David R. Hawkins

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David R. Hawkins, M.D. (born June 3, 1927) is an American psychiatrist, mystic, author and spiritual teacher in Sedona, Arizona. He directs the non-profit Institute for Advanced Spiritual Research Inc. and operates Veritas Publishing to publish his work.

Contents 1 Background 2 Life overview and professional stages 3 Transition 4 Professional and public life 5 Personal life - peculiarities 6 Spiritual teaching 6.1 Testing 6.2 Affiliations 7 Applied kinesiology as a measuring tool 7.1 Broad scale operators of AK 8 Objections to applied kinesiology 9 Objections to Hawkins' professional life 9.1 Orthomolecular psychiatry 9.2 Source of Ph.D. 9.3 Mentoring by Deal 10 Rating as a spiritual teacher 11 Quotations by David R. Hawkins 12 Books 13 Audio lectures/audiobooks 14 References (literature/audio) 15 References 16 External links 16.1 Text links 16.2 Audio links 16.3 Criticism & review links

[edit] Background

Hawkins claims to have reached a highly advanced state of awareness by Divine grace and via decisive life experiences. In his works he approaches the study and practice of spirituality by means of his personal experience and his clinical and academic background. The stated objectives of Hawkins' research and teaching are to facilitate metaphysical understanding and to confirm the reality of spiritual truth in the individual as well as society, focusing on subtle contextual aspects of consciousness and the road to enlightenment.

[edit] Life overview and professional stages

Born in Milwaukee on June 3, 1927^[1], David Ramon Hawkins is the son of Ramon Nelson and Alice-Mary (McCutcheon) Hawkins. He grew up in rural Wisconsin. At the age of 12 years as a paperboy, in winter, he suffered a near-death experience (NDE). Serving in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946 during World War II, he was aboard a minesweeper between June and August before Japan surrendered. After the war he earned a B.S. in pre-med from Marquette University (1950) and received a medical degree (M.D) from the Medical College of Wisconsin (1953). Hawkins underwent five years of his own Freudian psychoanalysis in New York while he trained to be a psychiatrist to take up his profession in 1953, leading to the American Psychiatric Association 50-Year Distinguished Life Fellows honor (May, 2004).^[2]

Claiming to be a seeker and later on researcher of truth for all his life, he was left unsatisfied by the volumes of the Great Books of the Western World.^[3] Calling himself a “misfit“, he tended to unconventional methods privately as well as professionally.

He married Margaret Hawkins, with whom he has one daughter named Sarah. Due to his spiritual conversion in January 1965 and the course of subsequent life changes he divorced her. In 1979 Hawkins gave up his large practice^[4] for a seven-year-period of a frugal life in Arizona as a hermit. After 12 years of spiritual study and meditation, partially earning his living as a truck driving “dung baron“, he relearned worldly manners again to become an “ordinary man“. Susan Humphrey, later his second wife, entered his life in 1991, being the one, who strongly insisted that he would publish his findings.^[5] Until 1995 he had remained publically silent about his claimed extraordinary spiritual states such as his first memory, a sudden awareness of existence, at the age of 3, his NDE as a youngster, sensing the “excruciating immensity of the suffering of mankind“ at 16, and his claimed enlightenment at 38 years, which he believes terminated his personhood^[6], followed by his unity experience in 1977 in Rothman's Restaurant in Long Island.^[7].

[edit] Transition

Soon after beginning professional life as a psychiatrist, Hawkins began to suffer from “a progressive, fatal illness that did not respond to any treatments“. Generally not naming it, Hawkins has stated however that he was an alcoholic.^[8] After reading Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason as a teenager he became a “passionate atheist“. He recounts that, on the brink of death in 1965, his ego surrendered, while he called out to God, upon which he experienced enlightenment. This massive transition he deems as the realization of “the most innate quality of consciousness as nonlinear subjectivity and its capacity for awareness“.^[9]; it altered his life completely.

[edit] Professional and public life

After a period of nine months of adaptation, relearning language and relating, Hawkins resumed his clinical psychiatry practice in New York, where he claims to have built the largest psychiatric practice in New York with fifty therapists and other employees^[10], 2,000 out-patients, a suite of 25 offices and laboratories, and 1,000 new patients each year.

