This post is part 5 of a 7 part series on my personal experience working with applied kinesiology (muscle testing) and David Hawkins Map of Consciousness.
These posts are not my prescriptions on how you should live your life or make decisions. I share these thoughts and experiences not to gloat or cast judgment, but rather to feel the joy of creatively expressing myself and to potentially help others on a similar journey.
Anyone who has walked the path of self discovery can tell you how confusing it can be.
There are so many people and teachings telling you to go in different directions and there isn’t really a concrete map that tells you where you’re at in your journey…can’t someone just invent google maps for enlightenment already!?
David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness which I have detailed in the earlier posts in this series is the first tool I encountered that provided such a concept.
This post highlights my own experiences and interpretations of the map in order to understand my own consciousness.
Measuring My Consciousness
I’ve always attempted to gauge the progression of my spiritual evolution by my response to the world:
Am I more joyous and accepting?
Is there a growing sense of love and appreciation?
Am I growing in my equanimity?
Is life getting better!?!
I do think these qualitative questions are the ultimate barometer for spiritual progress.
But when I encountered the map, I was excited about the potential to get a more precise understanding of my level of consciousness for a few reasons:
I believed verification would provide context for where I was relative to the known arc of enlightenment. I could see this being helpful in order to understand what potentials await as well as the impediments in front of me.
I wanted to see my growth over time. I felt like more tangible evidence of my growth would serve as a strong motivator and potential learning tool.
The idea that I could also test the consciousness of any object, idea, or person also appealed to me. If improving my own state was contingent upon aligning myself to the energies that matched the levels I wanted to go to, I needed a measuring stick!
The first time I tested myself I calibrated at c. 530. I then retested myself, and again got the same number over and over in the span of a week.
Calibration between the energetic logs of c. 500-540 are the states of love. When I re-read David’s descriptions on the texture of emotions, life-view, god-view and other emergent phenomena past 500, it did in fact mirror my current experience. The congruence and repeatability provided enough intrigue to continue working with the scale.
Because the data source of collective consciousness apparently has access to all information across all of time, I was curious to chart my consciousness over time. I did this by following the process outlined here using a the calibration question listed below until arriving at a precise number for each age:
“On a scale of human consciousness from 1-1000 with enlightenment being at 600, on my (age) birthday, I calibrated at (initial guess calibration).”