For 
example, the mother who visits her son who is a mur­
derer in prison for twenty years still loves the being­
ness, the 'is-ness' of who he really is. Of course, his 
behavior does not make her happy, but the love is 
unconditional, no matter what he does. We see exam­
ples in the world of the unconditional lovingness of 
the mother, and the lovingness of twelve-step groups, 
such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Unconditional love is 
not concerned with what you have or with the past. The people at the lower levels of consciousness are 
very concerned with havingness and rate others based 
on what they have. In the middle ofthe Map, people 
are preoccupied with doingness, and their status rating 
depends on what they do and all the titles that go with 
that doingness. As they move towards the top of the 
Map, people are concerned with what they are, with 
what they have become-their 'is-ness', their being­
ness, that which they truly are. At that level, there is 
concern with a person's stature, their value, and the 
kind of person they have become. The willingness to become a forgiVing person 
who nurtures all of life nonjudgmentally automatical­
ly brings that about within oneself because of the 
very healing nature of that energy field. It is a condi­
tion of good health and the beginning of seeing the 
perfection of all things and how all things work out 
for the good. Illness cannot stem from that context. For the person who is oriented in the direction of 
health, illness merely becomes something that is com­
ing up in order to be healed; it is bringing up a lesson. HEALTH 129 
The illness is saying, "Look at me. Please heal what I 
stand for and symbolize. Please heal the guiltiness, self­
hatred, and limiting thought forms. Please move up to 
loving me so I can be healed. "The illness is a demand 
to grow spiritually. It is an incessant gadfly that tells us 
that something is 'out' and needs to be looked at. Something needs to be held in a different way. It is not the events oflife but how we hold them in 
mind that creates our reaction. Events in and of them­
selves have no power to affect how we feel, one way or 
another. What does affect us is our position and judg­
ment about them, and how we decide to be with them. Our attitude, our point of view, the context, and the 
overall meaning give the event the emotional power 
over uS.We can see that we are the creator ofthe mean­
ing and impact it has on us. Stress comes from our giving externals power over 
our life, which comes from the position of victim, of 
putting the source of happiness outside our life and 
denying the power of our own mind. The healing 
comes about through re-owning that power and realiz­
ing that we and we alone create the meaning ofany cir­
cumstance, event, place, position, thing, or any person 
in our life.We create the meaning, our position, and the 
way we hold it.That either becomes a source of heal­
ing or a source of illness. We are the ones who deter­
mine the outcome. Eventually we begin to see that the body is like a 
pet or a little marionette. It happily goes along its way 
as a consequence ofthe energy fields of joyfulness and 
gladness. It just sort of does what it does automatically, 
without thinking much about it. 'Healthy' means that 130 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
we pay less and less attention to the body and enjoy it 
out of appreciation. It is an expression of how we are 
with that body. Being healthy means we have re-owned our power 
as source and are not giving away the source of the 
body's health to the world.The exercising we do is out 
of the joyfulness of experiencing the body.We do not 
say that swimming causes the body to be healthy, but 
we instead come from the position that because we 
enjoy the body, we enjoy activities such as swimming. Those activities that the world considers healthy are 
the expression of our inner sense of aliveness. There is 
joy in allowing the body's expression in ways that the 
world considers healthy, not because they are causal, 
but because they are the effect. The healthy enjoyment of the body is the effect of 
the mental attitude, of looking at it as something 
pleasurable, and therefore, we come to a lovingness of 
the body. It is not a narcissistic self-glorification, or a 
muscle man's picture in the photo magazine. It is not 
out of desiringness, pridefulness, or narcissism, but 
outoflovingness andgratitude. We say,"Ah,littlebody, 
you serve me well. I love you, I appreciate you, and I 
value you." To know that we are not the body and 
merely realize that if we lose our right arm, we will 
still say, "I am me." Ifwe lose our left arm, we will still 
say,"I am me." Ifwe lose both legs, we will still be say­
ing, "I am me." If we remove the ears, etc., the body 
progressively diminishes to almost nothing, and yet, 
the sense of self is ever with us. The healthy person begins to develop a sense of 
self that is independent of external events and of HEALTH 131 
being the body itself. The person is aware that the 
body is the body and events are events, but "I am 'me', 
and that which 1 am is really untouched by these 
events. "The self that wakes up every morning before 
it even begins to remember its name and address, 
where it is, and what it is supposed to do today 
remains unimpaired. There is the 'hardware' innocence 
of consciousness that in itself is unaffected by the pro­
grams of the 'software' and the events that occur 
throughout life.A healthy attitude is one that does not 
base its reality or survival on that which is transitory. At the lower levels of consciousness, it can be seen 
that the person has placed their survival on something 
outside themselves, and that it is always transitory in 
nature. One thing we know about the world for certain 
is that all things change. Consequently, if we put the 
source of our happiness or our survival on that which 
is outside of ourselves, such as our job,our possessions, 
or a particular relationship, then we are merely setting 
ourselves up for the loss of our health because what 
comes up frrst is the fear of loss. Even though that is 
not conscious, we know if the source of our happiness 
is in our title, position, address, the kind of car we have, 
or even in the beauty of the physical body, we feel vul­
nerable. That vulnerability is in the unconscious and 
stores up a great deal of fear. As a result, our lives 
become endlessly focused on reinforcing and protect­
ing ourselves from the loss of those things upon which 
we have based their survival. Healthy persons realize the true nature ofwho they 
really are, and that they are something far beyond that. They realize they are the ones who give those things 132 HEALlNGAND RECOVERY 
value and temporary enjoyment, but their survival does 
not depend on them. Previously it was said that when 
people move up into the energy field of acceptance, 
they have stopped giving their power away to the 
world. They have begun to accept that they are the 
source of their happiness. Ifwe were to put that per­
son on a desert island and return a year later, we know 
they would have a coconut business going, would have 
found a new relationship, would have built a tree 
house, and would be teaching native children. In other 
words, they have the capacity to re-create for them­
selves because they know the source of happiness 
comes from the realization that"I myself am the source 
of that happiness. I myself am the source of health. It 
doesn't depend on epidemics, or what is out there in 
the world, or what I eat. "When they fmally realize that, 
they begin to transcend and are no longer at the effect 
of all the false belief systems. What kind of life is possible then? What kind of life 
evolves from canceling these belief systems? The mind 
says, "Uh-oh, if I cancel these belief systems, then I am 
really going to be in trouble." There is a state of mind 
that places its security on the worship of fear. It says 
that paying attention to these fearful thoughts and 
complying with them is why they are alive. When motivated by the willingness to own and 
accept the power of the mind, the willingness to undo 
its mistakes and be forgiving and compassionate, there 
is the realization that we make ourselves victims when 
we place the source of happiness outside ourselves. As 
we begin to recontextualize our life, we ask,"What is it 
that gives my life meaning? What do I really value?What HEALTH 133 
is it that if you were to remove it from my life, my life 
would still have meaning? Ifmy job and position were 
taken away, what meaning would my life have then? What would it be worth? What am I willing to die for?" Introspection and spiritual movement are neces­
sary to achieve a state ofwell-being, a feeling that one's 
life is significant, and that we make a difference in the 
world.We do not need the attention that illness brings 
to us because our sense of importance comes through 
the realization ofthe greatness of our real Self. General 
growth in the field of spiritual development brings 
about a condition of health and can do so quite rapid­
ly if we change our position to let go of certain limited 
beliefs. It does not take very long at all. First is the real­
ization that we have the power to do it. Second is the 
willingness to try it out, to verify it through our own 
experience, and to accept the recovery of other people 
as an inspiration. We have enough faith in them to say, 
"Well, if it works for them, then I'm willing to give it a 
try." In my personal as well as clinical experience, I have 
seen illnesses leave in a matter of minutes, days, weeks, 
or months.The most chronic illness that had existed for 
twenty-five years took perhaps two years to leave and 
fmally did so by my constantly doing the processes that 
have already been described. Some illnesses are persistent despite all one's 
efforts to clear away contributing factors, and the rea­
sons are often multifactorial. One that is commonly 
overlooked by citizens of the culture of the Western 
world is the factor of karma, both individual and col­
lective. In its broadest sense, karma merely refers to 134 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
the totality of one's inheritance by virtue of human 
existence itself as represented by evolution, both phys­
ical and spiritual. Each human being already has a cali­
bratable level of consciousness at birth, which is also 
aligned with genetic patterning. Spiritual evolution itself may well bring up karmic 
patterns from the individual as well as the collective 
unconscious; therefore, spiritual work may paradoxically 
bring repressed patterns into manifestation. This is 
characteristic of the life histories of mystics who fre­
quently went through periods of illness. Sometimes the 
basis of a persistent illness can be discerned by simple 
past-life recall techniques, such as hypnosis or induced 
altered states of consciousness. The basis for a persist­
ent illness is often quite specific, and processing it 
through forgiveness of self and others for a forgotten 
event turns out to be curative. Another technique is to forgive in oneself that 
unconscious aspect (from the collective unconscious) 
that was responsible for occasioning it in others and 
thereby bring up the inner healer from within. For 
example, if an illness is characterized by lameness, then 
forgive the one in oneself that was responsible for the 
lameness of others, for example. While at flISt such a 
process may seem speculative, positive results can be 
amazing. Healing ensues from the willingness to accept the 
power of mind, and the willingness to never allow the 
mind to say something negative without challenging it 
and replacing it with a positive thought. The willing­
ness to let go of being judgmental towards oneself and 
others is the result of letting go of the negative.Why is HEALTH 135 
this so? It is because the energy field of that which we 
truly are is ever present and gives us an intense sense 
of aliveness when we let go of the obstacles. It is the 
energy field of the vibration of life itself that is con­
stantly present. like the sun, the inner Self is always shining, but 
because of negative clouds, we do not experience it. It 
is not necessary to program oneself with the truth; it is 
only necessary to remove that which is false. The 
removal of the clouds from the sky to illuminate the 
negative allows one to experience the energy fields of 
that which is positive. It is only the removal of the neg­
ative that is necessary-the willingness to let go of the 
habits of negative thinking. The removal of the obsta­
cles to the experiencing ofthis will result in an increas­
ing sense ofaliveness and a joy ofone's own existence. As this joy comes in, frrst subtly and then more and 
more strongly, there is a diminished awareness of even 
the presence of the body, of one's physicality. As one evolves into higher levels of happiness, 
there is joyfulness. The body is looked at as a source of 
pleasure and is held as a pleasurable and enjoyable 
experience. As we move towards the highest levels of 
consciousness, the experiencing of the body begins to 
