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HOW TO MEASURE CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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This post is part 3 of a 7 part series on my personal experience working with
applied kinesiology (muscle testing) and David Hawkins Map of Consciousness to
measure consciousness. 

 1. My Unexpected Journey in Muscle Testing
 2. If Muscle Testing and Consciousness Had A Baby
 3. Quantifying Consciousness Using the Map of Consciousness
 4. Ascending the Map of Consciousness and Its Implications
 5. Measuring & Understanding My Own Consciousness
 6. Emergent Phenomena Consistent with the Map of Consciousness
 7. Measuring the Consciousness of the World Around You

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.

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Can you measure consciousness?

This question always fascinated me. 

Before encountering the Map of Consciousness, the only methods of measuring
one’s consciousness and spiritual growth I knew of were

 * Monitoring your personal response to life 
 * Verification from a highly evolved teacher or enlightened being
 * Calibrating your experiences with the ones described in ancient texts

Apparently there are also some machines that measure aura’s or energies, but I’m
not sure this is quite the same as consciousness.

I still think these can all be valuable methods, but they aren’t exactly easy
and leave lots of ambiguity. For most people, the entire experience of trying to
feel good all the time and grow spiritually is a winding and at times
disorienting path.

If we could treat consciousness and well-being like fitness, then people would
have some barometer for how they’re doing and what they can do to improve.

David Hawkins Map of Consciousness was the first thing I’d seen that attempted
to provide a concrete map of the different stages of evolution. The notion that
you’d be able to measure your personal vibration and accordant level of where
you are on the scale of enlightenment is very compelling. I could think of
countless ways to apply this information.

I will do my best to interpret his ideas through the context of my own study and
application. Here is the Map of Consciousness:


PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Fundamental to the map of consciousness is the idea that all things are energy.
You, as consciousness with a human body, are energy. The computer or phone you
are on is energy. Substack as a company is energy. The emotion of intrigue you
might be feeling right now is energy. Everything is energy!!!

Each of these energies have a signature or frequency associated with it. The
frequency refers to the shape and relative power of whatever you are measuring.

You may have seen things on youtube like “love frequency 528 hz” or heard people
say, “this person has good vibes”. What these are really referring to is the
measure of energy characterized by vibrational frequency.



The most common thing we associate frequency with is sound waves and electricity
which again are just expressions of energy, like everything else. Rarely do we
discuss the energetic calibrations of certain emotions, ideas, or inanimate
objects.  

I have researched energy measurement intensely and this limited scope of what is
commonly measured, is more a function of current technologies’ ability to
measure things versus the reality of energy existing in everything. Physicists
acknowledge this and I trust this will change.




INTERPRETING THE MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO MEASURE CONSCIOUSNESS

What David created was a relative, logarithmic scale that was able to chart the
energy of different predominant states that he believed corresponded with
someone’s level of consciousness. 

The numbers on the scale 1-1000 are arbitrary like any initial scale creation.
Their utility is to provide the energetic context of one state relative to
another so that one can attempt to measure consciousness. This is how any scale
works. The celsius temperature scale of 0 degrees corresponding with freezing
and 100 with boiling is only because someone decided that is how those numbers
should be interpreted in relation to each other. The same principle applies
here.

This is an important point because I don’t think we should misconstrue energetic
log calibrations as a direct 1:1 readoffs of energetic wave properties. They
should only be evaluated in the context of this scale. Interestingly enough
though, there are some thresholds where his ranges match that of commonly
associated frequencies i.e. (Love c. 500-540). 

I provided a summary in his words of the background of the scale creation in the
last post.

When he began using the scale in his own practice, he recognized that there were
actually consistent predominant attitudes, thoughts, feelings, situations, and
relationships in the human experience associated with different scale
calibrations. Consistent paradigms of how we feel (emotions), view the world
(life view), view God, and what the process that consciousness undergoes feels
like also emerged.

Thus, someone’s energetic calibration was indicative of that person’s paradigm
of existence or the context for experiencing everything. It is this context that
creates meaning, rather than the content itself. It’s why two people can
experience the same thing and interpret it completely differently. Therefore
understanding one’s consciousness calibration could help understand the broad
paradigm of any person or thing. 

For example, someone who calibrates at level 100 lives predominantly in fear.
They are generally anxious and find engaging with the outside world to be
frightening. God seems like an entity that intends to punish them and the
behavioral response to most situations is to withdraw from the world. This very
much corresponds with victimhood or life happening “to you.”

As you move from the low energies to higher ones, you can see the predominant
emotions generally take on more enjoyable characteristics and your views on
everything evolve.

