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Introduction
PART I: Causality: The Ego’ s Foundation
Chapter 1: The Calibrations: An Introduction
Chapter 2: There Is Only One Variable
Chapter 3: The Pathway of Radical Subjectivity
Chapter 4: The Greatest Resistance to Spiritual Progress
Chapter 5: Intention Is Very Powerful
Chapter 6: The Willingness to Completely Surrender One’ s Life to God
PART II: Radical Subjectivity: The “I” of Self
Chapter 7: A Different Paradigm of Reality
Chapter 8: Understanding Karmic Influences
Chapter 9: The Experience of One’ s Own Existence Is Subjective
Chapter 10: Aim for the Highest Level of Compassion
Conclusion
Appendix
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Continue Y our Journey with Hay HouseOceanofPDF .comINTRODUCTION
Dr. David R. Hawkins wanted to present a series of 12 lectures that would
be the basis of his spiritual work and add further detail to the significant
writings covered in Power vs. For ce. He had discovered that by using the
simple muscle-testing method, he could inquire into the nature of
Consciousness itself, and after completing over 20 years of consciousness
research, his book Power vs. For ce was published in 1995. This book
opened the door to discovering more enlightening information, new truths,
and stimulating questions; the response from so many people from all walks
of life was awe-inspiring and revealing. People asked for more. Dr . Hawkins realized that Consciousness itself
continued to grow and evolve, and as a spiritual teacher dedicated to the
highest Truth, to God, and to his love for humanity , he decided to give the
lecture presentations. Including his ongoing research, Dr . Hawkins created visual aids and
graphs that featured his famous Map of Consciousness® chart and presented
his findings with great clarity and purpose. His lighthearted spirit,
wonderful sense of humor , and real-life stories graced all who attended
these lectures. With his wife, Susan, as his assistant and a caring presence
onstage, the 2002 lectures came to be and are the core of Dr . Hawkins’ s
body of work that he later called “the Pathway of Devotional Nonduality .”
Each lecture begins and ends with this high statement: Gloria in excelsis
deo (“glory to God in the Highest”). In your hands is the first book of a six-book series. It comprises the
transcribed lectures 1 and 2 presented in January and February 2002 by Dr . Hawkins. We have kept the transcriptions as pure and as close to Dr . Hawkins’ s voice as possible but have deleted redundancies and grammatical
inconsistencies. As you read, you will learn about:Part I
The Map of Consciousness® chart from 0 to 1,000 and how it came to
be
The evolution of consciousness and the importance of level 200
The limitations of the Newtonian paradigm and the description of
quantum physics
The illusion of causality: the great block to spiritual advancement
Transcending the ego through understanding and recontextualizing it
How one can move up the levels of Consciousness through spiritual
intention and choice
The purpose of Dr . Hawkins’ s work: to realize the Presence of GodPart II
Radical subjectivity , the essence of experiencing the Presence of God
as “I”
How the spiritual realm is based on context and is a dif ferent paradigm
The role of karma in a person’ s life
Existence vs. nonexistence: the great conundrum that Dr . Hawkins
faced
The Power of Divinity: there is only one variable
How one surrenders the ego to God: through Radical Honesty
These are just a few of the many topics that Dr . Hawkins discusses in this
book. It can be a companion to the actual lectures in video or audio format
by Dr . Hawkins, or a standalone reading that will inspire and encourage you
along your spiritual path. Dr. Hawkins tells us that we are safe and to trust our safety in the Truth
and Loving Presence of Divinity itself. We hope this book gives you a sense
of that love and safety and spur you onward and upward. Blessings,
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Causality:
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The Calibrations: An Introduction
I am very pleased to share with you the first in a series of 12 lectures. Over
the last 20 years, the [consciousness] research has advanced considerably . My book Power vs. For ce was preceded by a good 10 years of research, and
to make sure that it met the scientific criteria of today’ s world, I went to the
bother of getting a Ph.D. so as to give it greater academic credence. The purpose of Power vs. For ce was to go from the familiar linear world
and provide a context in which you could move into the less familiar and
nonlinear with some degree of comfort that you’re not moving into the
purely mystical, imaginary realms. So, I was presenting it from the
viewpoint of whom I considered the average intelligent reader who is also
interested in spirituality and who is focused on the parameter , the leading
edge, of advanced theoretical physics—which is stuck right now because it
can’t get beyond this block between the linear and nonlinear domains. It’ s
gone about as far as it can go in the linear domain. I was hoping to enlar ge the paradigm of the reality of science so that the
intelligent reader could comprehend the work and say , “There must be
something in the nonlinear domain that we should be looking at.” So, that
was that purpose. The purpose of Power vs. For ce was to take us from the
familiar , the Newtonian paradigm of reality , and prepare us that there is
evidence; evidence of the reality of the nonlinear , because that’ s the great
learning block. The intellectuals at the time constantly used the term evidence based . Anything having to do with the nature of man was no longer relevant, and
we could only talk about white mice, levers, and doses of meds and
neurotransmitters. No mention of anything human was allowed, because
everything had to be “evidence based.”
