Truth vs Falsehood (60 page)

An interesting comparison can be made in interpreters of the ancient Vedas that demonstrates the direct spiritual purity of nonduality. Adi Sankara Charya, Eighth Century sage of “nonduality,” calibrates at 710, Sri Ramanuja Charya, Tenth Century sage of “qualified nondualism” is at 530, and Sri Madhva Charya of the Twelfth Century “dualistic devotion” is at 520. Huang Po, teacher of advanced “no mind” nonduality, is at 970.

The Reality of Divinity supersedes descriptions, identifications, or nominalizations that imply exclusivity. Krishna said, “By whatever name and by whatever means I am worshipped, all who are devoted to me or call on me are equally mine and dear to me.” The Ninety-first Psalm says the same thing in that all who worship the Lord shall receive his love and protection. All true religions reaffirm that salvation is a consequence of surrendering to and acknowledging God through faith, worship, good deeds, prayers, and declaration.

The Reality of the Infinite Divinity is indivisible because it is nonlinear. The actual experience and Realization of Enlightenment is beyond all designation. As the ego dissolves into the Presence as Allness, the mind falls silent in the stillness and silence; thus, no nominalization is possible. (Hawkins, 1995, 2001, 2003). This was also the teaching of the Buddha and all Enlightened Sages throughout recorded time.

The “10,000 ways to God” are operationally only one way because they are all expressions of the same intention: to relinquish the dualistic ego and its illusions to the ultimate nonlinear Reality by whatever name it is designated.

Although the writings of teachers almost always calibrate at the same consciousness level as their author, there are occasional exceptions. Plotinus calibrates at 725, his writings at 503. Huang Po is at 970, his writings at 850, and Meister Eckhart calibrates at 705 while his writings are at 600. Very advanced states of consciousness are difficult to convey in the linearity of sentences and be intelligible to the reader. The foregoing exceptions were inadvertent and not intentional (statement calibrates as ‘true’).

Students frequently ask for a list of integrous teachers whose work has been verified on a Scale of Consciousness. The above list of verifiably integrous teachers provides a very wide array of pathways to facilitate spiritual endeavor and evolution.

Spiritual bookstores present an overwhelming variety of books, some of which are primarily spiritual fiction, notwithstanding the fame of their authors. Approximately fifty percent of the material in some spiritual libraries and bookshops is below calibration level 200. The majority below 200 is primarily fantasy, although seven percent is actually delusional. On the other hand, the top forty serious contemporary spiritual writers all calibrate in the 400s and are therefore focused on spiritual education.

Although “New Age” literature is popular and engaging, it is also the area of maximal error and fallacy. It is rife with channelings from nonintegrous sources, earth prophecies, UFOs, extraterrestrial visitors, ‘guides’ from the future, and claims of special, unique realms and strange foretellings of invasions from other galaxies, etc. Spirituals fiction is just that, but no more than that. Naïve enthusiasts follow guides who tell them to go out in the desert where they will be transported by UFOs, etc. Even if the style of expression is pseudo-spiritually sweet and cajoling, books that calibrate below 200 can, and do, lead to serious error if they are taken seriously.

By both subjective realization and the application of a science of truth utilizing calibratable verification, some irreducible conclusions and finalizations can be stated with certainty. At this time in the evolution of consciousness, there are available to both experiential and diagnostic confirmation, identifiable and demonstrable attributes and defining characteristics of Truth itself that transcend time, place, speaker, or the limitations of dualistic mentations. They can be stated as follows:

Identification and Characteristics of Spiritual Truth, Integrous Teachers, and Teachings

1.
Universality
: Truth is true at all times and places, independent of culture, personalities, or circumstances.

2.
Nonexclusionary
: Truth is all-inclusive, nonsecretive, and nonsectarian.

3.
Availability
: It is open to all, non-exclusive. There are no secrets to be revealed, hidden, or sold, and no magical formulas or ‘mysteries’.

4.
Integrity of purpose
: There is nothing to gain or lose.

5.
Nonsectarian
: Truth is not the exposition of limitation.

6.
Independent of opinion
: Truth is nonlinear and not subject to the limitations of intellect or form.

7.
Devoid of Positionality
: Truth is not ‘anti’ anything. Falsehood and ignorance are not its enemies but merely represent its absence.

8.
No requirements or demands
: There are no required memberships, dues, regulations, oaths, rules, or conditions.

9.
Noncontrolling
: Spiritual purity has no interest in the personal lives of aspirants, or in clothing, dress, style, sex lives, economics, family patterns, lifestyles, or dietary habits.

