Breakthrough Experience
A Breakthrough Experience is a sudden "reconciliation of conflicting ideas and emotions, and a new sense of order and beauty so complete as to form a passage from one identity to another." [1]. Breakthrough is an outcome of connection."
Syncretic Terms
Clearing Experience > Breakthrough Experience
Connection Types
Activation Experience, Aesthetic Experience, Birth Experience, Clearing Experience, Completion Experience, Death Experience, Deep Flow, Diminutive Experience, Dream Experience, Flow Experience, Forced Connection, Healing Experience, Nadir Experience, Peak Experience, Plateau Experience, Push Experience, Rebirth Experience, Restorative Experience, Union Experience, Unity Experience, Zenith Experience
Notes
'Breakthrough experience' is a loose term. The question is, what is the individual breaking through? In LP terms, breakthrough experiences seem to be a variable composite of Clearing Experiences, Awakening Experiences, and even Completion Experiences
White uses the term Breakthrough Experience in the context of his discussion of Transformational Change.
Footnotes
- ↑ White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 463.