
Guilt 30 Blame Destruction 
Shame 20 Humiliation Elimination 
16 CHAPTER 1 
A Map of Consciousness 
We will present the concept of utilizing a conscious­
ness approach to a variety of man's problems, such as 
stress, alcoholism, various diseases, depression, fear, and 
major loss, to name a few. In discussing these chal­
lenges, reference will be repeatedly made to the Map of 
Consciousness. It is referred to frequently to explain 
the relationship between body, mind, and spirit, which 
is so important to comprehend in relation to self-healing. To understand the value of the Map of 
Consciousness itself without reference to a particular 
problem, we will describe its implications and useful­
ness in its application to all human problems. It is an 
exponential model (to the base 10) that evolved out of 
a composite of decades of research in a variety of 
fields. It documents the ftrst time that these energy 
fields have ever been calibrated. When referring to consciousness, we are describ­
ing those energy fields. Shown on the Map are general 
fields of consciousness that have been calibrated as to 
the power ofthe field and its direction, as indicated by 
the arrows. Those below the level of Courage at 200 go 
downward, and those above Courage go upward.There 
is significance in the direction of the energy fields. Those that are in a negative direction do not support 
life and could be called 'anti-life'. Those that are in the 
positive direction ofTruth support and nurture life.At 
the top of the Map, we approach an alignment with 
Truth and see that the energy fields become more 
powerful as their numerical calibrations increase. The calibration of the fields starts at zero, and what 
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the world calls Enlightenment calibrates from 600 to 
1,000. Enlightenment means that one has transcended 
duality and identification with the small, personal self. Within the Map, these levels are what a person gener­
ally means when they talk about 'me' or 'myself'.They 
represent the ego, wWch is the self with a small's', in 
contrast to Self with a capital '5' at the top of the Map. To the right of the list of energy fields are the emo­
tions associated with each specific level. Farther to the 
right is the process that is going on in consciousness. The left side of the Map shows the view that one has 
of God and of life at each level of consciousness. The average person (if they calibrate over 200) can 
verify these numbers by using the simple system of 
muscle testing (fully described in Appendix B). Someone can test you by pressing down on your arm 
while they say,"Fear is over 50? Over 60? Over 70? Over 
80? Over 90? Over 100? "At 100, the arm will go weak. These calibrations have been verified worldwide by 
many people for decades and are pragmatically very 
useful clinically as well as for research. Starting at the 
bottom of the Map are the energy fields called Shame 
at 20 and Guilt at 30. The emotion that accompanies 
these levels is self-hatred, and the process going on in 
consciousness is one of self-destruction. The view of 
the world associated with tWs energy field is that ofsin 
and suffering. Therefore, the God of such a world 
would have to be the potential, ultimate destroyer who 
is even angry with mankind and would throw their 
eternal souls into hell forever. With such a perception 
of God, one does not really need a devil, so there is no 
devil listed under 'God-view' because that is really the A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 19 
demonic depiction of God. For many people on the 
planet, death comes as a matter of passive suicide 
because of unconscious guilt and self-hatred. {This is 
mentioned later, especially in relation to addictions.) Suicide can take the forms of not caring for oneself, not 
getting out of the way of the bus, rolling the car over, 
an accidental drug overdose, high-risk behaviors, and 
more. Apathy calibrates at 50 and also has a negative energy 
field.The emotions ofApathy are hopelessness, despair, 
despondency; and depression, which are the result of 
the loss of energy.Apathy leads to viewing the world as 
hopeless, and the God of a hopeless condition of 
mankind would be dead or nonexistent. There are 
many skeptics, atheists, and philosophers who uncon­
sciously justify any particular position that negates 
Reality and try to rationalize it, defend it, and make it 
sound sensible (see Truth vs. Falsehood).The ideas that 
God is dead and that man and the condition of life are 
hopeless invalidate the value of life and are therefore 
destructive. Apathy is like an old lady rocking back and forth in 
her rocking chair, staring hopelessly out the window 
after receiving an erroneous telegram that her son was 
killed in the war.A large portion of the world lives in a 
state of apathy, including whole countries and subcon­
tinents, where the people stare blankly because there 
is no hope and no chance.About one-third of the world 
lives at the bottom three states of Fear, Grief, and 
Apathy.The woman rocking back and forth has also had 
adverse changes occur in her brain.We could add a col­
umn to the Map that says 'Brain Chemistry' because this 20 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
energy field ofApathy results in a shift of neurotrans­
mitters, creating a clinical state called 'hopelessness'. (See Brain Function and Physiology diagram at the end 
of this chapter.) Ifthe woman in the rocking chair were to start cry­
ing and expressing emotion, then she would be 
improving and moving up to an energy field called 
Grief, which is characterized emotionally by regret and 
feelings oflossand despondence. The process goingon 
in consciousness is dispirited. Grief is the loss of the 
energy of life, spirit, and the will to live.When the will 
to live is lost, then the energy from the universe is lost, 
leading to depression. People in Grief see a sad world 
and a God who ignores them. Fear is the next energy field, which is also negative, 
but it calibrates at 100 and therefore contains a lot 
more energy. One can run a great distance with fear. Fear runs a great part of the world and plays a very 
important part in everyone's life.The advertising indus­
try plays off our fears to sell us products. Grief has to 
do with the past, but fear, as we ordinarily experience 
it, is of the future. Fear is emotionally experienced in 
everyday life by the average person as worry, anxiety, 
or panic.The process going on in consciousness is that 
of deflation. For example, the animal shrinks when it is 
frightened. Remember in grade school when the teacher called 
on somebody for an answer, everyone would shrink 
and hide behind the person in front of them? Fear is a 
shrinkingness and a fear of the future, yet it has a lot of 
energy. Ifwe know what to be afraid of, the energy of 
fear can really be beneficial as caution. A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 21 
The lower states on the Map actually represent the 
