Spiritual Tools – Part Four

David R. Hawkins M.D., Ph.D. in his book “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness” has described what he calls spiritual tools which any devotee can employ to transcend into spiritual enlightenment. As I have shown in the past few posts there is a simplicity to the use of these tools, but they are extremely effective in attacking our ego/pride. This fourth one has similar results.

Spiritual Tool #4

Intend to see the hidden beauty in all that exists – it then reveals itself.

There is a verse in the Hebrew wisdom scriptures which says, “As a man thinks, so is he.” This might seem counter intuitive, but your mind is not who you are. You can think about any of a number of things (and you do daily) but they are not who you are.

The key to this tool is intention. We see things all around us and our ego is searching how it might benefit us or cause us harm and should then be avoided. Rarely do we intentionally look for, or even at something because it drains our mental resources (i.e., suspends the function of the ego). The closest act of intentional looking might be looking at a painting in an a museum, however, even this act is fraught with self-talk about what was the artist thinking, who were they trying to paint the picture for, was the artist on some type of simulants that cause such piece to be produced, or any of a number of other mental mechanisms to justify why you’re looking at a price-less piece of work.

There is the saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The question this bring up is whether the beauty seen was intentional sought after. As this tool claims hidden beauty reveals itself when intention is applied in the looking. This is not obvious beauty but rather the beauty which is veiled from our first glance. What and even where might this hidden beauty be witnessed?

Think for a moment of every place you avoid; or even people you keep away from; or medical conditions you find it unbearable to be around; or difficult social situations where you try desperately to leave before being overwhelmed by the anxiety they create within you. Your ego has programmed you to resist these types of encounters because it assumes there to be no value for you within them.

In the Hebrew creation narrative, God creates the world and all which is within it and declares that it was “good” and “very good.” The probability of “beauty” being enveloped within the good/very-good proclamation I would say was pretty darn high then and still is today.

In this world it is very evident that ugliness retains a prominent hold on our eyesight. The repeated viewing of this has the ability to lower our level of spiritual consciousness. This tool is a remedy to this issue by intentional directing our sight out of what our ego has declared as the repulsiveness of life into a mindset which is inclusive of all.

One important caveat to this tool is the quantum mechanic nature of its use. One of the revelations which the science of quantum mechanics has produced center around the split slot experiment. I’ll attempt to paraphrase what this experiment produced.

A devise was setup which held a piece of cardboard which had two slits cut through it. A light beam was shot at the slits and then measured on the opposite side as to how it passed. The scientists were trying to determine if the light exited as a particle or as a wave since are the two forms of how light travels. Every time the experiment was run, the researchers found precisely what they were looking for. When looking for a particle, this is how it appeared; when looking for a wave, this too is how it appeared. At first this did not seem possible. It was only after intense debate and verification that it was discovered how the light always became whatever the researcher was attempting to measure! It seems that the intention of the viewing always shaped the outcome to meet it.

This is precisely what this spiritual tool is describing. Intend to look for beauty and that is what you’ll see. Conversely, if all you intend to look for is the opposite of beauty, that is what you’ll see. It is all up to you, it always has been. It’s not rocket science…but then again…