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David R. Hawkins

Né(e): 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.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

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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Citations

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Love is actually present everywhere, and its presence only needs to be realized
-Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
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We become the prayer
-Book of Slides / Transcending Barriers
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Human life is a major spiritual opportunity
-Discovery of the Presence of God
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One’s commitment should be to God and Truth only
-The Eye of the I
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You’re being pulled by destiny
-The Highest Level of Enlightenment
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The opposite of Truth does not exist, since Reality excludes nonreality
-The Ego is Not the Real You
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There is no greater calling than to choose to be a servant of God
-Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man
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Reality is the ultimate in simplicity
-I: Reality and Subjectivity
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Loving is a state of being
-Power vs Force

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"Ken Wilber said David R. Hawkins had terrifically interesting ideas but was caught in subtle reductionism"

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"Scott Jeffrey wrote that David R. Hawkins had a tendency to exaggerate and a flair for the dramatic"

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"Robert Todd Carroll noted that David R. Hawkins's Ph.D. came from an unaccredited diploma mill"

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