failure to face the energy field above them.The way out 
of depression is to look at the fear that is underlying 
the depression and notice how it usually takes the 
form of "I have lost the source of my happiness." All 
these levels below Courage· have a negative energy 
field stemming from the same thought-that happi­
ness comes from outside oneself. Putting one's survival 
on something outside oneselftherefore results in states 
of powerlessness, victimhood, and weakness by virtue 
of having projected the source of one's power outside 
of oneself. Underlying depression is the fear that one has lost 
something, because grief has to do with loss. Getting a 
person to face that fear and handle it rapidly over­
comes the depression. Later, we will look at how con­
sciousness views fear and will present the specific 
technique of how to let go of resisting the energy field 
of fear by letting it run out so that depression sUbse­
quently disappears. The energy field above fear is Desire, which cali­
brates at 125. It is still a negative energy field, which 
one experiences in ordinary life as 'wanting' .There are 
the general feelings of wantingness and cravingness, 
which are part of the field of addictions and can 
become obsessions and compulsions. The process 
going on in consciousness is entrapment. One is run by 
what one desires, and the source of happiness is seen 
as external. Advertising takes advantage of this by cre­
ating a desire via an unconscious connection; it is a 
symbolization with something archetypal in the uncon­
scious mind that creates a desire. 22 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Desire can run an entire lifetime. It can be the moti­
vation to become successful or famous, to have a lot of 
money, to be a celebrity, or to acquire whatever one 
thinks is going to bring happiness, including a special 
relationship. Wantingness and cravingness are often 
insatiable as they originate from an energy field that 
can never really be satisfied. It is an ongoing, contin­
uous energy field that keeps creating more desire. However, the energy field can be used positively as 
motivation and intention towards fulftllment of poten­
tial and inner goals. Failure to internalize goals leads to 
frustration and resentment. Anger, which calibrates at 150, is accompanied by a 
large amount ofenergy. Ifthe angry person knows how 
to utilize that anger constructively instead of destruc­
tively, the energy of anger can then lead to progress. 11Irough television, people in the third-world countries 
began to see what other people had, which fired up 
their desire, led to frustration and anger, and culmin­
ated in that energy being utilized to create entire 
social movements, changes in the legislature, and con­
structive changes in SOciety. Thus, anger can be uti­
lized to energize resolve and determination. The anger we witness or experience in daily life is 
usually in the form of resentment. At a more severe 
level, it may lead to hatred, grievances, grudges, and 
eventually even to murder or war.The process going on 
in consciousness is one of expansion; for example, 
when an animal is angry, it swells up.When the cat gets 
angry, its tail swells up to almost twice its normal size, 
and the cat tries to look imposing. The biological pur­
pose of expansion is to intimidate one's apparent A MAP aF CONSCIaUSNESS 23 
enemy.The energy of anger can be utilized positively to 
pursue something better for oneself and thus move up 
to Pride. Pride calibrates at 175, which denotes far more 
energy than the levels below it. However, Pride still has 
a negative direction. We have heard that "pride goeth 
before a faIt' There are many famous examples in history 
indicating that pride is a very vulnerable position (e.g., 
hubris). Pride can be useful in that it has much more 
energy than the lower levels of consciousness. It 
expresses itselfin daily life as arrogance, contempt, and 
sarcasm. The downside of it is really denial, and the 
problem is that the process in consciousness is one of 
inflation. We say that a person in Pride has a swelled head, is 
too big for his britches, is unteachable, cannot hear, or 
has a closed mind.This level of consciousness leads to 
a polarized position of opinion that puts the person 
constantly on the defensive for being 'right', so the 
world must be wrong.The energy is dissipated in end­
less defensiveness. A reason for pride relates to an underlying fear. Once the person faces the fear, they can let go ofpride. These negative fields tend to reinforce each other; 
seldom do they occur alone. One predominates, but all 
are really feeding into each other so that one has grief 
over one's anger; one has anger over one's pride; one 
has fear over one's grief, and so on.They all tend to rein­
force each other, so an emotional upset is usually com­
posed of a combination of all these negative energy 
fields. The techniques and realizations necessary to 
overcome the negative energy fields are described in 24 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
detail in Transcending the Levels ofConsciousness. By being willing to surrender the ego's narcissistic 
emotional payoffs of the negative energy fields, one 
then progresses to the first level of true power, called 
Courage, at calibration level 200. Something crucial 
now happens at thiS level because it has an enormous 
amount of power. It is obvious that Courage settled the 
United States ofAmerica. Courage created all the great 
industries and was the basis for man's getting to the 
moon.The Marines start at the level of Pride but really 
move up to the more stable level of Courage. Why? It is 
not so much in the increment of the twenty-five-point 
increase, although that is sizeable.The critical element 
is that the energy field is now positive because the per­
son values truth rather than falsehood, and integrity 
instead of temporary gain. Above level 200, one is no longer the victim 
because the energy field is now positive. One might say 
that this field is like an antenna, and below the level of 
Courage, the antenna is tuned to the negative, thus 
pulling adversity into the energy field. At level 200, energy goes positive, so the field stops 
pulling negativity from the universe to itself.A person 
is now in a different condition as well. One is able to 
face, cope with, and handle things, and, for the first 
time, able to be appropriate. At the level of Courage, people still experience the 
lesser negative feelings, but they now have the power 
to handle those energies. The critical process is one of 
empowerment. A person becomes re-empowered by 
telling the truth.This is obviously critical in the recov­
ery from all illnesses. It is very visibly so in the millions A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 25 
of recoveries of members of Alcoholics Anonymous, 
where Step 1 and all the basic steps are admissions of 
the truth. When people admit they are powerless over some­
thing, instead of going weak with the muscle test, they 
