RR-ESM. An introduction

1. A Course in Miracles Overview
2. Your Will and God’s Will are the same
3. The difference between Course and Christianity
4. Original Sin, Christianity’s most destructive teaching
5. Why Christ was really crucified
6. My analysis of the ego
7. An overview of the world we live in
8. The American economy
9. About marriage and relationships
10. The pickle jar
11. Drugs and alcohol and why people use them
12. Vegetarianism, the wave of the future
13. David Hawkins. Truth vs. Falsehood
14. Exorcism, a relic from the dark ages
15. Race and racism
16. The culture of death.
    • War
    • Abortion
    • Capital Punishment
17. Life before and after death
18. Our living companions on this planet and the difference between them and us
19. The possibility of life in outer space and what if anything it means to us
20. Three explanations for the way things are
21. The value of the workbook and memorizing text
22. E-mail and FAQs
23. Donations
24. In Conclusion
25. Videos
    
26. Spiritual Revelation
    

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13. David Hawkins. Truth vs. Falsehood

Dr. Hawkins is an internationally known spiritual teacher, author, and speaker on the subject of advanced spiritual states, consciousness research, and the Realization of the Presence of God as Self.

 Truth vs. Falsehood was written in 2005 and contains 496 pages. It explains his method of discerning truth from fallacy and his calibrated Scale of Consciousness.

Basically everything he does works from his scale of consciousness. It ranges from one to one thousand. One is the level of a bacteria and one thousand is the level of a great Spiritual teacher such as Jesus Christ. Two hundred and above are the levels of truth. Anything below the level of two hundred is negative. Two people are required to perform the tests. They both need to calibrate above two hundred, and it’s better if they calibrate even higher. An example of a test for truth would be the following. One person holds his arm straight out to his side and the other person places his arm and two fingers on it. The tester makes the following statement. I have permission to do this test. The other person states yes. The tester then makes a statement such as, “you are thirty five years of age, resist,” and pushes down on their arm quickly. If the statement is false the arm will go weak and can be easily pushed downward. If the statement is true the arm will stay strong and cannot be pushed down. This test can be used to calibrate many things in our everyday life. As an example say you and your wife were proficient in the use of his method. It’s Saturday night and you and your children are going to the video store to rent your usual three movies. The children want to rent A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, and Deliverance. But being good parents you do the calibration test and find they calibrate at 70, 65, and 145 respectively. There is no way you’re going to let your children watch that garbage. So instead you calibrate Big Blue, Ben-Hur, and The Color Purple, and find they calibrate at 700, 475, and 475. So over their protests those are the movies you rent.

 Dr. Hawkins calibrates many different items in his book. One of the things he calibrated was Scriptures and Spiritual Writings. A Course in Miracles workbook calibrates at 600 and the text calibrates at 550. The Gospel of St. Luke calibrates at 699. I found this very interesting. Those are of course high numbers but there are others such as the Upanishads, which calibrates much higher. It calibrated at 970

I will close this chapter with a personal observation. Dr. Hawkins is of course an Enlightened Spiritual Master, a mystic, and a heavyweight intellectual. He gives warm fuzzy lectures well attended by warm fuzzy New Age Spiritual types. When you see his picture in his literature and his book covers he looks like a Saint.

This picture is deceiving. If you read Chapter 11, The Downside of Society, you realize some of his views are just a little to the right of Attila the Huns. Here are a few paragraphs from pages 193 and 194.

Criminality is an established recidivist lifestyle for which no effective therapeutic endeavor has thus far been found. The basic personality is unchanged, and, with experience, the perpetrator does not change the behaviors but becomes more clever in learning how to escape detection.

To a person with normal psychological makeup, a prison sentence is frightening. The culture is foreign and brings up guilt, fear, and aversion to the prior behaviors. These responses are totally lacking in the psychopathic personality to whom prison life is a very familiar culture; the individual is merely removed from the streets to another location and continues uninterruptedly. The basic tenets and lifestyle of criminality are actually the internal rules of conduct within any prison’s population and are attenuated in their expression merely by the threat of the prison administration.

In the prison population, the gangs maintain control just as they did on the streets, and in order to survive, the prison inmate quickly learns how to play the game. To the psychopath, time in prison has no impact on subsequent behaviors other than a refinement of cleverness.

The calibrated level of the psychopathic personality of the typical criminal recidivist is generally between 35 and 80 on the Scale of Consciousness. So far, criminality has failed to respond to any therapeutics or course of techniques, and thus, society can only respond by maneuvers to protect itself as best it can, i.e., quarantine in prisons. Because the psychopath scorns rules and regulations, even those that would be called “common sense,” the police detain citizens for what seem to be minor infractions because they know that the psychopath is irresponsible as a lifestyle. Thus, stopping cars for having a taillight out brings a high capture rate of criminals who are wanted for more serious crimes. This is the wisdom of the “three strikes and you’re out” legislation that has been demonstrated to be highly effective in taking the criminals off the streets, resulting in the reduction of over fifty percent of street crime.

It is naive to look at such laws with the sentimentalism that “it is unfair to put somebody in prison for stealing a pack of cigarettes.” The facts reveal that the chronic criminal has been caught for maybe only 1/100th of the number of crimes they have committed. The typical pedophile has usually abused scores and in some cases even hundreds of victims before arrest and detection. The car thief has stolen hundreds of cars before finally getting caught. The domestic abuser has been violent dozens of times, and the chronic thief has stolen thousands of items, etc.

 In conclusion this book was a very interesting read and very much worth the time it took to read it. Dr. Hawkins also has a website, as all modern mystics do. Click on this hyper-link www.veritaspub.com to check out his material. When you do check out the following. Click on FAQ’s on the home page. Below critics and skeptics click on clarification of consciousness research. That was a most fascinating article answering the critics and skeptics of his work. In the end all you can say is that’s their job. The critic’s job is to criticize and the skeptic’s job is to be skeptical.

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