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REALITY, SPIRITUALITY,
AND MODERN MAN

ALSO BY DAVID R. HAWKINS, M.D., PH.D.

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self

Along the Path to Enlightenment

Letting Go

Healing and Recovery

Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness:

The Stairway to Enlightenment

Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

I: Reality and Subjectivity

The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

Dialogues on Consciousness and Spirituality

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

Orthomolecular Psychiatry (with Linus Pauling)

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Copyright 2008 by David R. Hawkins

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Previously published by Axial Publishing Company (ISBN 978-193339189-2)

Library of Congress Control Number for the printed edition: 2013947045

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4503-9

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Straight and narrow is the path

Waste no time.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

While in recent decades advances in technology have been in the public foreground, there has also been a simultaneous progression of human consciousness itself that was expressed as a rather sudden recent advance in its overall level. This enormously profound and salutary change, which occurred in the late 1980s, was not even noticed by the world at large, yet it was detected and documented by the new methodology of consciousness research that had made the seminal discovery of how to tell truth from falsehood and essence from appearance. Even more astonishingly, it could also detect and even calibrate the specific degree of truth or falsehood on a simple exponential calibration scale of 1 to 1,000, which included all possibilities of knowingness within the human domain and even beyond.

As can be seen through simple survey and observation, the sufferings of mankind, now as well as throughout history (with the exception of natural disasters), have been due primarily to the inability to differentiate truth from falsehood, reality from illusion, perception from essence, and opinion from verifiable reality. Thus, the discoveries of consciousness research provided a new paradigm from which to reassess the entire human condition over great periods of time because the scale provided a context and an expanded paradigm that simultaneously included both the linear and the nonlinear realms.

This discovery represented a major leap in human knowledge, which also clarified that a verifiable definition of truth is only possible by the simultaneous statement of both content (linear) and context (nonlinear). That content is only comprehensible within a stated context had already been recognized in the discipline of situational ethics by which even the court system acknowledged the important influence of context (motive, situation, intention, mental capacity, and circumstances, etc.).

All historic attempts at defining verifiable truth lacked a standard for comparison that was absolute, invariable, definable, and confirmably demonstrable. Thus, the emergence of a confirmable, pragmatic means of identifying and corroborating truth presented an entirely new, enlarged dimension for the advancement of human understanding and comprehension.

Knowledge denotes an organized, systematic body of information or study, such as the natural sciences and their laws of operation as confirmed by application. In addition, information is theoretical (academic) as well as clinical, demonstrable, and confirmably pragmatic. In medical practice, for instance, there is the art (calibration level 445) as well as the science (calibration level 440) of the application of scientific principles and their inherent disciplines.

The study of the nonlinear domain has historically been referred to as ontology, metaphysics, theology, and philosophy, as well as historic religion. Modern religious organizations, such as Religious Science, Unity, New Thought, Christian Science, and nondenominational churches, focus on the commonality of the essence of spirituality rather than emphasize differences of classical, historical, ecclesiastical dogma.