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'''Healing''' is the process of repairing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual damage incurred by the [[Physical Unit]], either accidentally or as a consequence of this planet's [[Toxic Socialization]] process. Healing restores the [[Physical Unit]] to a condition of health, [[Alignment]], and [[Connection]].
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==Syncretic Terms Healing==

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==Healing Outcomes==

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==List of Healing Practices==

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==Notes==

The struggle begins with men's [sic] recognition that they have been destroyed." <ref>Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2005.p. 68</ref>

===Jung===

"[[Jung, Carl G.|Jung]] saw the task of the therapist in helping to establish a dynamic interaction between the client’s conscious ego and the Self, a higher aspect of the client’s personality;"<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 32. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

In LP terms we would say healing is facilitated via [[Connection]] with some [[Monadic Node]] or location within the [[Fabric of Consciousness]]. This could be one's own [[Spiritual Ego]] or some other relevant/help identity, like a guide, or a specialist in a specific area of trauma.

===Grof===

[[Grof, Stanislav|Grof]] notes that the first step in the healing process is the "manifestation of emotional and psychosomatic symptoms..." Only by freeing oneself of the traumatic imprints of birth and life can one heal and return to full function and [[Connection]]<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 29. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

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"If the trauma that is being processed is of major proportions, such as a difficult birth that lasted many hours and seriously threatened biological survival, the emotions and behavioral expressions can be extremely dramatic. Under these circumstances, it might seem more plausible to conclude that these manifestations are the result of some exotic yet unknown pathology rather than realize that they represent a potentially beneficial process. However, properly understood and supported, even such extreme symptoms can be conducive to healing, spiritual opening, personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. The emergence of symptoms thus represents not only a problem, but also a therapeutic opportunity."<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 29-30. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.</ref>

Grof notes that traumatic imprints, what he calls [[COEX Systems]], may derive from one of his three [[Dimensions of the Psyche]], i.e. the Transpersonal, Perinatal, and Biographical dimensions or "realms."

=== Healing and Spirituality ===

Healing is one aspect of [[Authentic Spirituality]]. All authentic religions, all authentic spiritual practices whether they be institutionalized or indigenous, modern or ancient, concern themselves with healing. See the LP's substantive definition of [[Religion]].

: "Prior to colonial subjugation of AI (American Indian) cultural and spiritual activities, AI communities maintained therapeutic knowledge for 'doctoring' (or healing) a wide variety of maladies."<ref>Gone, Joseph P. “Decolonization as Methodological Innovation in Counseling Psychology: Method, Power, and Process in Reclaiming American Indian Therapeutic Traditions.” Journal of Counseling Psychology 68, no. 3 (2021): 259–70. p. 260.</ref>

Indigenous cultures used [[Connection Practices]] ("chanting, breathing, drumming, rhythmic dancing, fasting, social and sensory isolation, extreme physical pain, and other elements") in " shamanic procedures, healing ceremonies, and rites of passage – powerful rituals enacted at the time of important biological and social transitions, such as circumcision, puberty, marriage, or birth of a child."<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 5.</ref>

"Many cultures have used for these purposes psychedelic plants. The most famous examples of these are different varieties of hemp, the Mexican cactus peyote, Psilocybe mushrooms, the African shrub eboga, and the Amazonian jungle plants Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, the active ingredients of yagé or ayahuasca."<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 5.</ref>

Robbins, Hong, and Jennings point out that mystical perspectives go together with the healing traditions in fol and tribal worldviews.<ref>Robbins, Rockey, Ji Hong, and Aaron M. Jennings. “In the Pause and Listening to the Little People: A Folk Healer’s Journey.” ''The Counseling Psychologist'' 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 93–132. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000011410892</nowiki>.</ref>

Healing is a common outcome of authentic [[Connection]]. "Such transpersonal states can have a very beneficial transformative influence on the recipients and their lives. They can alleviate various forms of emotional and psychosomatic disorders, as well as difficulties in interpersonal relationships. They can also reduce aggressive tendencies, improve self-image, increase tolerance towards others, and enhance the general quality of life. Among the positive aftereffects is often a deep sense of connection with other people and nature."<ref>Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof. The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crises. Penguin, 1990. https://amzn.to/2UtkgP1. p. 41.</ref>

