HOW TO CALIBRATE CONSCIOUSNESS

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THE MAGIC OF
CALIBRATING CONSCIOUSNESS
 

In this post, I’m going to teach some magic, or so it may seem. But first, I need to give a short introduction so we have some context for how this sorcery works.

This magic is all about how to calibrate levels of consciousness, so let’s begin by questioning what is consciousness? Where is it, where does it come from, and where is it not? Does it come from the brain?  

Such questions often trip up scientists since they, I’m sorry to say, are mostly clueless about what I’m about to reveal. Many dismiss consciousness as what they refer to as an epiphenomenon, something that goes on in the brain’s hardware, much like heat off a stove. To me, that’s absurd, but it seems that’s the best they’ve got to explain consciousness since it’s way too subjective and immaterial for their comfort. (I even had an educated atheist friend tell me that consciousness doesn’t exist; it’s just an illusion.)

For more on this debate, see an excerpt in another post that’s taken from Chapter Four of Surreal Adventures in the Elysium’s Passage series, where consciousness is discussed in a heated debate at a fictional Forum. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you

Regardless, is there another word for consciousness that might help, such as awareness? If so, might we say these are interchangeable terms where is may be said the higher the IQ, the higher one’s conscious awareness?

If so, intelligent people would be the most aware. But are they?

Is it highly intelligent people or highly conscious people who bring misery to the masses? I think it’s obvious it’s not the Mother Teresas that exploit the masses by inserting themselves into positions of power, money and privilege, having little regard for anyone but themselves. Therefore, being intelligent, on its own, does not necessarily mean being more socially adept and well-adjusted in treating others as we all would like to be treated.

So, obviously, having high intelligence is not necessarily the same as having high consciousness. Not to say intelligence and consciousness are mutually exclusive.

As Nelson Mandela once stated: I would suggest intelligence and consciousness, ie, mind and heart, work best when in coherence as a unified field.
See my post, Union of Heart and Mind. https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/union-of-heart-and-mind 

Let’s first consider whether consciousness has less to do with the mind and more with the heart. We now understand how intelligence is not just the domain of brain cells but that the heart possesses physiological intelligence, too. For information on this, go to https://www.heartmath.org/ 

We can measure intelligence with IQ tests, but if consciousness is the domain of the heart, how do we measure the heart? If consciousness is more about love than calculus, how can it be empirically measured and given a score? Certainly, not with an EEG readout. So then, what is the technique for calibrating consciousness? That’s where we come to the magic part.

But before addressing this question, let’s first pivot in the direction of spirituality and ask if consciousness has more to do with God than with three and three and a half pounds of flesh. What we understand as consciousness is our experience of the divine expression of God (or whatever terms one may apply, such as Source, Great Creator, Universe, All That Is, Spirit, First Cause, Prime Cause, Prime Source, etc). Of course, the atheist would deny it being any other than what’s material because that’s all they believe in.

My position, however, is that they are wrong; God has everything to do with conscious awareness simply because God, in essence, is consciousness. That may seem a rather bold, audacious claim. Yet I don’t see how it could be otherwise, implying existence is essentially non-dual, where the distinction between subject and object breaks down into Oneness. Therefore, the extent of our consciousness would relate to how God-infused we are and what we, as free-will beings, allow through the divine portals of our souls. Sorry for getting so philosophical, but the subject requires deep understanding.

If God is everywhere, then so must be consciousness; it’s just a matter of degree. To some extent, all life is aware and, therefore, conscious; the earth, with its animals, plants, insects and even amoeba, not to mention water and soil.

We are told that God is love, the glue of the universe experienced through consciousness. So, does this mean that all, in its essence, is an expression of God? If we hold to the ancient orthodox position that God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (all-present), and omnipotent (all-powerful), then how could it be otherwise? I believe most Buddhists, Hindus, and Sufi Muslims would agree, just as the early Christian fathers inscribed these beliefs in their canon.

Of course, this is not the same as claiming amoeba or anything else to be God. That would be preposterously pantheistic. However, we may say God’s material universe is an emanation of eternal Spirit, just as it is stated in Acts 17: 28, for in Him we move and live and have our being. As I see it, consciousness is the animating life force of the universe, the Source, the universal élan vital.

