In his works Hawkins approaches the study and practice of spirituality by means of his personal experience and his clinical and academic background. The stated objectives of Hawkins' research and teaching are to facilitate metaphysical understanding and to confirm the reality of spiritual truth focusing on various aspects of consciousness and on the road to enlightenment.

Hawkins states and confirmed via muscle testing that his teachings alone are sufficient to take one all the way to Self-realization.¹
He writes about the idea of a new branch in human evolution called 'Homo spiritus':

• "The appearance in humanity of the realization of God as the Ultimate Reality, substrate, and source of Existence and Creation marked the beginning of the emergence of a new, evolutionary branch of mankind called Homo spiritus. The term Homo spiritus refers to the awakened man who has bridged the evolutionary leap from physical to spiritual, from form to nonform, and from linear to nonlinear.
  The awakened man realizes that it is consciousness itself, which constitutes the core of the evolutionary tree in all its seemingly stratified and evermore complex expressions as the evolution of life. Thus, life transforms from the relatively unconscious linear to the fully conscious nonlinear, and Creation reveals itself to be the ongoing unfolding of the Unmanifest becoming Manifest. The capacity to reach the condition or state classically called Enlightenment represents the fulfillment of the potential of consciousness in its evolutionary progression." I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 418-419, 2003

void vs. allness; subjectivity vs. objectivity; content vs. context; out-of-body experiences vs. near-death experiences; astral vs. etheric levels; reincarnation, karma, and attractor fields.

Hawkins asserts that God is both immanent and transcendent. Theologically, he is aligned with nondualism and Advaita philosophy. Nondualism, a highly expansive and inclusive concept of God including all which is of form and not, may be viewed as the belief that dualism or dichotomy (e.g. self/other, mind/body, male/female, good/evil, active/passive) are illusory phenomena; it may also be viewed as a practice, namely self-inquiry as set forth by Ramana Maharshi.

His spiritual teaching focuses on Devotional Nonduality,⁵, a form of transcendental monism, which has its origins in his research for Power vs. Force and was further developed afterwards. He says that the concept of "Devotional Nonduality" resonates with many religions (such as Hinduism) that hold the concept that "all is One." Other concepts stated by Hawkins to be analogous to his description of nonduality are Logos (in the religious sense) and Tao, which are also argued to be congruent with modern quantum physics and the concept of nonlocality as expressed by Bell's Theorem. He sees nonduality as a potential bridge between natural science, philosophy and cognition, similar to the merging of physics and metaphysics envisioned by Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics, the concepts embraced by quantum physicist David Bohm, particularly the one of holomovement, as well as the new paradigm science of nuclear physicist Amit Goswami. Hawkins' description of nonduality is also related to that of a number of modern writers and philosophers, including Ken Wilber and G. Spencer Brown as presented in his book Laws of Form.

Hawkins strongly encourages kindness to all forms of life, humor, forgiveness, humility, compassion, prayer and contemplation. He deems alignment and erudite familiarity with the existing religious scriptures measured by him to be especially true (that is, 'high calibrating'—e.g., the New Testament except the Book of Revelation, the original teachings of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, and others) as a means of raising one's spiritual consciousness in the process and incorporating some of the most evolved known levels of truth. Both seeking and encouraging personal alignment with the Highest good, Hawkins repeatedly points out that "all are One in God," thereby supporting the Christian concept of "the Kingdom of God is within you."

Discussing how to transcend attraction and aversion alike, and the ego position which he deems as being the main obstacle to spiritual awakening in human beings, Hawkins often asserts that the human mind alone cannot discern truth from falsity and invariably will turn to other sources (ideologies, authorities, habits, ego, etc.) to determine what to believe as true; to solve this perceived problem, he offers muscle testing (known as applied kinesiology) as a science of Truth. He discourages cult-like followings of any sort, cautioning his students to question all sources of knowledge (primarily via muscle testing), to "judge them by their fruits," and to ask for inner guidance by the Holy Spirit.

Having closely worked with spirituality-based self-help methods and groups, as a practicing student and later also as a teacher, and being collegially acquainted with some of their initiators, Hawkins advocates the following due to their stated healing results:

• A Course in Miracles,
• Alcoholics Anonymous (named the "language of the heart" by its co-founder Bill W.)⁶
• and the other Twelve-Step programs,
• Attitudinal healing originated by Gerald G. Jampolsky, and
• Release Technique/Sedona Method of Lester Levenson.

By means of writing forewords he has favored Thought Field Therapy

Sharing many of the beliefs of the New Thought movement

Excerpted from en.Wikipedia entry on David R. Hawkins
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