Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

The book’s original Foreword was written by E. Whalen, editor of Bard Press. He begins by posing a scenario in which a person could find the answer to any yes or no (Y/N) question, including those with staggering implications such as the true intentions of party candidates. He then discusses behavioral kinesiology, or the study of muscle movements in response to positive or negative emotional, intellectual, and physical stimuli. The concept was articulated by Dr. John Diamond in a 1979 book, Your Body Doesn’t Lie. Whalen explains that Diamond’s work was the starting point for Dr. David Hawkins’s research on the kinesiologic response to truth and falsehood. Hawkins concluded that there is a type of communal consciousness that he calls a “database of consciousness” (12) which can tell true from false.

Hawkins developed his research into a scale of “relative truth” by which “intellectual positions, statements, or ideologies” (14) could be rated on a range from 1 to 1,000. The scale is, in effect, a map of human experience from the lowest to the highest spiritual development.