The only variable as you ascend the Map of Consciousness is the degree to which
you embody love. And as love is able to more fully express itself at the higher
energetic calibrations, all views shift in harmony.

Important things to understand about the scale are that the descriptions
characterize your predominant state. What this means is that maybe you calibrate
at the level of will (c. 310), but then something really scary can happen that
makes you feel anxious and scared (c. 200). This doesn’t mean that you’re now
calibrating at 200, but just experiencing temporary emotions typically
associated with lower energetic expressions.

It is easy to look at this scale and say wow, c. 500 (love) is better then c.
200 (courage). I know when I first read David’s book years ago that was
certainly my worldview!

I now realize that this is a misinterpretation grounded in the concept of
polarity. Instead of looking at these states as better or worse, a more
appropriate way is to simply view them as different gradients of the expression
of consciousness. Is blue fundamentally better than purple? No. They’re just
different colors with their own unique properties. You may have a preference,
but in reality they just are what they are. This is the best way to interpret
the scale.

A powerful metaphor for the scale is water. As the temperature changes, the
texture and quality of water evolves. Below 32* it’s ice (solid). It then melts
into liquid. And then above a certain point it begins to boil and eventually
turns to steam (gas). How water feels and what it’s capable in each state
varies. Moreover, each state serves an important purpose in this world. But at
the end of the day, it’s still just water!



So a very enlightened being at c. 650 is not better than someone at c. 200. They
are just living in a different paradigm which expresses itself accordingly. This
is a really important concept to grasp if you choose to explore the Map of
Consciousness. We are all at our own unique phase of evolution which is in
perfect harmony with nature. Realizing this breeds compassion for both yourself
and others. 

As you might imagine, it is possible to move up the scale. In fact, that is
consciousness’s natural desire to do this so that one day it can understand
itself. It is also possible to move down the scale. In both cases, the ability
to go up or down the scale is associated with repeated choices that align with
the higher or lower energetic states. 

If you increasingly respond to life in a more loving way, you will harmonize
with the energy of love (c. 500). If you are at a very high state and then
decide to say screw it and view the entire world in service of your ego, you’ll
probably descend to the more survivalist states over time (> c. 200). There are
countless examples of people in society on both ends of the spectrum. 

One thing to remember is that the scale is merely an attempt to contextualize
where you might be on your spiritual and evolutionary journey (your paradigm).
More important than some number, is how you feel and your response to life. In
other words, don’t get too caught up in the numbers in the context of evaluating
yourself or others. 


NOTABLE MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPRESSIONS

David does a fantastic job describing in detail each phase and the associated
characteristics in greater depth in his books Power vs. Force, The Maps of
Consciousness, Truth vs. Falsehood and Letting Go. You can use these
descriptions in order to attempt to understand where you might fall on the map
and verify a calibration with the reality of your experience. 

For convenience, I wanted to outline a few key thresholds.

Level 200 (Courage) – Anything that calibrates below c. 200, is associated
primarily with primitive, survivalist states. This means the number one goal is
related to survival which can be extended to modern day manifestations like
obsession with personal gain, rather than a commitment to truth. This is why
David considers c. 200 the level of integrity and suggests avoiding things below
c. 200. 

One example of how I use this is calibrating books prior to reading them. If
something calibrates below 200 (the level of truth), I don’t read it.

Moving above level 200 is considered an important evolution in someone’s
paradigm and service to the world.

Level 500 (Love) – Level 500 is where things move from the linear newtonian
paradigm (form) to the non-linear domain (spirituality). This is the realm of
the spiritual! It is characterized by a massive internal paradigm shift
reflected by different emotions, thoughts, physical capacities and world views.

Reason alone and our current model of science do not understand the expression
of consciousness beyond this level. For example, how does science measure or
explain something like intent? Or someone being inherently compassionate? Or the
emergence of intuition? 

We don’t possess instruments do measure such things so naturally science avoids,
rejects, or downplays them because they occur in a different domain. The lack of
empirical evidence, beyond the experiential, really jams a lot of people up from
ever experiencing the higher states. They become mired in the ability to prove
something ineffable so they don’t experience it. 

Around level 500 is also indicative of the opening of the heart and where the
predominant state of love emerges. Many interesting things begin to happen at
this level of evolution which I will describe later in this series. Barring a
fall from grace, a permanent opening of the heart characterized by unconditional
love for all things emerges at 540. Siddhis (special abilities) also generally
emerge as you move up in the 500’s.

Because this is a paradigm shift that you experience vs. observe outside
yourself, if you have not reached this stage of evolution. you will not have the
experiential context to understand it. Trying to explain it can feel like you
are speaking Mandarin to someone who only knows Spanish. And even if they follow
conceptually, the intellectual knowledge of what chocolate tastes like is
different than tasting chocolate.

