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Theoretical Approaches to Connection

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<blockquote class="definition">There are three general approaches to the study of connection experience, an '''reductionist approach,''' an '''adaptive approach,''' and a '''transformative approach.'''</blockquote>

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The reductionist approach reduces mysticism, often in a normative and dismissive manner, to neurological/psychoanalytic phenomenon (i.e. an infantile state).

Theorists who take a reductionist approach: {{#ask:[[Takes a::Reductionist approach]]}}

The adaptive approach frames connection experiences as healing.

Theorists who take an adaptive approach:
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The transformative approach frames connection experiences as capable of leading to profound personal, psychological, sociological, political transformations. <ref>Parsons, William B. ''The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism.'' Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press, 1999. <nowiki>https://amzn.to/2Tq1qsl</nowiki>.</ref>

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Consciousness

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<blockquote class="definition">In the beginning, '''Consciousness''' is bliss and awareness.''<ref>Sosteric, Mike. The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness, and the Universe Within You. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, Unpublished.</ref> </blockquote>

==Syncretic Terms==

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==Levels of Consciousness==

Bodily Consciousness, capital "S" Self Consciousness, Capital "G" God Consciousness

each one of these has several levels.

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Consciousness originally exists as in [[undifferentiated|Undifferentiated Consciousness]] (UC) and ego-less state. Boredom causes an [[Intensification of Consciousness]] that results in the instantiation of [[Monadic Consciousness]]] (i.e., egoic consciousness). The instantiation of the original monadic spark (a.k.a. [[God with a little "g"|God]] represents the transition from UC to [[Differentiated Consciousness]] (DC). From there, Consciousness eventually transitions to [[Emanating Consciousness]] from which all of physical creation eventually emerges.

In popular usage, the term is typically used to refer to either [[Bodily Ego]], [[Spiritual Ego]] (if theorized), or some undifferentiated combination of both.

At one time suggesting such a thing as [[Spiritual Ego]] would have been quite radical, now there is growing speculation that a non-naturalistic view of consciousness, i.e. consciousness is not tied to the material universe, is simply common sense.<ref>Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW. Also Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.</ref>

<blockquote class="quotation">From a common-sense perspective, we are intimately aware of consciousness, and it is a truism that consciousness has a variety of properties (among them qualia, intentionality, and non-spatiality) that are so different from those of matter that it is difficult if not impossible to see how consciousness could ever have been produced by matter. The problems that arise here are formidable, and have given rise to what has recently become popularized as 'the hard problem' of explaining the existence of consciousness in a material universe. These problems have led some thinkers, like McGinn, to insist that we cannot explain the existence of consciousness in a material universe at all, and others, like Chalmers, to suggest that we need to revise our notion of matter to include consciousness as a fundamental property of nature, along with mass, charge, and gravitation.<ref>Shear, Jonathan. “Mysticism and Scientific Naturalism.” Sophia 43, no. 1 (May 2004): 85. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782439.</ref></blockquote>

Chalmers suggests that an essential feature of Consciousness is a sense of a cognitive agent (i.e. [[Ego]]), and also that there is a felt feeling of experience."There is also an internal aspect; there is something it feels like to be a cognitive agent. "I am talking only about the subjective quality of experience: what it is like to be a cognitive agent."<ref>Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW. p. 6. </ref>

Conscious experiences range from vivid color sensations to experiences of the faintest background aromas; from hard-edged pains to the elusive experience of thoughts on the tip of one’s tongue; from mundane sounds and smells to the encompassing grandeur of musical experience; from the triviality of a nagging itch to the weight of a deep existential angst; from the specificity of the taste of peppermint to the generality of one’s experience of selfhood. All these have a distinct experienced quality.<ref>Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW.</ref> He summarizes, "when I talk about consciousness, I am talking only about the subjective quality of experience: what it is like to be a cognitive agent."<ref>Chalmers, David. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Kindle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. https://amzn.to/2Vzq5HW.</ref>

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Normal Consciousness

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'''Normal Consciousness''' refers to the everyday waking consciousness of your "average," disconnected, [[Bodily Ego]]-bound modern citizen.
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==Notes==