He was medical director of North Nassau Mental Health Center in Manhasset, New York from 1956-1980; director of research at Brunswick Hospital in Long Island, New York 1968-1979; and president of the Academy of Orthomolecular Psychiatry in New York City 1970-1980.

The book Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Treatment of Schizophrenia, which Hawkins co-edited with Nobel-prizewinner Linus Pauling (1973), was influential in its time, and has the distinction of apparently being the first psychiatric text to consider the healing effect of nutritional supplementation (vitamins) on patients suffering from mental illness (schizophrenia).^[11]

Hawkins was the chief of staff at Mingus Mountain Estate Residential Center Inc. in Prescott Valley, Arizona in 1995. He lectured widely with appearances at universities such as University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan, the Forum of Oxford University (2003), University of California Medical School at San Francisco delivering one of the annual Landsberg lectures, and others; and to religious groups from Westminster Abbey (1971)^[12] to Catholic, Protestant, and Buddhist monasteries. According to Hawkins, he consulted for several years with unnamed foreign governments on international diplomacy to support resolving long-standing major conflicts.^[13] In 1999, Hawkins was invited by Ms. Jin-Hee Moon, supposedly former assistant to the Dalai Lama, to deliver several speeches to bigger audiences such as the Advanced Yoga Research Center and to convene with members of Congress in Seoul.^[14]

Radio and TV shows including The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Barbara Walters and The Today Show interviewed him as a guest.

Attending a lecture of psychiatrist John Diamond, M.D., on the topic of applied kinesiology (AK)^[15] in 1968, he saw that practitioners had previously overlooked AK's nonlocal potential for calibrating individual and sociological behavior and stages of consciousness.^[16] This sparked of his far reaching consciousness research using kinesiological testing as a measuring tool beginning in the early 1970s. Derived from his doctoral dissertation, Muscle Strength and Emotionally Charged Stimuli (later re-titled as, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Calibrations of the Level of Human Consciousness), on his AK based study claimed to have been carried out with more than 4,800 subjects, in June 1995 Hawkins published Power vs. Force. This book, which includes the so-called Map of Consciousness, a kind of step model,^[17], earned public endorsements from Wayne W. Dyer and, according to Hawkins, Lee Iacocca, Mother Teresa and Sam Walton.^[18]

To publish his books with no original advertisement Hawkins launched Veritas Publishing (1995), based in Sedona, Arizona. ('Veritas' means truth in Latin.) The Institute for Spiritual Research Inc. (formerly known as The Institute for Advanced Theoretical Research) was founded 1983 by Hawkins as a non-profit institute, wherein he carries out AK muscle tests primarily on his wife, Susan Hawkins, the results of which he publishes in his books and reports in his lectures.

[edit] Personal life - peculiarities

Hawkins grows and smokes his own tobacco. Based on applied kinesiological testing, he deems the organic tobacco to be positive for him and commercially produced cigarettes to be detrimental due to pesticides included since 1957.

Especially in his hermit period he existed on hardly any food (“a sixpack of Pepsi and a bar of cheese in the fridge“), which he considers as one of the temporary siddhi states in consciousness evolution, many of which he states he had surrendered in his evolutionary process. Nowadays, he has to be reminded to eat regularly he claims, though has returned to consuming meat again. Shaving he considers to be a waste of time.

Hawkins claims to have undergone several unspecified surgeries without accepting anesthesia, saying that he consciously rode on “the crest of the wave“ of pain. He further states that on one occasion it failed, leaving him with massive pain which he relates to a karmic debt that he became aware of in the midst of a hernia surgery.^[19]

In Arizona, Hawkins discovered that he is “a true scorpiophobe“, i.e., a person who has a phobia of scorpions, stating that “the best place for scorpions is encased in plastic paperweights“.^[20]

[edit] Spiritual teaching

Raised a scrupulous High Episcopalian, Hawkins studied theology at age 19 while attending the Jesuit Marquette University, earning “straight A's“.^[21] Having been a fierce atheist/agnostic from age 16 to 38, who underwent a staggering transformation^[22], Hawkins focused the second half of his life on the so-called “Science of Consiousness/Truth“^[23], therein researching the “Reality of Divinity“^[24] and the “Map of Consciousness“.^[25] Furthermore he displays the idea of “Homo spiritus“^[26], the limited scope of causality^[27], the illusion of time, and general teachings on varied topics including spiritual intention, surrender, miracles, the concepts of nonlinearity^[28] and void vs. allness, subjectivity vs. objectivity, content vs. context, out-of-body experiences vs. near-death experiences, astral vs. etheric levels, reincarnation, karma as well as the collective unconscious and attractor fields.