diminish altogether. There is a pervasive experiencing 
of diffuse joy, along with an inner, progressive state of 
serenity, accompanied by a peaceful blissfulness.At this 
point, the experience of the body may disappear alto­
gether into a kind of sublime state in which one is joy­
ful aliveness. One becomes loving bliss, and the aware­
ness of the body may be almost nonexistent. It is as 
though it is present in the room, but it is no more 136 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
important than anything else in the room.There is the 
loss of identification with the body, and we watch it 
from that viewpoint as it happily goes about its busi­
ness. We are no more concerned about it than we are 
about anything else in the room. It is a loss of identifi­
cation with the separate, limited self and the limited 
physical. With this, the body is expressing the absolute 
truth, the infmite truth that one is included with the 
infinite Beingness ofthe universe.Therefore, there is the 
value of replacing the space that contained the negative 
thought which was canceled with the statement, "I am 
an infmite being and I am not subject to that:' Because 
our essence is aligned with the Reality ofTruth, we con­
sequently have the power to negate falsity. We replace everything we cancel with the truth. In 
place of the negative thought, we put in something 
that is positive beca~se we choose to love ourselves 
instead.We can say,"1cancelthat;I nolongerbuythat; 
I'm not subject to that. Instead, I choose to love myself." We can see that lovingness is the great healer.We have 
within our capacity, within our power, all the abilities of 
self-healing.All we have to do is remove the obstacles. Perfect health is an expression of spiritual aware­
ness. It is the willingness to let go of the negative and 
allow it to be replaced by that which is loving. The 
physical expression of sickness is of the lower energy 
field that is given form by what is held in mind. Physical health is merely an expression of a positive 
energy field that is reinforced by our willingness to 
commit to compassion and forgiveness. That which I 
am includes the body but is not limited to it. That 
which I am chooses to love it, to value it, to be appre­HEALTH 137 
ciative of it, to be grateful for it, and to enjoy the sense 
of aliveness. We eventually get to the level of the 'experiencing 
of experience'. We become the awareness of the joy 
and the thankfulness for our existence and the exis­
tence of our consciousness. The body is then included 
within the field of consciousness itself.We come again 
to the surprising thought that the body is within the 
mind. Most people with a limited belief system think 
that the mind is somewhere 'up here' in their head. Actually, when it is being experienced, it is found to be 
everywhere. When a thought is being experienced, it is 
being experienced everywhere. The thought that 
seems to be occurring somewhere 'in here' is itself a 
belief system as it is actually being experienced every­
where. It is a thought about a thought. Inner experi­
ence will tell us that the experience of the thought and 
the experience of the body are occurring nonlocally 
everywhere. Thoughts are occurring in consciousness 
itself. We understand that the body is sitting in the 
chair, but that understanding is being experienced in 
no specific place. It is happening within consciousness 
itself.Addressing ourselves to health is really addressing 
the nature of consciousness and appreciation for our 
own existence as the aliveness of life itself. In this chapter, certain things have been repeated 
several times because of the mind's resistance to 
accepting the truth of it. Right-brain learning is really 
about becoming familiar with and constantly re-expos­
ing ourselves to the same viewpoint until it becomes 
natural. It is difficult when weare dealing with healing 
and health because we are really reversing the mind's 138 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
beliefincausality. We are saying thatthephysical is the 
expression of the mental, and not vice-versa. The world 
would like to say that it is the other way around and 
that 'cause' is within the world, within the virus, or 
within the bacteria. Even medications work because of 
our tremendous belief that they will. It is the belief in 
the power of the medicine. This is certainly obvious 
with scientific research into the nature of placebos. Placebos alone will generally cure thirty-five percent of 
the people with any given illness. Just the suggestion 
that this pill will heal it thirty-five percent of the time 
is all that is necessary for it to occur. Realizing that we 
are making a major move in consciousness allows us to 
value all our knowledge about illness and health and to 
use it as a springboard to our own spiritual growth and 
development. As in all spiritual work, it is discovered that the 
mind resists letting go ofnegative programs despite the 
suffering that it occasions. The source of this resistance 
is the secret payoff that the ego gets from negativity. The ego derives pleasure from 'justified' resentments, 
blame, self-pity, and all the rest. Thus, what has to be 
surrendered is the gratification the mind gets from the 
negativity. To undo the addiction to the payoff, it is only 
necessary to ask oneself ifthe suffering ofthe illness is 
worth clinging to the pleasure of the negative attitude. Secretly, people just 'love' to hate, blame, and get even 
as well as being 'right' or 'superior' , and more. Nursing 
grievances extracts a cost in being prone to illness as 
well as resistance to recovery. Self-honesty is therefore 
the key to making progress and increasing well-being. Despite all the above, it is also important to realize HEALTH 139 
that just being a human being means that one has 
inherited the limitations and vulnerabilities of proto­
plasm itself, and thus, one's days are numbered. "From 
dust one has arisen" and "to dust will return" signifies 
the value of humility and acceptance of the limitations 
of humanness itself.As the Buddha said, "To be born a 
human is a great gift for the human has the option of 
earning karmic merit and undoing negative karma. CHAPTER 5 
Spiritual First Aid 
Next, we're going to discuss the need for spiritual ftrst 
aid and the various principles we have discovered 
through research, including things not so generally 
known but of great importance to those involved in 
spiritual work and the spiritual aspects of life. Previously, we have discussed the relationship 
between body, mind, and spirit, how the body reflects 
what the mind believes, and how the mind then 
reflects what is held in consciousness. We have also 
talked about handling problems directly within the 
area in which they are experienced, which is within 
consciousness itself. As explained earlier, the body is experienced via 
the senses in mind. Mind does not experience itselfbut 
is experienced in a greater energy fteld called conscious­
ness.1bis 'nonlinear' energy fteld is directly related to 
spiritual ftrst aid. It is valuable to create a safe context from which to 
approach one's spiritual work, something that is usually 
not taken into consideration. For the last thirty-ftve 
years, we have been researching the nature of con­
sciousness itself. Spiritual research is not common.As a 
result, we have learned a great deal because not much 
has ever been written about it. There are many questions the ordinary person has, 
for example, what can one bring to the entire fteld? How can one approach it? How can one create a safe 
context for personal investigation of these matters that 
are of great importance? 141 142 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
As we discuss all of this, we will be referring again 
to the Map of Consciousness. It comprises the 
research of many individuals and groups over the 
years. It is a mathematical model that represents strat­
ified levels of consciousness which man commonly 
experiences. The levels have been calibrated as to the 
progressive power of their energy fields showing, for 
example, that Apathy carries much less energy than 
Fear. Fear has less energy than the level of Courage, 
and so on. These calibrations start at zero, continue 
upward to the level of Enlightenment at the energy 
field that calibrates at 600, and then on to the highest 
fields of Enlightenment at calibration level 1,000, 
which is the maximum level for the human domain. The exact way in which the energy fields were 
originally calibrated is a whole field of inquiry in 
itself. It is possible to confirm the calibrations by 
using the muscle-testing method. As you may already 
know, it is a simple method of testing the resistance 
of one's arm. The subject holds out an arm and the 
tester presses down on the wrist. If anything that is 
being held in mind, such as an angry, fearful, or hate­
ful thought, is below 200 on the Map of 
Consciousness (the level of Courage and Truth), the 
arm goes weak. It indicates nonintegrity of the energy 
field, and the downward direction of the energy field 
indicates a negative answer. Ifthat which is loving and true is held in mind and 
the arm is tested, it will be strong.You can have some­
one test you and say, "Anger is over 75; it is over 100; it 
is over 125; it is over 150; it is over 155," and you will 
go weak at 155, indicating that anger is around 150. 143 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
One can then ask what level Grief is and come up with 
75, illustrating that grief therefore has much less energy 
than anger. These are very useful calibrations and tell us a 
great deal of importance as to the direction of energy 
and whether it has a destructive, or negative, effect on 
our life, our consciousness, and our capacity to com­
prehend and reflect truth. The calibrations have a 
very positive effect, which we will see as we move up 
towards Enlightenment and Christ Consciousness. As 
one gets closer to the Truth, one is closer to God. As 
one moves toward the bottom of the scale, one gets 
farther away from Truth and God. Ifyou have someone test you when you purposely 
tell a lie, the arm will be weak. When you have the 
person test you again when you tell the truth, the arm 
will instantly be strong.This is a very useful indicator 
because it provides an orientation towards any field 
of knowledge or endeavor. It can also be useful in 
working our way through the maze of what the world 
calls 'spiritual'. In the beginning of the research, we were naive. We assumed that anything labeled as 'spiritual' must 
be of the highest truth, valid, and something that 
could be corroborated through one's inner experi­
ence. We found that this is not necessarily the case, 
and what is labeled a spiritual teaching might range 
anywhere over the Map of Consciousness, all the way 
from the bottom of the Map, where the teaching was 
written by those who teach hate as the way to truth, 
up to those who are most infinitely loving.We found 
that many of the books were of a negative energy 144 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
field, meaning that one would end up in a worse con­
dition from getting involved in that particular field of 
learning and would move farther away from the truth 
than before reading about it.Almost half the books in 
a typical spiritual bookstore are actually fiction. As a result, we had to look at the value of the 
research itself. In looking at the field of spiritual 
research, we found there were no real guidelines for 
the person approaching spiritual work for the first 
time or going back into it later in life with a renewed 
interest. Each approach claimed that it represented 
the truth, so the self-claims were no indication of 
validity. We also found that the number of followers 
and the glamour and riches of the teacher of a certain 
pathway had no correlation with its validity-the 
number of followers meant nothing, and best sellers 
were frequently purely fictional. A purported teacher could have a great many fol­
lowers, and yet we discovered that the energy field 
was in a negative direction, with calibrations being 
very low. As we got closer to the truth of the great 
enlightened beings that were acknowledged by all of 
mankind, the energies always moved upward in a 
positive direction. The calibrations were always over 
600 and on up into the 700s. Therefore, we see how 
the great teachers-those called avatars-who were 
on the planet for only a very short period of earthly 
time, changed the face of the world and the belief 
systems of mankind, breaking new ground and creat­
ing a whole new context and set of values because 
the power and energy of their words were of such a 
high caliber. 145 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
We will be talking about crisis, conflict, the nature 
of an upset, and ways of handling, transcending, and 
breaking through, along with practical measures 
for spiritual seekers. We will find that all upsets are 
spiritual in origin and have common sources.We will 
learn how to survive these inner trials and how to 
avoid disillusionment, despair, and self-hatred. We will 