suddenly go strong.When they get rid of the arrogance 
of pride, they may still have other negative feelings. Persons at the level of Courage who plan to ask their 
boss for a raise may still have knots in their stomach, be 
angry, and even feel hopeless about getting one. They 
might even be arrogant, but now, at the level of 
Courage, they have enough power to handle all that 
and be appropriate. They are then able to face it, cope 
with it, and function in an effective way in the world. The next major level is that ofNeutral at 250,where 
the energy field is positive and even more aligned with 
.Truth.The emotion ofNeutralis self-trust. Forexample, 
it is 'okay' ifone gets the job and 'okay' ifone does not. The process going on in consciousness is detachment. One is not attached to any particular outcome and is 
no longer a victim. The person now has a great deal 
more power and is not dominated by aversions or crav­
ings.The upside of this can be the okayness of life; the 
downside of 'unattached' can· be detached or flat. At 
Neutral, one is no longer suffering painful emotions 
and now feels free. One is therefore in a far more pow­
erful state.The way that person sees the world as okay 
considers God as granting freedom. The advantage of 
the level of Neutral is that one has let go of resisting 
things and therefore has a lot more power, but then 
one has to introduce a new energy to move up to the 
next level ofWillingness. 26 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Willingness, at 310, is far more powerful. The emo­
tion of it is accompanied by the thoughts of 'yes', say­
ing yes to life, to join, to agree, to commit, and to align 
with because there is now the introduction of inten­
tion. A person at the level of Neutral, when asked if 
they would like to go to a movie tonight, would say, 
"Well, it's okay ifwe go, and it's okay ifwe don't. "The 
response lacks enthusiasm and aliveness and is still a 
long way from abundance, but it is certainly far more 
comfortable than being attached and in fear, grief, apa­
thy, or anger. The one who becomes willing brings 
aliveness and intention to say yes, to commit, and to 
agree. Real power begins withWillingness because one 
has let go of resistance. The next field above that is called Acceptance, at 
350. It is a very powerful energy field, one of being 
capable, adequate, and confident. There is the begin­
ning oftransformation in consciousness. Transformation 
has to do with the person's re-owning that they are the 
source of their own happiness, and that the power is 
within them.A person on this level is the one whom a 
big corporation depends on because they are realistic 
and can admit their upside and downside.They are not 
dominated by pride, which means denial, so they can 
allow for their weaknesses and shortcomings. An exec­
utive on this level can say, "You know, I don't do very 
well with that guy in Argentina. It would be better if 
you sendJake; I'm sure he would get along better." The 
executive can indicate where he is limited, accept how 
the world works, avoid getting into 'right and wrong' 
about it, and therefore deal with it effectively. The 
transformation comes from re-owning one's power. A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 27 
A person on this level knows that· no matter where 
they are, they will create a circumstance that will bring 
happiness. Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life rep­
resents this level, as do benevolent public-service 
organizations. The utilization of opportunities occurring at this 
level can turn lemons into lemonade, which comes 
from a position or way of being and the re-owning of 
one's own power. To do so leads to a general way of 
being easygoing, and the people at this level do not ruffle 
easily. Constant re-owning of one's power and recy­
cling the energy back into the universe (e.g., through 
selfless service) moves a person up to the energy field 
of Reason at 400. Reason, logic, and the intellect are the prime evolu­
tionary characteristics of the human species.They are 
the product of intelligence that is capable of symbolic 
thinking and abstraction. This level is also ,representa­
tive of disciplined structure that is in accord with the 
observable world and its processes. Thus, emotions, 
including desires and aversions, are subordinated as 
less relevant in comparison to impersonal facts. The use of reason transcends the limitations of nar­
cissistic/emotional distortion that is characteristic of 
childishness and the personal emotionality of perva­
sive likes, dislikes, and endless wants.The silencing of 
the clamor of emotionality allows for cool calculation 
and dominance of processing by facts and confirmable 
data.Thus emerges the capacity for assimilation, recog­
nition, classification, and comprehension of the signifi­
cance and meaning of vast amounts of information by 
virtue of abstract symbols and their interrelationships. 28 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Intellect and reason are necessary to interpret 
meaning, value, and significance, which are subserved 
by the term 'philosophy' and its offshoots of meta­
physics, epistemology, ontology, theology, and science. The history of the evolution of the intellect is imparted 
by The Great Books ofthe Western World from which 
we see that the evolution of the intellect reached its 
zenith during the classical period of ancient Greece. It 
resurged again much later as the appearance and dom­
inance of an historical Reformation out of which 
emerged modern science. Philosophical dereliction is 
termed 'rhetoric', which reflects nonintegrous manipu­
lation of reason as demonstrated by the decline of the 
level of philosophy in academia of recent decades and 
the emergence of the theories of relativism (cal. 190) 
and their consequent social discord (see Chapter 12, 
Truth vs. Falsehood). At its purest level, reason and the intellect repre­
sent increased reality testing and nonemotional respect 
for truth and the means of its discernment. This can 
evolve even more as the love ofTruth for its own sake. This eventually leads to a paradigm jump at conscious­
ness level 500 (Love). Whereas reason is linear and 
objective, Love is a different dimension as it is nonlin­
ear and subjective. Thus, it is said that reason is of the 
mind (the brain), whereas Love is of the being (the 
heart). At its emergence, love is selective and conditional, 
but as it evolves, it progressively becomes a lifestyle 
and a way of relating to all life. Love emanates from 
within the Self and is an expression of happiness. Love 
nurtures and supports life and is the beginning of a A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 29 
revelation. Brain neurotransmitters change, beginning 
with the release of eildorphins, which opens up mil­
lions of banks of neurons that up to this time have 
been waiting for this energy field to activate them. Scientists are currently researching the whole field of 