But since we each possess, or should I say, exercise a limited amount of consciousness awareness, or as I’ve said, God-infusion, we exist somewhere between the polarities of Light and Darkness, Love and Fear.

Some humans are born with innate high intelligence, while some are born with an innate calibration of high consciousness. Highly evolved humans have both, but most are much lower, with 100 being the average IQ and 200 being the average calibration of consciousness.

Many have little spiritual awareness, while some children seem gifted with uncanny wisdom. If you believe in reincarnation, it’s possible to interpret this as some souls continuing on the continuum where they left off in their last 3D life,  such as Mozart inheriting a highly accomplished musical ability and awareness. In such cases, I’m not sure there’s a limit on how far we can evolve in our conscious awareness in one lifetime.

Whereas, there are limits on how much more intelligent you can train yourself to be and how much you can dumb yourself down. It seems, however, that consciousness, or, let’s say, God-infusion, would seem much more pliable when tied to our free moral will and what we allow in through the divine portals of the heart. Christian scriptures exhort us to be ‘filled with the Holy Spirit.’

Again, that’s because the heart is about love and since God is love, the more love we allow, the higher our consciousness, even if we can’t intellectually explain how we are able to swing so significantly both up and down on the scale of consciousness. We can go up by setting our ego aside, or we can ‘fall from grace by allowing the ego-mind to get in the way of our heart’s divine portal when choking off our God-infused consciousness.

Our consciousness can easily rise or fall based on what influences we allow into our lives. Furthermore, we can calibrate these shifts. In other words, an external frame of reference is based on there being what is sometimes called The Field or Universal Field of Consciousness. Now, if it seems ridiculous that our conscious awareness can be measured, let me prove it. Or better yet, you may prove it to yourself.  

But first, let me introduce Dr David Hawkins, who was one of the pioneers in the field of examining consciousness. Dr David Hawkins, MD. PhD (1927-2012) was an acclaimed doctor of psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. I’ve listed his impressive list of credentials at the end of a post I wrote a few years ago. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you 
Over the years from the early 1950s, Hawkins wrote extensively on psychiatry and psychology, particularly as it related to addictions.

Then later, his focus expanded into the domains of spirituality, consciousness and enlightenment. I know of no one else, other than perhaps Jung, who had more to say on these topics, especially when approached from a non-dualistic perspective. Some of his books include The Eye of the I; I: Reality and Subjectivity and Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. Also, one of his most famous books, Power versus Force, had a Foreword written by Mother Teresa as an endorsement of his work.

Many years after establishing the largest and most prominent psychiatric clinic in the State of New York, he turned his attention to consciousness, perfecting an understanding of how to calibrate it. He wasn’t the first to develop these tests, but likely the most thorough in his research and writings.

Though it might seem difficult to believe this method is possible, it’s not such a stretch if you accept that God, by definition, is omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipresent (all-present), expressed as consciousness, then there should be no problem. But since most scientists don’t believe in God, they have a problem with this direct approach to measuring consciousness.

So, if there is a verifiable technique for measuring consciousness, what is the magic incantation? It’s simple… no need for wands or devices; just you, the tester and consciousness, which is always there. (Actually, there’s a way of testing by yourself, but I don’t get into it here since it doesn’t seem to work for me.) In essence, this is a kinesiology muscle test where the muscle remains strong when the statement is true and where the muscle goes weak when the statement is false.

So let’s do the test. Hold out your arm and keep it strong. I will now test to make sure everything is in working order. I’ll ask you to say ‘my name in Mary Poppins.’ Unless your name actually is Mary Poppins, your arm will go down limp like wet spaghetti because it was an untruth. All I needed to do was lightly press it down with two of my fingers. That’s it! The universal field of consciousness knows these things!

Next, you can say your real name and when I test your arm. It will remain firm. I won’t even be able to budge it unless I apply too much pressure and/or you have weak bicep muscles. Again, the consciousness has your back, if not your number, so you get the truthful answer, be it yea or nay.

Now, we can move to almost anything. Another good first-time test is the question about refined sugar being good for your body. Of course, any food can be tested, but it’s good to be specific, such as distinguishing between white flour bread or rye bread, or you may get no answer at all if there is ambiguity. Also, if the question is too personal or invasive, it won’t work. After all, conscious energy is still consciousness. 

