David R. Hawkins
Born: June 03, 1927 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
David R. Hawkins was an American psychiatrist, physician, and spiritual author whose work explored consciousness, spirituality, and personal transformation. He is best known for Power vs. Force and Letting Go, books widely read in New Age and self-help circles for combining psychological language with devotional and metaphysical themes.
Biography & Author's Journey
David R. Hawkins was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 3, 1927, and came of age in the shadow of World War II, serving in the U.S. Navy before beginning a long medical career. He studied at Milwaukee State Teachers College, graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1953, and later received a Ph.D. in 1995. In New York he became a psychiatrist, medical director of the North Nassau Mental Health Center, and director of research at Brunswick Hospital, publishing in medical and psychoanalytic journals and working extensively on schizophrenia and alcoholism. A major turning point came in 1980, when he left full-time psychiatric practice to devote himself to spiritual research in Arizona. ((https://veritaspub.com/dr-hawkins/))
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"Wayne Dyer called David R. Hawkins's work the most important book he'd read in the past 10 years"
— Wayne Dyer
"Ken Wilber said David R. Hawkins had terrifically interesting ideas but was caught in subtle reductionism"
— Ken Wilber
"Peter Olsson wrote that David R. Hawkins may have morphed into a malignant pied piper"
— Peter Olsson
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— Stephanie Beacham
"Scott Jeffrey wrote that David R. Hawkins had a tendency to exaggerate and a flair for the dramatic"
— Scott Jeffrey
"Robert Todd Carroll noted that David R. Hawkins's Ph.D. came from an unaccredited diploma mill"
— Robert Todd Carroll
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