endorphins (e.g., oxytocin is associated with concern 
for others and socialization). Unconditional Love at calibration level 540 is the 
energy field of healing and also that of the twelve-step 
groups. There is a rise in the intensity of the energy 
field of aliveness, so it is preferable to be around that 
kind ofpeople because they make us feel more alive by 
giving out energy to the field itself. At the bottom levels ofconsciousness are situations 
of lose-lose. People lose, and those who become associ­
ated with them 10se.This point ofview is one oflosing, 
so the person says,"Everywhere I look, there is a closed 
door. IfI go this way, I'll lose. "They see life as a losing 
proposition. The people in the middle calibration range 
look at life as win-lose. Their pridefulness and the 
polarization of angriness cause them to see the world 
as one of competition, conflict, and win-lose. "If I win, 
then you 10se. "They have endless unconscious fears of 
retaliation because they look at success as vanqUishing 
and expect retaliation. "If we beat somebody in this 
game, we cannot really win because, after all, he has 
friends that may come looking for us some day, so we 
can never relax:' 
The people at 500 conceptualize and hold life as a 
win-win situation. When they win, everybody wins­
the family, the company-so the more money the com~ 
pany makes, the better for the employees. Companies 30 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
seek people in the 500s; they do not have to look for 
jobs, invitations, or relationships because employers 
want to hire them. They call and say,"Wouldn't you like 
to work for us? Wouldn't you like to be vice president 
of marketing for our company?" Employers and others 
seek out those persons at the higher levels. Correlation of Levels of Consciousness 
and Societal Problems 
Level of Rate of Rate of Happiness Rate Rate of 
Consciousness Unemployment Poverty "Life is OK" Criminality 
600+ 0% 0.0% 100% 0.0% 
500-600 0% 0.0% 98% 0.5% 
400-500 2% 0.5% 70% 2.0% 
300-400 7% 1.0% 50% 5.0% 
200-300 8% 1.5% 40% 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% 
As we move up towards 540, inner joy, quiet, and 
inner knowingness begin to take place. Within this 
energy field, we connect with something that is rock­
likeandeverpresent.Thisis the beginning ofthetrans­
figuration of consciousness, the beginning of an inner 
serenity, and the opening of compassion. At 560, there 
is Ecstasy-an exquisite, inner knowingness and trans­
figuration of consciousness that lead to states of illumi­
nation (sainthood is at level 570) as it gets closer to the 
600s. The energy field of Compassion is one that can be 
elected.We can make a commitment to lovingness as a A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 31 
way of being, so this requires no belief in God or any 
theological spiritual system. It is a commitment to lov­
ingness that nurtures and supports life in all its expres­
sions. It sees Divinity in all things as it moves up to an 
even higher level where it begins to see the perfection 
of all life. Compassion is a way of knowing and looking into 
the hearts of others. Due to the release of endorphins 
at this level of revelation and transfiguration, there 
comes an awareness that the separation between one­
self as an individual and another self as an individual 
starts to break down. It is almost like the beginning of 
a oneness of the heart, a knowingness-not a thinking­
ness, but a way of being. The level of revelation in the high 500s then opens 
the way to transfiguration and compassion that lead to 
ecstasy and the states 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 whe~ BillWilson 
of AA had his spiritual experience. He said the room 
was lit by the Infinite Presence (cal. 575).That was the 
beginning of the approach to the energy field of 600. The Radiance suffused out into the world as the world­
wide, great Twelve-Step movement through which 
Alcoholics Anonymous has brought about the recovery 
of millions of people. The energy field called Bliss, at 600, is very impor­
tant in relation to addictions because the field trans­
forms a person's life.The person who falls into samadhi 
(deep meditation) by accident goes into a transcenden­
tal state when they reach 600 or higher. Usually that 32 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
person's life is changed thereafter. People who have 
near-death occurrences experience those fields over 
600, including their own higher Self.Those levels go on 
up to Infmity and are the realm of various world­
famous spiritual teachers. The energy field of Krishna, the Christ, and the 
Buddha is 1,000, and the field progresses on up to 
Infmity. The people at those levels have such enor­
mous power that that we call them avatars. As an 
Avatar, in the three years of his ministry, Jesus Christ 
totally transformed the consciousness of all mankind 
for thousands of years to come. He transformed lives 
on the horizontal as well as the vertical planes, which 
are fields of enormous power. The lower energy fields are like clouds covering the 
sun.As we remove the clouds, we experience the sun, 
which is always shining. In the chapter about addic­
tions, we make a very precise point that it is not the 
removal of the clouds that causes the sun to shine, 
which is what the addicted person begins to think. People who get addicted to anything think thatA causes 
B causes C.The removal of this left-brain type of think­
ing and linear causality is the whole purpose of spiritu­
al work, which is the removal ofthe clouds so that one 
experiences the shining forth of the Self. Energy fields are so powerful that they dominate 
our perception. They are really portals out ofwhich we 
see the world. We often hear that this is really just a 
world ofmirrors, and that all we experience is our own 
energy field reflected back upon us as perception and 
experiencing. We will look at perception, the view of 
the world, and the view of life as it comes out of these A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 33 
various energy fields. As we said in the beginning, guilt (cal. 30)-that 
field of self-hatred and destructive energy-sees a 
world of sin and suffering. Therefore, that person walk­
ing down the street looks around and sees only suffer­
ing.When they open the newspaper, they also see the 
endless suffering of mankind. The people who are in the energy field of hopeless­
ness and despair (cal. 50) literally see a hopeless world. When they open the newspaper, they notice the hope­
less condition of mankind, the endless wars, poverty, 
and crime.They actually experience perceptually, visu­
ally, auditorily-through all the senses-a world of 
hopelessness. The God of a hopeless world is dead. The personsinadispirited state ofgrief,regret,loss, 
and despondency come from the loss of the will to 
live. They walk down the street and see a sad world. This is actually experienced. We know that when we 
