I read Dr. Hawkins's book several years ago and found it immensely intriguing and insightful. I still do. Yet at this point in time I cannot agree entirely with his view of muscle testing, from which he reports gathering much of the information contained in this book. He claims that muscle testing is practically unerring. Yet there are many factors that can lead to inaccurate results (which I am sure he would acknowledge). Also the question here is whether muscle testing can be used to discern information beyond the individual's life history and physical/psychological condition. I use muscle testing regularly to evaluate psychological and other health problems and to find ways to effectively and efficiently treat those problems. However to simply hold in mind a book, a President, a religion, etc. and muscle test "its" level of consciousness or truth is a rather radical perspective--and there is really no way to know for sure. This reminds me in some ways of the medieval philosophical debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Of course, if Hawkins's methodology is applied precisely and all people who accurately muscle test get the same results, then we have consistency which MAY mean that we are tapping truths beyond the individual. I do believe that the universe can be likened to a hologram, where every part reflects the entirety. This is similar to physicist David Bohm's view of the implicate and explicate order and neuroscientist Carl Pribrim's holographic view of the brain. But can we purely tap that entirety my muscle testing an individual? That's the question. (In spite of my questions, I give this book 5 stars because of its stimulating and heuristic value.)
--Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology), Energy Tapping, and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology |
