Category: Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins

Invoking the Great Rays:

I think so, because- …I think it attunes you to the Great Rays. Let’s ask if there is such a thing. [Testing]: “The Great Rays, as described in the Course in Miracles is a spiritual fact-resist.” [True]. … “What we’re talking about is frequency vibrations over a 1000-resist.” [True]. “We’re talking about the archangels 50,000 and over-resist.” [True]. Yeah.

So, what happens, you see, through your act of devotion you begin to attune yourself to the great powers of heaven. See, a human being’s nervous system can only handle spiritual energy up to a certain level. …Homo spiritus has to evolve, the human nervous system has to evolve to the point it could carry more powerful energy and still remain in a physical body in this planet. The Great Rays really in a way means that intense spiritual commitment then attracts the attention of- what shall we say in the vernacular- great spiritual beings- right– who are out of form, out of physicality, whose dominion is enormous and whose power is enormous. As we say, what brought me out of hell was the thought of an archangel [snaps fingers]. An archangel heard the thought-keww! – that was enough. So, the entreaty, the commitment, the surrender does then invoke, you might say, the assistance of the Great Rays; it’s not like a personal basis, but as an automatic consequence of the huge electromagnetic energy field we call “God.”

Special quote: Spiritual work is done for its own sake. “For Thee, O God, do I lay down my life;  and live it to the extreme, out of devotion to Thee.” pg. 54

New release today!: The Final Doorway:  Prayer, Transcendence and the Realization of the Self, Ch. 2, pg. 52-53

It depends on all of them, you see, because to become interested in enlightenment or spiritual evolution or salvation, to be interested in Jesus or Buddha, or going to church is already great, good karma, is it not? I mean, eighty-seven percent of the population doesn’t even get that far. Eighty-seven percent of the population is not devoted to truth, or the pursuit of truth. To merely get on the map itself is incredible. We’re going through meditation to the realization that one is the awareness, one is the space out of which the word “cat” arose. The space is blank. Consciousness is blank. That consciousness has been likened to a light because it’s the light of Consciousness itself. You realize that that is the manifestation, and beyond that is the Unmanifest, because Consciousness itself arose out of an a priori condition. Out of the darkness arose the light, and out of the light, Consciousness. Consciousness striking matter evolved as life. That all becomes obvious.

New! The Final Doorway to Enlightenment: Prayer, Transcendence and Realization of the Self –  pg. 52  to be released on Jan 13th.

This passage came from the November 2002 lecture included in this book.

Devotion to God means what?

It means to begin with, just a reverence for life. The reverence for life is the awareness and the acknowledgment that the essence and source of all life is Divinity. Life is God. God is life. Therefore, life cannot be destroyed any more than God can be destroyed. The proof of the existence of God is your own existence. It’s a very advanced understanding, but with a little meditation and contemplation and looking at it, you realize that nothing has within itself, the power to create its own existence. All that is would either have to come out of nothing, or something. . It’s a golf ball.  It’s a shirt. It’s a living, breathing human being- [Snaps fingers]- doesn’t suddenly, spontaneously exist out of— The only thing that could come into existence spontaneously is form. It can go from this form to that form, but it cannot choose to create its own existence. No one here has the power to create his own existence; nor do they have the power to extinguish it.

Existence as life is not extinguishable.

November 2002 lecture: God: Transcendent and Immanent Part 1

This lecture is included in book  6, the final book of the Transcription Series of 2002, entitled,  The Final Doorway to Enlightenment: Prayer, Transcendence, and Realization of the Self

The sense, the devotion of those whose devotion was so extreme, brings the energy of their devotion into your own inner experience, and you get what it is. You get what it is – the worship and the recognition and the acknowledgment of the sacredness of that which is Divine. That’s a road which anyone can take- the appreciation for beauty, um. A great aria in an opera can just wipe you out, you know.

…We experience the presence of God through love, through beauty, through that which is sacred. So we are worshipful when we respect the sacredness of all of life. We worship God when we turn the black beetle over from his back onto his tummy so he can walk away, instead of leaving him there with his legs wobbling in the air. Out of that act we worship God because it is God’s life, so long as it exists in this form, is sacred and we realize the sacredness. So, it’s an act of worship. All that we do that supports life is a recognition of the– a respect for the sacredness of life. And that’s really all that’s required.

From the November 2002 lecture, God: Transcendent and Immanent, Disk 2.

*This lecture is included in the 6th book of the Transcription Series of 2002, called, The Final Doorway.

God is everywhere present, including the here and now. God is not elsewhere, such as only in a distant heaven or in the future so as to be available only when one gets to heaven. The presence of God is thus available to everyone all the time. To realize this is just a matter of awareness. It is said that without the help of a guru, savior, or avatar, this awareness is unlikely to occur in the lifetime of most people, which may be true.

God is beyond perception, duality, positionality, or having parts. God is beyond all opposites, such as good and bad, right and wrong, win and lose. Like the sun, God shines equally on all. God’s love is not reserved for the favored few. It is, however, experienced directly only by the few, but it does shine through the clouds via the love we experience with others, including even pets and nature. The degree to which one experiences the presence of God’s love varies markedly from one person to another, depending on one’s level of consciousness.

The Eye of the I:  Ch. 10, The Nature of God, pg.150, Veritas edition