Transcending The Levels Of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment

by David R. Hawkins

Dynamics of Peace and Illumination. In ordinary life, the ego claims to be the author of action. This egoistic claim, which is experienced as an inner reality, is a delusion based on the unrecognized function of the ego, that of instant editing. This phenomenon happens 1/10,000th of a second after a phenomenon has actually occurred. The best analogy to this function of the ego, as mentioned previously, is that of the tape-monitor function of a tape recorder. As sound is recorded on the tape, the tape-monitor function allows one to hear what has just been recorded a split second ago. Therefore, one is not experiencing the source but that of a recording with a split-second delay. This delay is intrinsic to all ego experiencing of ordinary life by which the mind does not experience reality but its delayed instant playback through the screen of perception. At level 600, this delay disappears and with it the delusion of a ‘this’ or a ‘that’, for without the processing delay, the ‘this’ and the ‘that’ are joined in a unity that is not artificially separated. Without the inner position of the ego’s screening device, phenomena are experienced directly and not via the illusion of a spectator.