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

by David R. Hawkins

have a notable effect on others.

capable of a prolonged, open visual gaze, which induces a stat...

perfection of creation.

synchronicity, and the world and everything in it is seen to be an expression of love and Divinity.

Individual will merges into Divine will. A Presence is felt whose power facilitates phenomena outside conventional expectations of reality, ter...

There is a desire to use one’s state of consciousness for the benefit of life itself rather than for particular individuals.

This capacity to love many people simultaneously is accompanied by the discovery that the more one loves, the more one can love.

Near-death experiences, characteristically transformative in their effect, have frequently allowed people to experience th...

transcendence, self-realization, and God-consciousness.

the distinction between subject and object disappears,

the state of bliss that ensues precludes ordinary activity.

formal religion is commonly transcended, to be replaced by the pure spirituality out of which all religion originates.

all is alive and radiant.

continuously flowing, evolving in an exquisitely coordinated evolutionary dance in which significance and source are overwhelming.

That which is witnessing and that which is witnessed take on the same identity; the observer dissolves into the landscape and becomes equally the observed. Everything is connected to everything else by a Presence whose power is infinite, exquisitely gentle, yet rock-solid. Great works of art, music, and architecture that calibrate between 600 and 700 can transport us temporarily to higher levels of consciousness and are universally recognized as inspirational and timeless.

All are associated with Divinity, with which they are often identified.

these beings set in place attractor energy fields that influence all of mankind down through the ages.

identification of Self with Consciousness and Divinity.

experienced as Self beyond mind.

Great teachings uplift the masses and raise the level of awareness of all of humanity. To have such vision is called grace, and the gift it brings is infinite peace, described as ineffable, beyond words.

one’s existence transcends all time and all individuality.

The body is seen as merely a tool of consciousness through the intervention of mind, its prime value that of communication.

nonduality,

complete O...

awareness is everywhere equal...

individuals who have reached the level of Enlightenment characteristically show the teacher with a specific hand position, called a mudra, wherein the palm of the hand radiates benediction.

the Great Avatars for whom the title “Lord” is appropriate: Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha, and Lord Jesus Christ.

Many of such people live in a state of hopelessness calibrating at the level of Apathy, in resignation to their abject poverty.

Those whose lifestyles transcend the imperative of survival so as to allow discretionary options then become grist for the Desire-driven world economic mill, and success in attaining these desires leads at best to Pride.

500 is a point at which awareness makes another great leap.

have spiritual experiences of profound import and become immersed in spiritual pursuit.

it is not common for individuals to move from one level to another during one lifetime. The energy field that is calibrated for an individual at birth only increases, on the average, by about five points. That an individual’s level of consciousness is already in effect at birth is a sobering fact with profound implications. And consciousness itself, in its expression as human civilization, evolves slowly indeed, through numerous generations.

mere 2.6 percent of the human population,

accounts for 72 percent of society’s problems.

possible for isolated individuals to make sudden positive jumps, even of hundreds of points.

substance’s power to create a “high” state of euphoria.

Alcohol or drugs do not, in and of themselves, have the power to create a “high” at all; they calibrate at only 100 (same as the level of vegetables). The so-called “high” that the drug or alcohol user experiences, however, can calibrate from 350 to 600.

The actual effect of drugs is merely to suppress the lower energy fields, thereby allowing the user to experience exclusively only the higher ones.

The suppression of the low notes does not create the high ones; it merely reveals their presence.

Within the levels of consciousness, the higher frequencies are extremely powerful, and few people routinely experience these as pure states because they are masked by the lower energy fields of anxiety, fear, anger, resentment, and so on. Rarely does the average person get to experience, for instance, love without fear, or pure joy, much less ecstasy. But these higher states are so powerful that once experienced, they are never forgotten, and are sought ever after.

this experience of higher states that people ...

Once experienced, it reprograms the experiencer so that he is never content again with ordinary consciousness.

same reprogramming process occurs in people who have reached high states of consciousness by other means, such as the experience of Samadhi through meditation, or near-death experiences.

changed forever.

under special circumstances, they have experienced their own inner reality. The majority of people are so divorced from their own states of pure consciousness that they do not recognize them when they experience them, because they identify with their lower ego states. A negative self-image blots out the joyous brilliance that is the true essence of their identities, which therefore goes unrecognized. That this joyous, peaceful, fulfilling state is in reality one’s own inner essence has been the basic tenet of every great spiritual teacher (for example, “the kingdom of God is within you”).

Ecstasy is a rarely felt emotion in a class by itself. The most sublime experience of all is the state of Infinite Peace at level 600, so exquisite that it belies all attempts at description.

greater its power to reprogram the subject’s entire life.

Not uncommonly, just one instant in a very high state can completely change a person’s orientation to life, as well as his goals and values. It can be said that the individual who was, is no more, and a new person is born out of the experience. Through hard-won progress on a de...

Historically, all ruling classes have achieved status and wealth by controlling society through some form of puritanical ethic. The harder the underlings work, and the more meager their pleasures, the richer the ruling system will be, whether it be a theocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, or corporate industrial barony. Such power is built upon the forfeited pleasure of workers. Experientially, as we have seen, pleasure is merely high energy. The energies of the masses have been co-opted over the centuries to produce for the over-classes the very wealth of pleasures denied the under-classes.

the pleasure of life energy is mankind’s best capital;