This lays out Hawkins’ 0–1000 scale of consciousness as a practical roadmap, showing how emotions like shame, guilt, fear, anger, and pride sit in low “force” fields, while courage, love, joy, and peace radiate “power.” It explains how each level shows up in your worldview, body, and relationships, clarifies ideas like Power vs. Force and attractor fields, and offers concrete ways to recognize your current level and lean into higher ones in daily life. Think of it as the “theory and map” book: a big-picture framework for understanding consciousness, calibration, and why inner work matters at all.​

What you can get from reading it

• Learn the full scale from shame and guilt up through love, joy, and enlightenment, with clear descriptions of how each level thinks, feels, and behaves.
• Understand Power vs. Force and why pushing from low states drains you, while higher states quietly reshape reality.
• Recognize your dominant patterns and emotional “attractor fields,” so you can see where you tend to orbit and what the next healthy “upshift” looks like.
• Get practices and perspectives for “moving up the map,” using responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion to stabilize at higher levels of being.​

About the author

David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, was a psychiatrist, spiritual teacher, and researcher who ran a large psychiatric clinic before devoting his life to consciousness studies. Drawing on decades of clinical work, spiritual practice, and his controversial calibration experiments, he became known for bridging psychological healing with nondual teachings, offering people a structured way to understand inner growth and enlightenment.

• Some people recommend starting with his book Letting Go to get familiar and begin experimenting with the techniques he teaches to raise your frequency. By using the method first, you build trust in his framework that is further explored in this book: 
  • Map of Consciousness: theory, framework, why (scale, levels, calibration)
  • Letting Go: practical method, the how to (surrender steps, emotional release)