The Map of Consciousness Explained Quotes

“You wouldn’t use a hammer to open a can of soup. You can’t use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“The great Swiss psychoanalyst C. G. Jung (cal. 520), noting the ubiquity of archetypal patterns and symbols, deduced the “collective unconscious,” a bottomless, subconscious pool of all the shared experiences of the whole human race. We may think of it as a vast, hidden database of human awareness, characterized by powerful, universal organizing patterns. The great promise of the database—tapping into all that has ever been experienced anywhere in time—is its capacity to “know” virtually anything the moment it is “asked.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“Thus, the process is “to die before you die,” as stated in many religious traditions. That is, once you face your certain death, that repressed fear of death no longer runs you. Nothing scares you anymore. Fear is a big stack, and at the bottom of that stack is the fear of physical death.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“We go into the inner experience of the exact sensations and let go of resisting them. In effect, we will eventually “disappear” them through aligning with them by welcoming the inner experiences of the sensations. At the same time, within the mind, we cancel any labels. We stop calling it an “ulcer” and instead go into the inner sensation of it. The inner sensation may be a pressure or a burning. Even the words burning and pressure are labels. We cancel those and again go into the core, the absolute essential, of what we are physically experiencing, and then let go of resisting that experience.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“The brain is like a receiving set, a switchboard that receives thought forms and then translates them into neuronal functioning and memory storage. For instance, until recently it was believed that voluntary movements of the muscles originated in the brain’s motor cortex. But now, as Eccles has reported, the very intention to move is recorded by the supplemental motor area of the brain next to the motor cortex. The brain is, therefore, activated by the mind’s intention, not vice versa.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“What the world considers evolution is actually the witnessing of creation, which is continuous. The Unmanifest becomes Manifest by Divine Providence as the Totality of Creation, which emerges effortlessly. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Therefore, each thing comes forth, manifesting its karmic inheritance; its karma is its innate potential, and when conditions are appropriate, then the potentiality becomes an actuality, in and of itself, as a consequence of the infinite power of the field.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“In its earliest forms, the animal expressions of life were very primitive and did not have an innate, inner source of energy. Survival therefore depended on acquiring energy externally. This was not a problem in the plant kingdom, where chlorophyll automatically transforms solar energy into necessary chemical processes. Animal life had to acquire what was needed from its environment, and that principle of survival then established the main core of the ego, which is still primarily involved in self-interest, acquisition, conquering, and rivalry with other organisms for survival. Importantly, however, it also had the characteristics of curiosity, searching, and, therefore, learning.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“From the viewpoint of this level, the world looks hazardous, full of traps and threats. Fear is the favored official tool for control by oppressive totalitarian agencies and regimes, and insecurity is the stock-in-trade of major manipulators of the marketplace. The media and advertising play to Fear to increase market share.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“For our purposes, it is really only necessary to recognize that power is that which makes you go strong, while force makes you go weak. Love, compassion, and forgiveness, which may be mistakenly seen by some people as submissive, are in fact profoundly empowering. Revenge, judgmentalism, and condemnation, on the other hand, inevitably make you go weak.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“Change and letting go of the familiar is easy, but you avoid it because it seems like effort to the ego. It only seems like effort if you go at it the hard way of forcing yourself, trying to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Anything you do not like about yourself—getting annoyed with people, swearing, or what have you—can be transcended by noting down how many times a day you do it. You just start paying attention and tracking it. Anyone can notice; it requires no exertion, only attention.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

“Thoughts have a certain electromagnetic energy form. When we sit in the presence of people who have solved the life problems that we are confronting, their inner accomplishment influences us nonverbally so that our lower-level energy is replaced by a higher thought form. That higher thought form sees the problem as a golden opportunity. What we saw as a loss before the meeting, now we see as a gain because of that nonverbal transmission. The facts have not changed, but how we view the situation has changed because our level of consciousness shifted. The shift occurred not because of the words spoken but by being in the presence of the aura of loving people whose energy field carries the higher wisdom.”
― David R. Hawkins, The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential