Since consciousness is evolving simply by our being aware that it is evolving, then we make an important contribution to life by noting the evolution of consciousness in detail.
An overview of the Map of Consciousness reveals three phases of evolution: from havingness to doingness to beingness.
◆ At the lower levels of consciousness, it is what people have that counts. It is what they have that is valued. It is what they have that gives them their self-image of worth and position in the world. They wear that certain brand of clothing and drive that certain style of car that proves their importance to their social group. Even close associates are mainly status symbols to them, so they want the lover on the arm who will make them look good to others, and they want to be seen with the cool crowd. In some contexts, they kill or steal in order to have a certain brand of sneakers or to control a territory or to get whatever it is they value as a possession.
Having is equated with survival, competitiveness, possessiveness, and rivalry. At around calibration 190, there is the addition of group loyalty such as the “pack.” My community, my group, my turf.
◆ Once people have proved to themselves that they can have whatever they want, that their basic needs can be fulfilled, that they have the power to provide for their own needs and those of others who are dependent upon them, the mind begins to become more interested in what they do, and then they move to a different social set in which what they do in the world is the basis of their value and rating. What is one’s position and function? What degrees follow after one’s name? How many boards do they serve on? They link achievement with survival via the security that comes from wider approval and esteem. They see group cooperation as helpful to achieve shared goals, such as survival of their interests via community activities.
◆ As people move up in lovingness, their doingness is less preoccupied with self-promotion and becomes more oriented to being of service to others. As consciousness grows, they experience that service, which is lovingly oriented toward others, automatically results in the fulfillment of their own needs. (This does not mean sacrifice. Service is not sacrifice. It is sharing from one’s inner completeness and joy.) Their actions are automatically loving and nurturing of the life around them.
At that point, it is no longer what they do in the world but what they are that counts. They have proven to themselves that they can have what they need, that they can do almost anything, given the willingness. And now what they are, within themselves and to others, becomes most important. People seek their company, not because of what they have, not because of what they do and society’s labels, but because of what they have become. Because of the quality of their presence and love, people just want to be around them. Their social description then changes. They are no longer the person who has a fashionable apartment or fancy car, nor are they labeled as the President of the So-and-So Corporation or some other title. Now they are described as a splendid person, as somebody “you just have to meet.”
This level of beingness is typical of anonymous self-help groups, where no one is interested in what others do in the world, what they have, or even their last names. They are only interested in whether or not they have achieved certain inner goals, such as those of honesty, openness, lovingness, willingness to help, humility, and awareness. They are interested in the quality of beingness.
We see therefore that consciousness evolves from survival to love—that is, from a self-centered focus on one’s own survival to a wider radius of concern that encompasses the happiness and support of others as important for one’s survival, to finally transcending the belief that one’s survival is due to any “cause.” At that point, one belongs to life itself, freely loving and giving to others without needing anything in return.
To understand the calibrated levels of consciousness, it is helpful to recapitulate the emergence of consciousness on the planet and its evolution through the animal kingdom into its expression as humankind. Our focus of interest here is the evolution of the ego, with its innate limitations, which calls for compassionate understanding.
A key point: the ego is not an enemy; it is our biological inheritance. Without it, nobody would be alive to lament its limitations! By understanding its origin and intrinsic importance to survival, the ego can be seen as being of great benefit but prone to becoming unruly and causing emotional, psychological, and spiritual problems if not resolved or transcended.
How did life arise on the planet? From the Unmanifest to the Manifest, the energy of consciousness itself interacted with matter, and as an expression of Divinity, by that interaction life arose. In its earliest forms, the animal expressions of life were very primitive and did not have an innate, inner source of energy. Survival therefore depended on acquiring energy externally. This was not a problem in the plant kingdom, where chlorophyll automatically transforms solar energy into necessary chemical processes. Animal life had to acquire what was needed from its environment, and that principle of survival then established the main core of the ego, which is still primarily involved in self-interest, acquisition, conquering, and rivalry with other organisms for survival. Importantly, however, it also had the characteristics of curiosity, searching, and, therefore, learning.
Life initially survived out of self-centeredness. The ego, which is the core of this survival drive, was merely doing what was necessary as life evolved from bacteria (cal. 1) to insects (cal. 6) to the emergence of reptiles and dinosaurs. The Komodo dragon, with a calibration of 40, is a living example of the dinosaur era. Its only intention is “me,” and in order for “me” to survive, it is necessary to eat “you.” Indeed, some human beings calibrate at that same level and are run by that energy field and its patterns. The Komodo dragon has perfected the process. After just one bite, it settles down and waits for you to die, and then it enjoys a warm dinner! Its intention is not spiritually corrupt. It just intends to survive by eating you.
As evolution progressed, the survival mechanisms became more elaborate with the quality of intelligence, by which information is acquired, stored, processed, compared, integrated, correlated, and stratified. Life has innate intelligence. This observation is the basis for the theory of “intelligent design” (cal. 480), which does not require any presumption of Divinity or a Creator.