Well, the purpose of Power vs. For ce was to provide evidence-based
data. It introduced the Map of Consciousness®, which has become
relatively well-known and has been reprinted in many , many other booksand cited in many references. What I tried to do was present evidence-based
documentation of the reality of the nonlinear domain and provide some kind
of signposts so that the unfamiliar could be approached without undue
anxiety . People who think the only world is the intellectual world of logic
or the material world are rather frightened of anything that goes beyond
their paradigm. It has to do with paradigm anxiety . That there’ s anything
real that is beyond science’ s capacity to measure is rather scary to many
people, and they vociferously get on television. You see them at night,
trying to prove that near -death experiences are all due to brain physiology ,
and God is probably just a nucleus in the hypothalamus somewhere—trying
to keep reality confined to this box of the logical and comfortable. And
there are some people whose lives are devoted to knocking anything beyond
the ordinary paradigm. So, Power vs. For ce was, then, the introduction to the material, and the
thing that was interesting about it is that we learned that you can’ t use
ordinary mechanical instruments when you’re dealing with the nonlinear . The nonlinear has to do with life itself. Consequently , it would seem
obvious that the measuring instrument of that domain would be a living
thing; in this case, a human being—and the response of that human being to
the field of consciousness. Once in a while, I get a letter from a reader that says, “Can’ t you
somehow do this electronically?” That’ s missing the point altogether . No,
you cannot do that electronically; nor would I have any interest in doing it,
because that is a dif ferent world. The electronically recordable world is the
Newtonian paradigm of reality , which, according to our calibrated levels of
consciousness, stops at 499. We can follow the greatest scientific minds in history—Newton and
Freud and Einstein—and we push the limits of the scientific, logical mind. And on our scale of consciousness, with which most people are familiar ,
499 is pretty much the edge of the Newtonian paradigm. You’ll find a lot of
very advanced theoretical scientific theses, et cetera, and doctrines and
bodies of knowledge stop at 499. It’ s amazing how over the centuries, so
many—Sir Francis Bacon—so many of them stop at 499. At first, I thought
I was making a mistake here. How can they all be 499? There were some I
could not believe were 499, like Einstein. I said, “No, he’ s got to be more
than 499.” But no, it was 499. So, that’ s pretty much the level at which we
begin to emer ge into a dif ferent paradigm of reality .Power vs. For ce took us, then, from the Newtonian into the nonlinear—
from the linear domain to the nonlinear . You see, if we use language that is
not religiously , historically loaded, you get a wider audience. If you
mention it in spiritual or religious terms, dealing in Sanskrit terms, a
number of people will stop reading, for one reason or another . So, I have
tried to stick with primarily common wording, and so the world of
familiarity . America calibrates right now at 421. That’ s the intellect. The
400s are the intellect. So, anybody who is reasonably intellectually curious
would find the work interesting, and it would lead them to the door of a
new discovery . Right in the beginning, I want to correct sort of a misconception that may
have arisen, and it also has to do with the advancement of my own
consciousness and understanding. We developed a calibrated Map of
Consciousness®, at which 200 was a critical level. We found that
everything above 200—everything that’ s true, everything that’ s valid,
everything that’ s pro-life, everything that’ s spiritually whole—goes from
200 up and makes you go strong. Everything below 200 makes you go
weak. And it goes all the way down to the bottom. So, the very top of the
scale of consciousness is 1,000—Jesus Christ, Krishna, Buddha—the Great
Avatars that have set the paradigm of spiritual reality for thousands of
years, calibrated at 1,000. And at that time, we discovered by asking that the
human nervous system cannot tolerate spiritual ener gy beyond 1,000. And
those of you who have gone into very advanced states of consciousness will
remember that up to 600 is extremely pleasant. In the high 500s, it gets
ecstatic. Everything is incredibly beautiful; the sound is crystalline and
pure; there’ s a total oneness to everything; everything happens by
synchronicity . If you think salt, somebody says, “W ould you like some
salt?” It’ s a marvelous world. You can leave in the high 500s, you can walk
out of the door without a nickel in your pocket and no food, and everything
will be provided, and I’ve done it. I walked out without anything and, just
as you think, Gosh, I could sur e use a snack , a friend of yours says, “I’m
going for breakfast, I’m going to take you out for breakfast.” It just happens
that way , and you can go for months without anything at all. So, the high
500s are the world of the synchronous, the miraculous, harmonious—it’ s an
exquisite world. Many gurus, I would say the majority that the world
considers to be gurus, are in the mid-to-high 500s. Over 540, as you
remember , is Unconditional Love.People ask me, “What’ s a true guru?” A true guru (and we asked with
kinesiology) has to calibrate over 540: Unconditional Love. So, that brings us up to 600. The ride up to 600 is hard work in the
beginning, but after a while, it becomes intensely inspired, and it takes on
an ener gy of its own. And the movement, the spiritual movement, continues
of its own volition, you might say . It’s like the spiritual ener gy is so strong
that it now takes over the whole process, and you become more of a witness
of it. At 600, one reaches a state that the world calls enlightened, in which
you may or may not stay in the world. You may or may not stay in the
world. At 600, everything sort of goes into a state of exquisite bliss, and it’ s
very dif ficult to function. It’ s questionable whether or not to even breathe. A
number of times, breathing only resumed because somebody insisted on it,
but you didn’ t need to breathe, and that state was perfect. The body
disappears as a reality , and there is really no reason to continue. However ,
there’ s probably a karmic propensity , a momentum that carries one along. In
each instant that that happened, it was Love that got the body to breathe
again. So, Love for someone who would have been concerned if the body
stopped breathing—the world considers that death and goes into a great
“reaction” about that. Somebody that you care about, you look at him and
you realize he believes in death and he thinks you’re dead, and he will now
feel very bad about that, so you breathe. That’ s the only reason you breathe,
because you really don’ t have to. At that point, one has really entered a nonlinear domain. At 700, we’re
going to redo a few things. We don’ t have anything from 700 to 1,000,
except it just says, “Enlightenment.” Actually , Enlightenment starts at 600. At 700, the reality of the Self, with a capital S, is All That Is. Those are the
levels of Ramana Maharshi, Nisar gadatta Maharaj, swamis—a number of
them. Eight hundred is quite a higher level, and up to 600 is blissful and
maybe even close to 700, but beyond that, the trip, at least in this case, was
extremely painful. The slightest thing that’ s “out” brings a wracking pain through the whole
nervous system. It was horrific at times, and by meditation and prayer , one
gets what the paradox is that’ s blocking you. So, you learn that what the
world considers to be the state is one of a series of states. Although it’ s true
that enlightenment is at 600, most people at 600 don’ t move any further . Half of them leave the world and don’ t return, go into retirement, withdrawfrom the world—or , I suppose, there was nobody around to cajole them into
breathing, so they didn’ t.
