Part I
Digital photography. Limited edition prints 125 x 126 cm, 70 x 70 cm
Our life is a number of consecutive events. We make our subjective assessment to each of them, generating a certain emotion, which is followed by a reaction in the body. In this chain, our consciousness comes last, registering the result of unconscious calculations - the reaction. At the same time, we firmly believe that this reaction is our conscious choice. We are convinced that only our assessment of the situation is correct, and our actions are adequate. Our mind makes a decision in a split of a second and we can only realize its choice and convince ourselves that we did the right thing. (see Benjamin Libet’s experiment). Perhaps the same event can have a different assessment depending on the state in which our consciousness is at the moment. Our thoughts are always secondary in relation to feelings, they easily acquire a shade of background emotion. Oriental religions and philosophies have known this for thousands of years. Now, they receive extensive support from researchers on the opposite side of the globe.
For 20 years, Dr. David Hawkins has used the methods of applied kinesiology to create a linear scale of consciousness. He used manual muscle testing on thousands of volunteers to determine basic states, their conditional numerical level of psychic energy, and their effect on others. He represented the summary of his research as a linear graph in the range of values from 0 to 1000:
For 20 years, Dr. David Hawkins has used the methods of applied kinesiology to create a linear scale of consciousness. He used manual muscle testing on thousands of volunteers to determine basic states, their conditional numerical level of psychic energy, and their effect on others. He represented the summary of his research as a linear graph in the range of values from 0 to 1000:
Death (0) - Shame (20) - Guilt (30) - Apathy (50) - Grief (75) - Fear (100) - Desire (125) - Anger (150) - Pride (175) - Courage ( 200) - Neutrality (250) - Readiness (310) - Acceptance (350) - Intelligence (400) - Love (500) - Joy (540) - Harmony (600) - Enlightenment (700-1000)
Basically we balance between 3-4 adjacent levels. In order to learn about your real, and not fictional, state, you need to pay attention to your reaction under the pressure or in the stressful situations. Without understanding the real reason, we quite often direct all our efforts to change the external circumstances, while we need to work on the internal ones.
Part II
Digital photography. Limited edition prints 86 x 82 cm, 56 x 53 cm
Part III
Digital photography. Limited edition prints 82 x 163 cm, 52 x 100 cm
Part IV
Digital photography. Limited edition prints 108 x 187 cm, 65 x 112 cm
