OCTOBER 01 ~ DAILY REFLECTION ~ from: ALONG THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT ~ by: Dr. David R. Hawkins. ►Conflict exists in the mind of the observer and not in that which is observed.◄ From: “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” (2008), Chapter 6: Social Reality and Levels of Truth, p. 106 --------------------------------- With Additional Context: --------------------------------- Social Reality and Levels of Truth While calibrating the levels of consciousness and their expressions may seem to be academic and abstract, the consequences of their actual social impact are profound, concrete, and extensive. Each level reveals possibilities as well as limitations of awareness and concordant brain-function capacity for comprehension. These then reflect a presumptive worldview of ‘reality’ and therefore presumptive truth. They also result in characteristic political, intellectual, and even geographical social groupings with very different expectations, requirements, and styles of expression. These social constellations also include different communication styles as well as moral standards and ethical premises that in turn influence presumptions about relationships and social roles. Choices and options often reflect subtleties and nuances of projected symbols and values that are in themselves implicit signals of group and cultural identifications. The different levels also have their own characteristic ideals as well as their symbols of worth. These complexities interact and are then reflected back to society via the politicized media, which superimpose yet another layer of influence and interpretation. This editorial influence further compounds the process of perception so that essence or verifiable truth becomes progressively more obscure and frustratingly difficult or even impossible to discern. In todays world, the Scopes dilemma persists in its expressions as materialistic secularism versus traditional religions and their respective ethics and morality. Paradoxically, both science and religion are equally based on faith, trust, and belief and are bulwarked by the authority of impressive literature and historical documentation (see McGrath, 2005). As seen by even brief analysis, each paradigm draws from a different realm of presumptive reality with no means of crossover except for the useful methodology of consciousness calibration research itself. The term secular falls below the critical level of truth at 200 when it becomes an ism (ism calibrates at 180), which implies that it is a limited, positionalized viewpoint. There is actually no inherent conflict between religious or secular viewpoints until they are converted to ideological isms and thus imply a claim to emotionalized exclusivity. ►Conflict exists in the mind of the observer and not in that which is observed.◄ William Jennings Bryans views of religious truth (cal. 505) were not confirmable by the laws of science, nor were Darrows restricted views of mundane reason and logic (cal. 450) applicable to the realms depicted by religion. The levels of consciousness of spiritual realities denote nonlinear dimensions, which are related primarily to context, essence, and realm rather than to provable, factual specifics of linear content. The Bible utilizes parables, myths, legends, allegories, and metaphors to illustrate principles rather than the use of specifics so that the literal factuality of Biblical stories is operationally irrelevant. Meaning is an abstract category of nonlinear thought and reason (e.g., Kantian levels) and its symbolism is not compatible, concrete, literal terminology. From: “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” (2008), Chapter 6: Social Reality and Levels of Truth, pp. 105–107 --------------------------- Related Teachings: --------------------------- From “The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden” (2002), Preface, p. ix: The scope of this work is immense. It includes not only a detailed, subjective report of very advanced states of spiritual consciousness traditionally called enlightenment but, for the first time, correlates and recontextualizes spiritual information in such a manner as to make it comprehensible to reason and the intellect. This correlation between science and spirituality represents a cohesive integration between the linear and the nonlinear dimensions. By “transcending the opposites, the author resolves the ages-old, seemingly irresolvable conflict and impasse between science and religion, between materiality and spirituality, and between ego and spirit. This resolution then clarifies unresolved mysteries and dilemmas which have been with mankind throughout history. With the expansion of consciousness afforded by this work, questions answer themselves and truth becomes self-evident.
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