Connection Practice - Revision history

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			==Concept Map==
	===Key Terms===		===Key Terms===

Michael at 12:42, 30 March 2025

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	==~~The 3Ps of Connection Practice~~==		===Key Terms===

	[[~~3Ps of~~ Connection ~~Practice~~]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::3P]]}}		[[Connection]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Connection]]\|format=ul}}

	==Key Figures==		[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Connection Practice]]\|format=ul}}

			===Key Figures===

	[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key figure::Connection Practice]]}}		[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key figure::Connection Practice]]}}

	==Syncretic Terms==		===Syncretic Terms===

	[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Connection Practice]]}}		[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Connection Practice]]}}

	==Related LP Terms==		===Related LP Terms===

	[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Connection Practice]]}}		[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Connection Practice]]}}

	==Non-LP Related Terms==		===Non-LP Related Terms===

	[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Connection Practice]]}}		[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Connection Practice]]}}

	==~~Key Figures~~==		==Notes==

	~~[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key figure::Connection Practice]]}}~~

	~~==Notes==~~
	~~[[File:Connection Practice.png\|alt=A map of Connection Practice and related concepts\|thumb\|Connection Practice Map]]~~

	"Chants, spells, dancing around a fire, burning candles, the smoke and smell of incense, are all means to awaken the 'deep mind'--to arouse high emotions, enforce concentration, and facilitate entry into an altered state. Again, Bonewits has said some of the most sensible words on this subject, observing that 'mandalas,' 'sigils,' 'pentacles,' and 'yantras' are all pictures to stimulate the sense of sight; 'mudras' or 'gestures' stimulate the kinesthetic sense; 'mantras' or 'incantations' [and prayers] stimulate the sense of hearing. The use of props, costumes, and scenery can also be seen as a method of stimulating the senses. In addition, drugs, alcohol, breathing exercises, and sexual techniques can serve to alter one's state of consciousness. According to Bonewits, these techniques function in the same way for a Witch or a ceremonial magician as for a Native American shaman or a Catholic priest. To say that these methods never cause psychic and psychological change ni the people involved is as absurd as other common attitudes--that certain religions have a monopoly on these experiences and that certain religions worship 'God' while others worship 'demons.' These techniques have existed for thousands of years and were developed by human beings for the purpose of widening their perceptions of reality, and changing their relationship to the world."		"Chants, spells, dancing around a fire, burning candles, the smoke and smell of incense, are all means to awaken the 'deep mind'--to arouse high emotions, enforce concentration, and facilitate entry into an altered state. Again, Bonewits has said some of the most sensible words on this subject, observing that 'mandalas,' 'sigils,' 'pentacles,' and 'yantras' are all pictures to stimulate the sense of sight; 'mudras' or 'gestures' stimulate the kinesthetic sense; 'mantras' or 'incantations' [and prayers] stimulate the sense of hearing. The use of props, costumes, and scenery can also be seen as a method of stimulating the senses. In addition, drugs, alcohol, breathing exercises, and sexual techniques can serve to alter one's state of consciousness. According to Bonewits, these techniques function in the same way for a Witch or a ceremonial magician as for a Native American shaman or a Catholic priest. To say that these methods never cause psychic and psychological change ni the people involved is as absurd as other common attitudes--that certain religions have a monopoly on these experiences and that certain religions worship 'God' while others worship 'demons.' These techniques have existed for thousands of years and were developed by human beings for the purpose of widening their perceptions of reality, and changing their relationship to the world."

Michael at 22:03, 29 March 2025

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Michael at 15:06, 23 September 2024

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			==Key Figures==

			[[Connection Practice]] > {{#ask:[[Is a key figure::Connection Practice]]}}

	==Notes==		==Notes==

Michael at 15:05, 23 September 2024

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Michael at 17:41, 3 June 2024

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	Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]		Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]