Life then evolved into progressively higher lifeforms, and when this is charted over great evolutionary epochs of time, its expression in the animal kingdom becomes apparent. It is noticeable that at consciousness levels below 200 (with the exception of most birds), life could be described as rapacious. The tiger is gorgeous to look at but rapacious when it hunts and kills its prey. Levels of consciousness below 200 acquire their energy at the expense of others, and because survival is based on acquisition, they see others as rivals, competitors, and enemies. In modern languaging, they would be called possessive, predatory, competitive, hostile, and, in extreme expressions, aggressive and savage. With observation, we can see that below 200, some humans are not so different—hostile, predatory, competitive, and so on—doing what they think is necessary in order to survive. All the human ego’s tricks are observable in the evolution of the animal kingdom over eons of time where deception, rivalry, camouflage, and force fostered survival. With wolves (cal. 190), we see group pack formation, the dominant alpha male and female, the territoriality, and the use of deceptive camouflage to get close to unsuspecting prey. These patterns of the wolf characterize whole societies in today’s world.
At consciousness level 200, there is a shift in the animal kingdom to the more benign; that is, in addition to the carnivore, there emerges the herbivore. A significant transformation of consciousness was the appearance of grazing animals on the great plains of Africa and North America. At 200, the giraffe and zebra graze; they do not hunt and kill. The grazing animals not only return nitrogen-rich fertilizer to the soil and thereby sustain life; they spread seeds in their manure, thus supporting the propagation of vegetation. The deer, elk, cow, elephant, sheep, and horse calibrate over 200.
From consciousness level 200 up, the nature of life becomes more harmonious as maternal caring appears for the first time, along with concern for others, and the beginning of what is later expressed in human nature as relatedness, socializing, play, family and pair bonding, and group cooperation for shared goals, such as survival via community activities. In the mother bird, we see caring about her offspring. The reptile does not care about another; the mother reptile lays the eggs and wanders away. But in the mother bird, there is concern about the survival of the eggs and the little baby birds. With the evolution of mammalian life, we see the first appearance of real sustained concern for others, in the form of maternal love. Thus Love first presented itself on the planet through the feminine, which expresses concern and caringness.
With the advancement of evolution, the bipeds, standing upright, appeared with two limbs that they did not need for locomotion, so the two free limbs developed manual dexterity and, as a consequence of the development of the thumb, enabled tool-making crafts to develop. The increased complexity was facilitated by the emergence of the forebrain and the prefrontal cortex as the anatomical seat of human intelligence. However, because of the predominance of animal instincts, intelligence initially served primitive instincts. Thus, the prefrontal cortex became subservient to animal-survival motivations.
Primitive humanity appeared as sprouts of the evolutionary tree, starting presumably with “Lucy” three million years ago, and then much later as Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Homo erectus, and others, all of whom calibrated at approximately 80 to 85. Each new genus of hominids does not dissolve into the other. Instead, a new branch constantly arises as its own expression. Most recently, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years ago, there appeared in Africa the probable predecessor of modern humanity, Homo sapiens idaltu, with consciousness level also at 80 to 85.
Thus, below consciousness level 200, the prefrontal cortex remains under the domination of animal instincts, and all the animal survival tactics become more sophisticated. Humans do not attack with teeth but with words and other weapons. Warfare and rivalry go on as usual, and the front page of any newspaper reports the same events as what can be observed on Monkey Island at any zoo. This monkey tribe is making that tribe “bad” and another tribe “good”; this one is trying to get dominance over that one; the males are surreptitiously trying to grab all the females in the background; everybody is trying to make their piles of manure higher than their rival and will sling it at anyone they see as threatening! Sound familiar?
As consciousness evolves within the human, crossing over consciousness level 200, the animal drives begin to conflict with the energy of spiritual power, truth, and love. The ego’s deception is clever in that it deludes its victim into believing that the perpetrator is “out there,” whereas actually it is innate to biological survival process and therefore “in here.”
Understanding (cal. 400) the ego and adopting it as a pet allows its eventual dissolution. It can be viewed as a cute little pet that needs supervision, lest it hurt others or oneself. Eventually, as one becomes aware of its proclivities, one can override them.
Rarely do people escape the rationality of the 400s by evolving to the nonlinear domains starting at Love (cal. 500). In the 500s, consciousness is transformed. One is less concerned with the objective world and lives instead from the subjective state of Awareness, having realized that the experience of life derives from within, an inner domain of grace that is not measurable yet profoundly discernible.
The persistence of the primitive ego in humans is referred to as the narcissistic core of “egotism,” which, at calibration levels below 200, indicates the persistence of self-interest, disregard for the rights of others, and seeing others as enemies and competitors rather than as allies. For safety’s sake, humans coalesced into groups and discovered the benefit of mutuality and cooperation, which again was a corollary to the animal world of group, pack, and family formation in the mammalian and bird kingdoms.