Hawkins asserts that God is both immanent and transcendent. Theologically, he is aligned with nondualism and the Advaita philosophy. Nondualism, a highly expansive and inclusive concept of God including all which is of form and not, may be viewed as the belief that dualism or dichotomy (i.e. self/other, mind/body, male/female, good/evil, active/passive) are illusory phenomena. It may also be viewed as a practice, namely inquiry as set forth by Ramana Maharshi.

His spiritual teaching focuses on Devotional Nonduality^[29], a form of transcendental monism, which has its origins in his research for Power vs. Force and was further developed afterwards. He claims that the concept of “Devotional Nonduality“ resonates with many religions (such as Hinduism) that hold the concept that “all is One.“ Other concepts purported by Hawkins to be analogous to his description of nonduality are Logos (in the religious sense) and Tao, which are also argued to be congruent with modern quantum physics and the concept of nonlocality as expressed by Bell's Theorem. He sees nonduality as a potential bridge between natural science, philosophy and cognition, similar to the merging of physics and metaphysics envisioned by Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics, the concepts embraced by quantum physicist David Bohm, particularly the one of holomovement, as well as the new paradigm science of nuclear physicist Amit Goswami. Hawkins' description of nonduality is also related to that of a number of modern writers and philosophers, including Ken Wilber and G. Spencer Brown as presented in his book Laws of Form.

Hawkins strongly encourages kindness to all forms of life, humor, forgiveness, humility, compassion, prayer and contemplation. He deems alignment and erudite familiarity with the existing religious scriptures measured by him to be especially true (that is, “high calibrating“—e.g., the New Testament except the Book of Revelation, the original teachings of Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna and others) as a means of raising one's consciousness in the process and incorporating some of the most evolved known levels of truth. Both seeking and encouraging personal alignment with the Highest good, Hawkins repeatedly points out that “all are One in God“, thereby supporting the Christian concept of “the Kingdom of God is within you“.

Discussing how to transcend attraction and aversion alike and the ego position which he deems as being the main obstacle to spiritual awakening in human beings, Hawkins often asserts that the human mind alone cannot discern truth from falsehood and invariably will turn to other sources (ideologies, authorities, habits, ego, etc.) to determine what to believe as true. He discourages cult-like followings of any sort cautioning his students to question all sources of knowledge (primarily via AK testing), to “judge them by their fruits,“ and to ask for inner guidance by the Holy Spirit.

[edit] Testing

Similar to the temptations of Buddha by demons^[30] and Jesus by Lucifer, Hawkins shares an incident where he was nonverbally offered the power to control worlds, which he states he turned down.^[31] He further claims to have suffered extreme lasting despair (i.e., Hell / Dark night of the soul [loc –50]) seemingly continuing for an “eternity“. Agony of this kind, he says, is accurately depicted by Hieronymus Bosch's paintings and Dante's Inferno. His surrender while in crisis and the grace of God, he teaches, brought it to an end.

[edit] Affiliations

Having closely worked with spirit based self-help methods and groups as a practicing student and later also as a teacher and being collegially acquainted with some of their initiators, Hawkins advocates for A Course in Miracles, the Alcoholics Anonymous (named the “language of the heart“ by its co-founder Bill W.), the Twelve-Step programs, Attitudinal healing originated by Gerald G. Jampolsky, the work of Ilchi Lee [55], and the Sedona Method/Release Technique of Lester Levenson [56], denoting their effective healing results. Sharing many of the beliefs of the New Thought movement, he is formally affiliated with its largest church, the Unity Church, and its ministerial education arm, Unity School of Christianity, which offers continuing education credits for attending his lectures.^[32] Conversely, his research has led him to not recommend New Age concepts (e.g., channelling, divination, fortune-telling, full moon gatherings, and Wicca) which are sometimes confused by its critics and associated media with New Thought.^[33]