Seldom do they move beyond that. First of all, the state is so complete
and total and satisfying that there would be no thought to move beyond. There is no beyond. You are already at the ultimate state; 600 is already an
ultimate state, so there’ s nowhere to move beyond, nor is there any reason
to do so. Once in a great while, peculiarly , that state will begin to move of
its own. That inner drive of the Self within, an aspect of Consciousness
itself, presents a paradox, because 600 isn’ t the solution of every paradox
that’s possible. And a paradox will appear , and with it, this wracking
physical pain. One then intuits what the paradox is, or it just comes to you
as you’re driving along. And these are dualities that are extremely abstract
and that are not worth bothering with for the average person. The Paradox: Existence vs. Nonexistence
Those of you who know my personal story know that my spiritual sojourn
began at age three. When I was complete nothingness, suddenly there was a
shocking awareness of existence. I had returned into actual existence. The
paradox then that arose—at age three, there was no mentation, but there
was a complete and total understanding of the paradox. There came the fear
of nonexistence. To exist brings up its polar opposite of nonexistence. And
the fear came up: if I had come into existence, then it might have been that I
would not have come into existence. So, the paradox to be solved in this
lifetime, which only took another 50 years to solve—or 60 years, or
whatever—was existence versus nonexistence. To solve that paradox takes
you beyond what? Let’ s see what “existence versus nonexistence” is. “Existence versus nonexistence comes up as a blockade at 800” (calibrates
True); “810” (T rue); “840” (Not true); “830” (T rue); “835” (Not true). It
comes up at 835. So, at consciousness level 835 comes up this incredible
pain, and that paradox of existence versus nonexistence is—the question is
really: Is there an opposite to God? And the answer is no. Is there an
opposite to existence? No. So, it’ s a very high paradox, but you don’ t have
to worry about it until then. That’ s good news. The bad news is, if you have the karmic momentum to continue on after
having reached such a blissful state, you go through some agonizing states.An example of this is when we were in Korea in 2001, and I was in such
an agonizing state. I for get what that polarity was. You see, consciousness is
blocked all the time by a positionality , which we’ll get into. Positionality
creates a duality . Well, there are dualities within the ordinary domain—
Love and hate, and all that everybody’ s familiar with. But there are
paradoxical, seeming dualities at much higher levels, but you don’ t have to
really bother with them until you get there. So there I was, wracked with
pain, and I was intuiting what it was and sort of meditating, and then
suddenly , I saw it. It was extremely painful, like your whole body is on fire. It’s like your nervous system is made up of barbed wire, and the barbed
wire now has electricity running through it. It is a wracked pain. It is really
within the whole aura. You can’ t get away from it, because it’ s the aura that
does that. In other words, it demands attention. So, I was questioning why
that is. And Susan was reading something out of—there was a Buddhist
bible in Korea, in the hotel room—in it, she was reading that the Buddha
was wracked with pain, as though his bones were broken, and he was
attacked by demons. She read that to me, and instantly I felt better . It’s okay
to be wracked by demons and feel like all your bones are broken. So those
are just adventure stories, neither here nor there. What I was really driving at is, out of Power vs. For ce, there seemed to
arise (and it bothered me at the time) a seeming duality , or at least one
could draw a sort of political position about it. Above 200 is that which is
pro-life, supports life, and that which is true. Below 200 is that which is not
true, does not support life; everything that is venomous, hateful, selfish,
greedy , and destructive to others. That seemed to create a certain polarity . So, here is the work devoted to transcending polarities, and the work itself
seems to be bringing up a polarity—similar to good and evil. There is above
200 and below 200. And below 200, keep away from them: “Don’ t go out
and play with those kids that are below 200, Jimmy . They have wicked,
greedy thoughts and are out to drag you down into a street gang, and get
you tattooed and drugged up and hooked on heroin or something.” And to
lure you into crime or evil. So, it seemed to create that, and that bothered
me, and yet we went back over and over it again. Of course, those of you
who are familiar with the work and have done kinesiology yourself know it
is extremely definite. There’ s nothing imaginary . If science wants evidence-
based work, kinesiology is truly evidence based. Your arm either goesstrong or it goes weak. And there is no if, and, or but about it. And it always
gives you the same answer . Creation Is Continuous
And then it dawned on me that, first of all, the scale is drawn a little
incorrectly , and I want to redraw it today . The other thing is that it’ s not
really two dif ferent worlds. What happens is this: Near the top of the scale
at 1,000, you have the Great Avatars, so there’ s the universal Presence. There’ s the Unmanifest, which becomes manifest as creation. Creation is
continuous. Consciousness, as it interacts with matter , evolves as life. And
then life evolves up into higher and higher capacities through evolution. Therefore, creation and evolution are one and the same thing. What science
calls evolution is nothing but the unfolding of creation. As creation unfolds
sequentially , perception thinks it sees something happening. It’ s only the
unfolding of evolution. So, evolution is nothing but a demonstration of the
fact that creation is continuous. This gets us away from the view that God
was around at the time of Genesis; He created the world and took of f. And
you don’ t see Him again until you get to heaven. So, God is elsewhere in
time, way back in the early , early beginning—prehistoric—and you’re not
going to see Him unless you’ve been very , very good, and you go to a
heavenly place where He sits waiting in judgment. Oh my god, what a scary
paradigm of reality . In the meantime, you’re on your own, folks. Once in a while, He says strange things to people, who sometimes get put
in mental hospitals for what He says. Or He speaks through prophets and
various bizarre pronouncements. So, it’ s a strange world. And of course, it
explains why most people never find God. If He was way in prehistoric
times and does not exist until you get to heaven, you’re pretty much on your
own. But the reality of it is that that which shines forth as Divinity is the pure
essence out of which arises Love. And this Love then does radiate down
throughout creation, much like the proverbial step-down transformers. And,
if you calibrate the level of an archangel—let’ s just do it for fun: “An
archangel—we have permission: resist—” (T rue), “—runs 500,000 and
over: resist” (T rue). Okay . Now this is a logarithmic scale, folks, and every
step as you get higher and higher is an enormous increase of ener gy. And an
archangel runs 500,000 and up. So, we’re talking about power of suchimmensity . When I first witnessed it and went into that state—the power
that holds rock together , steel together , holds the planet together , holds the
universe together , is the infinite power of God, which we think is physical;
we witness it as physical—that is the power of God. The cohesion between
atoms and what makes cement hard is the infinite power of God, is
manifesting in that domain. This enormous power , then, the Light. So, Genesis calibrates positive. There’ s only three books in the Old Testament, and Genesis is one of them,
that calibrates positive. In the Old Testament, you have Psalms, Proverbs,
and Genesis, the only three books in the Old Testament that test positive. So, this infinite power then radiates forth as the light of Love. Here’ s what
we’re actually seeing [on the board] is that the top—the amount of Love is
high at the top of the scale and becomes less and less. If this picture was
drawn correctly , the lower half of the scale as we get below 200—the top
would be very bright, and then it darkens as we go down, and as we go
below 200, it gets darker and darker , and by the bottom of the scale, it’ s
pretty black. So, what we’re seeing, then, is not “good” and “evil”; this is not two
contrasting either/ors. You’re seeing a great deal of Love, less and less and
less Love, and it diminishes. You’re looking more like at a thermometer ,
you see? There’ s only one variable. Don’ t forget, to get beyond dualities,
you have to realize the error is assuming that there’re two variables. There’ s
only one variable, and we will explain that. There’ s either light—the only
variable between light and darkness is, there’ s only light. There aren’ t two
things, such as “light” and “darkness.” There’ s only light. Light is either
there, or it’ s not there. The light can be very bright, or it can be very , very
dim. When it gets very , very dim, we say it’ s darkness. Darkness is not a
thing. You can’ t shine darkness into a closet and shine me some darkness. It
has no reality , the absence of light. So there’ s only one variable, and that’ s
light. In the scale of consciousness, then, there’ s only one variable, and
that’s Love. Infinite Love makes you infinitely powerful. My moment of Enlightenment, which was January 10, 1965, left me
jarred and thoughtless for many years. Recently , out of curiosity—I was
almost too scared to ask, “That one was the one at 500,000: resist” (T rue). “It was a thought from the one at 500,000: resist” (T rue). A thought—out of
enormous prayer , an archangel merely gives you a thought, an instant—took me right out of the world, of what the world calls reality , into a
different, total reality . Therefore, analogous to light, then, the top of the scale at 1,000 is about
as much light as protoplasm can handle without frying. And it fries even
there. So, this light is very intense, and the ordinary protoplasm really
cannot handle it. It scales down then, and we notice that, at what we
calibrate at 200, what has happened here is that you haven’ t gone from
Love to not-Love. What’ s happened is that it changes quality . Now , in any
progression of comparisons, you’ll notice the logical error was made by
Aristotle—and was made by all the great thinkers of all time—in looking
for the primary “cause.”
