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Originally Posted by moltar  And of course, a question stems up right away. Would this be subjective? I.e. if I think that gangster rap is the shiz, then I am going to be empowered by it. Same as if some person truly beleives that bananas are poisonous, then he/she will be disempowered by them. But then again, in James examples the envelopes had no indication what is in them, so how could it be? |
This is a great question! In Power vs Force, Hawkins says that people can be empowered by things that are in higher consciousness levels than the one they are currently in. Someone who is at apathy or fear can be empowered by messages of pride, anger, desire, eg in gangster rap. So technically, it would seem that people at lower levels would test strong with messages that would make higher consciousness people test weak. But this subjectivity is only mentioned in his theory, he doesn't make any mention of it in actual testing, as far as I can see in his works.
Also, when this testing is used to calibrate things in the levels of consciousness (the actual numbers in a scale, rather than just testing strong or weak) it is claimed to be uniform across all people, that would mean this is an
objective measure of the collective unconscious. This is one of the objective parts of reality that I believe in.
How would someone in SR explain this kind of objective system?