The calibrated consciousness level of humans evolved slowly. At the time of the birth of the Buddha, the collective consciousness calibrated at 90. It then rose to 100 by the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and slowly evolved over the last two millennia to 190, where it stayed for many centuries, until the late 1980s. Then, at about the time of the Harmonic Convergence in the late ’80s, it suddenly jumped from 190 to 204–205. This crossover seems to signify the opening up of a new era of human evolution—that is, the emergence of Homo spiritus (see I: Reality and Subjectivity).
Approximately 85 percent of the world’s population is still below 200 and therefore dominated by animal instincts, motivations, and behaviors (as reflected in the nightly news). These levels below 200 indicate reliance on force, whether emotional, physical, social, or force by whatever expression. Levels over 200, which progress logarithmically, indicate levels of power.
Of major significance is that the brain’s physiology changes dramatically at consciousness level 200, which is the level where the quality of life changes, not only in humankind but also in the animal kingdom, from predatory to benign. This is expressed by the emergence of concern for the welfare, survival, and happiness of others rather than just for the personal self. The benefits of this evolution, caringness and spiritual growth, are clearly shown in the following chart. Above level of consciousness 200, an etheric brain emerges. It is not protoplasmic or anatomical but rather energetic. The etheric brain not only allows more effective processing of stimuli but also registers higher energy frequencies to which protoplasm is unable to respond. This is similar to the physical world, where more delicate instruments are required to discern higher-frequency energy fields beyond the capacity of the senses (the ear cannot hear radio waves themselves). The etheric (energy) brain is capable of nonverbal, nonlinear knowingness. Right-handed people become right-brain dominant, and left-handed people become left-brain dominant. These nondominant brain hemispheres are stimulated by art, music, altruism, and aesthetics.
| Below 200 | Above 200 |
| Left-brain dominance in right-handed people | Right-brain dominance |
| Right-brain dominance in left-handed people | Left-brain dominance |
| Linear | Nonlinear |
| Stress—adrenaline | Peace—endorphins |
| Fight or flight (alarm/resistance/exhaustion) | Positive emotion |
| Thymus stress | Thymus support |
| Ð Killer cells and immunity | Ð Killer cells and immunity |
| Disrupted acupuncture meridian | Balanced acupuncture meridian |
| Disease | Healing |
| Negative kinesiological response | Positive kinesiological response |
| Ð Neurotransmitters (serotonin) | 1 |
| Pupils dilate | Pupils constrict |
| Track to emotion twice as fast as through prefrontal cortex | Track to emotion slower than from prefrontal and etheric cortexes |
| Lower-mind attitudes | Higher-mind attitudes |
The differences between the two groups is major, as evidenced by the following chart that distinguishes the attitudes of lower mind versus those of higher mind.
| Lower Mind (Cal. 155) | Higher Mind (Cal. 275) |
| Accumulation | Growth |
| Acquire | Savor |
| Remember | Reflect |
| Maintain | Evolve |
| Think | Process |
| Ruled by emotions, wants | Ruled by reason, inspiration |
| Blames | Takes responsibility |
| Careless | Disciplined |
| Concrete, literal | Abstract, imaginative |
| Morals | Ethics |
| Definition | Essence, meaning |
| Callous | Merciful |
| Critical | Accepting |
| Skepticism | Comprehend |
| Literal | Intuitive |
| Control | Surrender |
| Competition | Cooperation |
| Design | Art |
| Guilt | Regret |
| Force | Power |
| Naive, impressionable | Sophisticated, informed |
| Excess | Balance |
| Terminal | Germinal |
| Rate | Evaluate |
| Avoid | Face and accept |
| Sympathize | Empathize |
| Want | Choose |
| Desire | Value |
| Childish | Mature |
| Attacks | Avoids |
| Condemning | Forgiving |
| Stingy | Generous |
| Cynical | Optimistic, hopeful |
| Suspicious | Trusting |
| Short of money | Adequate for needs |
| Insists | Requests |
| Rush, hurry | “Keep moving” |
| Lust | Desire |
| Ungrateful | Appreciative |
| Vulgar, gross | Subtle, refined |
| Grim, heavy | Humor, lighthearted |
Certain pieces of information can jump one’s consciousness just to be aware of them. Here are a few discoveries from consciousness-calibration research that increase understanding of various sectors of life. The very fact that all life is evolutionary gives hope. Even periods of great difficulty can be understood as part and parcel of the growth process.