You may wish to inquire what your consciousness is. With the arm outstretched, you may ask (or the tester may ask), ‘On a scale of 1 to 1,000, my conscious calibrates at over 300. If the arm remains strong, continue with a higher number. If you say 500 and your arm goes weak, then continue until you get a number by process of elimination. To make sure, you can ask, ‘My consciousness is over 500.’ If, as in the last example, it goes weak, you may also ask the inverse, ‘My arm is under 500, in which case the arm with remain strong.

If you are writing a book, as am I, then you can calculate how well it calibrates on a scale of 1 to 1,000. I've been calibrating as I’ve continued to write.

We can calibrate politicians, political parties, cities, countries, movies…anything. If we have a question about whether it is appropriate to ask about something or someone, just ask, ‘I have permission to ask about such and such.’ Consciousness will let you know

In Hawkins’s book Truth Versus Falsehood, he has provided a long list of all sorts of things. Interestingly, some of the best-selling books and movies calibrate with the lowest consciousness, often way below the fulcrum between positive and negative, which is 200 on the scale. See the scale below. I guess that tells us as much about the public as the books and movies. Pulp Fiction (25) and Clockwork Orange are at the bottom of the heap, far below 200, yet both were very popular. So what does that tell us about those who related to these as entertaining? By way of contrast, one of the highest-calibrating movies made was It’s a Wonderful Life ( 450).

About 20 years ago, the overall consciousness of the world was around 200. Hopefully, it’s higher now. I guess I need to find someone willing to help me do new tests. (My good friend, Lawrence, a retired farmer, was as strong as an ox and enjoyed doing these tests. Unfortunately, he recently passed away.)

To return to my previous discussion about highly intelligent people, often the ego gets the best of them, which drives the results way down. For example, university professors calibrate at about 180 on average. Universities in the USA dropped from 440 to under 180 from 1955 to 2007 due to relativism. I hate to think what it is now. My friend, Dr David Jones, Professor Emeritus University of Calgary, recently gave a talk on this topic. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-from-elysium   

So, who is not able to conduct these tests successfully? Hawkins says one must calibrate over 200 for this to work. Atheists, he found, calibrate under 200, and so they are out of luck, at least until they have a change of heart with higher, God-infused consciousness. However, for reasons unknown; still, about 10% of people who calibrate over 200 are unable to make the tests work.

For my part, I can attest that I’ve experimented with some very strong men whose arms I couldn’t budge when pushing down with all my strength. Yet I have repeatedly witnessed their arms go weak like wet spaghetti when a statement was false. The arms simply give way with very little downward pressure applied from one or two fingers on their wrists.

For example, the statement "refined sugar is good for my body" will cause the subject’s arm to go limp immediately. I know this sounds like some incredible hocus pocus. Still, all I can say is that if it wasn’t for having repeatedly experienced consistent results, I might have dismissed Hawkins's calibration theory. After all, I have better things to do with my time than go down anyone's bunny trail.

Yet, I’m still not sure how much should be assumed with these calibration tests, such as testing someone's consciousness, including our own. Calibrations can only be as accurate as the consciousness of those who participate in them. Our ego biases can easily get in the way, creating enough dissonance to distort the field of the conscious matrix. Obviously, the higher the consciousness of the participants, the greater the reliability of the tests.

Still, I have found that calibrating the conscious level of my Elysium's Passage novel series is consistent after doing the test among several volunteers at different times who knew nothing about my book. I found the calibration number went up slightly while nearing the completion of the series. Over the last year, it has remained the same. Should you do your own test on the series, I'd be interested to know if your calibration is the same. I suspect, if your mind is clear, it would be... the field doesn't lie. 

In fact, this is why it doesn't work for everyone, particularly those whose consciousness calibrates below the threshold of 200. (See the charts below.) As an interesting aside, Hawkins claims the average consciousness of academics is well below that of the average person; in other words, below 200. Obviously, the egoic mind limits our consciousness awareness. He sees an inverse relationship between consciousness and the pride of egoic intelligence.

For this reason, even if these tests were ever accepted among professionals, I doubt the powers of this world would be open to having their consciousness calibrated, much less disclosed to the public. Hawkins posits that those with egoic minds have the lowest calibrations since superiority is always the prideful attitude of the low-conscious ego. These are those who most wish to be in control of others.