Let’s say , in St. Thomas Aquinas’ s arguments for the existence of God,
there is the classic ar gument of “first cause.” We’re going to try and get rid
of “cause.” It’ s a great impediment. Don’ t forget that we have to eliminate
“cause” from our thinking! It gets down to “first cause.” The dif ficulty with that kind of thinkingness
is that it doesn’ t realize that many sequences; there’ s a change of quality
along the way , which they don’ t take into account—a change of quality . As
you look through a sequence at what the world calls “causes,” you’re
expecting to find something that’ s very , very similar as cause number Uno. Cause number Uno is of a dif ferent quality . The same thing, you’ll
understand as soon as I tell you this, if we take a thermometer—let’ s say ,
above 1,000, the water turns into steam. When you get down to calibration
level 200, it turns to ice. It is still only H2O, but whoa, what a change of
quality . So, what we have at 200 is not a duality of water versus non-water;
we just have, at this end, hot water—Jesus and Krishna and all those people
—and then at 200, this water turns into ice. It’ s still just water . It is not a
duality of water versus non-water . Okay? That will help a lot of people. You
see, when you get caught by the dualities, which is created by some
positionality , the way you transcend perception is, you have to find the
positionality that’ s creating that duality and remove that positionality , and
the duality then collapses. What you see is that Reality is not a duality; it’ s a
gradation. Let’ s say , “good” and “evil”—you could start with “good” at the
top, and then remove more and more “good,” and at a certain point,
depending on what your positionality is, you would say , “Well, that’ s
‘evil.’” Well, people would be in dif ferent places.I treat a lot of street kids. I am in a girls’  ranch. We have lots of juvenile
adolescents there. And their scale of what’ s okay and what’ s not okay is
quite a bit dif ferent than what goes on at Harvard—or what goes on in the
Lower East Side in New York City . Anyway , to them, what we would
consider really malevolent, to them it would just be a kick. Not only that,
but they have a rationale that they asked for it. Their position is, if your
purse gets stolen, “W ell, she asked for it; she left it on the back of her chair
in the store. I mean, what do you expect?” So that’ s their idea of good and
evil: “It’ s her fault because she left the purse sitting there.” They believe
that that’ s true. “It’ s not wrong to steal. She left her purse right there.” Or , “I
punched her . She snotted of f to me, so I punched her one, right in the face. She deserved it, she asked for it.” That’ s their rationale. But I want to just clear up that there is not “good and evil” on the Map. There is not a duality . There is a change of character in consciousness. At
1,000, it inspires the world, either consciously or unconsciously . The ener gy
field created by the Great Avatars uplifts and holds this world this very
instant. The ener gy field of everybody in this room is upholding this world
this very instant. That which we are at this moment upholds and lifts the
world. You see? Is that grandiosity or a fact? “Is that grandiosity?” (No). All
right. Okay . “That is a fact which we just stated: resist” (T rue). That is a
fact. Okay . So, periodically , we do kinesiology just to verify something that
the ego may have a doubt about. I hope to clarify , then, that scale of consciousness, we’re not talking
about a duality of good and evil. We’re talking about gradations of Love. That which we call “evil” is merely totally unloving. I have been
researching the level of non-Love. I don’ t advise people to do that. I’ll do it;
you don’ t have to bother . And I’m discovering non-Love; in doing this, I’m
finishing a book called now I in which we try to trace the evolution of
consciousness as it appeared within the created universe and track its
evolution over time, and its evolution all the way up the scale of life
through all the various lifeforms throughout the eons, and as it manifests up
to the very highest possible. As we do that, we notice that life seems to come up two dif ferent tracks. One track sort of reaches its greatest perfection in the age of the dinosaurs,
in which the life of the individual is at the price, at the cost of the life of
another individual. So, the great reptiles, the great dinosaurs lived by the
death of others. So, we see that one ener gy in the world that lives by thedeath of others is, therefore, the extreme of narcissism. If we were going to
define evil, it is the extreme of selfishness: “I wish to live. Therefore, you’ll
have to die.”