[edit] Applied kinesiology as a measuring tool

Hawkins is best known for his 1995 book, Power Vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, wherein he presented the findings of twenty years of studying using the methodology applied kinesiology (AK)^[34] as the main tool to establish his research project of the “science of truth“, which has been running since the 1970's. As a versed AK practitioner he asserts that the human body (i.e., deltoid muscle resistance) can be used to calibrate the degrees of the respective truth or “level of consciousness“ (loc) of individuals, animals, movies, music, government policies, scientific theories, societies, countries, etc.. As a kind of nonlinear reality detector, available to testers and the testees whose overall spiritual awareness level meets the AK-tested standard of verifiable integrity [loc 200 plus], AK will work, Hawkins teaches, given that the requested statement also meets the basic level 200 upwards on the scale of consciousness. This requirement is presently roughly met by 20% of humankind according to Hawkins. A decade later, he made this claim more precise by stating that consistently reliable results can best be achieved by experienced testers ranging at a much more sophisticated level of reason [loc mid 400 plus], having passed the stages of mentation.^[35]

Quotation of Hawkins on AK
“When I first encountered [applied] kinesiology, I was instantly amazed at the potential I saw. It was the 'wormhole' between two universes — the physical world, and the world of the mind and spirit — an interface between dimensions. In a world full of sleepers lost from their Source, here was a tool to recover, and demonstrate for all to see, that lost connection with the higher reality.“^[36]

This muscle testing method he calls “calibration“ based on the frame of his own developed “map of consciousness“ (MoC), a logarithmic scale. The MoC comprises consciousness degrees from level 1 (simplest life forms) to level 1000 (avatars in the flesh), being maximally in line with truth/love/What Is/God. God and/or the “universal data base“ is referenced as the Absolute, rating at an infinite level of consciousness, Archangels at 50,000, while death ranges at 0 and the lower stages of hell in the 'off scale' arena.

Having measured the teachings of various teachers, institutions, and religions, as well as his own work, he calibrates the third book of his trilogy^[37] the highest, at a level of consciousness 999.8, which is 0.2 apart from the calibration values of Jesus Christ, Buddha and Krishna ranking at 1000, the highest “level of consciousness“ possible for a human being in Hawkins' scale.

Hawkins' calibrations on various themes can be found in his books Power vs. Force, The Eye of the I, and I: Reality & Subjectivity^[38], and mostly in Truth vs. Falsehood.^[39]

[edit] Broad scale operators of AK

The Canadian Jonathan Reams, who was then working on a doctorate in Leadership Studies, while teaching the freshman honors colloquium class at Gonzaga University on David Bohm as well as Hawkins' AK methodology for a period of five years beginning in 1998, was able to confirm a number of Hawkins’ published calibrations when demonstrating the methodology with students.^{[40] [41]}

Quotation of Jonathan Reams
“I always take the results of calibrations I do with a grain of salt, not as the TRUTH, but as something to possibly guide and inform.“^[42]

After having discovered Hawkins' AK calibration method the Australian proponent of pranic nourishment, also known as inedia, and internationally active esoteric author and teacher Jasmuheen started to apply it for study purposes with the support of larger seminar groups in several European countries in 2004.^[43]

[edit] Objections to applied kinesiology

Mainstream scientists and scientific skeptics consider Hawkins' use of applied kinesiology to be a pseudoscience, when scrutinized with the scientific method. Since the publication of Power vs. Force^[44] in 1995, wherein Hawkins deemed AK as a “well-established science“ (Introduction, p. 29) being capable of universal replication, he now refers to it as a right brain exploration, which is neither arithmetic, nor even mathematical; and AK is not open to reason, logic or proof. According to Hawkins, AK-tested results are derived from a field of multi-millions interacting factors; some known, some unknown.