Under these circumstances, few would allow themselves to be exposed as unqualified to lead as a consequence of low consciousness. I doubt if Karl Marx would have since he calibrates at just 135. His book Das Kapital, which changed the world for the worst, comes in at an abysmal 50. Is it any wonder it was responsible for the death of over 150 million people in the 20th century?

Though the ego’s machinations are most evident among tyrants, many in our lives act under the ruse of ‘serving' but are actually living out their ego's need to control others. And if we are honest, I’m sure we, too, at times, observe this trait within ourselves.

It’s claimed in the research that there’s always an inverse relationship between higher levels of consciousness and the dominance of the separated mind. But that I mean separated from the heart (soul) centre. The mind becomes darkly ego-centric when not tethered to the heart's conscious light. See the post on THE EGO MASK AND YOU https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/the-ego-mask   

I find much of Hawkins’s research to be enlightening, which is why I brought up the topic of calibrating consciousness. Apart from whatever merits this test might have, I question the reliability of a number of his calibrations since they don’t always resonate with me as being valid. It seems the ego’s prejudices and biases can distort the matrix’s field, especially on more controversial subjects.

Nevertheless, Hawkins should be taken seriously since his credentials are most impressive. A list of his accomplishments may be found on his publication website at https://veritaspub.com/, where there is plenty to see on him and this topic.

If there is something to these tests, as I believe there is, there could be enormous benefits to humanity in sifting truth from falsehood. They also relate to the merits and truth of everything that can be known without reference to personal opinions and conjecture. Can you imagine every politician being subject to a calibration test and having to reveal the results before an election? What if everyone under 200 would be disqualified from running? That may eliminate a lot of bad players but give us much better governance.

In conclusion, it may be asked what we can do to raise our consciousness. It's like being aware enough to allow more light in our soul by putting a lid on our yappy ego-monkey mind and all the negative influences assaulting our inner sanctum, including MSM and relationships. As the scriptures say; Guard your heart treasures more than any treasure, for it is the source of all life. 

Consider what influences might raise or lower our consciousness. What we do, what we read, what we listen to, and watch will have an impact on the quality of our being. Our consciousness is malleable. Do the friends we hang out with help or hinder our conscious evolution? Are these toxic, or are they uplifting? What doesn’t serve us, we must either ignore or run away from to find what’s higher. Listen to your emotions; they will tell you.

What’s of the ego will be a downer; what’s of the soul will make us more conscious and, consequently, what’s highest and best for us. Meditate and pray in silence, take walks in nature, and then find quality friends on the same path of spiritual growth.

I have addressed some of these factors in previous posts, such as Raising Your Vibe and Gratitude. 

https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/a-higher-vibe 
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sowing-happy-seeds-of-gratitude 

I plan to address this topic in more detail in a subsequent post, How to Raise Your Consciousness.

This link https://veritaspub.com/  will take you to a sample of charts that Hawkins represents as levels of consciousness. Several more charts may be found.

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE SERIES

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The ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE novel series is a seven-book narration about a young British philosopher named James Phillips who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while still remaining on Earth.  

After experiencing a near-fatal fall while climbing to the summit of a remote mountain in the Andes, James awakens in a new dimension. He soon encounters two mysterious beings who provide him with a very different perspective on the nature of his existence. Over the next year, before his body recovers from the coma, he is challenged to re-examine his understanding of life’s meaning and purpose far beyond anything he previously believed or could believe.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality and our ultimate destiny. 

The Plains of Elysium (Champs-Élysées) was described by Homer, Hesiod, Virgil and many other poets as the paradisiac afterlife realm reserved for heroes. As the title suggests, this is about a journey through a passage that leads towards Elysium’s exciting realm of existence.

Read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm    

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PENDING PUBLICATION OF ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE SERIES
 
                                    
The Ascent: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

The Summit: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

Quantum Leaps: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

Surreal Adventures: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

Mystical Romance: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

The Elixir: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

The Return: Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage

1. THE ASCENT is the first novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage that’s foundational to everything that happens in the following narratives, which embark on an adventure that will surprise and delight the reader like no other book.