The calibrated levels of the animal kingdom represent averages of the total population, within which there is individual variation, and there is also variation in calibrated levels of behavior. For example, “play” calibrates about 10 points higher than the average level of function, which is significant for both animals and humans. Another point of interest is that once a human family adopts an animal, the animal’s level of consciousness advances by 5 or 10 points; in particular, certain birds and animals that have experienced prolonged interaction with caring humans actually calibrate at 400. Koko, the trained gorilla who demonstrated surprising capacity for language and maternal love (she adopted and named a kitten), calibrated at 405. This calibration level indicates the capacity for thinking and reason; thus, the calibration level helps to resolve the argument among experimental scientists about whether or not certain animal behaviors actually reflect the capacity for Reason. Furthermore, a unique discovery is that a cat’s purr, a songbird’s song, and a dog’s wagging tail all calibrate extremely high (500)—in fact, higher than a large portion of the human population. Level 500 is the energy of the heart. That pet animals have the capacity to interact and emanate Love indicates an area for further research to discover why these beloved creatures are capable of Love—that is, they exhibit an advanced development of the “heart chakra” and are known to have a therapeutic healing effect on people with a variety of illnesses.
Love has only recently emerged on the planet, with its first appearance in birds and mammals through maternal love. It is helpful to know that to care about others, much less about the environment or the quality of life on the planet, is extremely recent in the evolution of consciousness over millennia. This fact elicits appreciation for the presence of love in our current era, and this very appreciation has the effect of increasing it.
Indeed, anything done with love increases its calibration, seen in the everyday arena of the food we eat. Machine-made food calibrates at 188–200, but homemade food rises to 209, and if it is blessed, it rises to 215. Machine-made bread at the supermarket calibrates at 188, but if the bread comes from the bakery in the same supermarket, it rises to 203 and then higher if it is blessed. Cookies made for the family calibrate at 520. These calibration differences are a unique demonstration analogous to Heisenberg’s principle in that the introduction of human consciousness and intention alter the field. It also gives evidence that prayer itself is more than just wishful thinking. It follows that we bring more love into our lives simply by consciously focusing on its presence as a motivator in everyday life. For example, this can be noticed in the love involved in making the family dinner, in cleaning the kitty boxes, or in going to work to pay the bills. Ordinary endeavors, done out of love, carry great power. Consciousness calibration confirms the truth of Mother Teresa’s famous statement: “Do small things with great love.”
High-energy fields in societal leadership are rare, but recent historical examples give evidence of their power to overcome seemingly impossible societal divides and to usher in major breakthroughs by peaceful means rather than force. Force, through its insistence that “the end justifies the means,” sells out freedom for expediency. Force offers quick, easy solutions. In power, the means and the end are the same, but its “ends” require greater maturity, discipline, and patience to be brought to fruition.
Great leaders inspire us to have faith and confidence because of the power of their absolute integrity and alignment with inviolate principles. Such figures understand that you cannot compromise principle and still retain your power. Winston Churchill (cal. 510) never needed to use force with the British people; Gandhi (cal. 760) defeated the British Empire without raising a hand in anger; Nelson Mandela (cal. 505) underwent a profound inner transformation during his 27 years in prison under apartheid, from tribal fighter to a unifying humanistic visionary who inaugurated the first democracy in South Africa; Mikhail Gorbachev (cal. 500) brought about total revolution in the largest political monolith in the world without firing a shot, in only a few short years, through his inspiration and vision.
One of the characteristics of force is arrogance; power is characterized by humility. Force is pompous; it has all the answers. Power is unassuming. Stalin, who strutted military supremacy, has gone down in history as an arch-criminal. In contrast, the humble Mikhail Gorbachev, who wore a plain suit and easily admitted to faults, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite error or defects, true “greatness” is recognized worldwide as a composite of strengths, character traits, and virtues as exemplified by leaders in various fields of human endeavor (cal. 460–760):
. . . and many others. These all exemplify stature and alliance with integrity, excellence, beauty, and valor.
Lower levels of consciousness routinely attack great leaders. Historically, all presidents, especially during times of war (Abraham Lincoln, for example), have been subjected to critical attack, extremes of vilification, or even assassination and have had to go through agonizing moral crucibles, such as Truman’s painful decision whether to resort to the atomic bomb to end World War II. His decision calibrates at 475; it was a difficult situation of triage, having to weigh the moral impact of killing 180,000 civilians in order to prevent the estimated death of six or seven million people.
The evolution of consciousness reveals that it is a major error to assume that others share one’s same values. From the Brain Physiology chart, we see that people who calibrate below 200 and those who calibrate above 200 are literally two different kinds of people in how they perceive, process information, and respond in the world. As noted earlier, 85 percent of the world population is below 200, motivated by greed, hate, pride, and other self-centered goals. They are not trustworthy or teachable. Thus it is naïve to assume that other people have one’s same integrity.
Throughout history we see the cost of this naïveté. Tens of millions of lives are lost as a result of decent people projecting their own inner decency onto indecent others, and thereby failing to discern the “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Calibrating just under 200, the wolf has a lot of intelligence, capability, and aggressive confidence in its pack to hunt and kill prey much larger than itself. Wolves use camouflage (deceit) to get near their unsuspecting prey. The sheep, at 210, is a very different energy; it is a peaceable, nonpredatory herbivore that grazes for its food. Humans and some entire societies calibrate at 190, and they are masters at camouflage by hiding their real intention in the “sheep” guise of agree-ability, goodwill, and even “peacemaking.” Consciousness calibration instantly reveals the essence of the wolf hidden in the appearance of a sheep.