Shamanism, as practiced in ancient and modern times, revolves around the healing power of connection and connection supplements. Krippner provides an interesting survey of healing practices in various contexts, and by various actors, including shamans, priests, mediums, sorceres, witches, and the like.<ref>Krippner, Stanley. Spiritual Dimensions of Healing. New York: Irvington Publishers, 1992.</ref> For more, see the page on [[Shaman]]s

Healing, whether that be physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual, is a critical and pervasive component of all [[Authentic Spirituality]]. It is central to traditional Sioux spirituality<ref>Rice, Julian. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico, 1998. https://amzn.to/2C9fM5E.</ref>, a key component of Alcoholics Anonymous,<ref>Wilson, Bill, and Bob Smith. The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Kindle. New York: Renegade Press, ND. https://amzn.to/2tVJ1nY.</ref> which is traditionally deeply spiritual<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.</ref>...

Meredith McGuire points to several studies where [[Connection]] and [[Connection Experience]] have led to significant personal healing, mostly conceptualized superstitiously as attunement to agencies responsive to human communication.<Ref>McGuire, Meredith B. “Discovering Religious Power.” SA. Sociological Analysis 44, no. 2 (1983): 1–9.</ref>

[[Connection]] often leads to significant, even miraculous, healing. [[Bill Wilson]] recounts the [[Connection Experience]] that cured him of his alcoholism and activated him to create [[Alcoholics Anonymous]]. He notes that after the experience, one of his unmet needs, the need to feel love and belong, was instantly met. <ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.</ref>

The Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra (Jain) speaks of the miraculous healing powers of connection (yoga). "Moreover, the splendour of this "Yogic dance"3 [transforms] the [seven] magic powers - phlegm, excrement, secretion, "touch" and "every [part of the body]" - into remedies4 and [develops also] miraculous powers [such as] the acquisition of an undivided sense-organ (sambhinnasrotalabhdi)."<ref>Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. ''The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism''. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p.20.</ref>

St. Teresa of Avila speaks of the healing power of connection:

<blockquote class="quotation">God does not allow us to drink of this water of perfect contemplation whenever we like: the choice is not ours; this Divine union is something quite supernatural, given that it may cleanse the soul and leave it pure and free from the mud and misery in which it has been plunged because of its sins.<ref> St. Teresa of Avila. The Way of Perfection (Dover Thrift Editions) (p. 67). Dover Publications. Kindle Edition. </ref>
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Bobbi Parish notes that the "spiritual discoveries...and the self-esteem they gained [from [[Connection Practice]] was healing in ways standard therapy had not been."<ref>Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 21 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.</ref>

Deloria speaks of the centrality of healing practices in indigenous religions and notes that "the healing disciplines came originally from religious beliefs and ...practices."<ref>Deloria, Vine Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Colorodo: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. p. 294. </ref>

The [[LP]] [[HEALING Framework]] offers a framework for understanding the core issues of the healing process.

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LP HEALING Framework

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The '''LP HEALING Framework'''<sup>TM</sup> is a [[Healing Framework]] designed to conceptualize and guide the healing process<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. Lightning Path Workbook Two - Healing. Vol. 2. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/.</ref>. HEALING is an acronym that stands for "Help," "Environment," "Addiction," "Lies," "Indoctrination," Needs," and "Growth." An individual seeking to heal needs to reflect, focus, and act on each of the seven focus points in order that they properly protect, treat, and clean (PTC) the wound. </blockquote>

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==Notes==

The LP HEALING Framework is elaborated in ''Lighting Path Workbook Two: Healing'' [https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-workbooks/].

The LP HEALING Framework is not a therapy. It is a guidebook for self-directed healing practice.

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===HEALING===

====For Professionals===

In order for healing to proceed, a healer ''must'' recognize that they have been colonized by [[The System]] and have absorbed System values, System ideology, and the System's way of doing things. Even if their heart is in the right place, even if their desire is to develop an authentic healing practice, their absorption into the System makes it difficult for them to proceed in an authentic fashion. Therefore, a healer (psychologist, psychiatrist, medical doctor, etc.) that wishes to develop an authentic healing practice must recognize that they will need help identifying their problematic behaviours and procedures. They will need help learning to be reflexive, empathic, sensitive, and aware. They will need help identifying and removing the deep tendrils of System ideology. They will need help putting aside the stark narcissism trained into them by the System so that they can function with the client's needs in mind.