Although Hawkins claims to have carried out large-scale scientific testing (mostly with the audiences at his lectures) of his version of AK methodology that showed a high degree of accuracy, his perspectives are controversial.^[45][46] This is evidenced by double-blind studies, plus research and reviews contained in the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health websites. ^[47][48]

Hawkins' AK research has not been published in peer-reviewed journals, nor did he provide double-blind studies of his own; whereas, one study, which was not double-blind, appears to support some aspects of his theory.^[49]

Scientific skeptics point out that Hawkins' claims beg the question and that he turns to the means of ad hoc hypothesis in order to rescue his alternative approach from falsification. Hawkins' version of AK (rated by him at 605 [nonlinearity]) does not provide provable empirically precise statements or outlooks, thereby eluding verification and scientific method and fails to meet the criteria for an empirical science (rated by him at 400 to max. 499 [linearity]).^[50]

[edit] Objections to Hawkins' professional life

[edit] Orthomolecular psychiatry

The use of orthomolecular psychiatry in the treatment of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses by using large amounts of vitamins is not recognized by mainstream scientists and is criticized for being an unconventional therapeutic approach that can potentially harm patients.^[51][52] Two longterm studies in which Hawkins was involved within the period 1963-1983 and after have shown that therapy with neuroleptica and megavitamin dosages on more than 61,000 patients prevented tardive dyskinesia to less than 0.05%. ^[53][54]

[edit] Source of Ph.D.

Admitted to the program on March 21, 1991, Hawkins received his Ph.D. in Health and Human Services on September 30, 1995 from the later on to be found an unaccredited correspondence school Columbia Pacific University (CPU).^[55] In December 1995, CPU's approval to operate was revoked by the State of California after a period of review and response that began with Columbia Pacific's application in 1994; pending appeals, CPU was authorized to issue degrees through June 25, 1997. In the same year California's Deputy Attorney General Asher Rubin called CPU “a diploma mill“.

Neither in his books nor on his website does Hawkins disclose the source of his Ph.D.. Claiming to be reinstalled into worldliness as an “ordinary man“ after a decade of seclusion, Hawkins explains his engagement for an additional title due to the “credibility problem in society“. Two “Dr. Dr.s“ would grant “greater fire power to the truth“ of what he has to say.^[56]

[edit] Mentoring by Deal

Hawkins' CPU faculty mentor was Sheldon Deal, a chiropractor who was then the president of the International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK). Chiropractic researchers who reviewed the studies that came out of ICAK concluded that “no valid conclusions could be drawn concerning their report of findings“.^[57]

[edit] Rating as a spiritual teacher

The bestselling author and motivational speaker Wayne W. Dyer is one of Hawkins' outspoken promoters (see his presentation on PBS on The Power of Intention). David Riklan, a self improvement author, rates Hawkins among the 101 best spiritual teachers^[58], whereas Andrew Paterson (Great Britain) of EnergyGrid Alternative Media^[59] and Shawn Nevins of SpiritualTeachers.org ^[60] both being cult watchers do not recommend him as a serious teacher.

[edit] Quotations by David R. Hawkins

On effective change

• "We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world." The Eye of the I, p. 69

On the ego/false God

• "From the viewpoint of the evolution of consciousness, atheism results from the refusal or inability to let go of the illusion that the narcissistic core of the ego is sovereign and is the source of one's life and existence." Truth vs. Falsehood, p. 356

On teaching/teachers

• "The true [spiritual] teachers can be seen to have no interest in fame or in having followers, prestige or trappings [...] The teachings and not the teacher are what is important. Inasmuch as the teachings do not come from the personage of the teacher at all, it does not make sense to idolize or worship the personage. The information is transmitted as a gift because it was received as such." The Eye of the I, p. 37

On his enlightenment experience

• "There was this miraculous change. […] it is so far reaching and […] so far beyond ordinary human experience. […] Now everything is transformed. […] And there is absolutely nothing you can say about it. […] Whatever had been my individual self was struck dumb with awe. It was awesome beyond all meaning of the word to be the witness of the presence of that which is in its naked expression as all existence. […] Although the mind has stopped one is at one with all that is known. There is, in the instant, the experience with those attributes of God described as omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. The power is infinite. The knowingness is also infinite. All things are known. It doesn't mean that all things are denoted by the intellect, because one would have to have an interest in such things. It is like in the presence of omniscience that all things are knowable, therefore one doesn't bother knowing about the specific."^[61]