The calibration of “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” at 120, is worse than expected, as most of the political methods calibrate around 190 (prideful egotism). The calibration of 120 means that it is extremely important to become sophisticated and realize that essence and perception are two completely different things. It is a serious error to misperceive, not a minor one. To think that the Komodo dragon is safe because you are a “humanitarian” and “animal lover” does not mean that you can step into its cage wearing sandals. The downside of Western civilization is acting on the belief that “we have to be nice to all Komodo dragons and invite them here, as they are just nice animals.” That error is quite severe.
It was the error of U.K. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who met with Adolf Hitler during World War II to sign a mutual peace treaty and returned to London proudly proclaiming “peace for our time.” Hitler scoffed at Chamberlain’s “stupidity.” In signing the Munich Agreement, Hitler had promised Chamberlain that, if given certain territories, he would not invade others. Within a year, as bombs rained down on the U.K., Chamberlain was seen as a fool for his lack of reality testing. Of course, Hitler was playing the wolf in sheep’s clothing and had never intended to honor their agreement. Chamberlain’s lack of realism (cal. 185) led to his failure to protect his country. Chamberlain’s intention was virtuous (500), but his capability was weak.
Similar dynamics occur in recent times when political leaders naïvely trust in the goodwill of nations who actually have every intention of using nuclear weapons to destroy us. Appeasement of terrorism calibrates at the level of “lower mind” (155) and is viewed by terrorists as weakness and cowardice. To predators, sitting ducks “deserve” what they get, like car owners who leave the keys in unlocked cars. “Tolerance” (cal. 190 as a slogan) is the error of “far left” apologists who unknowingly welcome the Trojan horse by demonizing honest assessment of high-risk factors. Just like a wolf pack senses the weakness of its prey, so do aggressors take advantage of America’s naïve idealism.
Consciousness calibration reveals the truth of any political or diplomatic conflict, as the underlying intention of each side can be discovered instantly. As noted in the list of countries in Truth vs. Falsehood, certain countries and/or their leaders calibrate at a level that warrants acute discernment, especially if they possess, or are actively gaining, nuclear capacity. The U.S., at 421, approaches its nuclear capacity with rationality and restraint, high-level values that are ridiculed as “weak” by lower levels of consciousness. Countries or political movements that calibrate under 200 are, in contrast, driven by values such as hatred. While it is currently politically fashionable to be “tolerant,” it could be said that it is better to be a live realist than a dead relativist.
The media contribute to the lack of realism as a consequence of the illusion created by the catchy meme “Fair and balanced.” The implication, of course, is that, via relativism, falsehood is of equal value to truth, a rather absurd presumption just on face value. As an example, we can take that the earth is flat as a fair-and-balanced affirmative to the view that the earth is round. This can be further elaborated based on the fallacious meme “There are two sides to any question.” (This calibrates as false and was actually the comment of a public official caught red-handed on video while stealing cash and stashing it in tin cans in the basement of his house.)
United States society collectively calibrates at 421 (as of November 2007). In contrast, the critics of America collectively calibrate at 190. Whereas peace vigils calibrate at 305, peace demonstrations are at 170. Free speech as a concept calibrates at 340, but free speech as it is practiced in the U.S. calibrates at 187, the level of narcissism. In current society there is the popularity of having an overt, strident anti-American antiestablishment attitude (“Hollywoodism,” cal. 170 to 190) that profits from media attention. Whereas the bumper sticker “Question Authority” is hostile and calibrates at 160, honest disagreement calibrates at 495.
A study of Western civilization indicates that its overall level of consciousness is currently in decline such that even formal education is no longer a safeguard against blatant nonintegrity and the gross falsehoods pervasive in the media and academia.
The most practical countermeasures are:
It is thanks to the ego’s tenacity that anyone is even alive to read this book. When we view the ego from an evolutionary perspective through the millennia, an understanding arises that allows for compassion. The ego is not our “enemy” but rather a “pet” to watch over. Instead of treating it with condemnation, hatred, and guilt, the way to de-energize it is by viewing it objectively for what it truly is—that is, a vestigial remnant of our evolutionary origins. Paradoxically, the ego is reinforced by condemnation, labeling it as “sin,” repenting with sackcloth and ashes, and wallowing in guilt. Such approaches merely utilize the ego to attack the ego, thereby reinforcing it.
As Freud discovered, out of guilt, we repress our animal nature and then project it onto others or a deity that purportedly has the same character defects as the worst humans. The ego is dissolved not by denunciation or self-hatred, which are expressions of the ego, but by benign and nonmoralistic acceptance and compassion that arise out of understanding its intrinsic nature and origin. Although guilt and repentance may have a certain pragmatic usefulness for brief periods in one’s spiritual evolution, it is to be noted from examining the Map of Consciousness that Guilt, Hate (self-hatred), Regret, Despondency, and all such negative positionalities are at the bottom of the scale, whereas Forgiveness, Love, Acceptance, and Joy are at the top and lead to Enlightenment.
