Expansion of Meaning
Expansion of Meaning is a outcome of connection. It is the consequence of a mild enhancement of intuitive function caused by a short, low-intensity Connection Experience.
Examples
Enhanced Intuitive Function > ESP, Expansion of Meaning, Glimpse, Intuitive Glimmering, Spiritual Emergence, Telepathy
List of Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcomes > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union
Notes
William James quotes Charles Kingsley "When I walk the fields, I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it. And this feeling of being surrounded with truths which I cannot grasp amounts to indescribable awe sometimes…. Have you not felt that your real soul was imperceptible to your mental vision, except in a few hallowed moments?"[1]
Alan Watts comments on the flowering of meaning during Connection Experience.
...my own LSD experiences is that all aspects of the world become meaningful rather than meaningless. This is not to say that they acquire meaning in the sense of signs, by virtue of pointing to something else, but that all things appear to be their own point. Their simple existence, or better, their present formation, seems to be perfect, to be an end or fulfillment without any need for justification.[2]
On the expansion of meaning, William James quotes Charles Kingsley who writes "When I walk the fields, I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it. And this feeling of being surrounded with truths which I cannot grasp amounts to indescribable awe sometimes…. Have you not felt that your real soul was imperceptible to your mental vision, except in a few hallowed moments?"[3]
Anecdotes
Here is an example of meanification. In this anecdote, an individual explains how their Disordered Connection Experience led to seeing deeper meaning in everything.
Footnotes
- ↑ James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 334). Kindle Edition.
- ↑ Watts, Alan W. This Is It (p. 135). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
- ↑ James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature. New York: Penguin, 1903. https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up. p. 334