The Nature of Causality
So, the other life is immaterial. At the very bottom of that scale, you might
say, we find the venomous, so I’m writing a chapter on the venomous. One
bite from the venomous, and you are dead. The Komodo dragon is a living
example—sort of atavistic. But the truly venomous are much more basic
than that. The box jellyfish has something like 26 fatal enzymes, fatal
poisons, 26 fatal venoms. It not only kills you once, but it kills you 26
different times and ways. Wow, is that necessary? I mean, won’ t one poison
do it? The black mamba, who calibrates, I think, around 35, also has all
these neurotoxins. However , I find that the ultimate culprit is a little
mollusk that lives at the bottom of the sea, who has a long Latin name
which I can’ t remember . He apparently burrows through the shell of his
prey and injects a magnificent cocktail of 40 fatal enzymes—40 poisons. One’ s enough to kill you, and then they did it again, and then they did it
again, each one a dif ferent enzyme system. That doesn’ t occur just
spontaneously , does it? You just can’ t say, “Well, by the accidental playing
around of evolution, this worked pretty well, so it . . .” No. You begin to see
there’ s an intelligence behind all in this universe. The ultimate venom, then,
is so potent that it is 40 times what it’ s needed to be—40 dif ferent possible
enzymes. We come up through the funnel-web spider , which is also the
most vicious creature on the planet. It is also loaded with enough poisons to
kill a whole army of people. Why the overdoneness of it? Why the extreme
of it? Anyway , at the same time of the venomous, you see the benign. You see
the mammal; you see the domestic animal; the deer isn’ t killing anybody;
it’s living of f the chlorophyll, the oxygen, the ener gy of the sun, and it kills
nobody . It eats the top of f the grass. The grass roots remain. He walks
around and he does his elimination, which fertilizes more grass; so, more
grass, more rain, more oxygen, more chlorophyll. So, it’ s like one, the
herbivorous, then, supports life. Nobody has to die for a mule to keep on
living. Nobody has to die for a cow , a lamb, a sheep. It’ s as though there’ s
two dif ferent lines of evolution going on.Let’s move on now to causality . I’m going to talk about causality ,
because eventually , spiritual awareness has to do with understanding the
nature of creation and the nature of God because they go hand in hand, in a
way. And one of the major blocks that keeps people in the 400s and keeps
them from evolving is a misunderstanding of the word, the concept of
“causality .” I think I did speak about it in Power vs. For ce, but I wanted to
go into it a little more dif ferently . There are many ways for spiritual
evolution. I’m also working on another book called Radical Reality: All
Stands Revealed [T ruth vs. Falsehood] , in which we do like a thousand
calibrations of everybody that had any significance that ever lived, and
current trends in society; rock music; all the way from Aristotle to current
living creatures and places. And it creates an understanding of the nature of
consciousness, and how it evolved and expressed itself in mankind over
time. In doing that, we also calibrated various spiritual techniques,
practices, mantras, teachers, and writings to get an understanding of, how
does spiritual knowledge evolve, how does it express itself? How is it
utilized by people? There are very significant spiritual teachers who calibrate in the 200s. Well, the most significant thing we need to know about a spiritual teacher is
whether they are over 200. That’ s all I care about. If they’re over 200,
they’re integrous. If they’re under 200, which are some very famous gurus
in the world, that are under 200. The most significant thing is that they’re
over 200. Now , various understandings of how to progress have come along
historically , some by religious tradition. The pathway to Enlightenment, the pathway to the realization of the
Presence of God—about which I speak and about which this research is
concerned—is the pathway through consciousness itself, the most direct. Probably it’ s closest to Advaita, closest to Zen, perhaps. On the other hand,
it also includes an intensity of devotion. There are ways that take many
lifetimes, and the progression is slow—much arduous work and very slow
progress. Some mantras make you go weak—it’ s good to know about that. And some are very good. We’ll just use an example—the dif ference between “Om” and “A-U-M.”
Depending on which group you go to, one will say “Om,” and another will
say “Ah-um,” right? Quite a dif ference. Let’ s see what the dif ference is. “Om is over 400” (T rue); “Om is over 500” (T rue); “Om is over 600”
(True); “Om is 699” (T rue); “Om is over 700” (T rue); “Om is over 740”(True); “Om is 780” (T rue); “Om is 900 (T rue); “Om is 999” (Not true). “Om” is very high. Let’ s do “A-U-M.” “Aum is over 200” (Not true). Thank you. Some spiritual groups have been doing “Aum” for centuries,
and to tell you the truth, they get nowhere. So, there are very serious spiritual errors in the works of really highly
esteemed teachers. That error is written up; I just read it, reviewed it the
other day—Patanjali’ s sutras, yoga sutras, translated by Satchidananda. It’ s
called Integral Y oga: The Y oga Sutras of Patanjali . That error is right in that
book—so you’re a devotee, and you read this; it’ s by Satchidananda,
translation of Patanjali. You say this one has got to be the truth. Don’ t
believe it. Don’ t believe anything unless you check it out yourself. Or have
somebody who understands how to check things out check it out for you. Which is one reason I’m working on the current book, which will give a
thousand calibrations, because a lot of people don’ t have the time and the
energy, and they’re not really interested in kinesiology . I myself am not
really interested in kinesiology any more than Galileo was interested in
telescopes. He thought telescopes were very boring, but they revealed a
staggeringly interesting universe, which is what kinesiology is to me. It’ s
rather tedious, but it reveals information you can’ t get any other way . Certain information is, of itself, just to know it can save many a lifetime
of spiritual endeavor . Some things, the information itself, is so staggering
that it instantly jumps your consciousness ahead of time. I forgot something at the start of this. “I have permission: resist” (T rue). “To go back to the beginning: resist” (T rue). “The consciousness level of
the audience is over 400” (T rue); “410” (T rue); “412” (Not true). “The level
is over 410” (T rue); “41 1” (Not true); 410 to 41 1—just remember that for
later. We usually calibrate the consciousness level of the audience before we
give the lecture and then after . If it goes down, pow! “They were okay until
they got here.”
Certain bits of information have a great value. Just to have heard it, to get
it, jumps you ahead enormously . So usually , you wait until the students are
very advanced, and then you present these concepts. I say , “Heck, let’ s put
them right in the beginning, because the information itself already is
transformative.” All right. So, we want to look through the illusion of causality , because causality
blocks, creates a perceptual block that you cannot see what is actually going
on, and you cannot really experience the Presence of God, in a way . It’s agreat blockade. The Newtonian paradigm, the world of the ego, the world of
the intellect, the way the ego’ s structured, sees a “this” causing a “that.” The
whole paradigm of our society is based on “a ‘this’  causes a ‘that.’” The
Supreme Court upholds it. Scientists verify it. It’ s built into the language. The newspaper headlines say it; the movies reveal it. It’ s all-prevailing in
our society . Consequently , becoming enlightened in this world is dif ficult,
because the mind, the ego, feelings—you’re barraged continuously , around
the clock by a paradigm of reality which is based on duality . There’ s always
a “this” causing a “that.” The whole judicial system—“I was standing on a
street corner , and there was an accident, and that gave me a heart attack!”
Right. The court agrees, gives him a half million dollars. The insurance
company pays. So, this paradigm of causality , the courts have now spread so extreme. If
I walk down the sidewalk out there and trip and fall, then I can sue this
place here. The sidewalk was crooked, or too rough, or too smooth, or there
should have been a warning sign there. If there’ s a warning sign there and
it’s lit up, it’ s only in English, you understand? It’ s not in foreign languages. I mean, I have testified in front of juries that have agreed. “Caution: wet
floor .” But it wasn’ t in Spanish. Oh, okay , there you go. And some fellow
gets here from Russia. He says, “It’ s not in Russian. I’m suing!” So you
have to have it in every language on the planet. Then he’d say , “Well, I
didn’ t see it. It wasn’ t lit up.” Oh, it wasn’ t lit up; we’ll have to give him an
award. Right? It wasn’ t lit up; it wasn’ t in every foreign language. How
about the size? “The letters were only this big, and I had trouble seeing it.”
