Dr David R Hawkins MD PhD’s Map of Consciousness (R) gives a numerical level of power or lack of power to seeming attributes and liabilities of consciousness.
On the MOC (R), “desire” is numbered at 125 on a scale from 1-1000, and it is labelled as being well “under the line of truth, or courage” at 200.
Believing the calibration of desire in the Mind of God to be “under the line of integrity” produced unbalanced effects. I surrendered and suppressed natural desires (desire to be productive, desire to be with family, desire to feed, sleep, exercise the body etc) because of my interpretation of the “location” my spiritual teacher had positioned desire in the Mind of God. I became ill by the suppression of desire in the name of seeking enlightenment from desire.
“Desire in Me is Soul in Me” from the Divine Iliad. The discovery of the works of Walter Russell essentially brought me down from the fence of contemplating suicide due to lack of desire for life. Love is all there is, and all there is to desire. Without desiring Love, life does not seem worth living.
Here is what Walter Russell says about the importance of desire, and what happens when desire is suppressed or missing.
“Q. Can one treat a person who disbelieves in the truths of healing, who though only about fifty years of age, considers life not worth living and is emotionally and physically ill? If so how?
A.The only way that can be done is through desire. Desire is the basis and foundation of the universe. If a man is without desire, he cannot successfully surmount the hurdles of life. Desire is an everflowing fountain. Stop desiring and the ever-flowing fountain of man’s power ceases. The person who lacks desire will eventually destroy himself. Nature preserves only that which it has use for in carrying out its purposes. We are manifesting Creation by being creators. We cannot be creators unless we desire to be, and the greater our desire for purposeful expression, the greater the power for manifesting our Creator.
Lacking that desire, Nature creates toxins to destroy all purposeless things. All life is expressed by a series of waves. The positive electric side of a wave is alkaline. All alkaline elements wind up tight; they compress into solids by thrusting inward from without, and they continue that in an octave of one, two, three, four, until they get to carbon, which has the highest melting point of any element, thirty-five hundred degrees centigrade.
The moment they pass the amplitude of the wave and start unwinding down its acid side, they begin to expand to tear carbon apart into nitrogen, oxygen and fluorine negative gases.
The amplitude of a wave is its crest. It is the highest point of desire in the octaves of the elements, or in the cycle of your life. It is the maturing point of greatest strength, as a man of forty is “in his prime.”
If you then begin to lose your desire, you also begin to lose your power, as carbon does when it is unwound into negative gases instead of positive solids.
We can take a lesson from the elements of Nature in relation to our own expression of life. When our desires remain positive, we reach the strength of our amplitude, which we refer to as “being on the crest of the wave.” When our desires become negative, we express weakness. It is then that self-pity, self-condemnation, pessimism, inferiority complexes and excuses pull us down to the depths of despair.
This negation of desire is the easy road to failure and ruin. Only deep positive and constructive desires can again lift us up and back to the crest of our wave.”
Through acknowledgment of purposeful desire, and corresponding activity, I no longer have the mental disorder that was associated with belief in the Map of Consciousness (R)’s position of desire. My mental state is one of balanced equilibrium, that cannot be disturbed by anything seeming.
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Darcie French 