discover how to detect false teachers. (See page 188, 
Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, or page 379, 
Truth vs. Falsehood.) We will see that all spiritual pain 
and suffering is really due to ignorance and will learn 
how to find the answer.The vulnerabilities that come 
from spiritual naIvete, along with crises, can be over­
come by utilizing the laws of consciousness. We will 
see what we are hanging onto and how to let it go.We 
will learn how to recognize the culprit called the spir­
itual ego,which is behind so much spiritual crises and 
suffering. The spiritual world is frankly one of great 
confusion, with its conflicting statements andposi­
tions.We need to approach it from a position outside 
the field. Referring again to the Map of Consciousness, the 
energy fields are calibrated as to their relative energies, 
starting with Death at zero, Shame at 20, Guilt at 30, 
Apathy at 50, Grief at 75, Fear at 100, Desire at 125, 
Anger at 150, Pride at 175, and the crucial point of 
Courage at 200.At this level, the direction ofthe arrows 
changes from negative to neutral. Above neutral, the 
arrows point upward, in a positive direction; this 
occurs when the truth is told about something. The 
attitudes or positions now indicate Neutrality at 250, 
Willingness at 310,Acceptance at 350, Reason at 400, 146 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Love at 500, (which is a very significant level), joy at 
540; and Ecstasy at 560. Level 600 is Bliss and beyond 
the world of duality. It is a level of Enlightenment that 
reveals the true nature of God (Sat-chit-ananda). Awareness of the true nature of God really begins 
at level 200 as one becomes progressively aligned 
with truth and then progresses upward through 
Willingness, Abundance, Acceptance, and an increas­
ing Lovingness that expands in an infmite, upward 
direction. Each of these levels of consciousness is charac­
terized by correlated emotions that begin as the 
most negative and destructive at the bottom of the 
Map and lead to suicide, self-hatred, etc. Also at the 
bottom are guilt, the process of destruction, and see­
ing the world as a place of sin, suffering, temptation, 
and disaster. The God of that world is seen, there­
fore, as the ultimate destroyer who is really the ulti­
mate enemy of mankind because he hates man and 
will throw him into hell forever, which is the ulti­
mate act of hatred. Above that is the level ofApathy, which calibrates 
at 50. The emotion is that of a hopeless world of 
despair, and the process is the loss of the energy of 
life. The world looks hopeless, and the God of a 
hopeless world is unloving, does not care for people, 
ignores them, and views them as sinful worms.There 
is an abject hopelessness, and God is thought to be 
truly nonexistent. There is now the existentialist 
who talks about the hopelessness of mankind and 
the death of God as coming out of this level of con-. sciousness. 147 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
The level of Grief is one of loss, regret, despon­
dence, and loss of spirit. It sees a world of sadness and, 
again, a God who is uncaring and unloving, having cre­
ated a sad, hopeless world. The level above Grief is Fear and is an energy field 
moving in a destructive direction. This level is charac­
terized by worry, anxiety, panic, and terror. There is 
deflation, and the world looks like a frightening place. The creator and God of this frightening world is there­
fore a punitive god who terrifies by his unending 
threats. Above Fear is the level called Desire, with which 
most of us are very familiar. People are entrapped by 
the emotions ofwanting and craving.They are trapped 
by what they desire, and this creates the worldview of 
frustration and a God from whom they are separated 
because this god is always withholding from them 
what they need to feel complete and whole. The next energy field upward is Anger and is of 
great importance. The energy ofAnger at 150 is much 
greater than that of Grief at 75.A person in grief has 
very little energy, but it is obvious that an angry per­
son has an enormous amount of energy.The emotions 
arising from this level are of resentment, hatred, and 
grievance, which occurred in the process in con­
sciousness as one of expansion. From the place of 
anger one sees a competitive world of war, conflict, 
and enemies. Therefore, God becomes polarized and a 
retaliatory and angry god-the great punisher. Above Anger is the level of Pride, and in its applica­
tion to spiritual work, the level of Spiritual Pride at 175. It can be seen that as one moves up the scale of con­148 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
sciousness, there is more power.The fields begin to feel 
better, but Pride is still a destructive emotion, as agreed 
to by all the spiritual literature. It is characterized by an 
arrogance and contempt headed by denial.The process 
going on in consciousness at this level is one of infla­
tion. Because of arrogance and contempt, a person 
with this attitude about their spiritual work is not 
going to be willing to talk things over. The person at the level of Pride perceives every­
thing in terms of vanity, self-importance, and status, 
which leads to a view of God that can be in one of two 
directions. It can be the atheistic position that comes 
out ofintellectual arrogance and says that the left-brain 
intellect is the highest faculty of man, and, therefore, 
reason will decide whether God exists or not. It can 
also be from the position of the zealot or bigot who 
claims that they have all knowledge of the subject, and 
who is in a prideful state, arrogant and contemptuous 
of any other position (e.g., "death to infidels"). This 
obViously comes from an inflated ego.All the positions 
up through this level are below the line of integrity at 
level 200. What happens when we cross the line of 200, the 
level of Courage and Truth, the level where the mus­
cle-strength test no longer goes weak? Now a person 
is able to begin looking openly at questions because 
they are in the power to do so. The level of Courage 
is one of opportunity, open-mindedness, and the 
opening strata for anyone who is serious about 
spiritual work. The next energy field is called Neutral at 250. Just 
below it at 200, we had an open mind, but at this level, 149 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
we become unattached as the energy field now goes 
upward in a positive direction. We are now released 
and free to research, investigate, and fmd out for our­
selves. At this energy level, the world looks okay, and 
the God of that 'okay' world is a God of freedom, and a 
God who loves one's innate capacity to want to fmd 
out the truth for oneself. The next level is Willingness, where one has let go 
ofresistance and attachment andhas begunto say"yes" 
and join, agree, and align with the search for and the 
truth of one's inner experience of it. The person has 
introduced one's own positive intention; therefore, the 
world in which this is occurring appears friendly, and 
the future looks hopeful and promising. The view of 
the God ofthis kind ofworld is promising, hopeful, and 
very positive. It is the God of freedom. At the bottom of the scale was a very negative­
looking God who was more demonic, threatening, 
and punitive.At the level ofWillingness is a God who 
becomes a friend, one who can be trusted.This is the 
beginning of a loving God and the opening where 
one can begin to be willing to perhaps see God as a 
positive aspect. From there is the movement up to Acceptance at 
350 where a person now starts to feel a certain confi­
dence and transformation of consciousness. One real­
izes that the power to discover theTruth resides with­
in the self. Thelowerlevels ofconsciousness holdthatTruthis 
outside of self. IfTruth is outside of self, it will have to 
be revealed by someone because the energy is so low 
at these levels. All the energy fields are in a negative 150 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
direction, preventing one to be able to discover the 
truth on their own. At the level ofAcceptance, the power is re-owned 
within oneself.Therefore, the road begins to be a posi­
tive experience. The search now starts to become har­
monious, and the God of that energy field is a merciful 
God who is accepting. In the re-owning of one's own 
power, God is pleased.This God is viewed as having a 
positive attitude towards one's spiritual search. From that point, one moves up in a very positive 
direction to the field of lovingness at 500,which is nur­
turing, supportive, and forgiving.As one moves into the 
desire to be a loving person, the inner healings begin 
to take place, and one gets to experience life as loving 
despite its emotional ups and downs. The process of 
life itself and the innate nature of what is happening 
are loving and come from a God of Unconditional Love 
and lovingness. This discovery leads to an inner state of 
Joy.As one begins to periodically experience the joyful 
states, one's orientation becomes compassionate. It is 
the beginning of a progressive shift in process, in con­
sciousness, and in seeing God as perfection and incred­
ible beauty.There is movement into the capacity to see 
God from the viewpoint of Oneness and Unity. Movement up toward 600 takes one into the levels 
that the world calls Enlightenment. There is a progres­
sive loss of identification with the small self, which the 
world calls 'ego' and is commonly referred to as 'I' or 
'me' because it is identifying with the various energy 
fields and the kinds of behaviors that ensue. As that 
identification and points of view are surrendered, 
expansion takes place as one's context of experience 151 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
enlarges, and one moves upward towards the top of 
the scale and identification with the true Self. The states that emerge at level 600 are termed 
'Bliss'.These are states of infInite joyfulness, of experi­
encing an infInite Presence, and are the consequence 
of letting go of identification with the small self. In 
moving toward Enlightenment, one experiences states 
of illumination and sees God and the world as 
Oneness. One also experiences God as the Source of 
Existence. Within the enlightened states over 600 are 
the avatars, the great saints, the great teachers of 
mankind, the sages, and the enlightened beings. At least now there is an idea ofthe way to God. God 
is at the top of the Map; that which is not God is in the 
other direction, at the bottom. This is rather clear and 
may seem simple when viewed; however, it is common 
sense and something we all intuitively know. We·will 
refer to this in the future now that we have an orienta­
tion to the field. That which is truthful carries greater power and 
calibrates at a higher number. It is a higher frequency, 
and in physics, the higher the frequency, the greater 
the power. Electrical power, for example, is not trans­
mitted across the countryside at 120 volts; it is trans­
mitted at 30,000 volts or even higher.The higher the 
frequency, the greater the power. This is why the 
words of the great teachers have transformed 
mankind for thousands of years. Their words are still 
active and powerful and continue to transform the 
consciousness of mankind thousands of years later, 
even though their bodies have left the planet. When 
we calibrate the energy fields of their work, we see 152 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that they are of enormous power, so it is not just what 
is said, it is the power of the being who says it. It has been discovered that, historically, there has 
really been no safe context or orientation available to 
people approaching this field, so the way to avoid spir­
itual crises and the need for spiritual first aid in the 
future is to back up a bit and do some individual 
research. The first question to ask about any teaching 
is, "What is the level of the teaching?" This is helpful 
because the child within continues to be naIve and 
innocent. The innocence, on the other hand, is what 
leads to error because the innocent mind of the child 
has no means of discernment. It needs some way to 
determine what is going to be beneficiaL (See list of 
Spiritual Teachers in Chapter 17, Truth versus 
Falsehood.) It is obvious that if one is involved in a teaching 
that has an energy field below 200, one will have neg­
ative experiences. In contrast, a teaching that has a 
positive energy field and calibrates at a high level is 
going to lead into a lovingness, which is the best 
insurance against spiritual catastrophe. One can ask if 
the teaching, teacher of that teaching, or the books of 
the teaching are reflecting a high leveLThis is not to 
say it is right or wrong; it is just beneficial to deter­
mine its leveL 
If a teaching is below 200, at Hatred, for example, 
it will say that God hates you, your behavior, your 
impulses, and your humanness. Thus, this is a God of 
hatred, and the energy field is negative, calibrating 
even as low as 20,30, or 40.At that level is hatred, the 
killing of others, and suicide.There is a God of death 153 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