The letters should be this big, according to the jury . So, you see how bizarre
it is. So, now , causality is a very important roadblock. It’ s a major roadblock. Practically nobody gets beyond the 400s. In our society , what percent get
beyond the 400s? Hmm. “In our society , current society , over one percent of
the population gets beyond the 400s.” (T rue.) “T wo percent.” (Not true.) It
is very rare to get beyond the 400s. Even Freud didn’ t make it, Einstein, Sir
Isaac Newton, Bacon, all the great minds. The intellect is the great block. And the reason it is such a great block is that its whole basis is causality . There is always a “this” causing a “that.” That’ s a dualistic perception;
that’s called dualism—a “this” and a “that.” That’ s why we tried to wipe out
duality when it comes to the Map of Consciousness®. There’ s no “good”
and “evil” there. It’ s all a gradation; there are no opposites.OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER 2
There Is Only One Variable
What we did in explaining how we’re going to prove the Map of
Consciousness® is applicable to all seeming dualities. In a duality , there’ s
only one variable, and it goes like this: from intense to less intense. There
are not two variables. There are not two variables—good versus evil, hot
versus cold. Cold is not the opposite of hot. Hot has no opposite. Heat is
either there or not there, but that doesn’ t make it its opposite. Electricity is
either in the wire, or it is not in the wire. Electricity doesn’ t have an
opposite called “no electric.” You can’ t send “no electricity” down the wire. You can only send electricity . This is the whole key . If you just get what I
am saying today , it advances your consciousness enormously . Things are, more or less, one variable. There are not two variables. How
much absence of Love must there be before your perception would say ,
“Well, that’ s evil?” That depends, right? You’re always dealing with only an
arbitrary perception. So, the world of duality , then, is the product of an
arbitrary positionality . There is no “this” causing a “that.” That is all bizarre illusion. There is
the unfoldment of the universe as it proceeds thusly . If we look for a cause
—let’ s take cause as far as we can in the logical world. For a speck of dust
to be right where it is—there it is, right there. Anyway , that speck of dust—
it’s all in your head, there’ s no speck of dust up there. For this speck of dust,
what causes this piece—this takes something simple, a speck of dust? We’re
not talking about the whole industrial complex or the political structure of
the United States or something. We’re just talking about one lousy , little
piece of dust. For this little piece of dust to be here, what is the cause? Well,
the cause would, you know , depend on the barometric pressure today . It
would depend on the movement of the air in this room, which would
depend on the temperature, which would depend on how many people are
here and the dimensions of the room. It also depends—for a room to be
here, there has to be land; there has to be a state for a county to be in; therehas to be a planet for that to be on. That planet is not alone in the universe. It has got to be whirling around with other universes; and for the planet to
be where it is so this state can be where this county is, where this building
is, where these air currents are, and all these people are, and this speaker
here pointing his finger up in the air—that’ s all due to the evolution of all
preceding time, is it not? All of the preceding time had to evolve for all the
planets to be where they are, for the universe to be where it is, so that this
state can be this place on the globe at this point in time, where this
barometric pressure and the atmospheric pressure and these temperatures
and gradations and this light coming down and making little air currents,
and the breath from my speaking voice. There’ s an infinite number of finite
causes, acting in concert throughout all of time. All of time has to have
occurred up to the moment for this little speck. Anyhow , we want to get rid of causality . The “cause,” even within the
linear domain, of anything, is the totality of All That Is, throughout all of
time. That is the “cause” of anything. Causality: The Major Roadblock to Experiencing the
Presence of God
The work we do is continuous. We discover things all the time that are
mind-boggling. Since we wrote Power vs. For ce, many things that we said
in there have shifted and changed. That means consciousness is evolving. Spiritual research in the past didn’ t exist. Consciousness research is the only
approach that I know to really investigate the reality behind the world’ s
teachings. Some of them, as we demonstrated before—the dif ference
between “Om” and “Aum”—are quite amazingly dif ferent. So, many errors
are very important to discover . And the reason that Enlightenment is so
extremely rare is that, first of all, very few people are motivated. Not too
many people have as much karmic momentum by the time they get through
a lifetime on this planet. Life is pretty much set against it. The chances of
becoming enlightened are very slim, statistically . We were talking before
about the structure of the ego and how it prevails in society . But the other
thing that prevails, about which I write quite a bit, somewhat, in The Eye of
the I and more powerfully in the book I’m finishing now called I, is,
spiritual error has also prevailed immensely . Not only do you have theworld of the ego which you have to deal with, which you incorporated as
yourself, but religious error prevails. Many common spiritual sayings are absolutely baloney . People spend
their whole lives—their spiritual communities babble these sayings, and
they just accept them at face value. They’re not only fallacious; they’re
actually erroneous. They’re completely erroneous. “All things are possible
to God”—there’ s one you hear all the time. No, I’ll tell you what’ s not
possible to God is “not-Godness.” “Not-Godness” is not possible to God,
you know what I’m saying? “All things are possible to God”—I mean, you
hear these ridiculous statements. We’re going to go back to causality and try to remove that as a major
roadblock, because it blocks the awareness of karma, blocks the awareness
of the Presence of God, and the purpose of consciousness work is to
discover the Presence of God within. Religion’ s concerned with the
Presence of God without. God is transcendent, elsewhere in time and place. Even Christianity—you lead a good life, you go to heaven, and there’ s
where God is. God is in heaven. Although Jesus did counter that with
“Heaven is within you.” Thank goodness. He did say that. So, God is both
immanent and transcendent. That which is all-prevailing could hardly just come right up to the
periphery of you and stop there. Logic tells you God is everywhere in the
universe; then that within you, the Source of life, obviously , is within
yourself. How to come to the knowingness of that and the conscious
awareness of the Presence of God is the purpose of these lectures and the
purpose of the spiritual research, which brings us back, then, to the great
block of causality . Causality constantly reinforces perception, which is dualistic. There’ s a
“this” and a “that.” It presumes separation. In the world of duality and the
world of the ego, it makes sense that you’re “here” and God is “there.”
