“The Transformation Materials have been truly life-changing, giving me a deeper understanding of consciousness and a completely new way of seeing myself, others, and the experiences in my life. After months of studying, reflecting, and applying this material I can genuinely say it has changed the way I move through the world. I’m incredibly grateful for what Bob has shared in these materials as it has been completely life changing.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart Bob for all that you have done for me.” 

~Diane, TTM Student

“The body of work that moves through Bob Short has profoundly transformed my life. His teachings arise from an extraordinary depth of understanding of human nature and consciousness.

Through eight years as his student, I have learned to see myself more clearly, take greater responsibility for my choices, and recognize myself as the self-determinate person I was always meant to be. I remain continuously astonished by the depth and precision of Bob’s awareness, and deeply grateful for the privilege of studying with him.

His teachings do more than introduce new ideas. They change the way we understand ourselves, the lives we are creating, and what may be possible for us.”

~Pamela Edwards

If you’ve ever felt disenchanted with the world and just knew there had to be more to life than what television and social programming is promoting….This book is for you.

This book maps out 6 distinct evolutionary stages and 15 detailed levels of development of awareness.

The framework beautifully explains how awareness fragments as it descends into form—losing itself under the gravity pull of ego identity and societal programming—and how to systematically ascend back to unity consciousness.

Ultimately, The Scale of Consciousness Evolution - Volume 1 is a map with step-by-step instructions on how to transcend limiting beliefs and reclaim the disowned fragments of the self (un-become your false ego-identity) to embody/become your true self, regain your full sovereignty, and live in peace, unity, and love.

Highly recommended for any serious seeker of spiritual wholeness.

~Maricela Elizondo Terán

In December of 1971, I was sixteen years old and hitchhiking home to New York from a yoga festival in Florida. Somewhere in North Carolina, a driver picked me up. I told him where I was headed — Brooklyn. He said he was going right past it, no trouble at all.

He dropped me off at two in the morning, in December, on a street corner in Brooklyn, Maryland.

Same name, wrong place. Neither of us checked. He was confident, and I took his confidence as good enough — didn't ask him to confirm which Brooklyn, just got in the car and trusted the destination would sort itself out.

It took a diner waitress and a fairly confused ten minutes that morning to work out that Brooklyn, Maryland was a real place, and that I was standing in it.

That's the part that's stuck with me longer than the cold did that night. A map would have caught it.

Before phones did this for us, a city map was a book. In New York it was the Hagstrom atlas, which the New York Times once called the city's map of record, and which had held that position for something like sixty years. Hagstrom drew the streets wider than they really were so the names would fit, which tells you who the map was built for. It was built for someone trying to read it at a red light.

In Los Angeles and San Diego it was the Thomas Guide, a spiral-bound atlas about the size of a notebook that lived in the glovebox or on the passenger seat. Every page was a tile of the city, and every location was a page number and a grid square. Thomas Bros. never covered New York, and they never really managed anywhere outside Southern California. A late-nineties push into the Baltimore-Washington area cost them a lot of money and didn't take. Inside their territory, though, the page-and-grid became something close to a second address system. California required police and fire vehicles to carry the guides, dispatchers used the coordinates, and businesses printed them on their flyers. People who used the books for years could still recite their home page and grid long after the books stopped being useful. The coordinate outlived the tool.

The ritual, as I remember it, went like this. The driver drives. The passenger holds the book open on their knees, calls out the page, finds the square, and tells the driver which street is coming up. It worked, but only on one condition that nobody talked about, because it was too obvious to mention. You had to already know roughly where you were. You needed a cross street, a landmark, something to put your finger on. From that point on the book could do almost anything for you. Without that starting point it was a very detailed picture of somewhere.

The better guides also did more than tell you where you were. The index in the back listed hospitals, schools, parks and other points of interest, so the map answered the next question too, which was what's near here and how do I get to it. A coordinate by itself is a fact. A coordinate with the surrounding world laid on top of it is something you can act on.

So when I evaluate a map, I ask two things. Can I find myself on it? And once I have, does it tell me anything I can use?

Bob Short's The Scale of Consciousness Evolution, the first volume of what he calls The Transformation Materials, makes a similar claim about itself, in more exact terms. He calls it a mirror for seeing where you currently stand, and a map for what comes after. That's close enough to my own two questions that I didn't have to invent a test for this book. He'd already named it. The territory it maps is the development of a Soul over a very long arc. Whether you accept that premise is your business, and it doesn't have to be settled before the map can be tested. You don't have to agree with a mapmaker about anything else to find out whether his map gets you where you're going.

So I put it to the same two questions, and it passed both. I could find myself on it, and not only in the places I'd have picked for myself. Once I had, it told me things about where I was standing that I could use, some of which I'd have preferred not to hear. I'm not going to lay out how it's built. A good part of what the book does is make you work your own way across it, and a secondhand description would be doing that work for you, and doing it worse.

I'd recommend the book. And I'd recommend reading it the way I used to read a Thomas Guide — one hand on the page, one eye on the actual street outside the window, checking the two against each other as you go. That's how you use any map. It's also how I use this one.

~Paul E.