are in a sad state and walk down the street, we see the 
children and old people and think;' How sad. "We look 
.at the buildings, see mankind's condition when we 
open the newspaper, and think how sad life is. Our 
own energy field is coloring everything else. It is as if 
we put on colored glasses and then experience every­
thing as being colored by this energy field. People dominated by fear perceive this as a world 
of danger, a threatening, frightening world that is in 
constant jeopardy. When walking down the street in 
that energy field, they see danger all around them.They 
see threats and muggers everywhere; they think there 
is a rapist under the bed; and when they open the 
newspaper, they see the frightening conditions of life 34 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
with its jeopardy and danger. They live inside their 
house, lock their car in their own garage, and then lock 
the garage that is attached to the house, which is 
locked and inside a fence, which is also locked. (Fear 
can be transformed into a more positive expression as 
caution.) Having more police really does not help because 
where will the police be when one's house is robbed? Of course, they are going to be at the other end of 
town, so that does not help.Trying to change the world 
does not assuage the fear energy because it is really 
coming from within one's own energy field. The field above Fear is that of Desiringness (cal. 125), which represents a frustrating world of endless 
wantingness. The people dominated by this field are 
said to have a 'solar plexus' fixation, so they walk down 
the street seeing all the things they want.They see the 
car they want; the beauty they want; the status, posi­
tions, and buildings they want. They are frustrated 
because their endless desires and cravings and more 
and more millions of dollars do not bring happiness. The fact of having fifty million dollars does not help 
because the desiring and wanting for more power are 
insatiable. The person in these energy fields cannot be satis­
fied and becomes frustrated and angry. The angry per­
son then sees a competitive world, a world of conflict 
and war, of 'me against you'. This person looks out in 
the woods and thinks the tall trees are competing with 
the small trees for sunlight. This is the matrix of the 
political/social view of cultural perpetrator/victim. This 
concept is projected onto a field where no such thing A MAP 0 F CONSCI0 USNESS 35 
as competition is even happening. This person lives 
in a world of endless possibility of war and conflict and 
sees everything as competition, not as cooperation. People who are ftxated at the level of Pride would 
see this as a world of social ranking, so when walking 
down the street, they would notice the Gucci shoes, 
name tags, clothing labels, status, the kind of car they 
would want, or the house they would like to live in. Everything is classified in terms of status, and they are 
preoccupied with a social-image positionality. When one reaches the level ofTruth and Courage 
(cal. 200), the world now appears to be a place of 
opportunity. It is an exciting, challenging place with 
opportunities for growth and expansion. That person 
opens the newspaper and sees the endless opportuni­
ties for man to grow, to meet those challenges and even 
go beyond them, and to learn in the process.That per­
son is excited about life. At the level of Neutral (cal. 250), life and the world 
is 'okay' due to one's being nonattached. Everything 
just becomes okay. One moves into an easygoing view 
of the world and begins to say, "Well, that's human 
nature.That's the way it is. It's serving some kind ofulti­
mate purpose." The people who move on up to the level of 
Willingness (cal. 310) experience the world as friendly. They walk down the street, see endless friendliness, 
and think the universe is friendly no matter what they 
have.The world is harmonious, benign, and supportive. The persons who have moved on up to the level of 
Acceptance (cal. 350) really begin to experience the 
harmony of life and discover synchronicity and how 36 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
everything just sort offlows together. They experience 
a world of cooperation because they are holding coop­
eration as their own energy field. This helps them to 
move up to Enthusiasm (cal. 390), and into Lovingness 
(cal. 500) and the experience ofendless loving support 
and the endless presence of that lOVing energy in the 
universe. The states of illumination (cal. 600 and up) reveal 
the incredible beauty and perfection of life, the 
absolute perfection of Creation, the actual experience 
of the Divine essence and nature of all life, and the 
incredible beauty of all its expressions. It is not just aes­
thetic beauty, which is pleasing to the senses, but the 
intrinsic beauty of Creation. When one walks down an 
alley, which, to the eye of the unenlightened would 
look ugly, one experiences the incredible perfection 
and beauty of the aliveness of life and begins to see all 
life as unfolding. One does not see imperfection but 
process. That person sees the entire universe as the 
unfoldment of that perfection. Correlated with each of these various energy fields 
are the concordant view and depictions ofDivinity. For 
example, the person in apathy and hopelessnessexpe­
riences God as uncaring or nonexiStent. The person 
who is in this energy field sometimes says,"I believe in . God, but 1 feel he wouldn't have anything to do with 
me because 1 am just a worm and worthless. 1 am so 
worthless that God just ignores me:' 
The person who lives in fear projects a punitive, 
frightening, terrifying image of God. The person who 
lives in frustration feels separated from God.That is the 
God who constantly withholds from them that which A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 37 
would allow them to be happy; therefore, God is non­
supportive. The person in anger expects a retaliatory, 
punishing God, and because these things go together, 
this is the God who is really demonic, the God who 
really hates us and threatens to throw us into hell. He 
is the ultimate destroyer, the punisher, the God who is 
revengeful and jealous.It is an anthropomorphic depic­
tion of a God who is fitfully jealous,'hates sinners', and 
is given to emotional extremes of destructiveness. When we get up to the level ofPride, there are two 
directions to take because of the arrogance of the 
inflated ego.The atheist is on one side and the zealot, 
bigot, and unbalanced extremist is on the other. As we move up to Courage, which is the level of 
Truth, God can primarily be a question mark. For the 
first time, because we are now approaching the level of 
Truth, we can then have an open mind and say, 
"Actually, I really don't know about God. It's only 
hearsay that comes from all I've read and heard, and all 
that religion teaches. It is really other people's experi­
ences in other times and places. On the witness stand, 
frankly, I would have to say I don't know anything 