rather than of life. Self-hatred and an inner feeling of 
being destroyed come from this teaching. If one wish­
es to follow such a pathway, at least one is going in 
with their eyes open (e.g., terrorism). There are the teachings of existentialism that 
focus on man's hopelessness. They are based upon 
worshipping the past in which there is a great deal of 
grief and self-pity toward what has befallen this group 
of people. There are teachings and teachers who 
express and exploit the energy field called Fear, in 
which case the person experiences a fear of God as a 
punitive God.The energy field is in a negative direc­
tion and continues to engender fear. All these negative fields have proponents who 
sound convincing. They are like politicians in the reli­
gious or spiritual world and very adept at their con­
vincingness. Yet, when we check their energy and 
direction, we fmd that their teaching of fear is nega­
tive and destructive. When seeing them on television, 
we can turn off the sound and look at their faces and 
fist-shaking gestures to see what they reveal when dis­
connected from the words.When tested, these people 
make us go weak, indicating that what is being taught 
is not Truth. Research shows that God is not at the 
bottom of the scale; all the teachings of hate and fear 
that come from the bottom of the scale indicate the 
reverse. As we move up into Anger, we see those positions 
that promote anger, conflict, hatred, and religious 
wars because they are competitive and usually cham­
pion a·politicized god of retaliation. Because it is a 
polarized position, it is always viewed that God will 154 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
punish the nonbelievers, which is usually one of the 
traditional teachings. It is important to know where 
this calibrates on the scale so we can see how it cor­
relates with those things that are truthful. The purpose of all this is to create a safe context, 
a safe orientation, and a safe space in which to do our 
spiritual work because in spiritual work, we commit 
ourselves to certain goals and purposes as a result of 
our intention, and certain things will come up dur­
ing that process. Frequently, one cause of spiritual 
crises is that the person forgets they initiated a 
process through their own intention, and their experi­
ence is a result ofhaving asked the question, made the 
commitment, and aligned themselves with a search for 
the truth. DefIning oneself in a certain way has great power. When we look at the power of the mind, we can see 
how crucial its beliefs are. It has the ability to bring up 
within one's life the very thing one has asked for. Frequently in the middle of a crisis, the person has 
forgotten they really asked to bring up that which 
needs to be healed. Therefore, what is occurring in 
their life is not a mistake or an error. It is exactly what 
needs to be brought up, looked at, understood, surren­
dered, recontextualized, healed, and forgiven. As a 
result, one needs to maintain a compassionate view. How can we heal what comes up in our lives 
unless we hold a healing position? It is obvious how 
critically important it is to know the energy field of a 
given teaching. (See Chapters 16 and 17 in Truth ver­
sus Falsehood. Ifit requires forgiveness, the teaching 
of the Christ is based on forgiveness. It if requires 155 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
compassion and understanding, then the teaching 
will have to be at calibration level 500 and over 
because healing begins at 540.That which the world 
calls sin is obviously something that requires healing, 
does it not? Then a healing that is at least at the level 
of 540 is needed. To ask people to bring up something from within 
into a negative energy field is to bring about upset; 
therefore it is unsafe to go into any spiritual teaching 
whatsoever that suggests introspection, soul search­
ing, and purification unless the energy field of that 
teaching or pathway is positive and at 540 or higher. It 
is evident how dangerous a lower-level teaching could 
be-it would be like putting oneself on the operating 
table and letting one's abdomen be opened up by a 
surgeon who does not have the skill to handle what he 
is going to discover when he does so.We don't allow 
a second-year medical student to open abdomens on 
the operating table. Instead, it is done by someone 
who has the power.These energy fields have power. It 
requires a great deal of power and knowledge to open 
up someone's insides and investigate them. We don't advise introspection in the beginning of 
the inner process of purification until it is determined 
that the teacher, teaching, and those around a person 
are in the energy field of at least 540, a field that is nur­
turing, supportive, and forgiving and has the purpose 
of healing through understanding and true compas­
sion.The God of that kind of energy field would there­
fore be a God who loves us because healing only 
occurs through loving, and His love would be uncon­
ditional. 156 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
It we understand the nature of God at all, we real­
ize that that which is godly is unconditional. That 
which is conditional and therefore limited by defmi­
tion could not be called godly. That which is God is 
beyond all condition and is infinite, so the love is infI­
nite lovingness and therefore infmitely capable ofheal­
ing.To create a safe context and space for ourselves, it 
is necessary to know that we are in a safe space, that 
the teacher and the teaching are positive in direction, 
that the energy field is at least 540, and that it holds 
compassion and forgiveness in a very high place with­
in the teaching; otherwise, it will be unable to heal that 
which is brought forth. In calibrating literally thousands of factors in vari­
ous teachings and pathways, it consistently appeared 
that those who calibrated the highest and in a posi­
tive direction were characterized by the absence of 
teachings of hatred or condemnation in any way. It 
was found that great compassion and a calibration 
over 600 characterized the great teachers and teach­
ings. They spoke from an infinite, compassionate 
forgiveness towards one's humanness and viewed it 
as something that needed to be healed. In the higher 
teachings, there is a lack of concern with a person's 
money or status, and there is no desire to control a 
person's personal life. There is no 'make wrong' or 
invalidation of life in any of its aspects. How is this so? For example, it is not money itself but the way it is 
held in mind. It is not the events of life but one's posi­
tion about them. The great teachings, which are in a positive direc­
tion, present basic principles through which one can SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 157 
experience the truth of oneself through one's inner 
spiritual work. The creation of a safe space then 
requires teachers who have no desire to exploit or 
invalidate anyone and are therefore examples of their 
own principles. They are devoid of exploitation of fol­
lowers for 'the sake of the movement' or 'the cause'. There is avoidance of that common polarization of'us' 
versus 'them'.There is a necessity to remain clear about 
the difference between the logical phenomenal world 
and that which is spiritual. There is no preoccupation 
with form in the spiritual world but instead with non­
linear basic principles that then express through all the 
levels of reality. The creation of a safe place characterizes teachers 
who have no wish to exploit or invalidate, so the great 
teachers have no interest in influencing one's money, 
life decisions, or personal life. Many of them actually 
refuse to answer questions on that level. Instead, they 
exemplify and speak of the teaching of a principle. It is 
then left up to the student or the follower to discern 
how to apply that principle in a given situation. As a 
result, there are no 'make wrongs'; there is only the 
teaching of a greater context from which to hold that 
life experience. Referring to the Map of Consciousness, we can see 
how various things can be held. We can single out a 
world event that, in itself, is of no particular signifi­
cance. It is how we hold it, the meaning. we project 
onto it, and the significance we give it that makes the 
difference. In and of itself, it really has no meaning; the 
meaning depends on our own level of consciousness, 
or the level of consciousness of the teaching. We will 158 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
use money as an example because it is often a source 
of conflict among spiritual seekers, at least in the 
beginning. How would one look at money? It would depend 
on the energy field of the teaching or the teacher. It 
could be something one feels guilty about or is sinful 
to have. God will destroy us ifwe have money, and we 
can hate ourself for having it.The whole process is a 
destructive one because it is in a negative energy field 
with a very low calibration relating to Truth. Money could be viewed from a higher energy 
field, such as Fear, in which having money would then 
be a frightening thing, with accompanying worry, 
.anxiety, and panic. Itwould be viewed as 'unspiritual' , 
with resulting punishment from God; or it might be 
the source of hatred, resentment, and grievance, with 
the money then being used by the spiritual group in 
a competitive, retaliatory way towards others, leading 
to anger and religious war. Money might be held from the level of Pride, in 
which it is a status symbol that God has given us.The 
more God loves us, the more money he gives us; this 
thought comes from an inflated process. When people move up to a higher energy field, 
they now become unattached to the money.They are 
released, and the money does not 'run' them any 
more. It is now okay to have money because the God 
of that energy field is a God of freedom. God is not 
concerned about whether one has money. Aswe move up the scale intoAcceptance, we might 
be willing to view this differently. As we move on up 
into the energy fields of Love and Gratitude at level SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 159 
540, money might be viewed as a gift from God for 
which we are grateful. The money would then be a 
tool, a way of expressing compassion and uncondi­
tional lovingness towards the suffering of the world 
because the energy field of Love nurtures and sup­
ports love, life, and all its teflections. It is the begin­
ning of a revelation because there is the release of 
endorphins in the brainthat leads to seeing money as 
a loving thing and a way to support others.The inten­
tion behind it and the way it is held in mind at this 
level would have one viewing the money as a bless­
ing, a responsibility, a stewardship, and a way of help­
ing and supporting others.The money would then be 
used for the benefit of mankind and not as an egotisti­
cal gesture that would get one's name on a brass plate 
from the receiving organization. The money would be 
used as a gift while acknowledging the source as the 
love of God and seeing it as a positive expression. Everything in Creation belongs to God, including 
money, of which we have only temporary custody. As one moves towards the top of the field into 
Oneness and perfection, one sees that all things are 
aspects of God, and God isAll that Is. One begins to see 
Divinity within all things, and that this applies to every­
thing in life. Now, instead of seeing money as sinful, it 
is seen as a tool God has given us so that lovingness can 
be expressed in a greater field and can help large seg­
ments of mankind. Money can then be held in joy from 
which one can feel an inner gladness that one has been 
given the power, with money being an expression of 
God's power on earth, to bring about the healing ofthe 
inner pain and suffering of mankind. 160 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
The expression and nurturing of love is the desire 
coming out of compassion for the relief of suffering. Money then becomes a tool to enable one to help 
relieve the suffering of the world. Assets are heJd as 
gifts from God, and the gifts are then used to bring 
about the increasing knowledge of man and the relief 
of suffering that occurs through the progressive 
increase of man's knowledge ofTruth. After the problem relating to money, the next one 
is always sex, is it not? We will look at sex and see 
how the conflicts arising around it depend on the 
energy field. Sex, an event in human life and part of 
humanness, could be viewed from the bottom of the 
scale (lust, addiction, craving). The teaching coming 
out of this energy field would perceive it as negative 
and associated with sin and suffering for which the 
God of that level is the great destroyer, with the 
process being one of destruction, self-hatred, self­
pity, and self-blame. The next view would be that man's sexuality is a 
hopeless condition-one of despair, loss of energy, 
and the lack of the capacity to experience aliveness. It might be viewed as sad and regretful that man is an 
animal.At the bottom of the scale, man is viewed as a 
