David Hawkins critique

Or should I say "Sir" David Hawkins. And they don't just hand out "sirs" to anyone. Hmmmm. ;)

I gobbled up his books a while back, Power Vs Force, Eye of the I, and I forget the third. I loved his work at first and was attracted to it based on my interest in Jungian psychology and the collective unconscious. Then I started practicing the concepts and muscle testing, with very inconsistent results. There was no validity or reliability to the testing.

Then I would run into people "bragging" that they were up in the 700 or 800's in the calibration scale. Hmmm again. Something wrong here.

Wayne Dyer promoted this work and it became huge in the consciousness and self-help movements.

I remember seeing a chart (and I will try to find it again and post it here) showing the Bush regime as calibrated very high on the scale and spiritual notables as less than him. Hmmmm again.

Here is a blurb from the critique http://www.energygrid.com/spirit/2005/02ap-dowsinggod.html


"And that is the irony of Hawkins' Power vs Force: if you subscribe to his calibrated world then you give away your power to define your own reality and to determine your own meanings in life — a prerequisite on our journey to wholeness and integration. You end up polarizing experience into high and low calibrations, forgetting that both the light and the dark are needed for true integration and individuation. Nobody else can do this for us; nobody else can supply us with the symbols and meaning that we need, whether it is with their intuition, a pendulum or a muscle test. We have to have the courage to walk our own path."

Here are some examples of questionable calibrations.

George W Bush's weighing in at the rarefied level of 460, just above fellow intellectual giants Homer, Kurt Gödel, Enrico Fermi and Galileo. Hmmm. (Keep in mind the lowest as 0 and the highest as 1000)

211 – Coca Cola
220 – Motels
375 – Time Magazine
390 – Santa Claus / Father Xmas
505 – Barry Manilow
520 – Patriotism
745 – St Paul

Hmmm.

It has been said that there is a cult-like element to Hawkins' scale whereby it is impervious to challenge: anyone who questions his results, or whose own results differ significantly, is by definition coming in below 200, the level of integrity, and therefore not worth listening to. This is a classic cult invalidation tactic, a circular logic catch-22 that skewers all deviation from the Official Line.

Hmmm.

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