I Died and Came Back at 600 on the Consciousness Scale—Here's What I Learned About Your Vibe
The single most important thing to monitor isn't your bank account or followers—it's your vibrational frequency. Here's the science behind why your energy literally creates your reality.
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video: 30 min —transcript below.
After I was in a car wreck in Mexico in 2017, I had five major abdominal surgeries in fifteen days in three hospitals - two in Mexico and three in San Diego at a trauma hospital. During the third surgery, I experienced a near-death experience (NDE). After my husband, John, and I returned home, I read Healing and Recovery by David Hawkins, MD, PhD, a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and spiritual teacher. Dr. Hawkins devoted his life to helping people overcome suffering, a cause he pursued until he died in 2012. Hawkins created the Map of Consciousness and tested the calibration of a near-death experience to be 600. On the scale, death is zero and enlightenment is one thousand. This doesn’t mean you stay at the high level after an NDE, but that’s why I felt touched ‘by an angel’ and was in bliss for four months afterward. It’s also why I healed quickly.
The single most important thing you can monitor in your life isn't your bank account, your weight, or your social media followers; it's your vibrational frequency (your energy) —the energetic state that creates your reality.
I discovered this truth when I first encountered Dr. David Hawkins' revolutionary Map of Consciousness, and it changed everything about how I understood human potential. This isn't some fluffy spiritual concept—it's a scientifically researched framework that reveals why some people effortlessly attract abundance. In contrast, others struggle, and some individuals radiate peace, while others live in constant chaos.
Your vibe isn't just how you feel in the moment. It's the energetic frequency you predominantly operate from, and it determines what shows up in your life with mathematical precision.
The Science Behind Your Spiritual GPS
Dr. David Hawkins spent more than 20 years conducting more than 250,000 calibrations using applied kinesiology (muscle testing) to map human consciousness on a logarithmic scale from 1 to 1,000. What he discovered will blow your mind: every emotion, thought pattern, and state of being has a measurable energetic frequency.
Think of consciousness like a radio dial. When you're tuned to the frequency of shame (calibrating at 20), you literally cannot receive the signals of love (calibrating at 500). You're on completely different stations. This explains why someone stuck in victim consciousness can't understand how successful people think, or why someone operating from love can't relate to hatred—they're vibrating at fundamentally different frequencies.
The most revolutionary part? You have the power to change your channel.
The Map That Changes Everything
From low to high, the levels of consciousness are: shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger, pride, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace, enlightenment.
Here's what will shock you:
According to Hawkins, 85% of people on Earth live below the level of courage, trapped in survival mode, operating from fear-based thinking, and completely unconscious of their power to transform their reality.
But courage, calibrated at 200, is where everything changes.
Hawkins referred to this stage as integrity, the point at which we begin to discern truth from falsehood and essence from ego.
I like to think of courage as the "bridge" to awakening because it is at the level of courage that we transcend the little self (ego) - the dualistic, fear-based ego mindset and begin to experience our true essence and potential.
The bottom line: Everything below 200 is force (struggle, resistance, survival). Everything above 200 is power (flow, attraction, creation).
Why Your Vibe Creates Your Tribe (and Your Life)
Everything is energy! Each of these energies has a signature or frequency associated with it. This isn't metaphysical theory—it's energetic fact. Your predominant emotional state broadcasts a signal into the quantum field, and like attracts like with unwavering consistency.
When you're stuck in fear (calibrating at 100), you'll attract fearful experiences, people, and opportunities. Your mind will interpret everything through the lens of danger and scarcity because that's the frequency to which you're tuned.
However, when you reach a state of love (calibrating at 500), you start attracting loving relationships, abundant opportunities, and synchronistic experiences.
A person who calibrates at the 500 level will counterbalance 750,000 individuals who calibrate below the 200 level. One person operating from love literally transforms the energy field for hundreds of thousands of people.
This is why monitoring your vibe isn't selfish—it's service.
The Brutal Truth About Low-Vibe Living
Shame - Let me be real with you. Think of shame as self-directed hatred. At shame (20), you can't create anything meaningful because you're too busy destroying yourself.
Guilt – A step above shame. You think of yourself as a sinner, unable to forgive yourself for past transgressions.
Apathy – Feeling hopeless or victimized. The state of learned helplessness. Many homeless people are stuck here.
Fear – Seeing the world as dangerous and unsafe. At fear (100), God appears punitive, life feels threatening, and your primary drive is survival at any cost.
Here's what most people don't understand: You can't think your way out of these states. You have to feel your way through them and consciously choose to let them go.
The Game-Changing Moment: Moving from Force to Power
The transformation occurs at the point of courage (200). This is the first level of true strength... This is where you start to see life as both challenging and exciting, rather than overwhelming.
At courage, you stop being a victim of circumstances and start becoming the creator of your experience. You realize that life isn't happening TO you—it's responding to the vibrational signal you're broadcasting.
At this level, you also begin to be guided by a force greater than yourself. It's a feeling of letting go. Your intuition becomes extremely strong.
But here's where it gets wild. As you continue ascending:
Willingness (310): You become a "trooper" of society, willing to put in the work without complaining.
