What if I told you, you are vibrating at a certain energy level and knowing what level you’re at would help you and others around you, in your life? If there’s anything you need to know in 2025, let it be this – to understand where you are on the Map of Consciousness by David Hawkins.
What is the Map of Consciousness?
David Hawkins developed a map that shows which level of consciousness we’re operating at. There are specific words that show what level you may possibly be at, but more accurately, methods to calculate.
On a level of 1 to 1000, most of the world are operating at a level of below 200. By most, it’s 85% of the world’s population. This doesn’t apply just to humans. Family pets actually calibrate around 245-250, higher than majority of the people on the planet. Courage (200) marks the shift from negative to positive energy. Antilife (force) below 200, while supportive of life (power) over 200.
How is the world functioning with so many at a lower level then? One individual that operates at the level of Love (500) counterbalances 750,000 individuals below 200. One individual at level 700 counterbalances 70,000,000 individual below the level of 200. But this isn’t to say that those operating at a higher level is better than the ones operating at a lower level. It’s just different and both are equally necessary with its own challenges and rewards.
An interesting fact is that the colours he used for each prominent level could be related to the chakras in one’s body, with purple being the Crown Chakra (Enlightenment) and with red for the Root Chakra (Shame to Grief), as with all the colours in between.
Other than the chakras, the synchronicities with Evolutionary Astrology also speaks volumes about how this map is indeed showing the consciousness in all of us.
How does it apply in our lives?
Applying it to daily lives, machine made food calibrates at 188-200, but homemade food rises to 209. Machine made bread calibrates at 188 but at a bakery even if in the same supermarket, it rises to 203. Anything with a human touch, made out of love calibrates higher.
Distinguishing True Spiritual Teachers
When you apply it to people who claim to be enlightened or awakened, you can clearly see who really are who they say they are. Some include, integrity of purpose where there’s nothing to gain or lose and non egoistic where they do not claim to be special or want to be praised or admired. There are a total of 40 ways to tell.
True teachers only point you to realize the same truth within, not to themselves. They realize and humbly acknowledge that divine states are a gift of Grace and therefore do not offer spiritual teachings for a price beyond covering expenses required for dissemination. Their integrity requires them to share the gift of Realization they were given, with the unique capacities bestowed on them, but they have no attachment to the response; what people do with it is up to them. People are free to come and go as they wish.
The state of the mystic is not an ‘achievement’. It’s not even a person but a state of consciousness beyond personhood, no longer a ‘me’.
Of AA Groups and their Influence
One example are individuals who go to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) groups. AA groups generally calibrate at 540, through Love. When a person seeks treatment for an addiction, they are usually at the bottom of the Map of Consciousness, filled with self-hatred, regret and despondency. But as they acknowledge and commit to overcoming their addiction, they move up to Courage (200) and slowly higher when committing to the whole 12-step recovery process. “Lower energy fields are like the clouds that block the sun.” When you join a loving group, you get the healing power of that collective’s intentions and get it by ‘osmosis’. This isn’t to say that you’re going to be at 500 and above once you’ve completed the process, as many who turn back to their addictions fall down to the lower levels again. It requires a constant inner power to practice what you’ve learnt on a daily basis.
Base Consciousness Level with Fluctuations
While we do calibrate at a certain level as a baseline, at certain moments of loss we do fall back down to the lower levels or go up the higher levels when we experience certain highs. The aim of the map is to find out where you’re at, being aware and then align with higher states. While every single entity at the moment of conception already has a calibrated level of consciousness, it is possible for isolated individuals to make sudden positive jumps of even hundreds of points although more commonly it increases on the average of only about 5 points.
When you know which level you’re operating at, you’re able to see the world ‘clearer’. Your viewpoints are going to be different at different levels and you’ll know what you’re comfortable functioning at, and what to align yourself with to transcend that particular level.
Transcending A Level
For example, Shame (20). When you punish yourself and judge yourself, you stay depressed. The flip side, is to forgive yourself for being yourself and choose self-worth.
Fear (100). When you dramatise ‘danger’, it paralyzes you into thinking you can’t do this or that and it develops into a phobia, hiding in smallness. Flip side, stay cool, owning that nothing ‘out there’ has power over you, with a technique of ‘then what?’. Say you’re scared of losing your job. “Then what?”. You’re scared of having no money from losing your job. “Then what?”. Poor and starve to death. Every scenario leads to death. When you face death, the fear of death itself no longer lingers. Once you’ve accepted the worst outcome, most of the fears disappear.
No matter which level you’re operating at, ultimately, it’s about surrendering and letting go. Instead of trying to force change, it’s about allowing the world to show you and guide you. When you surrender control, resistance and illusions of gain or loss, the power of Truth will show itself. The more you resist to a certain ego attachment, the harder it will be for you to achieve what you truly want to achieve. While we may know on an ego level we want more money, more this more that, your soul, that deeper and inner voice is trying to guide you towards true consciousness.
How to calculate an individual’s consciousness level?
Method From David Hawkins
What I’ve learnt from others is a bit different from how David Hawkins initially suggested, where you put your arm out in front of you and a ‘tester’ or another individual asks a question and gently pushes your forearm down. Only when your hand goes down does the statement of which the individual ask remain to be true. You’re not advised to calculate your own level as everyone has an ‘ego’ that wants to calibrate at a higher level, that may result in false readings. 10% of the population are also not able to use such techniques for unknown reasons and can only be deemed accurate if the one doing the test for the other is calibrating over 200, and the intention of the test is for a dignified purpose and not for self-inflating egos.
Another Method I Personally Use
A method to calculate that I learnt in Phangan was to use your thumb and pinkie fingers, pressing them together as hard as you can. Begin by asking the test subject if they have your permission to measure the consciousness. Then verbally saying this or in your mind “I have permission to ask about the consciousness of ____”. Then continue with, “On a scale of 1 to 1000 of the map of consciousness, with 1 being shame and 1000 being enlightenment, ____ calibrates over 100?” And use your index finger on your other hand to try to pry your thumb and pinky fingers apart. If it stays strong, continue with “over 200?”. Repeat this process until your fingers that are pressed together fall apart and can’t stay pressed together.
I’d add that this isn’t a quick and easy method to calculate, especially if it’s your first time, but with practice you’re able to get a more accurate reading. Depending on the place you’re doing it at as well, that may affect the individual’s reading. Getting a reading while you’re meditating in nature vs drinking alcohol or some other lower vibrational activity will result in different readings.
The similarities of the Map of Consciousness, working with one’s own chakras and evolutionary astrology really does point us to the ultimate goal of aligning one’s consciousness with a universal one. Find out where you are in your evolutionary journey when you book a reading with us.
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