• The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden | | | |
• Transcending the Levels of Consciousness | | | |
• Discovery of the Presence of God-Devotional NonDuality | | | |
• Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference | | | |
• Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man | | | |

• The Eye of The I
• Power vs Force
• Truth Vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

It is the standard by which I compare my own state of development
Review written by: Mark D. Jones From Georgia
The first time I read this book, maybe a percent or less of it actually sunk in. But something within me kept drawing me towards it again and again. Now, after two years of repeated passes, as well as repeated passes of everything else he has written, I wouldn't dream of putting it down. Sometimes I feel the urge to look up something specific in the book, but usually, when I have a few moments, I'll just open up to a random page and start reading, and I always carry something away every time. Something within me is telling me that this is the highest possible truth, in written form. And, accordingly, I "gauge" my own state of development, spiritual evolution, or whatever you want to call it, by how much I read in the pages actually makes sense to me, and what doesn't make sense to me yet, and there is plenty, is merely an indication of the work that remains to be done.
I don't really know who to recommend this book to, as I don't know anyone who is interested in things of this nature, but I can share my own experience with it. For most of my adult life, and a considerable portion of my childhood (where does one really draw the line) I have bounced around religious scrupulosity, to agnosticism, to full blown athiesm, material reductionism, ad infinitum. I have had much difficulty accepting the truths that were presented to me in the church, especially the favored status of one religion over the other. I used to say that there are ten thousand religions out there, and every last one of them think they are the only ones going to heaven...which one is right?
Of course, by that line if reason, it is easy for a physics major to conclude that there is only physical reality and they are all delusional. But I never could accept that completely.
One thing that I can definitely say that I have picked up from this book is that the god that I was rejecting was indeed worthy of rejection. The god that I was rejecting, which I believed was merely a creation of the collective imagination of the church, was, indeed just that to a large extent. Rather than searching for my own answers to the Nature of God, I was creating a mental construct based on what I had been told by other people. Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with what I was being told. Therein lies the crux: It was the simple idea that I was trying to create my own subjective experience of God, based on the experience of other well intentioned people. It is the simple fact that my subjective experience of the nature of God did not come from within, which completely flies in the face of SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE. Hawkins says repeatedly in the book, that the discovery of the presence of God is profoundly SUBJECTIVE. You can't be told about it by someone else. It can't be accessed via the intellect, and its associated cause and effect paradigm.
If your experience matches mine to some degree, then I highly recommend this book to you, and absolutely anything else by the same author.

Spiritual Teacher
Review written by: Michael From Los Angeles, CA
I have read all of Dr. Hawkins books and I attend his lectures, I consider him the most important spiritual teacher of our time.

I
Review written by: David A. Fricke From USA
The only thing anyone knows for sure is that "they are". I AM Stay with it.

Truth from the Top
Review written by: B. Jennings From San Jose, CA
A powerful read for those who are ready to give up the map and become a true explorer of consciousness.

You'll quickly realize that more 'information' can never give you an experience of the formless. It can only point the way.

Hawkins opens the door, points the way and leaves the door wide open for you to walk on through. The cost of entry: Every idea and concept you have ever thought about truth.

A must read for any true explorer

Brett

Two Authors?
Review written by: Lee & Steven Hager From
After reading "Power vs. Force," "The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden" and "I: Reality and Subjectivity," one may question whether David Hawkins' doppelganger has insinuated his dissonant views into these works. Hawkins' stunning spiritual insights are often marred by an obsession with calibrations and his use of kinesiology to discern levels of truth and spiritual attainment. Rather than seeing the calibrations as a means to an end, Hawkins sadly appears to have made them an end in themselves, which confuses his message. Never the less, this trilogy, and especially the third offering, are not to be missed by spiritual seekers. But, as with all spiritual books, it is the responsibility of the reader to go within and discern for themselves what will carry them further along their path, and what will hinder them.

Aside from the calibrations, Hawkins work can be seen as a first person presentation of the perennial philosophy. The book has an appealing question and answer format that gives the feeling of an intimate discussion between student and teacher. Hawkins speaks authoritatively because he has first walked the path he invites his readers to enter. The information he presents on the dissolution of the ego, not by force, but through compassionate understanding, can only be the result of his own experiential knowing. He exposes the impossibility of the void, noting that it is the, "ego's last desperate bid for survival" because he himself had been trapped at one time by this belief. Hawkins defines the intellect as a "refinement of the ego," demonstrating that ultimately one must surrender the self to find the Self that has always existed. This is a richly textured book that a reader can return to again and again, knowing that they will gain new insight at each reading. Lee & Steven Hager are the authors of Quantum Prodigal Son: Revisiting Jesus' Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Perspective of Quantum Mechanics