Religion, every sermon, every Sunday morning is about the fact that you’re
here and God’ s there. So, how are you going to experience the Presence of
God, who disappeared after Chapter 1 in Genesis and you’re not going to
see Him again until heaven if you’ve been a good girl or boy , you know? Ah, God. So, traditionally the enlightened, the person who comes into
enlightenment by virtue of one reason or another , has been called the
“mystic.” The mystic is one whose experience of God is in the immediate
presence as all-prevailing, and the Source of the Self, the Source of one’ sown life. [It is] the speakingness and the inspiration out of which the voice
is talking, because the personal ego died on January 10, 1965. It’ s never
returned. The speakingness happens of its own; it’ s not caused  by anything. There’ s no cause  for this speakingness; there’ s no cause , you understand? It
is the manifestation of That Which Is as it spreads out. There’ s no cause to
this speakingness here. This speakingness is happening of its own. Understand that? Nothing is causing this speaking to speak— nothing—
except the Presence of God. The only source of anything happening is the
evolution of the Presence of God as evolving in this moment. There is no “this” causing a “that.” That is an artifact of perception. How
does movement and change come about? So, let’ s talk about what is the
nature of God, because it’ s helpful to know where you’re going before you
take an arduous trip to get there, understand? Nobody thinks of that. The Old Testament God is sort of ill and psychotic and bizarre, very
arbitrary . I mean, you wouldn’ t even take Him in your spiritual class—
anybody who lived and thought that way: “W e’re going to get even with
them, trash those people out, kill them, and I’ve got my favorite few and . . .” I mean, you know , this guy wouldn’ t even make it to guru! So, in the midst of that, Christ comes with a new message where it was
quite unwelcome. Christ was put to death for revealing the truth, as was
John the Baptist. If there’ s no “this” causing a “that,” how does what we witness come
about? All right. Let’ s say that God being all-prevailing and infinitely
powerful is like a giant electromagnetic field. Now , the dif ference between
power and force is, force goes from “here” to “there,” and in doing that, it
expends its ener gy. Force goes like this and now gets worn out, and it
collapses. All empires come to an end; all wars come to an end; all force
exhausts itself because force has to be fed ener gy from elsewhere. It’ s
limited. Force results in counterforce. When I consult with foreign
governments, I tell them: “If you exert force, they will come back with
counterforce. You’d better make sure you have got more force than they
got.” I say , “The better way is to support and love the head of the other
government, in return for which he will drop his force. He doesn’ t need it
anymore, and now he will be your friend.” Headlines said that worked,
yeah?Power stands there, af fects all within its radiation, requires no
expenditure of ener gy, does not expend ener gy; it sustains. It is what it is,
and its power radiates forth with no dimensions. Gravity—it just stands
there. Gravity doesn’ t go from “here” to “there.” The power of God does
not move from “here” to “there.” It is a standing field out of which all of
life evolves, yeah? How does what appears to be happening occur? See,
there are no happenings in the world. A happening is an arbitrary point of
view of the ego. You say , “Start,” and that’ s a happening; “Stop,” that’ s a
happening between “start” and “stop.” You could have said, “Start ‘here’”
[at another point]; you could have said, “Stop ‘there.’” There is no such
thing as a happening; this is an illusion of perception. Therefore, you don’ t
have to explain any happenings, because there are none, so that saves you a
lot of work. How do things come about in the universe? In the beginning, there was
the Light; and Light shone forth and represents the expression of God as the
universe: continuous, ever present, without beginning and without end. Out
of this infinite potentiality , the nature of God is Unmanifest as infinite
potentiality . Even within the physical domain, one cubic inch of empty
space has more power than is represented by the total weight of the entire
universe. That’ s even within advanced theoretical physics. In the nonlinear
domain, even that is miniscule. There is no limit to the power , potential
power , in any infinitely small point in space. We’ll explain why that is so. All that exists, exists. The Source of all that exists, then, is the
Unmanifest. The Source of all that exists is God, manifesting what seems to
exist as creation. It appears sequential because the unfoldment of the
universe is perceived by perception as evolving in time, which is just an
illusion of the ego. There is no such thing as “time”; nor is there “space.”
Anyway , what seems to be happening—how does it come about—and this
will explain karma and take care of what happens to you after you leave the
body , et cetera. The spirit, then, is like this “you” or your “spirit” or what you want to
call yourself—“entity”—is a speck of dust, see? Now , the movement of
every speck of dust, then, depends on the power of the field of gravity ,
which dominates everything within this room. The field of gravity doesn’ t
move, but everything within it, if it’ s a giant electromagnetic field, moves
depending on the char ge on the particle and its polarity and its size, and its
position among all the other particles.Karma, then, is the char ge on your particle, the spirit within you. The
spirit within you, then, by virtue of the various choices and decisions,
develops, you might say , analogous to a certain polarity , a certain position
within, in relationship to every other particle. So, everything in the universe
is absolutely perfectly aligned with where it is because of what it is,
because of what it is. Everything merely is what it is, and as a result of
being what it is, its fate is sealed. The heavens, the hells, the pur gatories are nothing but the nonphysical
extension, because life is continuous. Because of the nonduality of Reality ,
there is only life. There is no such thing as “not life.” And, if you have life
now, you cannot become “not life.” God cannot become “not God.” That
which is cannot become “non-is-ness.” Consequently , that which is a spirit,
as it leaves the body , merely gravitates to its own gravitational harmony . That’ s obvious. I was in psychoanalysis with an atheistic psychoanalyst. He was a
professor of psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Columbia University . He was
a prize catch as an analyst. In those days, you were who your analyst was. I
had Lionel Ovesey . He was a full professor at Columbia and a training
analyst at the Columbia [University Center for] Psychoanalytic [T raining
and Research]. At the time, I was an atheist, and he was an atheist. We both
took a dim view of religion. Nobody had ever heard of out-of-body
experience, and we both agreed with Freud that God was a projection from
the unconscious, a father figure about which everybody was ambivalent;
you feared God and you hated Him at the same time, et cetera. So in the middle of all this, I got very sick one time, and I was in this
hospital bed, and the next thing I know , I was six feet over the bed. I had
never heard of an out-of-body experience. Here I am, invisible, no weight,
suspended in time and space, you might say—painless; it was wonderful. I
looked down and there’ s Dave lying in the bed; I mean, he was a mess, I tell
you. Yeah, he’ s not long for this world. He looked rather poorly . I could
think, hear , feel; and the sense of self, the presence of who am “I,” the “I”
was up here. The “I” was definitely not there. Not only that, but—although
it sounds alarming to people who have never heard of it—the capacities, the
senses exist in the etheric body , not in the physical body . So, although the
ears and the eyes and all that were lying in the bed in that body there, I
could see and hear and feel, remember , and see and do everything fine. I
didn’ t need that physicality at all. I later went back in it. I for get how I wentback in it—sort of a snap, I think. When I told my analyst about that, we
