David R. Hawkins’s Power vs. Force is one of those books that makes you pause, tilt your head, and think: Did I just stumble across a secret manual for decoding reality? Or is this spiritual snake oil with footnotes?
Hawkins claims to have discovered a way to objectively distinguish truth from falsehood using nothing more than the body’s response to statements. The tool is Applied Kinesiology, a technique where a subject’s muscle strength is tested while holding a thought, statement, or stimulus in mind. If the statement is true, the muscle “goes strong.” If it is false, the muscle “goes weak.”
I conceived of an N of 1 experiment to test the bold claim that Applied Kinesiology makes: Since I have my whole genome sequenced, I can muscle test specific statements about my DNA and then check them against the raw report. If my body can consistently verify the truth or falsity of genetic facts, I can verify by checking my own genes, which would be a powerful confirmation of Hawkins’s central claim. The results were surprising...
1:25 Applied Kinesiology "Truth-Testing"
4:01 The Essential Message
5:53 The Testing Technique
9:27 The Map of Consciousness
15:23 Philosophical takeaways
20:38 Hawkins’s Biases
24:12 Dense Language, Big Ideas
27:07 Music vs Growth Mindset
30:09 My Truth-Testing Experiments
39:13 Skepticism is Well-Warranted
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