Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior (Power vs. Force, #1)

by David R. Hawkins

systems of morality

Psychoanalysis,

fatal faults of all thought systems have been, primarily: (1) failure to differentiate between subjective and objective; (2) disregard of the limitation of context inherent in basic design and terminology; (3) ignorance of the nature of consciousness itself; and (4) misunderstanding of the nature of causality.

Society constantly expends its efforts to correct effects instead of causes,

we have not yet solved even such primitive problems as world hunger.

The basic law of the universe is economy.

it is necessary to identify the conditions that underlie ostensible causes; and these conditions exist only within man’s consciousness itself.

There are no actual causes within the observable world. As we shall demonstrate, the observable world is a world of effects.

Society needs visionaries of means, not dreamers of ends. Once we have the means, the ends will reveal themselves.

Societal choices, more often than not, are the result of expediency, statistical fallacy, sentiment, political or media pressure, or personal prejudice and vested interest. Crucial decisions affecting the lives of everyone on the planet are made under conditions that virtually guarantee failure.

Man’s two basic types of operational faculties, reason and feeling, are both inherently unreliable,

Although we ascribe our actions to reason, man in fact operates primarily out of pattern-recognition; the logical arrangement of data serves mainly to enhance a pattern-recognition system that then becomes so-called “truth.”

any further advance in man’s condition requires a verifiable basis for knowingness, upon which we may place our trust.

The main obstacle to man’s development, then, is the lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

apparent that the notion that our actions are based on thoughtful decisions is a grand illusion.

decision-making process is a function of consciousness

energy patterns that the new science of nonlinear dynamics terms attractors.

The relative weight and merit given to certain data are determined by a predominant attractor pattern operating in the individual or in a collective group of minds. These patterns can be identified, described, and calibrated; out of that information arises a totally new understanding of human behavior, history, and the potential destiny of mankind.

this revelation proceeds from a fortuitous connection between the physiology of consciousness, the function of the human nervous system, and the physics of the universe is not surprising when we remind ourselves that we are, after all, part of a universe in which everything is connected to everything else; all its secrets are thus, theoretically at least, available to us if we know where and how to look.

Can man lift himself up by his bootstraps? Why not? All he has to do is increase his buoyancy and he will effortlessly rise to a higher state. Force cannot accomplish that feat; power not only can, but constantly does.

If you can fly then rise up! It’s not necessary to jump off a cliff.

Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact, he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is experienced through the senses; power can be recognized only through inner awareness.

One mark of such a sudden expansion of context and understanding is an inner experience of relief, joy, and awe.

Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.

kinesiology.

natural phenomena: chaos theory.

quantum mechanics led to advanced theoretical physics; through associated mathematics, a whole new study of nonlinear dynamics emerged—

the mind “thinks” with the body itself.

consciousness reveals itself in the subtle mechanisms

all life processes are, in fact, nonlinear.

Medicine had forgotten that it was an art, and that science was merely a tool of that art.

all avenues of investigation eventually converge at a common meeting point: the quest for an organized understanding of the nature of pure consciousness.

Inasmuch as everything in the universe is connected with everything else,8 it is not surprising that one of the primary objectives of this study—a map of the energy fields of consciousness—would correlate with, and

be corroborated by, all other avenues of investigation, uniting the diversity of human experience and its expressions in an all-encompassing paradigm.

Such an insight can bypass the artificial dichotomy between subject and object, transcending the limited viewpoint tha...

subjective and objective are, in fact, on...

the body can discern, to the finest degree, the difference between that which is supportive of life and that which is not.

The methodology, proceeding from the study of nonlinear dynamics, which we employed in this work of developing a map of the fields of human consciousness, is known as attractor research.

power ranges of energy fields utilizing critical point analysis.

(Critical point analysis is a technique derived from the fact that in any highly complex system there is a specific, critical point at which the smallest input will result in the greatest change. For instance, the great gears of a windmill can be halted by lightly touching the right escape mechanism, and it is pos...

The world conventionally assumes that the processing of problems requires starting from the known (the question or conditions) and moving on to the unknown (the so-called answer) in a time sequence following definite steps and logical progression.

Nonlinear dynamics moves in the opposite direction: from the unknown (the nondeterministic data of the question) to the known (the answer)!

Attractor is the name given to an identifiable pattern that emerges from a seemingly unmeaningful mass of data.

There is a hidden coherence in all that appears incoherent.

“Lorenz’s Butterfly.”

strange attractors.

some patterns are very powerful and others are much weaker.

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