===ENVIRONMENT===

====For Professionals====

In order for healing to proceed, a healer ''must'' take into account the environment of the individual. Taking the environment into account includes awareness of and sensitivity to the unique traditional, cultural, spiritual, social (family, clan, nation, tribe), and economic aspects(capitalism) of the individual's social context as well as an analysis of any toxic features that may exist in the environment (see [[Toxic Socialization]]).

The goal of environmental analysis is not only to develop a comprehensive understanding of the individual as they are embedded in and influenced by their environment but also to push back against [[Universal Psychology], which is a type of psychology that presumes that Western psychological theory and practice can be automatically applied to nonwestern populations.<ref>Lucana, Sonia, and John Elfers. “Sacred Medicine: Indigenous Healing and Mental Health.” The Qualitative Report 25, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 4482.</ref>

===LIES===

One of the key components of the Alcoholics Anonymous framework for cure and recovery is "rigorous honesty", with self and others. In order to make progress, one must make "a searching and fearless moral inventory..." and admit "the exact nature of our wrongs."<ref>Alcoholics Anonymous. ‘PASS IT ON’ The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. Kindle. New York: AA World Services, 1984. https://amzn.to/2XKQNP5.</ref>

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Connection Intensity

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Connection Intensity''' refers to the level of intensity of a given [[Connection Event]]. The intensity of a connection event can range from mild to intense and even cosmic.
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==Connection Axis==

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==Notes==

According to Lang and Thalbourne, "the intensity of mystical experiences forms a progression that starts with quite general experiences of happiness, followed by enlightenment by a higher power, and ultimately leading to union with the Absolute." <ref>Lange, Rense, and Michael A. Thalbourne. "The Rasch Scaling of Mystical Experiences: Construct Validity and Correlates of the Mystical Experience Scale (Mes)." The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 17 2 (2007): 130.</ref>

Ralph Waldo Emerson points to the varying intensity of connection experience. <blockquote>... The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration-which is its rarer appearance -to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible. <ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 269.</ref> </blockquote>

"...the intensity can range from a few moments of rapture to several hours of shattering psychological experience."<ref>Allman, Lorraine S., Olivia de la Rocha, David N. Elkins, and Robert S. Weathers. “Psychotherapists’ Attitudes toward Clients Reporting Mystical Experiences.” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 29, no. 4 (Win 1992): 565.</ref>

Powerful events are dangerous events: "...it expands you, and if your body is not really healthy it can just blow your circuits out over and over and over again."<Ref>Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. p. 71.</ref> See also [[Flooding]].

Timothy Leary recounts a short duration, high-intensity connection experience induced by [[Dimethyltryptamine]]. "Last fall a minister and his wife, as part of a courageous and dedicated pursuit of illumination, took a psychedelic biochemical called dimethyltryptamine. This wondrous alkaloid (which closely approximates serotonin, the natural "lubricant" of our higher nervous system) produces the most intense psychedelic effect of any sacramental food or drug. In 25 minutes (about the duration of the average sermon), you are whirled through the energy dance, the cosmic process, at the highest psychedelic speed. The 25 minutes are sensed as lasting for a second and for a billion-year Kalpa. After the session, the minister complained that the experience, although shattering and revelatory, was disappointing because it was "content-free"-so physical, so unfamiliar, so scientific, like being beamed through microscopic panoramas, like being oscillated through cellular functions at radar acceleration."<ref>Leary, T. “The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 3, no. 1 (1970): 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.1970.10471364. p. 342</ref>

Taylor and Egeto-Szazbo suggest that [[Awakening Experiencess]] range in intensity from low intensity experiences through medium intensity experiences and high-intensity experiences. <ref>Taylor, Steve, and Krisztina Egeto-Szabo. “Exploring Awakening Experiences: A Study of Awakening Experience in Terms of Their Triggers, Characteristics, Duration and After Effects.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 49, no. 1 (January 2017): 45–65. p. 45.</ref>

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Types of experience, from least to most intensive, Insights/intuitive glimmers, Peak Experience, Mystical Glimpse, Mystical Visions, Revelations, transcendent experiences, permanent unions.

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