divine idiocy
A term used in Hawkins' Discovery of the Presence of God (DPG).
Spirituality
Osho / Rajneesh
He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions... In expressing a more progressive attitude to sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru" -- wikipedia.
Letting go through the eyes
LoC of this spiritual practice and it's description.
The Power of Love, by Fran Grace
A Transformed Heart Changes the World.
avatar
The way Doc used the term, e.g. "Saviors of Mankind," or "The Great Teachers." From TvF: The term “avatar” is from Sanskrit and means “incarnation by virtue of crossing over by descent of Divinity.”
Robert Adams
He mainly advocated the path of jñāna yoga with an emphasis on the practice of self-enquiry. He died in 1997 in Sedona, AZ -- wikipedia.
etheric brain
A Hawkins term for the capability of spiritual sensitivity and a unique, individual karma, i.e. the soul.
Doc's relics in Sedona
at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church columbarium in Sedona.
level: the mind CAN discern truth from falsehood
Request: As opposed to what doc said. Buddha did say that we can get either wholesome or unwholesome feedback from the mind (eg. whether [something] leads to less suffering or not), thus able to recognize what is true, what we should abide in.
David R. Hawkins
A nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, spiritual teacher and lecturer. The uniqueness of his contribution to humanity comes from the advanced state of spiritual awareness known as "Enlightenment" -- veritaspub.
I: Reality and Subjectivity, by David R. Hawkins
"describes the very substrate and essence of consciousness as it evolved from its primordial appearance as life on earth on up through evolution as the human ego, and hence, to the ego’s transcendence as the spiritual Reality of Enlightenment and the Presence of Divinity" -- amazon.
integrating Doc’s work is all one needs to reach enlightenment
Simply having Doc's work on your bookshelf is not enough.
statement: doom is the endpoint of the ego
Request: that is, at the level of doom, the ego has used up all of its illusions.
anatta
In Buddhism, the term anattā is the doctrine of "non-self" – that no unchanging, permanent self exists, and is the absence of essence in any phenomenon -- wikipedia. By request.
seeing one’s human identity or persona as false, not what one is
Priority request: Can this be a powerful simple practice?