It all begins with an extreme adventure of climbing a remote and challenging mountain somewhere in the Andes Mountains. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year.

After being airlifted by a forestry helicopter and flown back to London, where his body remained for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not he but his body that was rescued. Several days later, without understanding what happened, he continues to climb to the summit in an alternate dimension of higher consciousness.

Fortuitously, he meets two adventurers on the summit ridge who are no longer of this world. After that, his surreal life leads him to several new adventures in the subsequent chronicles, which include a rich mix of adventure, romance, and fantasy, along with profound discussions of philosophy, spirituality, and the afterlife.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

2. THE SUMMIT, the second novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, carries on where James, the narrator and protagonist, is taught more about a multidimensional reality that he finds difficult to comprehend.

Not only does he find he’s not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend since their teachings are contrary to his limited understanding of non-material reality.

After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of a new reality that makes him capable of far more adventures than he could have ever experienced in his physical body back home.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

This book may also open the reader’s eyes to a much vaster reality than many may be aware of. As with the other Chronicles, there are discussions of philosophy, the spiritual afterlife and what might seem like fantasy.

3. QUANTUM LEAPS is the third novel in Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, where James, the philosopher-protagonist, teleports back to London to visit his body and make contact with the special nurse taking care of it in his absence. Immediately, he feels an inexplicable spiritual bond with her for reasons he remains unaware of.

Now aroused by a renewed interest in matters of love, the beginnings of a relationship begin to emerge as he attempts to reach across the chasm of their worlds. But it’s not until the fifth novel, Mystical Romance, that he encounters her in a way that he finds difficult to believe.

However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium’s Passage. It is during this time he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss so he could learn the lessons he’s now learning.

That will be the next focus of his life, where, in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life.

4. SURREAL ADVENTURES is the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Elysium’s Passage, which finds James, the protagonist and narrator, escorted by his companions to a remote South Pacific Island, where he is left to reflect on what he’s learned.

During the next forty days, he battles the demons of his past as he works through some rather painful issues from his early youth. Here, in a tropical storm, he encounters an eerie, suspended spectre of the one he loved yet still resents for abandoning him as a child.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn’t get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient ‘ghost’ ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

Near the end, these encounters help prepare him for a new challenge within the interior of a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excalibur, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance. 

5. MYSTICAL ROMANCE is the fifth chronicle in Elysium’s Passage, which will surprise the reader with a romantic twist of how love is expressed in higher realms. From this lofty perspective, everything about intimacy is understood as within, so without.

After escaping his tomb, James, the narrator and protagonist, makes his way through a maze of tunnels until he arrives at a large oak door, which he opens with the golden key he had been given. There, he steps into Elysium’s Passage’s Great Hall, where his life and recent achievements are celebrated now that his eyes have been opened to perceive a fascinating interior world of wonderment… and romance.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body’s existence. 

6. THE ELIXIR is the sixth chronicle of the Elysium’s Passage series that prepares James, the narrator-protagonist, to awaken and return to his body in London. Before that can happen, however, his off-world friend presents a mysterious equation, enshrouded within a light code frequency, that will stimulate the multidimensional DNA strands within him.

Much of this narration is centred in London, where his nurse unknowingly becomes involved in how the Elixir’s equation finds its way from a taxi cab driver to higher echelons of science. There are many twists in how she unwittingly brings the Elixir to the attention of mathematicians and physicists, after which they eventually discover how to code the equation into a laser ray to stimulate his fall-guy body into full consciousness.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

 
­­­­­7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium’s Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are tied together in an exciting, fast-paced, and action-packed narrative that spans several countries.

 At first, it seems all memories have been lost, with his fall guy’s brain not being aware of what happened to him while in his coma. As a consequence, it takes a while for him to be convinced he had been out of his earthly body for almost a year.

Through some unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend’s urging, he comes to an awareness of what had occurred. It takes a while for his mind to catch up with the changes made in his heart during his stay in the alternate realm. But after experiencing several harsh realities, he discovers what he has become while out of his body. Gradually, he comes to understand the many challenges that lie ahead for him in fulfilling his future mission on Earth.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium’s Passage series.

 As a teaser to the series, the first half of this book is available to read at:

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/THE-RETURN  

 

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