• Further sources are: ^{[62] [63]}

[edit] Books

• Hawkins, David R.; Pauling, Linus (ed.) (1973). Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Treatment of Schizophrenia. New York: W. H. Freeman & Co.^[64] ISBN 0-716-70898-1
• Hawkins, David R. (1995, 2002). Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior. Carlsbad, California; London: Hay House.^{[65] [66] [67]} ISBN 1-561-70933-6
• Hawkins, David R. (1998). Dialogues on Consciousness and Spirituality. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. ISBN 0-964-32617-5
• Hawkins, David R. (2001). The Eye of the I. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. ISBN 0-964-32619-1
• Hawkins, David R. (2003). I: Reality and Subjectivity. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. ISBN 0-971-50071-1
• Hawkins, David R. (June 2005). Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Axial Publishing. ^[68]; ^[69] ISBN 0-971-50073-8
• Hawkins, David R. (January 2006). Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. ^[70] ISBN 0-9715007-4-6
• Hawkins, David R. (October 2006). Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. ISBN 0-9715007-6-2 (Softcover); ISBN 0-9715007-7-0 (Hardcover)

[edit] Audio lectures/audiobooks

• Hawkins, David R. (2003). The Highest Level of Enlightenment. (C). Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. (P). Niles, Illinois, Nightingale-Conant Corporation^[71]
• Hawkins, David R. (2005). Truth vs. Falsehood: The Art of Spiritual Discernment. (C). Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing. (P). Niles, Illinois, Nightingale-Conant Corporation^[72]
• Hawkins, David R. (June 2006). Power vs. Force - The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, 1st Audiobook (7 CDs), Revised version of his book Power vs. Force read by Hawkins. Sedona, Arizona: Veritas Publishing.

[edit] References (literature/audio)

• Watts, Alan (1966, 1989). The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-72300-5
• Spencer-Brown, G. (1969, 1994). Laws of Form. Portland, Oregon: Cognizer Company. ISBN 0-963-98990-1
• Herbert, Nick (1987). Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 0-385-23569-0
• Wilber, Ken (2001). A Theory of Everything. Boston: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-570-62855-6
• Shermer, Michael (2002). Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York, NY: Owl Books. ISBN 0-805-07089-3
• Dyer, Wayne W. (2004). The Power of Intention. Carlsbad, California; London: Hay House. ISBN 1-401-90355-X
• Pringle, Kevin (February 16, 2006). Ex radio moderator and Yahoo group moderator on Hawkins' teaching, ACIM Talk at Miracles Center ^[73]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] Text links

• Veritas Publishing D. Hawkins' publishing company
• davidhawkins.info Biographic overview on D. Hawkins, provided by Veritas Publishing
• ConsciousnessProject.org Not-for-profit “Resource for spiritual Aspirants and Students of Dr. David R. Hawkins Work“ including discussion board
• Level of consciousness Information resource including discussion board focussing on Hawkins' teachings
• Dr. David R. Hawkins Miracles Center
• “Investigating Truth“ Kindred Spirit, 2005
• Interview with David R. Hawkins Gina Mazza Hillier, Holistic Networker, August 13, 2005

[edit] Audio links

• Beyond the Ordinary Webradio program Series of audio interviews with David R. Hawkins 2001 - Jan 2006
• Audio interview with D. Hawkins hosted by life coach Mary Allen, September 21, 2004
• Webradio program »Strategies for Living«, hosted by David McMillian Truth Versus Falsehood July 22, 2005 and Transcending The Levels of Consciousness June 22, 2006

[edit] Criticism & review links

• Dowsing for God by editor Andrew Paterson of EnergyGrid Media
• David R. Hawkins by Shawn Nevins, SpiritualTeachers.org
• applied kinesiology Skeptic's Dictionary article includes reference of David Hawkins
• Dr. Doctor David Hawkins's AK Quakery Robert Todd Carroll criticizes Hawkins' methodology. (See Hawkins' response here: [57])
• Map of Consciousness Criticism by Marilyn Gang, former Hawkins' supporter
• Sarlo's Guru Rating Service Includes reference of Hawkins and provides critical links