David R. Hawkins - The Map of Consciousness Explained

I recommend this book for every spiritual aspirant for climbing the unseen ladder of real spiritual progress.

Swami Chidatmananda, Hindu spiritual monk at Chinmaya Mission, Bharat India

Books

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden

I: Reality and Subjectivity

Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment

Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality

Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man

Healing and Recovery

Along the Path to Enlightenment

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Success Is for You: Using Heart-Centered Principles for Lasting Abundance and Fulfillment

Book of Slides: The Complete Collection Presented at the 20022011 Lectures with Clarifications

Orthomolecular Psychiatry (with Linus Pauling)

Dialogues on Consciousness and Spirituality

Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Calibrations of the Levels of Human Consciousness

Audio Program

The Map of Consciousness Explained (lectures)

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(19272012)
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The first time I saw my husbands Map of Consciousness, it was on a chalkboard in the hallway at home. I asked him, Whats that?

He said, Oh, thats the Map of Consciousness. He explained to me that hed created it to help people understand the world. Each level of consciousness has its own view of life, view of God, view of self, emotion, and process. On a single chart, you see the entire world. It shows a path out of the pits of despair all the way to the state of Enlightenment.

As soon as David explained the Map to me, I saw how it could bring hope to humanity. For decades he had worked as a psychiatrist with all kinds of people who were suffering, even cases of extreme mental illness. He knew the importance in psychiatry of giving someone a tool to inspire them to come out of their despair. He created the Map as a tool for learning and inspiration.

I said, Youve got to share this with people!

He told me he wasnt sure he wanted to go out into the public, so I spoke the words I knew he couldnt refute: David, this Map would really help people! After that, he published his first book about the Map, Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior. Little did I know that wed spend the next 20 years traveling the world, sharing the Map of Consciousness.

When I was onstage with him, I witnessed how he would say things in a powerful way and suddenly peoples faces would light upthey got it! It was so fulfilling to see that response and to know that someones life was changed. For Dave, it was never about himselfhe cared only about the message and its impact on others. He had a contagious sense of humor; it was impossible not to laugh whenever he was laughing. He didnt care about appearances or getting approval from others, because he knew who and what he was.

The Map that David created has a scale of consciousness from the bottom of human experience to the top. He developed it so we would understand why there are both low and high energies in the world, and why some people do horrible things while other people are purely loving. The scale goes from 0 to 1,000, and its logarithmic. Dave hired a statistician to make sure the logarithms were correct. Then he put the emotions and other elements that go along with each level of consciousness so we would understand what it feels like to be in Shame (20) versus Love (500). Some people go for the numbers, others for the words. Dave presented his work in different ways to reach people with different learning styles.