Dr. David R. Hawkins: Medical Doctor and Doctor of Philosophy

Nikki T: Perhaps its just because this is the first book I read, or perhaps its because it is the first book Hawkins wrote in his series - but I still consider this to be the best introduction to the rest of your life. Ok maybe that sounds dramatic, but it is nonetheless a correct description of what happened to me. After a friend gave me this book, I just had to read the others in the series to answer all of my burning questions - and it has considerably change my entire life. This book provides a great introduction to all the concepts a thinking-type 'rational' or scientific person needs to start unpicking your idea that you know anything, and thus prepare you for the further evolution of your consciousness. If you want an extremely well written and entirely consistent description and explanation of life, its challenges and its 'purpose' with examples across a variety of topics that was also authored by a singular genius - then prepare to leave your pedestrian ideas behind and pick up this book. You will not be disappointed , and those nagging questions and loose ends that have thus far avoided a satisfactory explanation regardless of the types of materials you have digested so far in...

Australia on Sep 29, 2023

James Brady: This book describes the law of attraction with hard science and when I say hard science, I say good luck understanding him. I am highly educated and have studied ideas he presents, chaos, holographic universe, Holonomic theory (Karl P), and even aspects in quantum computing that is the essence of his work before such computers existed. Quantum computers start with the unknown to create the known.

I am saying this book is special to me unlike any other.

United States on Sep 25, 2023

GoGoGeo: An insitefull book
Everything that was or will be is within your reach.

United States on Sep 17, 2023

Isaac Starr: Very interesting to read especially from an obtuse perspective.
Would highly recommend!!!

United States on Aug 28, 2023

Niam: I believe that some people can benefit from this book but for me the conclusion were a little too hasty and immature.

Germany on Jun 19, 2023

farhan: So much information......must be read by everyone
at least once in a lifetime.Raise your level of consciousness.
Thanking the author for the effort .

India on Jan 22, 2023

Cody AllenCody Allen: The founder of behavioral kinesiology, Dr. John Diamond, was a very spiritual man, believing that all human wellness originated from an inner Life Energy akin to the ancient Chinese concept of Qi. He saw that all of us humans are connected via an all-encompassing metaphysical structure of humanity. A spiritual ‘whole,’ that once realized, can be truly metamorphosing. In 1957, Diamond graduated from medical school in Sydney, Australia, with a degree in psychological medicine. It was there that he developed a lot of his theories on human consciousness and connectedness. In the late 1970’s, he founded the field of behavioral kinesiology, the synthesis of his time studying psychological concepts in science and spiritual concepts in life. This connection between body and mind is the basis for Hawkins’ further exploration of these same concepts in Power vs. Force.

Our mind and body perform in tandem in all endeavors; our thoughts affect how our body operates and our body’s relationship to our mind affects it considerably as well. If we think negative thoughts, our body will ‘feel it.’ This is exemplified by the numerous studies done on the impact of stress on the...

United States on Apr 26, 2022

fizzy5000: When I first started this book I couldn’t grasp the concepts that well, then I went through I guess a mini spiritual awakening 8 months later and returned back to the book with a deeper understanding, it made so much more sense. Lose your mind and it’s great! But truly, before I was operating fully from my ego and when he said most people are in low consciousness levels I was like ‘nope that isn’t me I think he got this bit wrong’. But it does make sense. When you don’t truly 100% love yourself and you still consciously and subconsciously operate in the same patterns of behaviour (some of which are rooted in shame and guilt) you can never truly ascend. Be kind to yourself, forgive yourself and love your inner child and you will see a difference in your life. Things that bothered you before won’t hold so much weight against you. It can be a challenging read but it is great. I recommend reading any Joe Dispenza book before this one as it is more accessible.

United Kingdom on Jan 21, 2021

Amazon Customer: The following are my opinions, and thus not subject to lawsuit from Hawkins or his publisher*.
My first surprise in Power vs. Force was to find L. Ron Hubbard's 1950's emotional tone scale (the main Scientology "scale" in use for judging people) slightly re-hashed as a scale of "levels of consciousness". To trust and be hugely taken in by a faulty belief system is devastatingly painful, and the recovery is slow. Now I know how all those ex-Scientologists felt, their lives ruined when their unworkable belief system finally failed them completely. Then there was the glaring error in Hawkins' explanation of his version of the scale being "logarithmic" where he shows "three-hundred to the tenth power" in figures as ten to the three hundredth power.
In the spirit of seeking truth, I rationalised these and other things and forged ahead. But the fact is Applied Kinesiology is phenomenal as a diagnostic tool, but Hawkins' version is not really AK and does not work for finding universal truths. This is (in case you also wondered) why, in the sixteen years since Power vs. Force first appeared, the world has not adopted his method for use in science, law enforcement, justice, business,...

United States on Apr 01, 2011

ben7string: OK, I came to this book primed to some degree about one of the central themes since I am a professional Kinesiologist myself. David Hawkins tells how he has 1000 audience members test each other with simple muscle monitoring techniques and unanimously come up with same answers. His work as a highly regarded medical psychiatrist and use of scientific method in replicable test results from such huge numbers of subjects puts a firm line of validity under what would otherwise be incredible assertions.

As a Kinesiology practitioner I get to see and experience some pretty extraordinary demonstrations of the power of human perception, self-healing and ability to transform external circumstances but communicating these results to the average person who has been trained by our culture to understand and except a very limited spectrum of "reality" is very challenging. Enter Power vs Force in which Hawkins goes way further than most of us and offers compelling proof from mass testing experiments that would show up any inconsistencies that might not come to light in years of one-to-one research.

What am I talking about? Consciousness can be quantified, everything we come in...

United Kingdom on Jul 17, 2010