The Map of Consciousness reveals that the world provides an infinite panorama, and by playing our part in being what we are, we serve others. Each one of us serves others merely by being here. People in the lower levels of consciousness are not “bad” for being what they are; they serve us by forcing us to recontextualize their reality and their value. We end up respecting them all. As mistaken as we think they might be, we can nonetheless respect someone who is willing to sacrifice their life for country, God, or whatever they believe they are doing it for.
War itself serves the evolution of consciousness by providing a way for millions of people to cross over from cowardice to Courage as they walk through the hail of bullets in the name of a higher principle, God, country, king, or family. Warfare is the way that men, in the role of the warrior, have historically crossed over that critical line of 200. Women have traditionally made the same step through childbirth, risking death—and often dying—for the sake of birthing new life. Therefore, nothing in the evolution of consciousness needs to be judged or condemned, for each expression has served the whole by virtue of what it was at the time.
Consciousness-calibration research reveals that approximately 92 percent of society’s problems arise from people who calibrate below 200, and their overall financial cost to the citizenry is too enormous to calculate. Thus, a society that is overly permissive or supports nonintegrity pays an astronomical price not only in quality of life but also in every area of it, down to just simple, everyday physical safety.
Because integrous individuals do not typically grasp the fact that they are actually in the minority, it bears repeating that only 15 percent of the world’s population is above the critical consciousness level of 200. However, the collective power of that 15 percent has the weight to counterbalance the negativity of the remaining 85 percent of the world’s population. Because the scale of power advances logarithmically, a single Avatar at a consciousness level of 1,000 can and does, in fact, totally counterbalance the collective negativity of all humankind. Kinesiologic testing has shown:
Were it not for these counterbalances, humankind would self-destruct out of the sheer mass of its unopposed negativity. However, the difference in power between a loving thought and a fearful thought is so enormous as to be beyond the capacity of the human imagination to even comprehend. We can see from the analysis above that even a few loving thoughts during the course of the day more than counterbalance all our negative thoughts by their sheer power.
The only way to enhance one’s power in the world is by increasing one’s integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. If the diverse populations of humankind can be brought to this realization, the survival of human society and the happiness of its members are more secure. Simply knowing that an increase in one’s level of consciousness reduces negativity in the world motivates the intention to evolve up the scale.
The sincere seeker needs to know only a few things. Merely to hear or read them already begins the process. The most important thing to know is that everything is happening of its own. Nothing is being “caused” by anything. All phenomena are the automatic consequence of the infinite field. The field is one of infinite invisible omnipotent power. It is all-encompassing, like a giant electromagnetic field, with no beginning and no end, in space or in time, forever and always present. Its presence is exquisitely gentle and exquisitely powerful. Its power is such that all potentiality is activated to become an actuality.
From a state of pure consciousness, one witnesses that all things are happening spontaneously by virtue of the infinite power of the field of Divinity. Everything is happening in and of its own nature as a consequence of that which it is, not as a consequence of that which it does, which implies the duality of a doer in the action.
What the world considers evolution is actually the witnessing of creation, which is continuous. The Unmanifest becomes Manifest by Divine Providence as the Totality of Creation, which emerges effortlessly. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Therefore, each thing comes forth, manifesting its karmic inheritance; its karma is its innate potential, and when conditions are appropriate, then the potentiality becomes an actuality, in and of itself, as a consequence of the infinite power of the field.
The field is so powerful that if one continuously holds a thought, it will emerge; otherwise no one would become enlightened. Therefore, intention is all-powerful. The ego is very clever. As a potentiality begins to manifest, it takes credit for it. If one takes a pair of scissors and cuts the stem of the apple, the ego thinks it made the apple drop to the ground! The ego ignores gravity, but that is how all things are happening—automatically, like gravity. There’s no inner separate “personal self” causing anything to happen. Just like people are not aware of gravity, without which we would all fall off the globe, similarly people are not aware of Divinity as an infinite field of power without which existence is not possible.
Intentions come out of the etheric body—not from the ego mind, which the Newtonian paradigm of causality would have you believe. The movement has already happened by the time you decide you are going to move. I discovered that reality at age 16 when a rabbit ran in front of the car. The foot instantly braked the car, and I caught my ego claiming credit for that. The ego was thinking, I put the brake on to save the rabbit’s life. No, the brake was already on before the mind could mentally process it. It takes 0.0001 second (one ten-thousandth of a second) for the “experiencer” core of the ego to move from the phenomena to the subjective readout. The ego is the tape monitor, which is recorded 0.0001 second after the reality has happened. So, perception is 0.0001 second behind what the essence is. It is a shock when the ego’s monitoring stops, and the awareness and the experiencing are simultaneous. Perception therefore is personally motivated and selective. In contrast, essence is the impersonal witnessing of the totality. It registers everything, but it does so passively, not by seeking or searching it out.