No matter where you are, it is important to understand this vs. attempt to
proselytize others who don’t have the same context. 

Level 600+ (Peace) – Energy in the high 500s and upwards of 600 are the states
commonly associated with mystics and great spiritual leaders. These people often
fall away from society because the inward experience becomes so enrapturing that
they are no longer interested in what the 3-dimensional plane has to offer.
Though level 700 is called enlightenment on the scale, it is actually level 600
that corresponds with the permanent illumination that we typically classify as
enlightenment.

Level 700 (Enlightenment) – Permanent god-realization and oneness. Unshakable
understanding of the truth about who you are. In identifying as consciousness
itself, you identify as all things or non-duality.


HOW TO MEASURE USING THE SCALE

The way to obtain calibrations on the Map of Consciousness is through muscle
testing.

I went into detail in the last post on muscle testing, but as a reminder these
criteria must be true:

1 – The tester and subject must calibrate over 200 (level of integrity)

2 – A commitment to truth vs. any personal agenda during any testing

3 – A commitment to the highest good vs. personal gain

4 – They must be open to it being true vs. overtly skeptic

5 – One must ask permission to ask about what subject you are holding in mind to
test. 

This advice is somewhat paradoxical because you don’t know if you calibrate over
200 to start so any initial self test might be flawed. This is why David advises
it’s probably best to not start off by testing yourself.

To be perfectly honest, when it came time for me to apply these ideas, I
calibrated myself to understand if I could rely on my testing. Why? When I read
David’s descriptions and emergent phenomena at the higher energy levels, they
mirrored my experience. At this point, I had also received verification of my
level of evolution from my spiritual teachers. Both factors made me quite
comfortable that I’d be over level 200 which makes testing viable.

Assuming all these conditions are met, you start off with whatever muscle
testing position you have chosen and ask consciousness for permission to obtain
a calibration. You can use the following phrase:

“I have permission to ask about the consciousness of X”

If your body responds strongly, you can test. Occasionally it goes weak which
means for whatever reason you’re not supposed to inquire about that information.
This has happened to me a handful of times and when I honestly look at my intent
behind the question, I can see that it was impure. I have decided to just always
trust this guidance.

After you have permission, you can then use the following phrase.

“On a scale of human consciousness with level 600 being enlightenment, [INSERT
object] calibrates above [Number]”

If your muscle stays strong, then the calibration is greater. If the muscle goes
weak, the calibration is lower.

From here, you provide follow-on guesses to narrow in on the calibration. You
don’t need to state the full statement, but rather just the narrowing phrase
(above or below) with the number.

“Above 300 (strong), Above 400 (strong), Above 500 (goes weak), Above 450
(strong), Above 475 (weak), Above 460 (strong), Above 465 (Weak), Above 463
(Strong), Above 464 (Strong).

The calibration in this example would be approximately c. 465. 

I generally view these calibrations as approximations and often don’t go into
the detail of an exact number vs. rounded by 5 or 10. (i.e. 461 vs. 460-465).
This is ,ainly because my intent with these measures is to understand at a high
level, what is the degree of integrity of this teaching, book, idea etc. Or in
the case of a person, what is the general paradigm they are operating from.
Whether it’s a 461 or a 465 doesn’t make a material difference to me. And again,
465 should not even be viewed as better than 461! It’s merely a different
expression slightly closer to love on a continuum.

One thing to note is that the difference of one point on the scale might seem
pretty trivial, but in actuality the changes in expression can be quite large
because the scale is logarithmic (^10 power). So an increase from 461 to 462
actually represents a numeric change 10 fold greater in energetic power which
can be quite significant in how it expresses itself.


COMING UP NEXT

I’ve been given feedback that sometimes these posts can be a bit long!
Therefore, I wanted to break up this next part which will further discuss the
implications of the Map of Consciousness and how one can think about ascending
it.

Even if you don’t use it, I believe the conceptual model for how one views its
place in reality can be enhanced by some of the proposed ideas.

This post is part 7 part series on my personal experience working with applied
kinesiology (muscle testing) and David Hawkins Map of Consciousness. 

1 – My Unexpected Journey in Muscle Testing

2 – If Muscle Testing and Consciousness Had A Baby

3 – Quantifying Consciousness Using the Map of Consciousness

4 – Ascending the Map of Consciousness and Its Implications

5 – Measuring & Understanding My Own Consciousness

6 – Emergent Phenomena Consistent with the Map of Consciousness

7 – Measuring the Consciousness of the World Around You


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