body. As we cross the line at Truth (200), man is 
viewed less and less as a body, and progressively there 
is the realization that he is spirit. However, that which 
views man as a body then condemns it and is sad that 
man is such an animal. Those who are dominated by 
fear would view sexuality with worry, anxiety, and 
panic.They would treat the whole subject as frighten­
ing and think it best to deny and just ignore it alto­161 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
gether because the God of that level is punitive and 
would punish one for any.sexuality. Looking at the scale, one can see the various ways, 
including anger, with which people can hold sex. There are people who hate themselves for their own 
sexuality as well as those who exploit seduction. There are the perversions of religion, the satanic soci­
eties, and others in which sexuality and seduction are 
now reversed, and their expressions inflate its impor­
tance out of proportion. How would sexuality be held at the level of truth? At this level, one begins to face and handle what sexu­
ality is from a spiritual Viewpoint. One begins to 
become empowered, to take the opportunity, because 
the God at this level is one of an open mind and free­
dom, the freedom that it is okay to explore this because 
at this level, one is not attached to any position about 
sex.At this level, one comes from humility. This means 
that one says, "I really don't know the answer to this 
subject; however, I am willing to begin to look at it." Because the willingness is a positive energy field, it says 
that this is a friendly, promising, and hopeful subject 
that one can investigate. When. one's intention has 
been added to clear up the subject, there is a certain 
confidence that there is the capacity in a harmonious 
world with a merciful God to now explore it without 
being thrown into hellfire. When sex is viewed from an energy field of500 and 
over, it is now from a place oflovingness and gratitude. It is seen as an expression of nurturance, support, and 
healing, and that making love is a healing, forgiving act. People who have argued and fought before now melt 162 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
in the embrace, forgiving, nurturing, and healing each 
other.They reafftrm each other's worth and value. Now 
sexuality becomes a gift and an expression of love. It 
eventually becomes an expression of unconditional 
love, joy, and the celebration of one's own aliveness 
and existence. There is a gratitude to God for the joy 
of existence, the beginning of transfiguration and 
revelation, and then the' moving on to Bliss. Those 
who move on to higher states of consciousness see it 
as an expression of oneness and a way of being. It is 
a way of being and a way of joining the masculine 
and feminine energies in the world. Sexuality, money, or anything else is held primarily 
as a point of view. In none of these instances can we 
say what a thing is, in and of itself. It cannot be taken 
out of the fteld of understanding that is concordant 
with its level of consciousness. When a person or a 
teaching expresses attitudes, beliefs, or opinions, it 
will be found they are merely opinions. The essence 
itself is not being talked about; it is just how the per­
son views it (perception). How they hold it in mind is 
an expression of their level of consciousness, their 
degree of awareness of truth.The lower their view, the 
more negative they will look at any human behavior. All things can be viewed from a 'make wrong' 
position because the bottom of the scale is an endless 
'make wrong', an invalidation of life in all its expres­
sions. All man's intentions, impulses, biology, psy­
chology, even his spiritual ambitions and the desire to 
be a spiritual seeker, can be invalidated because there 
is sure to be a skeptic who will deride it. We can move out of this by seeing clearly that there 163 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
is the event in the world, there is life itself, human 
nature is what it is, and there is a way of being with 
that and viewing it, which is expressing a level of con­
sciousness. We are still not saying anything about that 
'out there'; instead, we are talking about one's level of 
consciousness. Nothing is really being said about the 
world itself (e.g., perception rather than essence). All the enlightened beings at the very top of the 
scale say that aU is God and that a 'thing' is merely 
what it is (essence).They place no constriction or val­
uation of right or wrong on it.They see the sacredness 
of all of existence; therefore, there is no invalidation. If 
all is God, then to invalidate any part of it would be to 
invalidate God. Man, along with his expressions, being 
God's creation, would least of all be invalidated by 
God. Instead, the great beings teach a principle that 
leads to understanding. The highest teachers say that if 
you follow a certain course, certain things will hap­
pen; they then leave the rest up to you: 
A very good example of such pure teaching in our 
societyis thatofAlcoholics Anonymous (AA).AA takes 
no position about whether you drink or not. It does not 
try to close up the liquor industry or try to convince 
you to stop drinking. However, it does say that for those 
who have a problem, this is what we do, and these are 
the results. If you continue to drink, these will be the 
results. There is no 'making wrong' or invalidation. No 
one is looking for any power nor do they wish to 
exploit anyone. AA has no possessions, no royalty, no 
government, no buildings, and no glamour. It is just 
pure spiritual principle that allows an individual to 
have the freedom to see the truth in it for oneself and 164 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
to apply it in one's own life ifdesired. This is an example of a high teaching;AA calibrates 
at 540, which one would expect. An energy field that 
heals would have to be a teaching that is in a positive 
direction and calibrates at least at 540. AA stands, of 
course, as an example of healing that is based on the 
physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of man. It is said 
that no healing from addiction can occur without spir­
itual growth and development. What happened in· the lives of saints is that they 
descended to the bottom of the scale, which played a 
major part in their inner experience prior to their 
achieVing a higher state of awareness. This was a con­
sequence of their research into their inner selves.They 
finally brought up the very bottom of the scale and 
faced the formerly unconscious and then conscious 
conception ofself as that which is ultimately separated 
from God.The bottom of the scale represents the ulti­
mate separation from God. The agony and self-hatred of the exquisite sense of 
sinfulness did not bring about the discovery of God 
within sin but instead brought about surrender. In each 
and every case, there was the agonizing experience of 
being so far from God that the person let go.There was 
the willingness to let go and accept God as Divinity. They then moved up to a situation called surrender, an 
energy field that calibrates at 575.They removed them­
selves from the energy field of 30 by fmally giving up 
and surrendering to God, which opened the way to the 
experience ofTruth. Those who became enlightened often went 
through agonizing periods of facing the utmost of 165 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
negative experiencing that was buried in their uncon­
scious, of owning their own shadow, of looking at what 
they had held as most hateful and owning it, and then 
letting go of it (the 'dark night of the soul').The letting 
go of what was the farthest removed from the truth in 
those positions at the bottom of the scale, the letting 
go of those positions that came out of self-honesty, led 
to the realization of the Truth. The progressive letting go of positions and moving 
into an ever-enlarging context brings us to the overall 
general nature of spiritual work itself.All that is within 
the Scale of Consciousness is the ego, from high ego 
states to low ego states.The letting go progressively is 
beneficial because the levels represent points of 
view-the letting go of judgment and vanity that come 
out of prideful "I know." Surrender through humility 
allows.the process of revelation by which the truth is 
revealed. There is the progressive process of letting go 
of these restrictive positions, all of which block the 
inner consciousness and awareness of the truth. This 
awareness automatically emerges out of an energy field 
and gets progressively higher until it finally reaches a 
point where one is open to the Grace of God. Another difficulty now arises in spiritual work and 
brings about crises and conflicts, which is the use of 
the term'ego'inapejorative, 'make wrong'kindofway. People will say, "Well, that is only the ego." In looking at this from the viewpoint ofTruth, we 
can see there is no such thing as 'just ego'. It would 
mean that there is some place where God is not. All 
positions represent ego, and the ego is then superim­
posed on that which is not ego.There has to be some­166 HEALlNG AND RECOVERY 
thing larger, which is consciousness itself.To safely do 
spiritual work and avoid crises, it is necessary to reaf­
firm, look within, and discover one's own innocence. It 
really is not safe to do spiritual work unless one has a 
glimpse of that innate naive innocence and keeps one 
eye on it at all times, because that innocence is the 
gateway back to the Truth so one does not get lost in 
the swamp. How do we see that innocence and know its pres­
ence? We know that enlightened beings say that all are 
one with God, and consequently, that which is intrinsi­
cally innocent is within us at all times.The knowingness 
can occur as a matter of revelation or understanding. Ifwe look at the consciousness of the child, we see 
the child's innocence. Everyone agrees on the inno­
cence ofthe child whose consciousness is not devious. It hasn't learned to lie; it hasn't learned the values of 
judgment and criticism. The child is openly trusting 
and innocent, and out of this innocence and trusting­
ness, paradoxically, it begins to learn that which is not 
the truth. He or she hears the parents say, "We don't 
play with certain children because they are the wrong 
race, creed, or color; they belong to the wrong reli­
gion;' and so hatred is taught to the child. In order for 
the child to be loyal to the family, to honor and love its 
mother and father, the child has to adopt that teaching. As a result, the innocence of the child is exploited 
by that which is not the truth, and that which is not the 
truth innocently comes through, generation after gen­
eration, via the parents, grandparents, other family 
members, friends, teachers, television, storybooks, and 
novels. So that which is intrinsically innocent now 167 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
begins to take unto itself programs and beliefs that are 
not the truth. ­
We can compare the consciousness of the child to 
the hardware of a computer, and the programming 
coming in from the social consciousness of the world 
itself is the software. We see that in the computer, the 
hardware, which is intrinsically innocent, is uncontam­
inated by the software.You can run any kind of igno­
rance of negativity or falsehood through a computer, 
and the computer itself is uncontaminated. You put in 
the next CD, and the computer's capacity is unim­
paired. Likewise, that intrinsic innocence within 
consciousness itself is unimpaired, and that intrinsic 
innocence is reading these words right now. It is 
the intrinsic innocence of one's consciousness that 
is listening, reading, trying to find the truth, trying 
to tune itself in to what is real. That childlike inno­
cence is unchanged throughout one's entire life; it 
never leaves. When looking at what the world calls ego, or what 
spiritual work calls ego, instead of condemning it, we 
can see, out of innocence, that is what we believed at 
the time.What we did was appropriate if that software 
program had been correct. Therefore, we do not ever 
really make a 'mistake' in our spiritual work. Everything 
is on purpose once we set our intention to achieve an 
understanding of the truth and be open to Grace so 
that the truth may be revealed in whatever way we 
wish to hold in mind, in whatever expression is most 
appropriate. It is important to remember that we have 
asked for all that is in error (i.e., ignorance) to be 
brought up for recognition. It is all right to do that ifwe 168 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
realize our innate innocence at the same time. We again ask, The innocence of what? It is the 
innocence not ofus as a person but the innocence of 
consciousness itself because, as a person, we are 
merely reflecting that which is universal as conscious­
ness itself.What has gone on has happened as a result 
of the nature of consciousness; therefore, there is no 
point in going into personal self-condemnation about 
it nor, on the opposite side ofthe coin, going into per­
sonal pride about it.