both agreed that it was probably due to the infection—a toxic psychosis of
some kind, in which we had created a dual physicality and projected it
somehow . Anyway , we were both happy with that. I never told anybody
about it in any way , the same as the near -death experience that I’d had early
in life. I’d never told anybody about that at all. I never did, until 1995. Such
things were not heard of. By the way , on the TV, they are always confusing near-death  and out-of-
body . They think they’re the same thing; they’re so naive. They’re two
totally dif ferent things. If you calibrate the level of an out-of-body
experience, you’re pretty much the same person that you were before. Smarter—you know that you’re not just a physical body , so there is a
spiritual advance. But, a near -death experience, you see a transformation. There is a huge leap in level of consciousness. So anyway , they’re not the
same thing at all. So, the nature of God, then, is the infinite power of such an immense
degree. In ’65 and then again—the consciousness kept advancing over the
years—there would be a new condition in which the power of God became
even more revealed—staggering, staggering. This power is absolute. There
is nothing that can oppose the power of God. There is no opposite to the
power of God. Nothing is possible, any more than “non-God-ness” is
possible. That which is “All That Is” is infinite power . When I first saw that
power , I was just [shocked beyond measure]; the mind disappeared; all
thoughts stopped, and the body moved of its own, which it does to this day . It’s always doing surprising—look what it’ s doing now—I mean, it just
does all kinds of things. It does it all by itself, see. People say , “Why do
‘you’  do that?” See the duality? There’ s a “me” and then a “body .” It just
does what it does by its lonesome. I mean, it’ s amusing and it’ s a lot of fun,
but it’ s got nothing to do at all  with who I am. I so often look at it and I
can’t believe it’ s even there. However , it took many years to get used to
running it. It’ s like running things by remote control. The “you” is over
there, and everybody is talking to the “you,” and you wonder who they’re
talking to. There isn’ t any “me” there at all, you know . They’re talking to
that physicality . We’re going to get back to causality . So, here is everything within the
universe being what it is. That’ s all it can do. There’ s no “this” that does a
“that.” Everything is every instant, the perfect expression of that which it is
at this instant. As a consequence, it’ s being what it is at this instant
(“instant” being a point of perception, and no such thing as an “instant”
actually existing), but at this particular instant its polarity , its choices, its
wisdom, its life experiences are held within this enormous gravitational
field. You see how it’ s automatic. You see why the justice of God is
absolute. The idea of an arbitrary God who judges you at death is idiotic
beyond belief. That which you are automatically goes to that which it is. It
has no choice in the matter , does it? That which you are automatically
gravitates to that which it is. You can take an old bar and grill. A new buyer buys it, cleans it up, and
puts drapes, curtains, new carpets; it’ s all glossed up. Does the old crew
come back to the bar and grill and say , “Gee, Henry , this place looks great
now”? No, they don’ t go there anymore. It doesn’ t appeal to them at all. A
waterfront dive is a waterfront dive. You clean it up, put new drapes and all
—it stinks. Who the hell wants to go there? Nobody wants to go there. You
get drunk and throw up on the floor , and they get all excited about that; you
know what I mean? Who wants to hang out there? You get in a brawl, and
they call the cops. Who wants to hang out in a joint like that? Where does a
guy from a waterfront dive go when they clean up his old hangout? He goes
to another waterfront dive, that’ s where he goes. He’ s attracted to that
which he is, you understand? He’ s not attracted if I say , “Here’ s a free ticket
that’ll take you to see the Pietà.” He’ll say , “Can I sell it? How much is it
worth?” So, one automatically gravitates to that which one is, you might
say. You are that which you already are. Some people are attracted to beauty , the great cathedrals of Europe. When I traveled to Europe, I went from one cathedral to another . The
attraction was to experience Chartres, the blue window in Chartres, and
Westminster Abbey . The things that inspire and attract you, then, reflect that
which you are. So, even before I became that which I am, I was already that
which I am, but seemed to be that which I was at the time, which is already
attracted to what I really was, which was the great cathedrals. Anyway , I
calibrated the great cathedrals; they are 700, 700. Westminster Abbey , the
great cathedrals, Notre Dame, they’re stunning. Great beauty always makes
you cry . I avoid it because I become totally incapacitated—just the memoryof those cathedrals; the sacrifice of all the people over hundreds of years,
spending a whole lifetime just to carve one pulpit—I mean, just the
enormity of the devotion, which is the second way to God, which I don’ t
talk about because it cannot be talked about. The pathway to God I speak
about is probably most closely aligned, as I said, with Zen or Advaita. It’ s
rather radical reality , radical truth, and you can talk about it. The way
through the heart cannot be talked about! As you remove the barriers, the way through the heart becomes more
powerful. The classic yogas are through the mind and through the heart. The great cathedral brings forth enormous, overwhelming experience of
Divine Love and the presence of Divine Love as the Self—and that
incapacitates you. So, I try to stay away from Love, because that brings
everything to a halt. So, everything is merely being what it is as a result of the nature of
Creation itself, whose capacity is infinite, whose Presence is always
present, and who sustains your life. The evidence of the Presence of God
within you is your existence. That one exists is the demonstration and the
proof of the existence of God. That which the ordinary mind takes for
granted is the very Source of the awareness of the presence of Divinity as
existence. What is the source of existence if it is not causality? If one’ s existence is
not the end of a bunch of old billiard balls going through time and coming
out as one labeled “you,” then how does one come into manifestation, huh? The only source of existence, the capacity for existence, is Divinity . Nothing in the universe has the power to create existence, nothing. Causality is the thinnest of flimsy attempts to rationalize how it could
otherwise come about by that which does not wish to acknowledge its
source as God, which is how you get to the lower astral dimension. The
lower astral is the place for those who deny God. It’ s a dif ferent dimension
than this. It’ s a dif ferent dimension. There is an infinite number of dimensions, each one evolving in infinite
directions. This [dimension] is only one [of them]. How can it be infinite
and ever expanding and never stopping? Because the ener gy of Creation,
the Presence of God—one innate quality of the Presence of God is
Creation; therefore, that which is created has within it the ener gy of God
which continues to create; and that which is created continues to create. Therefore, out of one dimension evolves an infinite number of dimensions.Out of each of the infinite number of dimensions evolves an infinite number
of dimensions—do you understand—the expansive universe?
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Dr. David R. Hawkins
Who wrote the book "Power vs. Force"?
To provide evidence-based documentation of the nonlinear domain and to prepare the audience for the nonlinear domain
What was the purpose of Dr. Hawkins' research?
To provide a companion to the video or audio lectures, or a standalone reading to inspire and encourage spiritual growth
What is the purpose of the book being presented?
The Pathway of Devotional Nonduality
What is the main topic of the book?
The introduction to the concept of causality and the importance of understanding that there is only one variable
What is the main focus of the book's first chapter?