David Hawkins, MD., Ph.D., in his groundbreaking book Power vs. Force, shows quite conclusively that the power an individual has to change the world — for better or worse — depends on his or her level of consciousness. The number of people this would require to make a significant difference, therefore, is determined by the consciousness of those involved.

The Consciousness Factor
The higher the consciousness of this group of people, the fewer of them it will take — and the effect is exponential. Hawkins shows that having even a tiny number of people with a high level of consciousness involved can dramatically reduce the overall number required to bring PEACE to the world.

Hawkins has a very refined and scientifically validated scale of consciousness that is measured according to the principles to which an individual is totally committed and by which he or she consistently lives. For example, a person who is unkind, vengeful, mean or despising of others — or who always blames everyone else for his or her unhappiness — will have a very low level of consciousness. Someone who is forgiving, kind, merciful and accountable for his/her own life, will carry a high level of consciousness.

Someone who has a relatively low level of consciousness will have a negative effect on the world, but insofar as their power as an individual is negligible (with the exception of a few individuals who perversely rule with force or in some other way affect mass consciousness in such a way as to drag it down), it only matters when such a consciousness is shared by millions of others.

That being the case at this present time, were it not for the fact that mass negative energy is counterbalanced by only a very few people with a high level of consciousness, there would be very little hope for humanity. As Hawkins himself says, “But for these counterbalances, mankind would self-destruct out of the sheer mass of its unopposed negativity.”

[It is important that we not make any judgments about all this. Everyone is where they need to be. It might well be that in order for those who aspire to a higher consciousness to reach a new level, they might need that mass consciousness against which to push].

However, as Hawkins shows, the good news is that since the effect that consciousness can have on the creation of reality increases exponentially the higher up the scale a person goes, a very few people holding the higher vibration can counter-balance the millions who are at the lower end of that scale.

The Critical Level of Consciousness
On a scale 1-1000, Hawkins identifies 200 as being the critical point of consciousness where a person puts back as much energy into the world as they take out. A person who scores below 200 drains energy from the collective, and the net effect is negative. Above 200, a person’s contribution is positive.

The Shift Has Occurred
For those of us who have been intuiting a general raising of consciousness since the Harmonic Convergence,* Hawkins has confirmed it. He tells us, “The collective level of consciousness of mankind remained 190 for many centuries and, curiously, only jumped to its current level of 207 within the last decade.” Bearing in mind that under 200 creates a net loss of power while over 200 creates a net gain, that represents quite a breakthrough in mass consciousness.

* The Harmonic Covergence occurred in 1987 and refers to a particular alignment of planets, the combined resonance of which resulted in harmonic that was thought to have caused a shift in man’s consciousness.

The Counterbalancing Effect
While 85 percent of the population of the world calibrates well below the level of 200, it is the counterbalancing power of the relatively few individuals near the top that brings the average to 207. He points out that only 4 percent of the population calibrates at 500 and above; only 0.4 percent reach 540, and a level of consciousness calibrating at 600 or above is only reached by one in 10 million.

Hawkins’ testing shows that one person vibrating at level 300 will counterbalance 90,000 individuals vibrating below 200. Someone at the level of500 will counterbalance 500,000 people below 200, while someone vibrating at the level of 500 will counterbalance 750,000 individuals at less than 200. One individual at 600 counterbalances 10 million people under 200.

The Next Critical Level
Hawkins says that after the critical shift at 200, the next critical change of consciousness happens at 350. At that level, individuals become aware that they are the source and creator of their life experience and develop the capacity to live harmoniously with the forces of life. That is to say, they have integrated and have begun to live Radical Forgiveness as their ‘default’ way of life.

The Power of YOU
If you reach 350-500, that would mean you would be able to hold the vibration of Radical Forgiveness virtually the whole time and nurture only thoughts of PEACE and LOVE, being aware of the PERFECTION of what is occurring in your own life and out there in the world. It would also mean that you would, in effect, be counterbalancing approximately 200,000 people who might be in fear, anger, apathy and despair. Given that we have 237 million people in the U.S., it would only take around 2,000 people at the 350/500 level holding the vibration of PEACE to tip the scales in the direction of world peace.

The Vibratory Rate of Radical Forgiveness
The chart below outlines Hawkins’s model of how individual qualities of mind rank in terms of vibration. Note that even traditional forgiveness ranks at 350. Radical Forgiveness would rank a lot higher. It also shows that Radical Forgiveness to be an ideal technology to use to raise one’s vibration above the critical point of 350.

David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D — Scale of Consciousness: Power vs. Force.

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