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example, the mother who visits her son who is a mur­
derer in prison for twenty years still loves the being­
ness, the 'is-ness' of who he really is. Of course, his 
behavior does not make her happy, but the love is 
unconditional, no matter what he does. We see exam­
ples in the world of the unconditional lovingness of 
the mother, and the lovingness of twelve-step groups, 
such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Unconditional love is 
not concerned with what you have or with the past. The people at the lower levels of consciousness are 
very concerned with havingness and rate others based 
on what they have. In the middle ofthe Map, people 
are preoccupied with doingness, and their status rating 
depends on what they do and all the titles that go with 
that doingness. As they move towards the top of the 
Map, people are concerned with what they are, with 
what they have become-their 'is-ness', their being­
ness, that which they truly are. At that level, there is 
concern with a person's stature, their value, and the 
kind of person they have become. The willingness to become a forgiVing person 
who nurtures all of life nonjudgmentally automatical­
ly brings that about within oneself because of the 
very healing nature of that energy field. It is a condi­
tion of good health and the beginning of seeing the 
perfection of all things and how all things work out 
for the good. Illness cannot stem from that context. For the person who is oriented in the direction of 
health, illness merely becomes something that is com­
ing up in order to be healed; it is bringing up a lesson. HEALTH 129 
The illness is saying, "Look at me. Please heal what I 
stand for and symbolize. Please heal the guiltiness, self­
hatred, and limiting thought forms. Please move up to 
loving me so I can be healed. "The illness is a demand 
to grow spiritually. It is an incessant gadfly that tells us 
that something is 'out' and needs to be looked at. Something needs to be held in a different way. It is not the events oflife but how we hold them in 
mind that creates our reaction. Events in and of them­
selves have no power to affect how we feel, one way or 
another. What does affect us is our position and judg­
ment about them, and how we decide to be with them. Our attitude, our point of view, the context, and the 
overall meaning give the event the emotional power 
over uS. We can see that we are the creator ofthe mean­
ing and impact it has on us. Stress comes from our giving externals power over 
our life, which comes from the position of victim, of 
putting the source of happiness outside our life and 
denying the power of our own mind. The healing 
comes about through re-owning that power and realiz­
ing that we and we alone create the meaning ofany cir­
cumstance, event, place, position, thing, or any person 
in our life. We create the meaning, our position, and the 
way we hold it. That either becomes a source of heal­
ing or a source of illness. We are the ones who deter­
mine the outcome. Eventually we begin to see that the body is like a 
pet or a little marionette. It happily goes along its way 
as a consequence ofthe energy fields of joyfulness and 
gladness. It just sort of does what it does automatically, 
without thinking much about it. 'Healthy' means that 130 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
we pay less and less attention to the body and enjoy it 
out of appreciation. It is an expression of how we are 
with that body. Being healthy means we have re-owned our power 
as source and are not giving away the source of the 
body's health to the world. The exercising we do is out 
of the joyfulness of experiencing the body. We do not 
say that swimming causes the body to be healthy, but 
we instead come from the position that because we 
enjoy the body, we enjoy activities such as swimming. Those activities that the world considers healthy are 
the expression of our inner sense of aliveness. There is 
joy in allowing the body's expression in ways that the 
world considers healthy, not because they are causal, 
but because they are the effect. The healthy enjoyment of the body is the effect of 
the mental attitude, of looking at it as something 
pleasurable, and therefore, we come to a lovingness of 
the body. It is not a narcissistic self-glorification, or a 
muscle man's picture in the photo magazine. It is not 
out of desiringness, pridefulness, or narcissism, but 
outoflovingness andgratitude. We say,"Ah,littlebody, 
you serve me well. I love you, I appreciate you, and I 
value you. " To know that we are not the body and 
merely realize that if we lose our right arm, we will 
still say, "I am me. " Ifwe lose our left arm, we will still 
say,"I am me. " Ifwe lose both legs, we will still be say­
ing, "I am me. " If we remove the ears, etc. , the body 
progressively diminishes to almost nothing, and yet, 
the sense of self is ever with us. The healthy person begins to develop a sense of 
self that is independent of external events and of HEALTH 131 
being the body itself. The person is aware that the 
body is the body and events are events, but "I am'me', 
and that which 1 am is really untouched by these 
events. "The self that wakes up every morning before 
it even begins to remember its name and address, 
where it is, and what it is supposed to do today 
remains unimpaired. There is the 'hardware' innocence 
of consciousness that in itself is unaffected by the pro­
grams of the'software' and the events that occur 
throughout life. A healthy attitude is one that does not 
base its reality or survival on that which is transitory. At the lower levels of consciousness, it can be seen 
that the person has placed their survival on something 
outside themselves, and that it is always transitory in 
nature. One thing we know about the world for certain 
is that all things change. Consequently, if we put the 
source of our happiness or our survival on that which 
is outside of ourselves, such as our job,our possessions, 
or a particular relationship, then we are merely setting 
ourselves up for the loss of our health because what 
comes up frrst is the fear of loss. Even though that is 
not conscious, we know if the source of our happiness 
is in our title, position, address, the kind of car we have, 
or even in the beauty of the physical body, we feel vul­
nerable. That vulnerability is in the unconscious and 
stores up a great deal of fear. As a result, our lives 
become endlessly focused on reinforcing and protect­
ing ourselves from the loss of those things upon which 
we have based their survival. Healthy persons realize the true nature ofwho they 
really are, and that they are something far beyond that. They realize they are the ones who give those things 132 HEALlNGAND RECOVERY 
value and temporary enjoyment, but their survival does 
not depend on them. Previously it was said that when 
people move up into the energy field of acceptance, 
they have stopped giving their power away to the 
world. They have begun to accept that they are the 
source of their happiness. Ifwe were to put that per­
son on a desert island and return a year later, we know 
they would have a coconut business going, would have 
found a new relationship, would have built a tree 
house, and would be teaching native children. In other 
words, they have the capacity to re-create for them­
selves because they know the source of happiness 
comes from the realization that"I myself am the source 
of that happiness. I myself am the source of health. It 
doesn't depend on epidemics, or what is out there in 
the world, or what I eat. "When they fmally realize that, 
they begin to transcend and are no longer at the effect 
of all the false belief systems. What kind of life is possible then. What kind of life 
evolves from canceling these belief systems. The mind 
says, "Uh-oh, if I cancel these belief systems, then I am 
really going to be in trouble. " There is a state of mind 
that places its security on the worship of fear. It says 
that paying attention to these fearful thoughts and 
complying with them is why they are alive. When motivated by the willingness to own and 
accept the power of the mind, the willingness to undo 
its mistakes and be forgiving and compassionate, there 
is the realization that we make ourselves victims when 
we place the source of happiness outside ourselves. As 
we begin to recontextualize our life, we ask,"What is it 
that gives my life meaning. What do I really value. What HEALTH 133 
is it that if you were to remove it from my life, my life 
would still have meaning. Ifmy job and position were 
taken away, what meaning would my life have then. What would it be worth. What am I willing to die for. " Introspection and spiritual movement are neces­
sary to achieve a state ofwell-being, a feeling that one's 
life is significant, and that we make a difference in the 
world. We do not need the attention that illness brings 
to us because our sense of importance comes through 
the realization ofthe greatness of our real Self. General 
growth in the field of spiritual development brings 
about a condition of health and can do so quite rapid­
ly if we change our position to let go of certain limited 
beliefs. It does not take very long at all. First is the real­
ization that we have the power to do it. Second is the 
willingness to try it out, to verify it through our own 
experience, and to accept the recovery of other people 
as an inspiration. We have enough faith in them to say, 
"Well, if it works for them, then I'm willing to give it a 
try. " In my personal as well as clinical experience, I have 
seen illnesses leave in a matter of minutes, days, weeks, 
or months. The most chronic illness that had existed for 
twenty-five years took perhaps two years to leave and 
fmally did so by my constantly doing the processes that 
have already been described. Some illnesses are persistent despite all one's 
efforts to clear away contributing factors, and the rea­
sons are often multifactorial. One that is commonly 
overlooked by citizens of the culture of the Western 
world is the factor of karma, both individual and col­
lective. In its broadest sense, karma merely refers to 134 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
the totality of one's inheritance by virtue of human 
existence itself as represented by evolution, both phys­
ical and spiritual. Each human being already has a cali­
bratable level of consciousness at birth, which is also 
aligned with genetic patterning. Spiritual evolution itself may well bring up karmic 
patterns from the individual as well as the collective 
unconscious; therefore, spiritual work may paradoxically 
bring repressed patterns into manifestation. This is 
characteristic of the life histories of mystics who fre­
quently went through periods of illness. Sometimes the 
basis of a persistent illness can be discerned by simple 
past-life recall techniques, such as hypnosis or induced 
altered states of consciousness. The basis for a persist­
ent illness is often quite specific, and processing it 
through forgiveness of self and others for a forgotten 
event turns out to be curative. Another technique is to forgive in oneself that 
unconscious aspect (from the collective unconscious) 
that was responsible for occasioning it in others and 
thereby bring up the inner healer from within. For 
example, if an illness is characterized by lameness, then 
forgive the one in oneself that was responsible for the 
lameness of others, for example. While at flISt such a 
process may seem speculative, positive results can be 
amazing. Healing ensues from the willingness to accept the 
power of mind, and the willingness to never allow the 
mind to say something negative without challenging it 
and replacing it with a positive thought. The willing­
ness to let go of being judgmental towards oneself and 
others is the result of letting go of the negative. Why is HEALTH 135 
this so. It is because the energy field of that which we 
truly are is ever present and gives us an intense sense 
of aliveness when we let go of the obstacles. It is the 
energy field of the vibration of life itself that is con­
stantly present. like the sun, the inner Self is always shining, but 
because of negative clouds, we do not experience it. It 
is not necessary to program oneself with the truth; it is 
only necessary to remove that which is false. The 
removal of the clouds from the sky to illuminate the 
negative allows one to experience the energy fields of 
that which is positive. It is only the removal of the neg­
ative that is necessary-the willingness to let go of the 
habits of negative thinking. The removal of the obsta­
cles to the experiencing ofthis will result in an increas­
ing sense ofaliveness and a joy ofone's own existence. As this joy comes in, frrst subtly and then more and 
more strongly, there is a diminished awareness of even 
the presence of the body, of one's physicality. As one evolves into higher levels of happiness, 
there is joyfulness. The body is looked at as a source of 
pleasure and is held as a pleasurable and enjoyable 
experience. As we move towards the highest levels of 
consciousness, the experiencing of the body begins to 
diminish altogether. There is a pervasive experiencing 
of diffuse joy, along with an inner, progressive state of 
serenity, accompanied by a peaceful blissfulness. At this 
point, the experience of the body may disappear alto­
gether into a kind of sublime state in which one is joy­
ful aliveness. One becomes loving bliss, and the aware­
ness of the body may be almost nonexistent. It is as 
though it is present in the room, but it is no more 136 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
