Power vs. Force

By David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD

Finished Reading on November 14, 2004.

Part 1-of-2 parts

Following are highlighted notes made during the reading:

Uniformity of response ... results were predictable, repeatable and universal.

... response to truth and falsehood

“database of consciousness”

forms of shared knowledge ... inner sub-rational wisdom that can discriminate

cutting edge “knowledge”

Is the human brain a wondrous computer linked with a universal energy field that knows far more than it knows it knows?

... calibrating a scale of relative truth by which intellectual positions, statements or ideologies can be rated on a range or 1 to 1,000.

... truths reported were scientifically derived and objectively organized and like all truths, they were experienced personally.

... states of awareness give direction to the process of subjective realization for a state of subjective awareness.

How does one reach this state of awareness? When the mind grows silent, the thought of ‘I am’ disappears and Pure Awareness illuminates what one is, was and always will be, beyond all worlds and all universes – infinite and beyond time.

... ordinary activities ... habitual, automatic and effortless.

All human endeavor has the common goal of understanding or influencing our experience. Spectacular amounts of time and money are invested in data collection and analysis in the attempt to predict human trends.

We are drowning in information. The obstacle is that we don’t have the proper tools to interpret the significance, relevance or accuracy of our data.

Man’s two basic types of operational faculties, reason and feeling, are both inherently unreliable.

... pattern recognition – the logical arrangement of data serves mainly to enhance a pattern-recognition system that then becomes “truth”.

The decision-making process is a function of consciousness itself; the mind makes choices based on millions of pieces of data and their correlations and projections, far beyond conscious comprehension and with enormous rapidity.

A positive stimulus provokes a strong muscle response. A negative stimulus results in a demonstrable weakening of the muscle.

The challenge in presenting lies in the paradox of comprehending nonlinear concepts in a linear, sentence-by-sentence structure. (p. 33)

The individual human mind is like a computer terminal connected to the unlimited information contained in the database.

... the technique can be used by anyone, anywhere, at any time and has the capacity to initiate a new era of human experience based on observable and verifiable truth.

... my challenge has been to work it into a readable form. (p. 35)

We have at our fingertips, a means of accurately distinguishing truth from falsehood, workable from unworkable, benevolent from malign.

We have the means of finding answers to previously unresolved problems at our disposal.

In the 1970’s computers were being designed that were capable of millions of calculations in milliseconds, making the new tools of artificial intelligence possible.

Ways of Consciousness ... Regardless of what branch of inquiry one starts from, all avenues of investigation eventually converge at a common meeting point: the quest for an organized understanding of the nature of pure consciousness.

... the context needed to comprehend the findings

By identifying subjective and objective ... we can find the answers to all questions by merely looking within.

Each of us possesses a computer far more advanced than the most elaborate artificial intelligence machine available, one that’s available at any time, - the human mind itself.

Critical Point Analysis ... a technique derived from the fact that in any highly complex system there is a specific, critical point at which the smallest input will result in the greatest change.

Nonlinear dynamics enables significant patterns to be identified in complex presentations. It discovers the relevance in what the word discards as irrelevant, using an entirely different approach and totally different methods of problem resolution from the ones with which the world is familiar.

Nonlinear dynamics moves in the opposite direction: From the unknown to the known (the answer)!