Hawkins / Teachings
Sunset over rock formation in Sedona, Arizona, USA
The radiance of God is the light of awareness that reveals the divinity of all that exists. In the stillness of the Infinite Presence, the mind is silent as there is nothing that can be said; all speaks of itself with completeness and exactitude. With this realization one transcends the final duality of existence versus nonexistence because only existence is possible. The opposite of Truth does not exist because Reality excludes nonreality. In this realization resides the peace of God. David Hawkins, The Eye of the I, p. 118
At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within and the search for answers being. With good fortune, one comes upon the teachings of true enlightenment and does not deviate from the core of those teachings. Buch 2E, S. 115
Spiritual teachings
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 that his teachings alone are sufficient to take one all the way to Self-realization, and that AK confirms this.
He writes about the idea of a new branch in human evolution called 'Homo spiritus'
the limited scope of causality
the illusion of time; general teachings on varied topics including spiritual intention, surrender, and miracles; the concepts of nonlinearity
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,
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 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 AK 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.)
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
in 2003 he was formally affiliated with its largest church, the Unity Church, and its ministerial education arm, Unity School of Christianity. Conversely, his research has led him to not recommend New Age concepts (e.g., channelling, divination, fortune-telling, full moon gatherings, and Wicca) which are sometimes confused by its critics and associated media with New Thought.
en.Wikipedia entry on David R. Hawkins
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Dr. David Hawkins (*1912) grew up as a 'religionist' [his word choice] in an episcopalian household.
At age 12 he underwent a near death experience in a snow bank. This experience between worlds shattered his religionist views.
It took Hawkins until he was 69 to talk about his NDE experience publicly.
At age 16 he had an onslaught of feeling the impact of the negativity of the whole world. This was an excruciating experience for him. Blaming God as the source of evil and suffering in the world he became a passionate atheist and agnostic. Hawkins saw the damage among humans who adhered to negative God images.
The teenager Hawkins read The Age of Reason of Thomas Paine and chose the path of an intellectual. Later in his life he found that not God but the ego (the divisive element in men, the sense of a separate "I") is the origin of suffering.
At age 20 Hawkins studied theology at a Jesuit university. Being an atheist he brought home straight A's much to the chagrin of his catholic comilitons.
Facing more human suffering as a physician and psychiatrist Hawkins became an alcoholic. Addiction has led him into a downward spiral to face his death at age 38. Without giving it too much hope he cried out If there is a God, I ask him to help me now. He had reached the turning point – the moment of his enlightenment. According to Henry David Thoreau such a leap in consciousness is a "a maximal possible condition". An act of grace. It took Hawkins 30 years before he revealed this experience in public.
Hawkins sees the regressive side of religion as being divisive, whereas spirituality – an aspect of religion – as uniting.
In a lecture in Chicago on April 10, 2004 Hawkins shared:
At the day seminar Identification & Illusion in Sedona, August 14, 2004 he said:
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