Hawkins M.D. Ph.D. - I: Reality and Subjectivity

Foreword.

The radically subjective state of enlightenment historically has been difficult to convey as well as comprehend. In this trilogy, a means of comprehension has been provided for the linear mind to understand the nonlinear reality of spiritual truth.

Only infrequently has a realized being been able to retain meaningful contact with the world in terms of verbal fluency or explanation that is comprehensible by ordinary human consciousness. At times, all that has been possible has been a description of the overwhelming, existent subjective state that has been revealed. Thus, the verbalizations and descriptions of awareness at that level of consciousness are often obscure or subject to misinterpretation, or they may simply sound unintelligible to the majority of mankind.

What makes this work unique is that the state of enlightenment occurred to a personality that retained fluency and, after many years of endeavor, managed to re-own and re-master the ordinary levels of consciousness in order to be able to return to the world as a teacher and function simultaneously in both the linear and nonlinear domains. This required the creation of a conceptual scheme that allowed for the intellect to bridge the gap between the linear reasoning of the mind and the nonlinear reality of spiritual truth. This work is unique in that it includes not only a full description of the inner subjective state of enlightenment, but it also encompasses the entire progression of the levels of consciousness to reach that state.

In Power versus Force and The Eye of the I , the information necessary for the spiritual aspirant was provided. In this last volume of the trilogy, that final state is described with a clear articulation.

Sonia Martin, Editor

Preface.

This is the third book of a trilogy that encompasses the evolution of human consciousness as revealed by research as well as by subjective experience. The first book, Power versus Force , outlined a verifiable scale of consciousness and revealed, for the first time in human history, a means of discovering truth from falsehood, thus overcoming the most critically important inherent defect of the human mind. Power versus Force addressed itself primarily to the levels of consciousness that include most of humanity. These levels progress up to the high 500s, which are often described as saintly. The second book, The Eye of the I , addressed itself to the levels of consciousness from 600 to approximately 850. These levels have been considered throughout history to be the realm of the traditional enlightened spiritual teachers.

This third book, simply entitled I , completes the description of the evolution of human consciousness from the level of approximately 800 to its peak experience at 1,000, which historically has been the ultimate possibility in the human domain. This is the realm of the mystic whose truth stems solely from the radical subjectivity of divine revelation.

The text of the material is taken from lectures, dissertations, and dialogues with students, visitors, and spiritual aspirants from around the world who have different spiritual and religious backgrounds and varying levels of consciousness. There are relatively few references to other traditional spiritual treatises or teachers as the material is complete and sufficient in and of itself. This is not a theological text, which customarily includes numerous detailed references for academic purposes. It is instead left primarily to the reader to make correlation with the worlds existent literature. Thus, there is a bare minimum of Sanskrit, Christian, or Vedic terminology.

The term artifact is used in its customary but unique medical definition as something that is foreign, false, or misleading. In medicine, an artifact is a fault that could be mistaken for the real, e.g., a residual stain or a speck of dust that, under the microscope, could be mistaken for a bacterium. The use of the term is therefore not the more common one that means an archeological object of antiquity; in this case, it means spurious.

There is a purposeful repetition of certain themes and statements which is a pedagogical technique used as each repetition is in a different context and sequence.