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| [The Compass of Truth Part 3] |
A striking aspect of Diamond´s research was the uniformity of response among his subjects. Diamond´s results were predictable,repeatable, and universal. This was so even where no rational link existed between stimulus and response. For totally undetermined reasons, certain abstract symbols caused all subjects to test weak; others, the opposite.
Some results were perplexing: Certain pictures, with no overtly positive or negative content would cause all subjects to test weak, while other "neutral" pictures caused all subjects to test strong.
And some results were food for considerable surmise : Whereas virtually all classical music and most pop music (includig "classic" rock and roll) caused a universally strong response, the "hard" or "metal" rock that first gained acceptance in the late ´70s produced a universally weak response.
There was one other phenomenon that Diamond noted in passing, although he devoted no deeper analysis to its extraordinary implications:
Subjects listening to tapes of known deceits - even though the speakers seemed to be telling the turth and sounded convincing - tested weak.
While listening to recordings of demonstrable,true statements, they universally tested strong.
This was the starting point of the well-known psychiatrist and physician, David R. Hawkins (M.D.,Ph.D).
In 1975 Dr. Hawkins began research on the kinesiological response to truth and falsehood.
It had been established that test subjects didn´t need any conscious acquaintance with the substance ( or issue) being tested. In double-blind studies - and in mass demonstrations involving entire lecture audiences- subjects universally in response to unmarked envelopes containing artifical sweetener, and strong to identical placebo envelopes. The same naive response appeared in testing intellectual values.
What seems to be at work is a form of communal consciousness, spiritus mundi, or as Hawkins calls it, following Jung, a "database of consciousness."
The phenomenon seen so commonly in other social animals - whereby swimming at one edge of a school will turn instantaneously when its fellows a quarter mile away flee a predator - also pertains in some subconscious way to our species. There are simply too many documented instances of individuals having intimate acquaintance with information experienced firsthand by remote strangers for us to deny that there are forms of shared knowledge other than those achieve by rational consciousness.
Or perhaps, more simply, the same spark of inner subrational wisdom that can discriminate healthy from unhealthy can discrimate true from false.
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[inspired by Power vs. Force
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