Power vs force read by Beata

I bought ten of these book and gave them out.  mine original I keep…100 stars

 

It is now widely accepted in the scientific world that if you place over your sternum/heart something that is damaging to the life essence of your body, and someone performed a simple test of your body's muscle response, then your muscles will have “gone weak.” That is to say, no matter how strong you may otherwise be, if someone applied a very slight amount of force onto your outstretched arm, you will not be able to hold the arm up against the slight pressure of two fingers. This is the result of the ground-breaking work of George Goodheart in the 1960s.

John Diamond expanded the scope of this discovery by uncovering that if an individual was taken over by a 'negative' emotion, then their muscle response will also “go weak.”

Both of these applications of a science known as kinesiology are widely accepted and have been demonstrated as being verifiably reliable for nearly 40 years, now.

Dr. David R. Hawkins was a psychiatrist, who through a series of events found himself in the very pits of despair, which he described the lower regions of hell. Just as he was facing his own demise, Hawkins–a self-proclaimed atheist at the time–called out, “If there is a God, I ask Him to help me now.”

According to Hawkins, he then experienced a personal transformation that he described in this way:

The person I had become no longer existed. There was no personal self or ego, only an Infinite Presence of such unlimited power that it was all that was. This Presence had replaced what had been “me,” and the body and its actions were controlled solely by the Infinite Will of the Presence. The world was illuminated by the clarity of an Infinite Oneness that expressed itself as all things revealed in their infinite beauty and perfection.

At some point, he resumed his practice of psychiatry. He found himself at some point at a seminar of John Diamond and according to Hawkins, “I saw something no one else in the room saw, which was not an uncommon experience for me at that time.” He observed that this kinesiologic response was not a local response emanating from the body, but rather from Consciousness through the body.

Through experimentation, Hawkins then discovered that this kinesiologic response was a link between the unmanifest reality of Consciousness and the manifest reality of the human body. Through experimentation, he was able to demonstrate that this link between Consciousness and body was able to reliably differentiate between truth and falsehood (or 'non-truth').

Hawkins then used this aspect of the kinesiologic response to begin to explore the nature of Consciousness itself. This led to the creation of his Map of Consciousness, which is a map describing the subjective nature of Consciousness as it is experienced at various levels of energy, or “fields of Consciousness.” Each level of energy had specific attributes that are subjectively experienced in predictable ways.

Hawkins then presented his findings as the doctoral dissertation, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Calibration of the Levels of Consciousness, published in 1995. This dissertation met the normal scientific standards of a doctoral dissertation, but has been highly controversial because of the nature of his findings about the nature of Consciousness and reality, which validates the spiritual teachings of the great mystic sages throughout human history.

Power Vs. Force is Hawkins' first mainstream book aimed at the general public, specifically those seeking to advance their personal evolution of awareness of the nature of Consciousness as the unseen substrate of reality. I suppose that would be a fancy way of saying that his target audience was the advanced spiritual seeker of Truth.

Power Vs. Force might be a slight challenge to the lay reader with no background in the scientific models presented within it, such as: quantum mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, Chaos Theory, critical point analysis and Bohm's model of the universe. One can easily close this challenging gap by judicious use of wikipedia.org about the basic concepts such as strange attractors.

Those willing to do this basic homework will be richly rewarded by an entirely new model for understanding how existence comes to be and the fundamental nature of physical and non-physical reality.

In my opinion, for the spiritual devotee, this book should be viewed as a very important primer for the two books that follow Power Vs. Force–Eye of The I and I: Reality and Subjectivity. The homework and study done with Power Vs. Force will ultimately lay the foundation for a powerfully transformative experience that will arise quite naturally by simple exposure to the concepts presented in these three books.

I highly recommend that the new comer to Power Vs. Force suspend disbelief in what can be seen as the sensational claims of the seemingly crude tool of kinesiology. If spiritual transformation is your goal, focus on the grasping the scientific concepts presented, which are sound and have been proven by modern science. Also spend some quality time becoming very familiar with the Map of Consciousness. I, myself, on my first read of Power Vs. Force, skimmed with very little interest in the section of the book dealing with the practical applications of kinesiology to society, etc… I wasn't sure what I thought about kinesiology at the time, and just accepted that it was a tool Hawkins said he used to uncover what he felt were some important observations about the nature of Spiritual Reality, or Consciousness.

Then pick up Eye of The I and prepare to have your mind blown completely open by a presentation of Truth that will shake the very foundations of what you thought you knew about the nature of your personal existence.

The Buddha said the root of all suffering is ignorance. If you make it through the journey that Hawkins is offering you, you will finally have the tools you need to no longer ignore the self-evident Truth that is so close to you that you may realize that the Buddha wasn't saying the root of suffering is a lack of intelligence, but rather the condition of ignore-ance–that of ignoring the truth of your being, much like a fish that can't appreciate the wetness that surrounds it so wholly as to escape the fish's perception.

And if you finally make it far enough along through this process and journey, perhaps you will then feel the desire to exclaim, “Gloria in excelsis! Deo!”

Blessed be.