'''Stanislav Grof''': "In the ordinary or “normal” state of consciousness, we experience ourselves as Newtonian objects existing within the boundaries of our skin. The American writer and philosopher Alan Watts referred to this experience of one- self as identifying with the 'skin-encapsulated ego'. Our perception of the environment is restricted by the physiological limitations of our sensory organs and by physical characteristics of the environment."<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” ''Spirituality Studies'' 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 24. <nowiki>https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2</nowiki>.</ref>

'''Peter Berger''' distinguishes between "paramount reality," which is the

<blockquote>"One would begin with an understanding of the ordinary everyday "life-world," the taken-for-granted world of commonsense which Schutz aptly called the "paramount reality." This is the reality that we apprehend when we are "wide awake," when we go about our various mundane project (Schutz also called this the .. world of working"), and which we presuppose as the common context of almost a1J social interaction. This is the reality that we massively bare with our fellowmen, and which therefore is the most massively plausible to ourselves: Almost everyone around us, almost all the time, confirms and reconfirms the basic contours of this reality. It is thus a domain of familiarity and of safety-indeed it is the principal domain of reliability in our experience."<ref>Berger, Peter L. “Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion.” ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'' 13, no. 2 (June 1, 1974): 125–33. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1384374</nowiki>. p. 129.</ref></blockquote>

William James: "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence, but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch and they are there in all their completeness..."<ref>James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1982. https://amzn.to/2l4UyR7</ref>

Normal consciousness is not healthy consciousness. Normal consciousness is damaged consciousness. Normal consciousness is [[Disconnection|disconnected]] consciousness. Normal consciousness is limited consciousness. Normal consciousness is reflective of a [[Physical Unit|physical unit]] and [[Bodily Ego]] damaged by [[Toxic Socialization|Toxic Socialization]].

Normal consciousness is a pathology characterized by an overactive/defensive [[Bodily Ego]] and an impaired/corrupted connection to [[Resident Monadic Consciousness]].

There is nothing salutatory about normal consciousness. Normal consciousness, especially at the lower end of normal, is generally insufficient to the achievement of goals and basic maintenance of bodily and mental health.

Normal consciousness is [[The Veil|veiled]] consciousness. Normal consciousness is a [[The Blindfold|blindfolded]] [[The Physical Unit|Physical Unit]]. Normal consciousness is consciousness submerged in [[Maya]].

[[Levels of Consciousness]] above normal are attainable up to the physical limits of the [[Physical Unit|body and mind]].

Transitory moments of strong [[Connection]] (e.g. [[Peak Experience]], [[Pure Conscious Events]], [[Transcendence]], etc) may be experienced as a result of trauma, forms of meditation, the ingestion of [[Connection Supplements]], rituals, etc. A more permanent expansion of Consciousness in the body may only be attained via a process of spiritual and psychological [[healing]] and [[connection]].

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Toxic Intent

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Toxic Intent''' is the conscious or unconscious desire to harm another living being, or aspect of creation. </blockquote>

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:[https://www.lightningpath.org/?p=23306 Boundaries and Protection]

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Internally Directed Arms

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==Notes==

• Dissociation – detachment from reality. Disconnection, especially emotional.1 Daydreaming. Dissociative disorders. Typically used in an attempt to avoid stress/pain/conflict in the environment.
• Diversion/Distraction – engaging in other activities, behaviours that allow one draw attention away from feelings. For example, getting into a running club and spending your entire time running. Includes obsessions, compulsions, hypochondriasis, etc.
• Repression – forced submersion of thoughts (I am doing something wrong) and feelings, like guilt, shame, etc. For the equivalent internal ARM, see Denial.
• Regression – fall back to childhood states, allowing only simpler, childlike emotions and awareness.
• Projection – projecting guilt, shame, other negative emotions and thoughts onto others.
• Reaction formation – choreographing the opposite emotions. Denial.