about God," so there is the question mark.The spiritual 
seeker really begins at this level.The person says,"I, of 
my own self, would like to know what is the truth of 
this." The person is then free to move into the God of 
one's own inner experience and understanding. At the level of Neutral, one begins to experience a 
world of okayness and God as freedom. One begins to 
discover that there is no punitive, hateful, negative 
God at all because one has moved out of those ener­
gy fields. Instead, there is a God of absolute, infInite 38 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
freedom allowing one to expand, explore, become, and 
fulfill one's potential. At the friendly level of Willingness, one begins to 
experience God as something that is perhaps helpful, 
promising, hopeful, and now positive. Down at the 
bottom of the Map, it was negative, but at this level, it 
opens to candidness and freedom and now begins to 
look optimistic. The person on this level experiences 
life as harmonious and realizes that God is all merciful. The person in lOVingness then begins to experience 
the God of unconditional love and the ever presence 
of the love of God as the source of one's happiness 
and life. As we move into joy and the awareness of beauty 
and perfection as the divine essence of all things with­
in the oneness and unity of God, we move up to the 
top of the Map, with God as Beingness, Isness, Reality, 
Truth, and the Eternal Source of Existence. There is now a context that will give a background 
and a way to see one's spiritual work and progress 
from a different perspective.We can see healing from a 
different viewpoint and also how to approach that 
great enigma called the ego.The energy fields of com­
passion are at 540 and up; the people here are forgiv­
ing and benign. Students of spiritual work are often those who are 
perfecting the levels of the 400s, where they have 
acquired a dedicated learningness and knowledge 
about spiritual matters. They then put the principles 
into practice in order to reach the 500s. Some join A 
Course in Miracles orTwelve-Step groups and are con­
cerned with perfecting the capacity to love.They move A MAP 0 F CONSC IOUSN ESS 39 
up to transcending what the world calls the ego and 
lose attraction to money, wealth, power, sexuality, and 
worldly success. To repeat: the bottom of the Map is the world of 
havingness. It is what one has that counts, and status 
comes from that. At the bottom, people want to know 
what others have and rate them accordingly. In the 
middle ofthe Map is the world of doingness. Here, peo­
ple want to know what others do in the world.What is 
their position and function? Havingness is no longer 
impressive. At the lower levels, possessions are desired and 
esteemed, but with progress in the evolution of con­
sciousness, they are no longer so impressive because 
everybody knows that ifsomeone works seven days a 
week at two jobs, they can have all they want, so hav­
ingness no longer has status.As one moves towards the 
top of the Map, it is not what one has or does but what 
one is. People seek that person out now for what they 
have become, which is the truth they have owned 
about themselves.We seek out those people because of 
what they are and do not even care what they have. I 
have known people like that for many years and never 
actually knew what they did occupationally. Utilizing this knowledge, we have an understanding 
of many things. The way to heal the small self is to 
reject taking a polarized, right/wrong position, which 
makes it our enemy, and instead view life with loving 
compassion and see the intrinsic innocence of the 
child. We first see the innocence of the child's con­
sciousness and then the programming that is superim­
posed. It is because of the child's lovingness and trust­40 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
ingness that it is so programmable, and we begin to see 
the innocence even within those who seem most hate­
ful. Out of compassion to see into the hearts of things, 
one fInds the intrinsic innocence within the ego that 
then gets healed through that compassion and love.We 
can love our humanness and that of others, and instead 
of condemning it, we now say,"I see the seeming valid­
ity of that at that time." For example, instead of being ashamed ofanger and 
hatred, we say to ourselves, "Well, being angry was 
inevitable at that time," because a person who has 
never hated will not move up to Love since they have 
never cared that much about life. Ifone does not care 
enough about life to have gotten angry and actually 
hated, then they would be down at the level ofApathy. When we look at our humanness from the view­
point of forgiveness and compassion, we can then love 
it and hold it within our greatness.We look at our small­
ness like we look at the child and begin to heal it 
through understanding and compassion. When we do 
this, we are putting forth a very powerful energy fIeld 
that is healing. When we look at ourselves from com­
passion and lovingness, we begin to heal.We also now 
know that what we forgive in others is forgiven within 
ourselves and disappears from our perception of the 
world. Our perception ofthe world begins to shift, and we 
begin to experience a world that is totally different. It 
is like putting on a different pair of colored glasses­
the world is not the same, and we can experience it in 
a totally different manner. The purpose of the Map of Consciousness is to A MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS 41 
create a context from which to view and experience 
the world and see that it presents whole new avenues 
that begin to open up automatically. Our intention, 
which is the capacity to heal ourselves as well as oth­
ers, is now facilitated. It is the fulfillment of our own 
potential as we see ourselves move forward in our own 
realization of the truth. From the Brain Function and Physiology chart 
(next page), we can see the profound influence of the 
levels of consciousness on brain physiology and con­
comitant neurotransmitters. Important is that from cal­
ibration level 200 and up, there is a release of endor­
phins, which is accompanied by feelings of pleasure 
and happiness. Below consciousness level 200, there is 
a predominance of adrenaline and animal-instinct sur­
vival responses. In contrast, consciousness levels over 
200 are termed 'welfare emotions', which are benign 
and signify the emergence, and eventually the domi­
nance, of spiritual energies. 42 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
BRAIN FUNCTION AND PHYSIOLOGY
 
Lower Mind (Below 200) 
Hippocampus 
Higher Mind (Above 200) 
Hippocampus 
E:) c::v 
Above 200 Below 200 
Spiritual endeavor and intention change the brain function and 
the body's physiology and establish a specific area for spiritual 
information in the right-brain prefrontal cortex and its concor­
dant etheric (energy) brain. Left-brain dominance 
Linear 
Stress-Adrenaline 
Fight or flight 
