Power vs. Force
with thoughts on Henri Cartier-Bresson
Power vs Force
The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour
According to David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D
Several individuals operating at the lower end of the consciousness scale may be counterbalanced by one higher being capable of higher consciousness. This is because a thought emanating from level 100 will emit 10-power -700 million microwatts, but a loving thought at level 500 emits a powerful 10-power -35 million microwatts.
The bands of consciousness represented by the scale are:
- 20 shame
- 30 guilt
- 50 apathy
- 75 grief
- 100 fear
- 125 desire
- 150 anger
- 175 pride
- 200 courage
- 250 neutrality
- 310 willingness
- 350 acceptance
- 400 reason
- 500 love
- 540 joy
- 600peace
- 700-1000 enlightenment
Various historical figures have been calibrated by Hawkins in experiments and these fall within predictable places in his scale. He says that, [at the time of writing 1995], there are 12 people in the world that calibrate at over 700 on the scale. Most of us operate at below a threshold of 200 from which it’s virtually impossible to positively influence anything.
Curiously during the past week or so I’ve been experiencing an unusual suffusion of warmth toward many individuals from my personal history for whom hitherto I felt solely hostility. I put the change down not to reading Hawkins’ book, which I only borrowed last week, but from following a simple macrobiotic regime for about six months. Even so there can be lapses. For example today when I parked in some shade outside of a shop an assistant rushed out and told me to move it directing me to a shadeless car park some distance away.
I wasn’t pleased and intended to take a photograph of the shop and post it here advising all visitors to boycott it. The assistant assured us that he wouldn’t have asked us to move had he known that we were resident here, But my feeling rapidly changed after a visit to the Post Office where I found ‘The Mind’s Eye
Henri Cartier-Bressons opening preface:
“In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit-making, that is overrun by the destructive forces of Techno-science and the power-hungry of globalization-that new brand of slavery-beyond all that, Friendship exists.
Love exists.”
It is the first of many wonderful sayings within the book’s covers. My irritation with the stupidity of shop assistant, (we may have been customers for all he knew), and the selfishness of the shopkeeper melted instantly when I read it.
The Mind’s Eye
Writings On Photography And Photographers
This isn’t the first occasion that the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson have affected me similarly. Indeed I suspect that he may well have been one of the twelve individuals operating from a consciousness of more than 700 to whom David Hawkins referred. Sadly Henri Cartier-Bresson died in 2004. Long may his spirit inspire us.
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June 3rd, 2006 at 9:24 am
Now, frightening as it may be, we may be able to calibrate ourselves…hmmm????
After reading Hawkin’s book, my vegan diet seemed to work better too.. I wonder if many Maritnis had any effect?
Thank you for your amazingly ingenious way of explaining Dr. Hawkins’s book Steven.
July 17th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
[...] HCB is quoted in ‘The Mind’s Eye‘ as stating: “To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.” [...]