Acceptance (350): You take responsibility for your role in creating your reality and start setting goals that align with your authentic self.
Reason (400): You can think clearly, see patterns, and make decisions based on logic rather than emotion.
And then... You hit the big leagues.
The Love Revolution: Life at 500 and Beyond
This level is about unconditional love, a constant awareness of your interconnectedness with all that exists. Consider compassion. At the level of love, you now serve your heart (not your emotions, but your deeper sense of good and wrong — your conscience) with your head and all of your other talents and abilities.
At love (500), everything shifts. You stop trying to get love and start becoming love. You attract not from neediness but from wholeness. Relationships transform from transactions to celebrations.
Joy – 540 – Feelings of deep inner serenity, compassion, and completeness
Peace – 600 – Feelings of pure bliss (only 1 in 10 million reach this level). This is the level of a near-death experience.
Total transcendence. Hawkins claims that only one person reaches this level in 10 million—the highest level of human consciousness, where humanity blends with divinity.
Your Daily Vibe Check: Practical Tools for Consciousness Elevation
1. Become a Frequency Detective. Examine the Map of Consciousness closely and determine your vibration level. Be truthful with yourself and observe the feelings you experience most often. This will indicate your position on the scale.
Ask yourself: "What emotion do I spend most of my time in?" Don't judge it—notice it. Awareness is the first step to transformation.
2. The Emotional Ladder Technique. You can't jump from fear (100) to love (500) overnight. This is not sustainable, and you will find that your shadows keep rearing their ugly heads because you have not addressed the part of yourself that needs healing to create the truly sustainable next-level version of yourself.
Instead, climb the emotional ladder one rung at a time:
Fear → Anger (at least you're no longer powerless)
Anger → Pride (you're taking some ownership)
Pride → Courage (you're ready to face the truth)
Courage → Willingness (you're ready to do the work)
3. Vibrational Hygiene Practices - Practice a Positive Mindset: Repeat positive affirmations and think loving thoughts. Eat a high-vibrational diet (organic, living, raw, chlorophyll-rich, fruits, vegetables, herbs).
Meditate for fifteen minutes each day. Select an essential oil or a blend of oils to support you throughout your day. Spend some time in nature. Be aware of your bad habits and be open to shifting them.
4. The Conscious Choice Point Every moment, you have a choice: Will you respond from your higher Self or react from your wounded self? True empowerment is not about adding more responsibility and authority.
5. Energy Audit Your Environment: Everything around us can affect our level of consciousness, including the music we listen to, the people we associate with, the books we read, and the shows we watch.
Are you consuming low-vibe content? Surrounding yourself with complainers and victims? Your environment either lifts you up or pulls you down—choose consciously.
The Ripple Effect: Why Your Frequency Matters to the World
Here's the most beautiful part of this journey: The higher we rise, the better our world gets. Everyone counts. When you raise your consciousness, you literally make the world a better place.
Every moment of work contributes not only to your vibrational field but to the field of our collective consciousness. Your personal transformation becomes a gift to humanity.
Your Consciousness Assignment
For the next seven days, I want you to become obsessed with monitoring your vibe. Set phone reminders every two hours asking: "What frequency am I operating from right now?"
If you catch yourself in fear, shame, or anger, don't judge it. Ask: "What would love do here?" or "How can I move up just one level on the consciousness scale?"
The #1 takeaway is to understand that your thoughts create the world you experience. Moving up the consciousness scale involves learning how to respond to events in the world with more thoughtful thoughts.
Remember: You are not a victim of your circumstances. You are a creator responding to the frequency you're broadcasting.
Your vibe is your life. Your consciousness is your contribution. Your frequency is your freedom.
The world needs you operating at your highest level. The question isn't whether you can transform—it's whether you will.
What frequency will you choose today?
Practice a Positive Mindset: repeat positive affirmations, think loving thoughts
Eat a high-vibrational diet (organic, living, raw, rich in chlorophyll, fruits, vegetables, and herbs).
Help others.
Be kind + spread kindness.
Meditate: visualize white light filling and surrounding your body.
Create: music, art, write.
Expand consciousness: read, watch positive uplifting videos (Ekhart Tolle etc)
Hydrate and flush toxins (drink spring water or water in glass bottles – Aqua Panna).
Exercise: dance, yoga, swim, hike, or run.
Spend time alone in nature (express gratitude for Mother Earth, Madre Terra)
Listen to high vibrational music + healing frequencies (528hz, 432 hz) on YouTube.
Be Grateful.
Practice Forgiveness (Ho’oponopono).
Focus on your mental health.
Practice self-acceptance.
Education: learn new things.
Deep breathing.
Singing.
Prayer or connect to your higher Self (or zero-point energy field “Source”).
Take supplements.
Try to remember to do everything with love (even when it’s hard).
Ready to dive deeper into the transformation of consciousness? Join our community of high-vibe creators who are dedicated to elevating not only their own lives but also the collective consciousness of humanity. Because when we rise, we all rise.
P.S. Soon, I'll let you know about the dates for a one-hour Zoom gathering, where I'll provide a few prompts and we'll write together. Then, some of you can share your work. It is a way to create hope and connection during this time of chaos and fear in our outer world.