For the sake of the right brain, which learns by familiarity and circling back, it bears repeating that one needs to know only one thing: all is happening of its own by divine ordination as the Unmanifest becomes Manifest in and of itself because of the infinite power of the field of Divinity and for no other reason. What happens is that the mind, in one ten-thousandth of a second, quickly claims that it was the author of the action. If one is strictly and radically honest, which is beyond the capacity of most people, one would somehow be able to beat that one ten-thousandth of a second and completely surrender to the Reality that all things happen by Divine Providence, by the will of God, and not for any other reason. The only opponent to that understanding is the ego; the ego’s job is to claim to be God, and it does it well after millennia of biological evolution.
The basic premise of this infinite field is that it instantly recognizes truth. The infinite field of consciousness registers all that has ever happened throughout time. Every thought, every feeling, every movement, every action is recorded forever. There is no such thing as privacy. Everything radiates out an energy that can be read thousands of years later. We have access to all the information that exists within one second! It takes that long to discover any secret in the universe.
To instantly know truth from falsehood is an incredible gift. To not know the difference between truth and falsehood has dragged humanity through endless wars, poverty, savageries, sickness, agonies, suffering, and death. The human affliction has been one of ignorance. All the great Avatars, Krishna, Christ, and Buddha say there is only one “sin,” only one problem, and that is ignorance. We have had no way of discerning truth from falsehood except the words of the great spiritual teachers. Now we have at hand a gift representing the consequence of the advance of human consciousness over time.
The advance of truth does not necessarily bring tranquil waters. In fact, it may disturb things for a period of time. Spiritual people project a future of hearts and flowers and the possibility that peace will come as the result of peace marches or other activities. We will have peace, all right, but it may take a few thousand years! There is no point to being impatient with the evolution of consciousness. The best way to contribute is the quiet, diligent work of inwardly becoming a more loving, kind, and self-responsible person.
To merely know that all things are happening of their own accord, with no external cause, begins to disassemble the illusion of dualism, which presumes a doer. The difficulty with most spiritual students is that they are stuck in the Newtonian paradigm of reality, in which there is a “this” causing a “that.” This dualistic belief system is at the core of the ego and is the very source of thinking that there is a separate individual “I.”
There is no separate personal “I” talking here. Because of an audience or readership, the field, which is the Presence, speaks back to Itself as Itself, and “I” as a speaker or writer have nothing to do with it. Many years ago, the personal self disappeared, and the mind became silent, a state that continues to this day. The Infinite Presence is so powerful that it extinguishes anything that is not Itself.
A: Don’t try! You’ll only get stuck in a concept you call “nonduality.” Truth is not a concept but a realization. Merely by hearing that everything emerges spontaneously by virtue of what is, you have nothing to do but begin to notice it. You don’t have to think about it or figure out its meaning. Simply begin to notice that everything is happening spontaneously by virtue of what it is and that nothing causes anything.
In the state of pure consciousness, all projections cease, and everything is revealed to be perfectly that which it is. In Reality, you see that the meaning of any thing is what it is. That is its meaning. Its meaning is what it is. What’s the meaning of a giraffe? The meaning of a giraffe is to be a giraffe.
A: What one witnesses is potentiality continuously emerging as creation. Evolution is creation. Traditional religion has separated the two, implying that God finished creation after a week and then said “Bye-bye. I’ll see you on Judgment Day!” It holds that God created the universe, threw the ball, and said, “Good luck, folks. Hope you make it!” In Reality, creation is continuous, which means that potentiality within creation is becoming an actuality, and you are witnessing the emergence. You’re not even witnessing “change.” That’s another illusion, because “change” requires time, and there is no time in Reality. Those are all mentalizations. If I ask a rabbit, “What time is it?” he wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. Time is a mentalization that the ego projects onto experience. Evolution as a linear sequence in time is a mentalization. It’s not time or sequence or change that you see in Reality but rather the continuous emergence of potentiality becoming an actuality.
The great barrier to Enlightenment to people who have been everywhere, done everything, and heard everyone is the principle of causality, the explanation that all things have a linear cause and sequence, that there is a “this” causing a “that.” So long as you believe there’s a “this” causing a “that,” then you have perpetrator and victim, ego and spirit, self and Self, and then you’re stuck. The principle of causality calibrates about 460, same as Darwin’s theory of evolution. The typical audiences at Veritas lectures calibrate around 420, so 460 sounds erudite to them, but from a level of 550 and higher, it sounds ridiculous! The highest truth is that all comes into existence by virtue of the Presence of Divinity. Nothing else has within it the power to create its own existence. Genesis (cal. 600) states that from the Godhead radiated Light, and out of that Light originated life, and the universe. Life comes from the spontaneous evolution of the Godhead. Everything emerges spontaneously from potentiality to actuality by virtue of the Infinite Power of the Presence of God. What seems to the mind to be sequential and causal is not happening in a sequential, causal way at all. You and I in this moment are spontaneously being what we are in the Infinite Field.
