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

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The Field

Just before the world disappears altogether, you notice that everything is happening spontaneously.

 
The most important thing to know is that everything is happening in and of its own. Nothing is being caused by anything. All phenomena are the automatic consequence of the field.
 
The field is one of infinite, invisible, omnipotent power, all encompassing, like a giant electromagnetic field – no beginning; no ending; either spatially, or in time – forever and always, present.  

This field is infinitely powerful. (The human mind cannot conceive of the Infinite except as a concept.) Its presence is exquisitely gentle and exquisitely powerful. The field is so powerful that potentiality is activated by the field, to become an actuality. All things happen by virtue of the infinite power of the field. 
 
What the world considers evolution is the witnessing of creation, which is continuous. The Unmanifest, beyond the linear, becomes manifest by Divine Providence as the totality of creation; this happens effortlessly.
 
Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Therefore, each thing comes forth manifesting its karmic inheritance, you might say its “innate potential.” And, when the conditions are appropriate, the potentiality becomes an actuality, in and of itself. In and of itself, as a consequence of the infinite power of the field!
 
The field is so powerful that, if you continuously hold a thought, it will become a happening.  Otherwise, no one would become enlightened. Therefore, one’s intention is all-powerful.
 
The ego is very clever. As a potentiality begins to manifest, it takes credit for it. There is no inner, separate personal self, making anything happen.
 
All is happening in and of its own. By Divine ordination does the Unmanifest become Manifest; in and of itself, because of the infinite power of the field, and for no other reason.
 

Spiritual Progress

Spiritual progress is accomplished by aspects of consciousness which become more powerful when it is recognized that they are not personal attributes but specific qualities having to do with the nature of consciousness and not aspects of ‘me’ or ‘mine’ or the common ‘I-self’. Spiritual inspiration, understanding, and the awareness that arise from compassion are not personal qualities but operate as catalysts by virtue of the innate quality of their essences. They are activated by spiritual motivation and intention. They are actually aspects of God’s grace that become operational by consent of the seeker’s will. They are facilitated by humility and surrender of the vanity and domination of the ego-mind and its belief that it ‘knows.’

Nonattachment

This is an attitude of withdrawal of emotional entanglement in worldly affairs. It leads to serenity and peace of mind. It is supported by refusing the emotional seduction of other people’s upsets and problems. It also involves a willingness to allow the world and its affairs to work out its own problems and destiny. Reactive involvement and intervention in the world can be better left to people who have a different calling.

A ‘good person’ is one thing; enlightenment is another. One is responsible for the effort and not the result, which is up to God and the universe.

Nonattachment is not the same as indifference, withdrawal, or detachment. Misunderstanding that the development of detachment is required often ends up as flatness or apathy. In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.

From The Eye of the I p.144-145

Total Oneness

Emotions blind perception and guarantee error. Duality is thus a separation of truth and error which is sourced by the vanity of perception and the ego.

Q How does perception result in duality?

A: Arbitrary selectivity results in a positionality, which is a point of view that artificiality polarizes the oneness of Reality into seemingly separate parts. These parts are apparent only and not actually separate in Reality. The separation into parts occurs only in the mind and not in Reality.

… In an attempt to reconnect that which has now been conceptually separated in the processes of the mind’s thoughts, causality is invented to explain what is now viewed as ‘relationship’. In Reality, there is only identity; there is no cause of anything nor is it required in the Newtonian paradigm of linear causality of ‘this seems to be causing that’. In Reality, everything is already complete, and the total oneness is beyond time, space, and separation or definition. It is obvious that nothing is the cause of anything else as that would require a dualistic separation in time and space, which is impossible.

… It is relatively easy to see that the ’cause’ of anything is the totality of the entire universe throughout all time, being what it is in all its expressions as existence. All things exist as an expression of identity, and the essence of all things shines forth by its presence. All things are self-created by divine expression as existence. Therefore, each ‘thing’ can only be what it is because of the totality of the entire universe.