Listening to Voices 33

(What If This Is True?)

You missed the point...again.

Chapter Thirty-Three

Remember how we began the preceding chapter with, “Don’t miss the obvious by focusing on the apparent.”

Then I felt nudged to get into the human inability to communicate and that language was more of a hindrance than a help – and, what I didn’t say, was that the more a language develops from its primitive beginnings the bigger the barrier to communication it becomes.

How I have reached this rather negative conclusion is the fact that no matter how broadly I define the words I happen to use, I still get e-mails that clearly indicate the sender didn’t get the point I was making, not because of any apparent or obvious stupidity on her or his part, but because of religious or anti-religious (two sides of the same coin, remember) programming and that from a developed language all of its own – interpreting what I wrote differently than my intent.

“Houston we have a problem” …folks, we have a major communication challenge because each of us have individual perceptions based on how we each interpret data, not according to the data, but from our interpretation and the perception to which that leads us. NOW WHAT, Daddy?

My e-mail inbox, at 4:30 a.m.

YOUR THOUGHTS PLEASE

Brad would you mind telling me what you think about the following:

In the 1960s, Dr. John Goodheart developed Applied Kinesiology (AK) into a practical diagnostic technique used mainly by chiropractors and holistic health practitioners. Based on the principle that “your body doesn’t lie,” AK or muscle testing assists these practitioners in uncovering what is going on in the body as well as determining whether or not a specific remedy would be beneficial. By testing the instantaneous response of a particular muscle, AK practitioners are able to more clearly navigate the complexities of the human body: If a tested muscle stayed strong, a substance was good for the body, and if it went weak, it was not.
Psychiatrist Dr. John Diamond further expanded Dr. Goodheart’s work by discovering that different images, paintings, music, games and material affect the body. For example, he found that classical music makes people go strong, while rap music makes everyone go weak. Similarly, synthetic clothing makes you weak and natural fibers make you strong. The implications of Dr. Diamond’s work, called Behavioral Kinesiology (BK), were profound: Everything we interact with either strengthens or weakens our life energy.
Psychiatrist Dr. David R. Hawkins realized the universality of muscle testing response—“what is good for you is good for me.” To test the hypothesis, Dr. Hawkins put a thousand people in a room, each with a sealed envelope. Half the room was given organic vitamin C and the other half a packet of NutraSweet. None of the participants were aware of the content of their envelope. Each person was tested using muscle testing (as described in the next section). The result was that half of the room went weak while the other half stayed strong. The 500 hundred people who went weak were holding the envelope with NutraSweet and the 500 hundred who stayed strong had the organic vitamin C—Dr. Hawkins had uncovered physiologic testing’s usefulness as the ultimate truth detector.

Brad designed a truth detector a few years back.

My response: _______, very interesting and my usual reaction, is what difference does it make what Brad Cullen thinks about it! It contains somewhere between 5% and 95% truth – including David Hawkins hypothesis that physiologic testing is the ultimate truth detector – so far, my answer is, YIKES (how limiting)!

Yet some of the clinical observations about organic C vs. NutraSweet; rap vs. classical music; and natural vs. synthetic clothing should alert us to some causes and effects of our physical surroundings. That’s what I think (for now). Thanks for sending this along.

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Wow, Daddy/Mommy/Spirit, should I go off into that? “That” being something I had gleaned from reading one of David Hawkins’ books some years ago and his thesis about Levels of Consciousness (LOC) and I’m getting a definitive “yes” …that’s the path we’re going to follow.

Aha, but apparently not too quickly. You see, I’m supposed to share the reason for my YIKES reaction to the “ultimate truth detector” if that’s even what Hawkins really thinks.

Physical measurement, via whatever means, always presents us with the “obvious” and that is the reason it can be so misleading. Physical observation through a microscope, just as one example, can lead to an “accurate” diagnosis of the presence of some disease or another, can it not?

That “accurate diagnosis” can lead to some invasive medical practice such as surgery, or the induction of powerful chemicals …either of which proved totally unnecessary because the patient was healed by (whatever) alternative (“natural” or seemingly “supernatural” means) before the invasive method had a chance to be employed.

Therefore, “Don’t miss the obvious by focusing on the apparent” may actually mean the opposite of what we think was obvious in the instruction …because it was only apparent, get it?

Don’t be confused; remember the 95% vs. 5% “principle” regarding “truth.”

Please look at the following list and rating number of each level compiled and rated by psychiatrist, David Hawkins, (M.D.) of the “levels of consciousness.” Then, may I lovingly and humbly suggest that each of us individually go to our SPIRIT-PARENT to see what each of us gets that might alter the list for us INDIVIDUALLY.

Otherwise, we’ll get hung up on what one Psychiatrist, M.D. gleaned from his own research …no matter how “scientifically valid” or what he or anyone else (there are literally hundreds of differing opinions of what Hawkins “actually” meant – and to which I say are interpretations and perceptions one and all …no judgment implied, i.e., “good or bad” just what they are).

1. Shame (1-20)

But....what is consciousness?

2. Guilt (30)

3. Apathy (50)

4. Grief (75)

5. Fear (100)

6. Desire (125)

7. Anger (150)

8. Pride (175)

9. Courage (200)

10. Neutrality (250)

11. Willingness (310)

12. Acceptance (350)

13. Reason (400)

14. Love (500)

15. Joy (540)

16. Peace (600)

17. Enlightenment (700-1000)

One of the things I found interesting in the research I just went through (by Googling “Levels of Consciousness”) is the contrast between some of those who gave their interpretations of the emotional equations they attributed to each level and what I recall -which may not be any more accurate- that Hawkins said in the book I read- (since I don’t even remember the title), primarily what I recall from the book, because of the huge negative reaction I came away with from his statement that people cannot make a dramatic change from one level to higher levels – again, perhaps a total misperception based on my own religious programming at the time – I mean I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, that is, nothing is impossible, right?

Brad and Ryan just don't get the point.

Self-help gurus almost unanimously give all kinds of formulas for increasing levels of consciousness in the referenced “Googling” on Hawkins’ list and ratings – with which I tend, from experience I might add, to agree.

Anyway, it has been an interesting morning especially since I had to continually and consciously tune in to our SPIRIT-PARENT for direction as I found myself being distracted by my emotional reactions to such widely differing opinions related to the same list and what Hawkins supposedly meant (to these differing opinions).

To me, it has been a perfect reminder of the blend of perspective, perception, truth, and possible misperception, misinterpretation and 95% untruth or 5% truth, whichever way is most comfortable way to express it for whomever.

The edict remains: “Don’t miss the obvious by focusing on the apparent” (AND vise versa).

“THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM.”

We’re not done yet, there’s more in thirty-four!

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