I: Reality and Subjectivity by Hawkins M.D. Ph.D. David R

Author:Hawkins M.D. Ph.D., David R. [Hawkins M.D. Ph.D., David R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Veritas Publishing
Published: 2010-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Although consciousness level 400 is reached by eight percent of the world’s population, and educated, literate, intelligent people in modern, advanced societies consider intelligence and education to be the ‘norm’, that is obviously not the case for the majority of mankind for whom reason and logic play a minor role in the motivations of everyday life. Calibration level is set by spiritual will, decision, intention, and dedication. It is the level that ‘rules’ behaviors and expectations of self and others. It becomes the yardstick by which values and motives are set and judgments are rendered. The standards of a given level then dominate consciousness and the ego’s complex set of operations of endeavor, value, and human energy.

Reason, logic, information, and its expressions as science, technology, and industry become the dominant institutions. They thus become the authorities that are beseeched and prodded to solve the problems of collective society, and the science of psychology is expected to hold the resolution and answers to emotional and personal conflicts. This faith in reason is compounded by the rapid developments of the science and technology of the computer age in which all problems will eventually be vanquished by that great hope of human society called ‘research’.

Thus, the intellect, reason, and logic are the recipients of the faith of modern man. In the modern world, although a sizable portion of the population is ostensibly still religious, the primary thrust of society emphasizes progress in the advancement of the intellect. Man is confronted with the challenge of daily survival in the here and now, and thus religion, which is viewed as derived from the ancient past and then again is projected to the hypothetical distant future, is put on the back burner. The serious pursuit of religious truth is thus often deferred until later in life when one becomes older and it therefore seems more pertinent.

Until the very recent advent of consciousness research, religion seemed to be intellectually irrelevant because it was related to history and events that occurred thousands of years ago in foreign cultures. The only information that could be called really interesting was the periodic discoveries of archeological artifacts, or fragments of historical documents, or geologic confirmations of some ancient scriptures. Church teachings focused on chronological events in the long-distant past, and thus, to modern man, historical religion, aside from the set of rather obvious moral precepts, seemed to have little relevance to modern life. Dissatisfaction resulted in the emergence of more recent nondenominational churches that emphasize the activation of spiritual truth and religious concepts experientially in daily activities.

The seeming inadequacy of religion to answer the challenges of human life led to emphasis on the development of the intellect and reason as we can see from the emergence of the brilliant intellectual advancement represented by the great philosophers of ancient Greece. The mind itself became the subject of investigation of philosophy, of which epistemology became its greatest branch.“Know thyself” was the call that led to the investigation of knowledge itself. How does the

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