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Lightworker

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A '''Lightworker''' is a term used to refer to an individual that does [[Lightworker]] which is work that contributes, either directly or indirectly, to the completion of [[The Work]] or [[The Great Work]]. Lightwork is undertaken by [[Lightworkers]] who incarnate into a [[Physical Unit]] with the express purpose of uplifting and transforming the planet, and completing [[The Great Work]].
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==Notes==

"The most highly developed branches of the human family have in common one peculiar characteristic. They tend to produce--sporadically it is true, and often in the teeth of adverse external circumstances--a curious and definite type of personality; a type which refuses to be satisfied with that which other men call experience, and is inclined, in the words of its enemies, to "deny the world in order that it may find reality." We meet these persons in the east and the west; in the ancient, mediaeval, and modern worlds. Their one passion appears to be the prosecution of a certain spiritual and intangible quest: the finding of a "way out" or a "way back" to some desirable state in which alone they can satisfy their craving for absolute truth. This quest, for them, has constituted the whole meaning of life."<ref>Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.</ref>

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Spiritual Experience

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A '''Spiritual Experience''' is any [[Connection Experience]] filtered through the [[Bodily Ego]] of an individual raised/trained within a particular spiritual system, for example [[New Age Spirituality]].
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Forced Connection

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'''Forced Connection''' is connection that occurs when [[Consciousness]] pushes itself into the body whether the body is ready or willing to receive it or not. Forced connections typically occur at times of personal, community, societal, or (now) global crises, particularly when the survival of the [[Physical Unit]], or the species, is in serious question (Book1). In cases when the only possibility of survival is increasing the level of Consciousness in the body so it can become aware, accountable, activate, and take action, Consciousness forces itself in
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==Connection Experience Types==

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==Notes==

Forced connection is not a pleasant process and it does not always work. By the time a person (or a planet, for that matter) hits rock bottom, they are so far gone that they could shade into oblivion after all.

Forced connection can be quite dangerous, both for the physical unit and for those that surround it. It is dangerous for the PU because it is hard, stressful, and comes at a time when the individual is at their most vulnerable and desperate. It is dangerous for others because sometimes the PU can snap under the emotional and psychological pressure brought about by forced awakening. When this occurs, and it will occur with increasing frequency as the planetary crises1 continues to worsen, various forms of [[Spiritual Catastrophe]] will ensue.

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Realization

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'''Spiritual Realization''' (or just '''Realization''', with a capital "R") occurs when the [[Special:MyLanguage/Bodily Ego|Bodily Ego]] recognizes and becomes fully aware of (i.e. it realizes) its [[Special:MyLanguage/Self|Self]] / [[Special:MyLanguage/Source|Source]] /[[Special:MyLanguage/Divinity|Divinity]]. Realization occurs when we become aware of our identity as [[Special:MyLanguage/God|God]] with a little "g" (Sosteric, BOL).

Realization may be conceptualized as a process of [[Special:MyLanguage/Awakening|Awakening]], [[Special:MyLanguage/Activation|Activation]], and [[Special:MyLanguage/Ascension|Ascension]]. We awaken to our identity, we embrace the full potential and power of our incarnated experience, and we ascend towards total identification and expression of our inner divinity.

Realization is the goal and end point of healthy [[Special:MyLanguage/Development|Development]].

Realization is the goal and end point of [[Special:MyLanguage/Authentic Spirituality|Authentic Spirituality]].

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Realization occurs when the [[Special:MyLanguage/Physical Unit|Physical Unit]] [[Special:MyLanguage/Connects|Connects]] either with its own [[Special:MyLanguage/Resident Monadic Consciousness|Resident Monadic Consciousness]] or some other "node" in the [[Special:MyLanguage/Fabric of Consciousness|Fabric of Consciousness]]

Ideally, realization occurs gradually and naturally as a consequence of a [[Special:MyLanguage/Healthy Socialization|Healthy Socialization]] process. On this planet, and in the interests of private accumulation (RSGME), realization is intentionally preempted/prevented by [[Special:MyLanguage/Toxic Socialization|Toxic Socialization]] which corrupts our understanding and damages the ability of the [[Special:MyLanguage/Physical Unit|Physical Unit]] to contain consciousness.

Once a physical unit is disconnected as a result of toxic socialization, Realization typically occurs in fits and starts as the physical unit attempts reconnection through various forms of spiritual practice. Owing to the sorry state of most spiritual traditions, reconnection typically never occurs.

[[Special:MyLanguage/Connection Experiences|Connection Experiences]] may bring moments of realization; however, without a proper theoretical and conceptual grounding, realizations often fade and/or are submerged into the [[Special:MyLanguage/Constructed Reality|constructed realities]] of the "normal" world.

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: Sadhana/सधन - Sanskrit for realization

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Healing

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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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==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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