Prolifically Raw: Leaving Reason, Entering Love -

Friday, June 08, 2007

Leaving Reason, Entering Love -

This is an excerpt from the book by David Hawkins. He worked with Dr. Linus Pauling and this book, Power vs. Force, received an endorsement from Mother Teresa. While I don't line up with all of his findings and see there is a good deal of absolutism in some of his final conclusions, his descriptions of various states of being are fascinating enough to consider. In what he writes here, he is discussing the levels of awareness and attaches a vibrational frequency to each level. To get more of his science and philosophy, grab the book. But for my own questions about the power of the intellect and then, the power of love, and when to release one into order to enter the other, I've taken the following passages:

Energy Level 400: Reason

Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of the lower levels (pride, anger, desire, fear, grief, apathy, guilt, shame) is transcended. Reason is capable of handling large, complex amounts of data and making rapid, correct decisions; of understanding the intricacies of relationships, gradations and fine distinctions; and expert manipulation of symbols as abstract concepts becomes increasingly important.

This is the level of science, medicine and of generally increased capacity for conceptualization and comprehension.

The shortcoming of this level involve the failure to clearly distinguish the difference between symbols and what they represent, and confusion between the objective and subjective worlds that limits the understanding of causality�

Reason is limited in that it doesn�t afford the capacity for the discernment of essence or of the critical point of a complex issue.

All philosophical arguments sound convincing on their own. Although Reason is highly effective in a technical world where the methodologies of logic dominate, Reason itself, paradoxically, is the major block to reaching higher levels of consciousness. Transcending this level is relatively uncommon in our society.

Energy Level 500: Love

Love as depicted in the mass media is not what this level is about. What the world generally refers to as love is an intense emotional condition, combining physical attraction, possessiveness, control, addiction, eroticism and novelty. It�s usually fragile and fluctuating, waxing and waving with varying conditions. When frustrated, this emotion often reveals an underlying anger and dependency that it had masked.

(This level of Love refers to)�the development of a Love that is unconditioned, unchanging, and permanent. It doesn�t fluctuate�its source isn�t dependent on external factors. Loving is a state of being. It�s a forgiving, nurturing, and supportive way of relating to the world. Love isn�t intellectual and doesn�t proceed from the mind; Love emanates from the heart. It has the capacity to lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive.

At this level of development, the capacity to discern essence becomes predominant; the core of an issue becomes the center of focus. As reason is bypassed, there arises the capacity for instantaneous recognition of the totality of a problem�

Reason deals only with particulars, whereas Love deals with entireties. This ability, often ascribed to intuition, is the capacity for instantaneous understanding without resorting to sequential symbol processing.

Love is therefore inclusive and expands the sense of self progressively. Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its expressions and augments that which is positive�it dissolves negativity by recontextualizing it, rather than by attacking it.

This is the level of true happiness�it�s interesting to note that only 0.4 percent of the world�s population ever reaches this level of evolution of consciousness.