10.
Free of force or intimidation
: There is no brainwashing, adulation of leaders, training rituals, indoctrinations, or intrusions into private life.

11.
Nonbinding
: There are no regulations, laws, edicts, contracts, or pledges.

12.
Freedom
: Participants are free to come and go without persuasion, coercion, intimidation, or consequences. There is no hierarchy; instead, there is voluntary fulfillment of practical necessities and duties.

13.
Commonality
: Recognition is a consequence of what one has become rather than as a result of ascribed titles, adjectives, or trappings.

14.
Inspirational
: Truth eschews and avoids glamorization, seduction, and theatrics.

15.
Nonmaterialistic
: Truth is devoid of neediness of worldly wealth, prestige, pomp, or edifices.

16.
Self-fulfilling
: Truth is already total and complete and has no need to proselytize or gain adherents, followers, or ‘sign up members’.

17.
Detached:
There is noninvolvement in world affairs.

18.
Benign
: Truth is identifiable along a progressive gradient. It has no ‘opposite’ and therefore no ‘enemies’ to castigate or oppose.

19.
Nonintentional
: Truth does not intervene or have an agenda to propose, inflict, or promulgate.

20.
Nondualistic
: All transpires by virtue of intrinsic (karmic) propensity within the field by which potentiality manifests as actuality rather than by ‘cause’ and effect.

21.
Tranquility and Peace
: There are no ‘issues’ or partialities. There is no desire to change others or impose on society. The effect of higher energies is innate and not dependent on propagation or effort. God does not need help anymore than gravity needs the ‘help’ of an apple’s falling off the tree.

22.
Equality
: This is expressed in reverence for all of life in all its expressions and merely avoids that which is deleterious rather than opposing it.

23.
Nontemporality
: Life is realized to be eternal and physicality to be a temporality. Life is not subject to death.

24.
Beyond proof
: That which is ‘provable’ is linear, limited, and a product of intellectualization and mentation. Reality needs no agreement. Reality is not an acquisition but instead is a purely spontaneous, subjective realization when the positionalities of the dualistic ego are surrendered.

25.
Mystical
: The origination of truth is a spontaneous effulgence, radiance, and illumination, which is the Revelation that replaces the illusion of a separate individual self, the ego, and its mentation.

26.
Ineffable
: Not capable of definition. Radical subjectivity is experiential. It is a condition that replaces the former. With this event, context replaces content, devoid of temporality and beyond time. Reality does not exist in time, or of it, or beyond it, or outside of it, and it has no relationship to that which is an artifice of mentation. It is therefore beyond all nouns, adjectives, or verbs, transitive or intransitive.

27.
Simplistic
: One sees the intrinsic beauty and perfection of all that exists beyond appearance and form.

28.
Affirmative
: Truth is beyond opinion or provability. Confirmation is purely by its subjective awareness; however, it is identifiable by consciousness calibration techniques.

29.
Nonoperative
: Truth does not ‘do’ anything or ‘cause’ anything; it
is
everything.

30.
Invitational
: As contrasted with promotional or persuasive.

31.
Nonpredictive
: Because Reality is nonlinear, it cannot be localized or encoded in restriction of form, such as secret messages, codes, numbers, and inscriptions, or hidden in runes, stones, the dimensions of the pyramid, the DNA, or the nostril hairs of the camel. Truth has no secrets. The Reality of God is omnipresent and beyond codification or exclusivity. Codes are indicative of man’s imagination and not the capriciousness of Divinity.

32.
Nonsentimental
: Emotionality is based on perception. Compassion results from the discernment of truth.

33.
Nonauthoritarian
: There are no rules or dictates to be followed.

34.
Nonegoistic
: Teachers are respected but reject personal adulation or specialness.

35.
Educational
: Provides information in a variety of formats and ensures availability.

36.
Self-supporting
: Neither mercenary nor materialistic.

37.
Freestanding
: Complete without dependence on external or historical authorities.

38.
Natural
: Devoid of induced, altered status of consciousness or manipulations of energies by artificial means, (i.e., nonreliance on form).

39.
Complete:
Devoid of exploitation or gain.

Divinity and Avatars

Divinity—God Transcendent

Divinity—God Immanent

Other Denotations of Spiritual Reality (Celestial Hierarchy)

Unless mankind, including all of its greatest spiritual geniuses and saints, has been totally wrong throughout all of history, the results of the calibration of the reality of Divinity are what one would simply expect as a result of “common sense,” innate intelligence, and intuition. Calibrations simultaneously confirm the pragmatic value of the consciousness calibration system in evaluating the levels of truth. “God” as a concept calibrates at only 460, as would be expected, because it is a mentation.