A: “Good” or “bad” is your perception. Adversity can actually be seen as a gift. Many cancer survivors will tell you, “It’s the best thing that ever happened to me.” Divinity is omniscient and you are not. Your perception is not Reality. What you perceive as “unfair” might just be the means of liberation. What you’re wanting to know is whether there is intrinsic justice in the world and whether happenings in the world emerge justly and fairly. Yes, they do. Human life is karmically fair, completely and totally. Everyone is steering their own canoe. As Love is the Ultimate Law of the Universe (statement calibrates at 750), each person is born into the circumstances of maximal spiritual benefit.
For something to be “unfair,” the universe would have to be accidental or capricious. Nothing is accidental and Divinity is not capricious. The nonlinear domain of Infinite Power throughout all time, Divinity, is like an electromagnetic field of infinite dimension and infinite in power, within which little iron filings automatically line up according to their “charge.” Everything that has existence karmically has a polarity, a charge. Everything within the domain of Divinity is aligned within the field according to its own karmic inheritance; therefore the Justice of God is instant. No iron filing can be anywhere else than it is.
The Presence of God is an Infinite Power without parts, positions, movements; without anthropomorphic projections; without feelings; devoid of psychological problems and an unconscious mind! Divinity is not capricious; not angry, emotionally disturbed, or vengeful; and not in need of psychoanalysis and therapy! Divinity is an Infinite Field of Power and therefore, of necessity, has no divisions; it is like gravity, an indivisible field within which each of us lines up according to our karmic inheritance—which, on one level, is the sum total of all we have ever said yes to, whether we remember it or not. There is always freedom of choice; therefore each moment we make our decision. We can describe this world as the maximum opportunity required for the evolution of one’s consciousness. This is a dimension where choice is unlimited, from the most horrific and gruesome to the most beatific.
“The world as karmic opportunity” calibrates at 600 and is a teaching of the Buddha that reveals all experiences in the world to be an opportunity for spiritual evolution: “Rare is it to be born a human; rarer still is it to have heard of Enlightenment; and most rare is it to pursue Enlightenment.”
A: You are aware of the limitation of the intellect. The safeguard from being imprisoned by the intellect is humility. The intellect is only capable of doing certain tasks within a certain domain, and beyond that it’s an impediment. The intellect is serviceable to the linear domain, not the nonlinear domain. You wouldn’t use a hammer to open a can of soup. You can’t use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality.
Within the linear world of physicality and medicine, we see the intellect’s great value to the world. When I started out as a doctor, I was in charge of a large hospital where people were routinely dying of diseases that now don’t even exist! Polio hardly exists anymore. The benefits of the 400s have been tremendous, and we respect the intellect. It has been the great benefactor of society. As one’s consciousness level goes up, one becomes more and more beneficial to the world, and those in the 400s make a great impact. The world of science has transformed our lives from sickness, suffering, and misery to relatively painless surgery, childbirth, and recovery from many ailments. The intellect and science are tools for which we are extremely grateful. We don’t put down the intellect. We take pride in it, because if it weren’t for the intellect, none of us would be here now! It’s simply a matter of accepting that the intellect is limited; it is not God.
A: There are myriad views of the world, and they can be calibrated according to their level of truth:
A: An unseen benefit of spiritual endeavor and evolution is its positive influence on the collective level of human consciousness itself. Each evolving spiritual devotee counterbalances the negative effect of great numbers of people of a considerably lower consciousness level. Despite appearances, consciousness-calibration research reveals that the collective consciousness level of humankind overall is moving upward. Thus, an optimistic view is warranted. One can be grateful to have been born with a human’s infinite potential for karmic benefit. One can also be grateful that one has heard of Enlightenment and chosen to seek it, for such individuals are extremely rare indeed. As reported in prior works, statistically, the likelihood of choosing Enlightenment as the major purpose of one’s life is one in ten million.
Simply the wish to become a more loving person, and to align one’s intention with the energy fields at the top of the Map, is to be of service to the world at large. The way to offset the negativity of the world is not to attack falsehood but to be as friendly and loving as possible within your own respective domain or life. One person being friendly (255) is more powerful than five being hostile (125).
A: The world can be seen as an optimal stimulus for inner growth, as it is merely a projection of the ego in overt dramatic expression. It is best to learn from it rather than to be seduced by its illusions or entrapped by them via identification or attachment. The worldly panorama reflects the entire scale of the levels of consciousness in their most overt display. The panorama is like a school of discernment where the extremes serve to reveal the essence that underlies appearance. All seeming events present learning opportunities.
A: To be “in” it but not “of” it. The world is a means and not an end.
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1 Some people at 200+ levels of consciousness need ongoing serotonin support (see Chapter 4).