Alarm- Resistance-Exhaustion 
(Selye-Cannon: Fight/Flight) 
YKiller cells and immunity 
Thymus stress 
Disrupt acupuncture meridian 
Disease 
Negative muscle response 
YNeurotransmitters-Serotonin 
Track to emotions twice as fast 
as through prefrontal cortex 
to emotions 
Pupil dilates 
Importance: Right-brain dominance 
Non-linear 
Peace-Endorpbdns 
Positive emotion 
Support thymus 
AKiller cells 
AImmunity 
Healing 
Balanced acupuncture system 
Positive muscle response 
Track to emotions slower 
than from prefrontal 
and etheric cortexes 
Pupil constricts CHAPTER 2 
Assisting Healing 
In the previous chapter, we explored the utilization of 
knowledge that arises from studying the nature of con­
sciousness itself and its applications to mankind's 
problems, especially in the areas of suffering. Now we 
will explore the origin of illness and the letting go of it. This will not be about philosophies or theories; 
instead, it will concern what can be clinically verified 
in our own personal experiences-that which is true 
because we can validate it.This is the basis of clinical 
science-the ability to repeatedly duplicate and verify 
an observation within our own personal experience 
and apply it to our individual problems to see if it 
works. Essentially, we are expressing empirical pragma­
tism. We will believe what we can prove to be true 
through our own experience. It is important to again explore the relationship 
between body, mind, and spirit. It is a useful model that 
is experientially real.Whatis the nature ofspirit? Is that 
just a concept, a metaphysical extraction, a philosoph­
ical position, or is it a conflrmable reality? What is the 
exact nature of body, mind, and spirit? In order to facilitate healing, it is essential to under­
stand the relationship between the body, the mind, and 
the spirit. It is important to know that the body has no 
capacity to experience itself; it is insentient. The arm 
cannot experience its armness nor can the leg experi­
ence its legness. Instead, we experience the sensations 
of the body and where it is in space. Sensations, curi­
ously enough, also have no capacity to experience 
43 44 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
themselves.They have to be experienced in something 
that is greater, which is mind. The experience of the 
sensations and what they report about the body is actu­
ally experienced within the mind. As surprising as it may seem, the mind cannot expe­
rience itself. A thought cannot experience its own 
thoughtness; a feeling cannot experience its own feel­
ingness; memory cannot experience its own memory­
ness. They all have to be experienced in something 
greater than the mind.The principle is that each thing 
is experienced from an energy field that is less restricted 
and less limited; each is always experienced in some­
thing that is greater. Therefore, mind is experienced 
because of the energy field of consciousness itself. Consciousness is formless, infinite, and analogous to a 
movie screen upon which we experience the move­
ment of the movie. It is because ofconsciousness that 
we experience what is in mind. That is the basis of 
anesthesia in that when we remove consciousness, 
there is no experience of either the mind or the body. Consciousness itself is experienced in the infinite 
energy field caped awareness. Because of awareness, 
we know what is going on in consciousness. Because 
of consciousness, we know what is going on in mind. Because of mind, we know what the senses are report­
ing about the body.Thus, we can see that what we really 
are is several levels removed from the body, making it 
rather clear that we are not the body.We are that which 
is aware within that infinite field of consciousness. This 
is very· important to realize, and in meditation, it is 
relatively simple to verify the truth that one is that 
which is aware of all these levels of reality. 45 ASSISTING HEALING 
We will focus on the actual techniques that assist 
healing, including how they occur and how to apply 
them. We will also focus on the basic principles, such 
as how the source of illness is often unconsCious guilt 
plus a specific belief system that is aggravated by sup­
pressed emotions. I will describe how I used these 
techniques and understandings to heal myself of more 
than twenty chronic, intractable illnesses that had been 
totally refractory, or resistant, to traditional medical 
treatment. With a step-by-step approach, we will see how ill­
ness is also a result of programming via the collective . consciousness (and how not to buy into it), and how it 
comes about as a result of belief systems. We will learn 
that one can recover from illnesses within the parame­
ters ofkarmic inheritance. There is no order of difficulty, 
no matter how severe the illness may sound. We will 
learn how to energize the self-healer that is present via 
Nature in all of us, and we will look at the phenome­
non of multiple personalities, which demonstrates the 
truth of much of the following information. Science and psychiatry are studying the clinical 
condition of multiple personalities with increasing 
interest because it explains so many different phenom­
ena. In this condition, more than one personality 
expresses itself through the body. Clinically, one per­
sonality may have multiple illnesses, such as asthma, 
allergies, gout, and many others, but when that person­
ality leaves and the other personality comes in, the sec­
ond one may well have none of those illnesses whatso­
ever. That personality says, "I don't believe in any of 
those things. I am not subject to them. "As a result, we 46 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
will look at the power of the mind over body. A basic principle of recovery is that we are subject 
to what we hold in mind, which may, however, be 
unconscious (out of awareness). We will refer to the 
Map of Consciousness to make this understandable 
rather than sound mystical or puzzling in our expres­
sions. It is helpful to remember that the direction ofthe 
energy fields indicates whether it is a negative field 
with a destructive influence or a positive field. Knowing 
this will enable us to feel confident that we are operat­
ing from something that is reasonable, confirmable, 
and understandable. Sharing my personal experiences demonstrates the 
basic truths being presented here. You already know 
these things intuitively, but in making them conscious, 
you can use them as therapeutic tools, such as how to 
prevent being programmed by a negative belief sys­
tem, or how not to buy into a thought system.The mind 
is so powerful that what it believes tends to manifest. An interesting study appeared in the January 1987 
issue of Brain-Mind Bulletin entitled "Expectancies: 
What You See Is What They Give You." Research by 
Princeton University showed that self-fulfilling prophecy 
is just that, and what we actively believe tends to 
manifest in our behavior and in that of others. This is 
what they call a "creative social reality;' a serious issue 