important than anything else in the room. There is the 
loss of identification with the body, and we watch it 
from that viewpoint as it happily goes about its busi­
ness. We are no more concerned about it than we are 
about anything else in the room. It is a loss of identifi­
cation with the separate, limited self and the limited 
physical. With this, the body is expressing the absolute 
truth, the infmite truth that one is included with the 
infinite Beingness ofthe universe. Therefore, there is the 
value of replacing the space that contained the negative 
thought which was canceled with the statement, "I am 
an infmite being and I am not subject to that:' Because 
our essence is aligned with the Reality ofTruth, we con­
sequently have the power to negate falsity. We replace everything we cancel with the truth. In 
place of the negative thought, we put in something 
that is positive beca~se we choose to love ourselves 
instead. We can say,"1cancelthat;I nolongerbuythat; 
I'm not subject to that. Instead, I choose to love myself. " We can see that lovingness is the great healer. We have 
within our capacity, within our power, all the abilities of 
self-healing. All we have to do is remove the obstacles. Perfect health is an expression of spiritual aware­
ness. It is the willingness to let go of the negative and 
allow it to be replaced by that which is loving. The 
physical expression of sickness is of the lower energy 
field that is given form by what is held in mind. Physical health is merely an expression of a positive 
energy field that is reinforced by our willingness to 
commit to compassion and forgiveness. That which I 
am includes the body but is not limited to it. That 
which I am chooses to love it, to value it, to be appre­HEALTH 137 
ciative of it, to be grateful for it, and to enjoy the sense 
of aliveness. We eventually get to the level of the 'experiencing 
of experience'. We become the awareness of the joy 
and the thankfulness for our existence and the exis­
tence of our consciousness. The body is then included 
within the field of consciousness itself. We come again 
to the surprising thought that the body is within the 
mind. Most people with a limited belief system think 
that the mind is somewhere 'up here' in their head. Actually, when it is being experienced, it is found to be 
everywhere. When a thought is being experienced, it is 
being experienced everywhere. The thought that 
seems to be occurring somewhere 'in here' is itself a 
belief system as it is actually being experienced every­
where. It is a thought about a thought. Inner experi­
ence will tell us that the experience of the thought and 
the experience of the body are occurring nonlocally 
everywhere. Thoughts are occurring in consciousness 
itself. We understand that the body is sitting in the 
chair, but that understanding is being experienced in 
no specific place. It is happening within consciousness 
itself. Addressing ourselves to health is really addressing 
the nature of consciousness and appreciation for our 
own existence as the aliveness of life itself. In this chapter, certain things have been repeated 
several times because of the mind's resistance to 
accepting the truth of it. Right-brain learning is really 
about becoming familiar with and constantly re-expos­
ing ourselves to the same viewpoint until it becomes 
natural. It is difficult when weare dealing with healing 
and health because we are really reversing the mind's 138 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
beliefincausality. We are saying thatthephysical is the 
expression of the mental, and not vice-versa. The world 
would like to say that it is the other way around and 
that 'cause' is within the world, within the virus, or 
within the bacteria. Even medications work because of 
our tremendous belief that they will. It is the belief in 
the power of the medicine. This is certainly obvious 
with scientific research into the nature of placebos. Placebos alone will generally cure thirty-five percent of 
the people with any given illness. Just the suggestion 
that this pill will heal it thirty-five percent of the time 
is all that is necessary for it to occur. Realizing that we 
are making a major move in consciousness allows us to 
value all our knowledge about illness and health and to 
use it as a springboard to our own spiritual growth and 
development. As in all spiritual work, it is discovered that the 
mind resists letting go ofnegative programs despite the 
suffering that it occasions. The source of this resistance 
is the secret payoff that the ego gets from negativity. The ego derives pleasure from 'justified' resentments, 
blame, self-pity, and all the rest. Thus, what has to be 
surrendered is the gratification the mind gets from the 
negativity. To undo the addiction to the payoff, it is only 
necessary to ask oneself ifthe suffering ofthe illness is 
worth clinging to the pleasure of the negative attitude. Secretly, people just 'love' to hate, blame, and get even 
as well as being 'right' or'superior', and more. Nursing 
grievances extracts a cost in being prone to illness as 
well as resistance to recovery. Self-honesty is therefore 
the key to making progress and increasing well-being. Despite all the above, it is also important to realize HEALTH 139 
that just being a human being means that one has 
inherited the limitations and vulnerabilities of proto­
plasm itself, and thus, one's days are numbered. "From 
dust one has arisen" and "to dust will return" signifies 
the value of humility and acceptance of the limitations 
of humanness itself. As the Buddha said, "To be born a 
human is a great gift for the human has the option of 
earning karmic merit and undoing negative karma. CHAPTER 5 
Spiritual First Aid 
Next, we're going to discuss the need for spiritual ftrst 
aid and the various principles we have discovered 
through research, including things not so generally 
known but of great importance to those involved in 
spiritual work and the spiritual aspects of life. Previously, we have discussed the relationship 
between body, mind, and spirit, how the body reflects 
what the mind believes, and how the mind then 
reflects what is held in consciousness. We have also 
talked about handling problems directly within the 
area in which they are experienced, which is within 
consciousness itself. As explained earlier, the body is experienced via 
the senses in mind. Mind does not experience itselfbut 
is experienced in a greater energy fteld called conscious­
ness. 1bis 'nonlinear' energy fteld is directly related to 
spiritual ftrst aid. It is valuable to create a safe context from which to 
approach one's spiritual work, something that is usually 
not taken into consideration. For the last thirty-ftve 
years, we have been researching the nature of con­
sciousness itself. Spiritual research is not common. As a 
result, we have learned a great deal because not much 
has ever been written about it. There are many questions the ordinary person has, 
for example, what can one bring to the entire fteld. How can one approach it. How can one create a safe 
context for personal investigation of these matters that 
are of great importance. 141 142 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
As we discuss all of this, we will be referring again 
to the Map of Consciousness. It comprises the 
research of many individuals and groups over the 
years. It is a mathematical model that represents strat­
ified levels of consciousness which man commonly 
experiences. The levels have been calibrated as to the 
progressive power of their energy fields showing, for 
example, that Apathy carries much less energy than 
Fear. Fear has less energy than the level of Courage, 
and so on. These calibrations start at zero, continue 
upward to the level of Enlightenment at the energy 
field that calibrates at 600, and then on to the highest 
fields of Enlightenment at calibration level 1,000, 
which is the maximum level for the human domain. The exact way in which the energy fields were 
originally calibrated is a whole field of inquiry in 
itself. It is possible to confirm the calibrations by 
using the muscle-testing method. As you may already 
know, it is a simple method of testing the resistance 
of one's arm. The subject holds out an arm and the 
tester presses down on the wrist. If anything that is 
being held in mind, such as an angry, fearful, or hate­
ful thought, is below 200 on the Map of 
Consciousness (the level of Courage and Truth), the 
arm goes weak. It indicates nonintegrity of the energy 
field, and the downward direction of the energy field 
indicates a negative answer. Ifthat which is loving and true is held in mind and 
the arm is tested, it will be strong. You can have some­
one test you and say, "Anger is over 75; it is over 100; it 
is over 125; it is over 150; it is over 155," and you will 
go weak at 155, indicating that anger is around 150. 143 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
One can then ask what level Grief is and come up with 
75, illustrating that grief therefore has much less energy 
than anger. These are very useful calibrations and tell us a 
great deal of importance as to the direction of energy 
and whether it has a destructive, or negative, effect on 
our life, our consciousness, and our capacity to com­
prehend and reflect truth. The calibrations have a 
very positive effect, which we will see as we move up 
towards Enlightenment and Christ Consciousness. As 
one gets closer to the Truth, one is closer to God. As 
one moves toward the bottom of the scale, one gets 
farther away from Truth and God. Ifyou have someone test you when you purposely 
tell a lie, the arm will be weak. When you have the 
person test you again when you tell the truth, the arm 
will instantly be strong. This is a very useful indicator 
because it provides an orientation towards any field 
of knowledge or endeavor. It can also be useful in 
working our way through the maze of what the world 
calls'spiritual'. In the beginning of the research, we were naive. We assumed that anything labeled as'spiritual' must 
be of the highest truth, valid, and something that 
could be corroborated through one's inner experi­
ence. We found that this is not necessarily the case, 
and what is labeled a spiritual teaching might range 
anywhere over the Map of Consciousness, all the way 
from the bottom of the Map, where the teaching was 
written by those who teach hate as the way to truth, 
up to those who are most infinitely loving. We found 
that many of the books were of a negative energy 144 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
field, meaning that one would end up in a worse con­
dition from getting involved in that particular field of 
learning and would move farther away from the truth 
than before reading about it. Almost half the books in 
a typical spiritual bookstore are actually fiction. As a result, we had to look at the value of the 
research itself. In looking at the field of spiritual 
research, we found there were no real guidelines for 
the person approaching spiritual work for the first 
time or going back into it later in life with a renewed 
interest. Each approach claimed that it represented 
the truth, so the self-claims were no indication of 
validity. We also found that the number of followers 
and the glamour and riches of the teacher of a certain 
pathway had no correlation with its validity-the 
number of followers meant nothing, and best sellers 
were frequently purely fictional. A purported teacher could have a great many fol­
lowers, and yet we discovered that the energy field 
was in a negative direction, with calibrations being 
very low. As we got closer to the truth of the great 
enlightened beings that were acknowledged by all of 
mankind, the energies always moved upward in a 
positive direction. The calibrations were always over 
600 and on up into the 700s. Therefore, we see how 
the great teachers-those called avatars-who were 
on the planet for only a very short period of earthly 
time, changed the face of the world and the belief 
systems of mankind, breaking new ground and creat­
ing a whole new context and set of values because 
the power and energy of their words were of such a 
high caliber. 145 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
We will be talking about crisis, conflict, the nature 
of an upset, and ways of handling, transcending, and 
breaking through, along with practical measures 
for spiritual seekers. We will find that all upsets are 
spiritual in origin and have common sources. We will 
learn how to survive these inner trials and how to 
avoid disillusionment, despair, and self-hatred. We will 
discover how to detect false teachers. (See page 188, 
Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, or page 379, 
Truth vs. Falsehood. ) We will see that all spiritual pain 
and suffering is really due to ignorance and will learn 
how to find the answer. The vulnerabilities that come 
from spiritual naIvete, along with crises, can be over­
come by utilizing the laws of consciousness. We will 
see what we are hanging onto and how to let it go. We 
will learn how to recognize the culprit called the spir­
itual ego,which is behind so much spiritual crises and 
suffering. The spiritual world is frankly one of great 
confusion, with its conflicting statements andposi­
tions. We need to approach it from a position outside 
the field. Referring again to the Map of Consciousness, the 
energy fields are calibrated as to their relative energies, 
starting with Death at zero, Shame at 20, Guilt at 30, 
Apathy at 50, Grief at 75, Fear at 100, Desire at 125, 
Anger at 150, Pride at 175, and the crucial point of 
Courage at 200. At this level, the direction ofthe arrows 
