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Summary: Profound, life-changing truth
Review: "Hah!" This book transforms the way one views reality. Of the hundreds of religious and spiritual texts that I have read over the past 15 years, this one has influenced me in the most profound ways. My copy of the book is dog-eared and full of highlighted text. Presence, peace, knowingness -- if one could put it into words, these are some of the gifts that this book offers. I am overcome with gratitude. Read this book and you will be richly blessed. Shadows cease to exist in the presence of the all pervading Light.
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Summary: THE BOOK for 5% of Mankind
Review: "I" of David Hawkins, M.D.,, Ph.D., is not for everyone.
The book is at best for 5% of the population and only
after reading first two other books of this author,
namely "Power vs. Force" and "The Eye of the I", in
this sequence.
This book goes beyond 'homo sapiens', introducing 'homo
spiritus', following after homo sapiens. The text is
internally very consistent and his test of truth is
extensively applied.
Author descibes spiritual 'enlightenment' as well as it
may be humanly possible. He describes consciousness
which extends over the range of 1 to 1000 for all human
beings with 3/4 having consciousness level below 200.
In this book the author focusses on levels 600 to 1000,
but frequently returns to lower levels.
The text is challenging to most minds, but very insightful.
For the above-mentioned 5% of the population, this is
most likely the most important book of their life and
a must-reading.
G. V. J. Anfang,
Author of "Man, Attempts At A Complete Description"
Rating:
Summary: Profound, life-changing truth
Review: "Hah!" This book transforms the way one views reality. Of the hundreds of religious and spiritual texts that I have read over the past 15 years, this one has influenced me in the most profound ways. My copy of the book is dog-eared and full of highlighted text. Presence, peace, knowingness -- if one could put it into words, these are some of the gifts that this book offers. I am overcome with gratitude. Read this book and you will be richly blessed. Shadows cease to exist in the presence of the all pervading Light.
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Summary: Magnum Opus
Review: A joyful conclusion to the triology. Dr.Hawkins work is dedicated to truth and the evolution of conciousness. It speaks from the authority of Knowing and places all existence in the ultimate context of Divinity, and even offers a method to discern truth from non-truth. He describes the undescribable--in a matter of fact way! Still...seekers may be ecstatic and revel in these elucidations. The author lectures on devotional non-duality. I commend these praiseworthy offerings to mankind.
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Summary: A Spiritual Ax to Grind
Review: Certain "spiritual" people contend that it is just fine to be politically ignorant and negligent - and that this in fact makes them even more "spiritual." Yet these same people usually would not say it is a good thing to be spiritually ignorant and irresponsible. I contend that spiritual and political progress and maturity go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. Dr. Hawkins is one who consistently devalues citizens' political responsibilities in his writings. Yet in this 3rd volume he finally comes out as a rabid far right-winger. Now that he has done so, neither he nor his followers should be surprised that people will respond to his political teachings, just as they would respond to any other mortal in a democratic society. Telling his critics that they should "look within" and implying that they are just too danged low on the spiritual scale to understand His lofty writings, etc. is not the least bit convincing.
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Summary: The Ultimate Book
Review: Certainly not for the "spiritually timid". It truely is the word of God. I would suggest reading Power vs Force and The Eye of the Eye first, but I wouldn't say that it is a necesity.
The radical Truth of "I" speaks to one's soul and alter's one's experience.
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Summary: Vitriolic Hatred From the Left Vented Here!
Review: Could it be these one-star "reviewers" are part of a vast left wing consipiracy? The posts read as though they're written by the same person - and boy is he/she angry! Relax! This isn't a political forum to dump venem on an author with whom you don't'agree. Get over it. Go take a cold shower or a hot bath.
Oh yes, Dr. Hawkins' book does have a way of smoking out the seething opposition, doesn't it? I loved it.
Rating:
Summary: Vitriolic Hatred From the Left Vented Here!
Review: Could it be these one-star "reviewers" are part of a vast left wing consipiracy? The posts read as though they're written by the same person - and boy is he/she angry! Relax! This isn't a political forum to dump venem on an author with whom you don't'agree. Get over it. Go take a cold shower or a hot bath.
Oh yes, Dr. Hawkins' book does have a way of smoking out the seething opposition, doesn't it? I loved it.
Rating:
Summary: WOW
Review: Great book...takes 5000+ years of spiritual teachings from multiple traditions, the latest in physics and psychology and streamlines them...a must read for all seekers (regardless of political party...Truth is Truth)
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Summary: A Neocon Hiding in Professor's Clothing
Review: Having read the first two books in the series, I was frankly shocked upon opening "I", the third in the series. While I was expecting the book to be helpful, deep, and insightful, as the first had been, I found the author's position instead to be rigid, dogmatic, and contrived. Ironically, he repeatedly admonishes all opinions and points of view being merely "positionalities". Yet between book one and book three his own points of view seem to have calcified with a rigidity that would turn off any eclectically-minded individual. In fact, I wonder if he is at all conscious that the name of the latest book, "I" may be more revealing about his own personality than about states of consciousness.
Furthermore, instead of staying within the bounds of the subject matter on which he claims to be an expert, he ventures into realms about which he is apparently painfully ignorant. For instance, he dismisses as public hysteria the very real environmental threats we are all facing (p. 65). Witness this quote, "The prevalence of a disease reflects the publicity given to it and the inviting 'deep pockets' of some demonized industry (e.g. fast food)." In other words, this man, himself an M.D., refuses to even consider that perhaps the content of fast food may be at least part of what is poisoning us. The book is rife with other examples of where the man, who repeatedly rejects "positionalities," whom I would expect to instruct others to question authority, argues for "authority" as something necessary and desirable in order to keep society from descending into chaos. He even weighs in on the "under God" issue with the flag, opining that removing those two words undermines the authority of God, from which springs America's power. The obvious question is why anyone who claims not to be dogmatic would so righteously insist on the use of the word "God," which so many find odious and an obstacle to understanding their own higher nature. Hawkins' answer: "Understandably, therefore, the elitist feels 'uncomfortable' with any reference to God. (Lucifer refused to acknowledge the sovereignty to God through pride and greed for power.)" So anyone who doesn't feel comfortable being bludgeoned by that word is an elitist. Less than a quarter of the way into the book, he was vehemently defending the Bush Administration's post-September 11th policies, leaving me to wonder if this man is perhaps just another Neocon with a quasi-religious belief system to numb the minds of the masses so he can further his agenda. He says, "The hatred of the United States by others stems solely from envy." This is the type of thinking I would expect from narrow-minded politicians, not learned individuals pontificating about consciousness. His analysis of emotions such as anger and fear seems similarly one-dimensional, all the more puzzling given his claim of expertise in the field of consciousness. The number of times he dismisses valid emotions by using the word "narcissistic" to describe them says much more about David R. Hawkins the man than it does about consciousness itself. The experience Dr. Hawkins' describes of finding "enlightenment" was apparently not a gentle one. His near-death experience, by his own description, blew his circuits, after which it took years for him to learn again how to use his body. The irony here is that, whatever he thinks his experience of "enlightenment" did for him, it did not remove the most objectionable and rigid aspects of his personality. I would not recommend this book for studying consciousness. It's dogmatic approach will likely create more confusion than clarity in the minds of the readers.
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