that affects everything from stock prices to the arms 
race, not to mention everyday interactions (and, addi­
tionally, the details of one's personal health). We will proceed from the premise·that all phenom­
ena are experienced in consciousness and address the 
level ofconsciousness itself and its expression in mind. 47 ASSISTING HEALING 
We will go to the level of cause instead of the level of 
effect.The body is at the effect of what is held in mind. If we want to know what we are holding in mind, all 
we have to do is look at what is going on in the body 
and observe its behavior, which tells us what we 
believe. Ifwe look back into our memory, we often will 
not be able to recall that we had any such belief sys­
tem, or that we thought it applied to us.The fact that it 
is in our life tells us that it must have been there some­
where in the personal or collective unconscious. The most common example of this occurs in peo­
ple who are allergic and say, "Well, I didn't have any 
belief in allergies. I didn't bring this into my life con­
sciously:' Yet, if we go back into their childhoods, 
almost invariably we find that the belief system and 
allergies occurred very early in life, usually at ages two 
or three.The little child picks up a remark by someone 
in the family such as, "Allergies run in our family." The 
minute the child's mind hears this, buys it, and, of 
course, believes it, it becomes an operative program. A lot of the phenomena we see expressing in the 
body ofthe adult were picked up very early in life from 
a chance remark heard on television, or something mis­
understood in a book, or a remark that a teacher made. These things constitute suggestive programming and 
common belief systems and become conscious when 
we begin to work on them. We are subject to what we hold in mind, so what 
does that mean? What is the nature of illness itself? We 
see, ftrst of all, it is that of pain and suffering. Consequently, it is obvious and merely common sense 
that illness is an expression of pain and suffering. When 48 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
we look at the Map of Consciousness, pain and suffer~ 
ing are located at the lower energy levels, with the 
energy field in a negative direction, meaning that it has 
an adverse effect on our life.Then we have to look into 
the nature of guilt, the unconscious guilt, and how it 
expresses itself. The thought patterns in the mind are belief sys­
tems. Guilt stems from judgmentalism and negative 
opinions. Negative feelings tend to go together, so all 
the negative feelings then contribute to illriess, includ­
ing pride, anger, desire, fear, grief, apathy, and guilt. We 
know that when we test a person's muscle strength, if 
they hold anything in mind below the energy level of 
Courage, such as prideful or angry thoughts, wanting­
ness or cravingness, a fearful thought, some grief, apa­
thy, or a guilty thought, the muscle goes weak. Other 
feelings, such as regret, loss, hopelessness, despair, self­
hatred, worry, anxiety, grievances, and any kind of arro­
gance or contempt also result in a person's instantly 
going weak with muscle-strength testing. (The pupils 
also dilate.) The muscle weakness and pupil dilation represent 
. desynchronization of the cerebral hemispheres and an 
instant weakening of the body's energy field. It also 
indicates something that is deleterious to life.Through 
this method, we can prove to anyone that any negative 
thought or feeling desynchronizes the body's acupunc­
ture energy system, which is more responsive than the 
central nervous system and far more rapid than the 
autonomic sympathetic nervous system. The body's acupuncture energy system, via the 
twelve main meridians of the body, instantly responds 49 ASSISTING HEALING 
to anything that is negative because all the energy 
fields below the level of Courage at 200 represent that 
which is not the truth. That then brings in the whole 
energy field and thought system of being a victim.As a 
sick person, we view ourself as a victim of the disease. Therefore, it is important to realize that there is the ill­
ness, and there is the person who has the illness. We 
then understand that the person who has that illness 
needs to change in order for it to disappear.We are going 
to learn about recovering from a specific illness, including 
how to handle the actual event on the physical, psycho­
logical, emotional, and mental levels, and how we must 
change as a being so that healing becomes automatic. The Map of Consciousness shows that all the nega­
tive emotions facilitate illness, and all the positive emo­
tions tend to cure illness. Once we get above the level 
of Courage, a level that we cross by telling the truth 
about things, we become detached, which opens a 
space for us to become a willing, accepting, and loving 
person. On the calibrated scale, Love occurs at 500 and 
Healing appears at 540.What kind of lovingness brings 
about an almost automatic healing within the body? It 
is unconditional love, that which is nonjudgmental, for­
giving, and aligned with understanding and compassion.
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Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man
 
Discovery ofthe Presence ofGod: Devotional Nonduality
 
Transcending the Levels ofConsciousness:
 
The Stairway to Enlightenment
 
Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
 
1·Reality and Subjectivity
 
The Eye ofthe 1· From Which Nothing Is Hidden
 
Power vs. Force: TheHidden Determinants ofHuman Behavior
 
Dialogues on Consciousness and Spirituality
 
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and
 
Calibration ofthe Levels ofHuman Consciousness
 
Orthomolecular Psychiatry (with Linus Pauling)
 Healing
 
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Recovery
 
David R. Hawkins, M. D. , Ph.
The book is a collection of lectures on healing and recovery, originally presented in a video format and edited for written format.
What is the purpose of the book?
The book focuses on the integration of various fields, including consciousness research, clinical and spiritual principles, and self-help groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is the focus of the book?
The Map of Consciousness is a model that provides a context for understanding the relationship between the body, mind, and spirit, and is used to explain the relationship between the negative energy fields and the healing process.
What is the significance of the "Map of Consciousness"?
The book discusses the importance of acknowledging and transcending the negative energy fields, and the role of the Map of Consciousness in understanding the healing process.
What is the main theme of the book?
The author emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and releasing negative energy fields, and the role of intention and spiritual alignment in the healing process, rather than relying solely on medical treatment.
What is the author's approach to healing?