changes from negative to neutral. Above neutral, the 
arrows point upward, in a positive direction; this 
occurs when the truth is told about something. The 
attitudes or positions now indicate Neutrality at 250, 
Willingness at 310,Acceptance at 350, Reason at 400, 146 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
Love at 500, (which is a very significant level), joy at 
540; and Ecstasy at 560. Level 600 is Bliss and beyond 
the world of duality. It is a level of Enlightenment that 
reveals the true nature of God (Sat-chit-ananda). Awareness of the true nature of God really begins 
at level 200 as one becomes progressively aligned 
with truth and then progresses upward through 
Willingness, Abundance, Acceptance, and an increas­
ing Lovingness that expands in an infmite, upward 
direction. Each of these levels of consciousness is charac­
terized by correlated emotions that begin as the 
most negative and destructive at the bottom of the 
Map and lead to suicide, self-hatred, etc. Also at the 
bottom are guilt, the process of destruction, and see­
ing the world as a place of sin, suffering, temptation, 
and disaster. The God of that world is seen, there­
fore, as the ultimate destroyer who is really the ulti­
mate enemy of mankind because he hates man and 
will throw him into hell forever, which is the ulti­
mate act of hatred. Above that is the level ofApathy, which calibrates 
at 50. The emotion is that of a hopeless world of 
despair, and the process is the loss of the energy of 
life. The world looks hopeless, and the God of a 
hopeless world is unloving, does not care for people, 
ignores them, and views them as sinful worms. There 
is an abject hopelessness, and God is thought to be 
truly nonexistent. There is now the existentialist 
who talks about the hopelessness of mankind and 
the death of God as coming out of this level of con-. sciousness. 147 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
The level of Grief is one of loss, regret, despon­
dence, and loss of spirit. It sees a world of sadness and, 
again, a God who is uncaring and unloving, having cre­
ated a sad, hopeless world. The level above Grief is Fear and is an energy field 
moving in a destructive direction. This level is charac­
terized by worry, anxiety, panic, and terror. There is 
deflation, and the world looks like a frightening place. The creator and God of this frightening world is there­
fore a punitive god who terrifies by his unending 
threats. Above Fear is the level called Desire, with which 
most of us are very familiar. People are entrapped by 
the emotions ofwanting and craving. They are trapped 
by what they desire, and this creates the worldview of 
frustration and a God from whom they are separated 
because this god is always withholding from them 
what they need to feel complete and whole. The next energy field upward is Anger and is of 
great importance. The energy ofAnger at 150 is much 
greater than that of Grief at 75. A person in grief has 
very little energy, but it is obvious that an angry per­
son has an enormous amount of energy. The emotions 
arising from this level are of resentment, hatred, and 
grievance, which occurred in the process in con­
sciousness as one of expansion. From the place of 
anger one sees a competitive world of war, conflict, 
and enemies. Therefore, God becomes polarized and a 
retaliatory and angry god-the great punisher. Above Anger is the level of Pride, and in its applica­
tion to spiritual work, the level of Spiritual Pride at 175. It can be seen that as one moves up the scale of con­148 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
sciousness, there is more power. The fields begin to feel 
better, but Pride is still a destructive emotion, as agreed 
to by all the spiritual literature. It is characterized by an 
arrogance and contempt headed by denial. The process 
going on in consciousness at this level is one of infla­
tion. Because of arrogance and contempt, a person 
with this attitude about their spiritual work is not 
going to be willing to talk things over. The person at the level of Pride perceives every­
thing in terms of vanity, self-importance, and status, 
which leads to a view of God that can be in one of two 
directions. It can be the atheistic position that comes 
out ofintellectual arrogance and says that the left-brain 
intellect is the highest faculty of man, and, therefore, 
reason will decide whether God exists or not. It can 
also be from the position of the zealot or bigot who 
claims that they have all knowledge of the subject, and 
who is in a prideful state, arrogant and contemptuous 
of any other position (e. g. , "death to infidels"). This 
obViously comes from an inflated ego. All the positions 
up through this level are below the line of integrity at 
level 200. What happens when we cross the line of 200, the 
level of Courage and Truth, the level where the mus­
cle-strength test no longer goes weak. Now a person 
is able to begin looking openly at questions because 
they are in the power to do so. The level of Courage 
is one of opportunity, open-mindedness, and the 
opening strata for anyone who is serious about 
spiritual work. The next energy field is called Neutral at 250. Just 
below it at 200, we had an open mind, but at this level, 149 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
we become unattached as the energy field now goes 
upward in a positive direction. We are now released 
and free to research, investigate, and fmd out for our­
selves. At this energy level, the world looks okay, and 
the God of that 'okay' world is a God of freedom, and a 
God who loves one's innate capacity to want to fmd 
out the truth for oneself. The next level is Willingness, where one has let go 
ofresistance and attachment andhas begunto say"yes" 
and join, agree, and align with the search for and the 
truth of one's inner experience of it. The person has 
introduced one's own positive intention; therefore, the 
world in which this is occurring appears friendly, and 
the future looks hopeful and promising. The view of 
the God ofthis kind ofworld is promising, hopeful, and 
very positive. It is the God of freedom. At the bottom of the scale was a very negative­
looking God who was more demonic, threatening, 
and punitive. At the level ofWillingness is a God who 
becomes a friend, one who can be trusted. This is the 
beginning of a loving God and the opening where 
one can begin to be willing to perhaps see God as a 
positive aspect. From there is the movement up to Acceptance at 
350 where a person now starts to feel a certain confi­
dence and transformation of consciousness. One real­
izes that the power to discover theTruth resides with­
in the self. Thelowerlevels ofconsciousness holdthatTruthis 
outside of self. IfTruth is outside of self, it will have to 
be revealed by someone because the energy is so low 
at these levels. All the energy fields are in a negative 150 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
direction, preventing one to be able to discover the 
truth on their own. At the level ofAcceptance, the power is re-owned 
within oneself. Therefore, the road begins to be a posi­
tive experience. The search now starts to become har­
monious, and the God of that energy field is a merciful 
God who is accepting. In the re-owning of one's own 
power, God is pleased. This God is viewed as having a 
positive attitude towards one's spiritual search. From that point, one moves up in a very positive 
direction to the field of lovingness at 500,which is nur­
turing, supportive, and forgiving. As one moves into the 
desire to be a loving person, the inner healings begin 
to take place, and one gets to experience life as loving 
despite its emotional ups and downs. The process of 
life itself and the innate nature of what is happening 
are loving and come from a God of Unconditional Love 
and lovingness. This discovery leads to an inner state of 
Joy. As one begins to periodically experience the joyful 
states, one's orientation becomes compassionate. It is 
the beginning of a progressive shift in process, in con­
sciousness, and in seeing God as perfection and incred­
ible beauty. There is movement into the capacity to see 
God from the viewpoint of Oneness and Unity. Movement up toward 600 takes one into the levels 
that the world calls Enlightenment. There is a progres­
sive loss of identification with the small self, which the 
world calls 'ego' and is commonly referred to as 'I' or 
'me' because it is identifying with the various energy 
fields and the kinds of behaviors that ensue. As that 
identification and points of view are surrendered, 
expansion takes place as one's context of experience 151 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
enlarges, and one moves upward towards the top of 
the scale and identification with the true Self. The states that emerge at level 600 are termed 
'Bliss'. These are states of infInite joyfulness, of experi­
encing an infInite Presence, and are the consequence 
of letting go of identification with the small self. In 
moving toward Enlightenment, one experiences states 
of illumination and sees God and the world as 
Oneness. One also experiences God as the Source of 
Existence. Within the enlightened states over 600 are 
the avatars, the great saints, the great teachers of 
mankind, the sages, and the enlightened beings. At least now there is an idea ofthe way to God. God 
is at the top of the Map; that which is not God is in the 
other direction, at the bottom. This is rather clear and 
may seem simple when viewed; however, it is common 
sense and something we all intuitively know. We·will 
refer to this in the future now that we have an orienta­
tion to the field. That which is truthful carries greater power and 
calibrates at a higher number. It is a higher frequency, 
and in physics, the higher the frequency, the greater 
the power. Electrical power, for example, is not trans­
mitted across the countryside at 120 volts; it is trans­
mitted at 30,000 volts or even higher. The higher the 
frequency, the greater the power. This is why the 
words of the great teachers have transformed 
mankind for thousands of years. Their words are still 
active and powerful and continue to transform the 
consciousness of mankind thousands of years later, 
even though their bodies have left the planet. When 
we calibrate the energy fields of their work, we see 152 HEALING AND RECOVERY 
that they are of enormous power, so it is not just what 
is said, it is the power of the being who says it. It has been discovered that, historically, there has 
really been no safe context or orientation available to 
people approaching this field, so the way to avoid spir­
itual crises and the need for spiritual first aid in the 
future is to back up a bit and do some individual 
research. The first question to ask about any teaching 
is, "What is the level of the teaching. " This is helpful 
because the child within continues to be naIve and 
innocent. The innocence, on the other hand, is what 
leads to error because the innocent mind of the child 
has no means of discernment. It needs some way to 
determine what is going to be beneficiaL (See list of 
Spiritual Teachers in Chapter 17, Truth versus 
Falsehood. ) It is obvious that if one is involved in a teaching 
that has an energy field below 200, one will have neg­
ative experiences. In contrast, a teaching that has a 
positive energy field and calibrates at a high level is 
going to lead into a lovingness, which is the best 
insurance against spiritual catastrophe. One can ask if 
the teaching, teacher of that teaching, or the books of 
the teaching are reflecting a high leveLThis is not to 
say it is right or wrong; it is just beneficial to deter­
mine its leveL 
If a teaching is below 200, at Hatred, for example, 
it will say that God hates you, your behavior, your 
impulses, and your humanness. Thus, this is a God of 
hatred, and the energy field is negative, calibrating 
even as low as 20,30, or 40. At that level is hatred, the 
killing of others, and suicide. There is a God of death 153 SPIRITUAL FIRST AID 
rather than of life. Self-hatred and an inner feeling of 
being destroyed come from this teaching. If one wish­
es to follow such a pathway, at least one is going in 
with their eyes open (e.
The source of happiness is not what we have or the past, but rather the realization that we are the source of our own happiness.
What is the source of happiness, according to the author?
The author believes that the body is not the source of our happiness or fulfillment, but rather the mind. The body is a reflection of our mental state and energy.
What is the author's perspective on the relationship between the body and the mind?
The author does not support the idea of a punitive God, but rather a loving and merciful one. The author emphasizes the importance of letting go of negative energy fields and moving towards a more positive and compassionate perspective.
What is the author's view on the concept of a "punitive" God?
The author stresses the importance of spiritual research and work, emphasizing that it is crucial to approach spiritual work with a positive and loving attitude. The author also highlights the need for a safe and supportive environment to avoid spiritual crises.
What is the author's stance on the importance of spiritual research and spiritual work?
The author does not condemn the concept of the ego, but rather emphasizes the importance of letting go of ego states and moving towards a higher level of consciousness. The author also suggests that the ego is not the truth, but rather a reflection of one's level of consciousness.
What is the author's view on the concept of the "ego" and its relationship to the truth?