Hawkins Study Group, SW Portland, OR

Meeting Format: Presently, the core of our meeting comprises conversation around one or more of the twenty-three statements about God* on pages 163 and 164 of Reality and Subjectivity. Each conversation is a searching inquiry drawing upon the lessons of our diverse lives framed by what we have learned from Hawkins' writings including his Map of Consciousness. An indication of the depth and breath of our contemplations is that we are averaging one statement per month!  We open each meeting with thymus thumps to clear our meridians, followed by centering oms, and close with a reading of all twenty-three statements. This format presently appears to serve our spiritual growth and we expect it to change according to whatever we find necessary to sustain that. 

*The statements are:
1. God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite potentiality and source or 'voidness' prior to form.
2. God is infinite beyond time or depictions of space or locality, without beginning or end.
3. God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient.
4. God is the source and substrate of consciousness, awareness, knowingness, and sentience.
5. God is the sole source of the energy of life.
6. God is the source of evolution and Creations, which are on and the same.
7. God is the source and presence of peace, love, stillness and beauty.
8. God is beyond all universes and materiality, yet is the source of all that is.
9. God is the sole source of existence and the potentiality of beingness.
10. God is the ultimate context of which the universe and all existence is the content.
11. God is the a priori formless source of existence within all form.
12. God is not within the province of the provable or the intellect.
13. God is the source and essence of the subjective state of 'I-ness" called enlightenment.
14. God is the radical subjectivity of Self-realization.
15. God is descriptively immanent and and transcendent.
16. The human experience of the Presence of God is the same in all ages, cultures and localities.
17. The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a recorded level of consciousness.
18. The essence of God does not include human frailties, such as partiality, the desire to control, favoritism, duality, judgmentalism, wrath, righteous anger, resentment, limitation, arbitrariness, vanity, revenge, jealousy, retaliation, vulnerability, or locality.
19. The variabilities of the depictions of Divinity reflect the variabilities of human perception and the projections of the impediments of the ego and its positionalities.
20. The purity of the Presence of God is traditionally the ineffable quality of holiness and os the basis for the depictive term "sacred." That which is devoid of content is the equivalent of innocence.
21. When the obstacles of human mentation, emotionality, and the egos's structures from which they are derived are transcended, the Self as God Immanent shines forth of its own accord, just as the sun shines forth when the clouds are removed.
22. God is the context and source of the karmic unity of all Creation, bed all perceptual descriptions or limitations such as time or space.
23. Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.