	"The central features of those domains are not only experienceable, they are public, because consciousness can be trained to apprehend those domains (this training is called meditation or contemplation), and a trained consciousness is a public, shareable, or intersubjective consciousness, or it couldn’t be trained in the first place. Simply because religious experience is apprehended in an “interior” fashion does not mean it is merely private knowledge, any more than the fact that mathematics and logic are seen inwardly, by the mind’s eye, makes them merely private fantasies without public import. Mathematical knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained mathematicians; just so, contemplative knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained contemplatives. The preposterous claim that all religious experience is private and noncommunicable is stopped dead by, to give only one example, the transmission of Buddha’s enlightenment all the way down to the present-day Buddhist masters."~~<ref>Ken Wilber, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists'' (New York: Shambhala, 2001)~~....virtually all the Eastern texts on meditation and yoga, and virtually all the Western texts on contemplation and interior prayer, can legitimately be called scientific treatises dealing (principally) with levels 4 and 5; they contain rules and experiments, which, if followed correctly, disclose to consciousness phenomena (or data) of the classes we have called D and E, phenomena that can be as easily checked with (confirmed or refuted by) equally trained peers as geometric theorems can be checked with (confirmed or refuted by) other equally trained mathematicians.</ref>		"The central features of those domains are not only experienceable, they are public, because consciousness can be trained to apprehend those domains (this training is called meditation or contemplation), and a trained consciousness is a public, shareable, or intersubjective consciousness, or it couldn’t be trained in the first place. Simply because religious experience is apprehended in an “interior” fashion does not mean it is merely private knowledge, any more than the fact that mathematics and logic are seen inwardly, by the mind’s eye, makes them merely private fantasies without public import. Mathematical knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained mathematicians; just so, contemplative knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained contemplatives. The preposterous claim that all religious experience is private and noncommunicable is stopped dead by, to give only one example, the transmission of Buddha’s enlightenment all the way down to the present-day Buddhist masters."....virtually all the Eastern texts on meditation and yoga, and virtually all the Western texts on contemplation and interior prayer, can legitimately be called scientific treatises dealing (principally) with levels 4 and 5; they contain rules and experiments, which, if followed correctly, disclose to consciousness phenomena (or data) of the classes we have called D and E, phenomena that can be as easily checked with (confirmed or refuted by) equally trained peers as geometric theorems can be checked with (confirmed or refuted by) other equally trained mathematicians.<ref>Ken Wilber, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists'' (New York: Shambhala, 2001)</ref>

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Michael at 16:41, 3 June 2024

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	Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]		Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]

	"The central features of those domains are not only experienceable, they are public, because consciousness can be trained to apprehend those domains (this training is called meditation or contemplation), and a trained consciousness is a public, shareable, or intersubjective consciousness, or it couldn’t be trained in the first place. Simply because religious experience is apprehended in an “interior” fashion does not mean it is merely private knowledge, any more than the fact that mathematics and logic are seen inwardly, by the mind’s eye, makes them merely private fantasies without public import. Mathematical knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained mathematicians; just so, contemplative knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained contemplatives. The preposterous claim that all religious experience is private and noncommunicable is stopped dead by, to give only one example, the transmission of Buddha’s enlightenment all the way down to the present-day Buddhist masters."<ref>Ken Wilber, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists'' (New York: Shambhala, 2001).</ref>		"The central features of those domains are not only experienceable, they are public, because consciousness can be trained to apprehend those domains (this training is called meditation or contemplation), and a trained consciousness is a public, shareable, or intersubjective consciousness, or it couldn’t be trained in the first place. Simply because religious experience is apprehended in an “interior” fashion does not mean it is merely private knowledge, any more than the fact that mathematics and logic are seen inwardly, by the mind’s eye, makes them merely private fantasies without public import. Mathematical knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained mathematicians; just so, contemplative knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained contemplatives. The preposterous claim that all religious experience is private and noncommunicable is stopped dead by, to give only one example, the transmission of Buddha’s enlightenment all the way down to the present-day Buddhist masters."<ref>Ken Wilber, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists'' (New York: Shambhala, 2001)....virtually all the Eastern texts on meditation and yoga, and virtually all the Western texts on contemplation and interior prayer, can legitimately be called scientific treatises dealing (principally) with levels 4 and 5; they contain rules and experiments, which, if followed correctly, disclose to consciousness phenomena (or data) of the classes we have called D and E, phenomena that can be as easily checked with (confirmed or refuted by) equally trained peers as geometric theorems can be checked with (confirmed or refuted by) other equally trained mathematicians.</ref>

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Michael at 16:40, 3 June 2024

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	Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]		Connection Practices combined with [[Connection Appliances]], like the [[TOSAS]], and the careful and guided use of [[Connection Supplements]] can facilitate transformative [[Connection]]

			"The central features of those domains are not only experienceable, they are public, because consciousness can be trained to apprehend those domains (this training is called meditation or contemplation), and a trained consciousness is a public, shareable, or intersubjective consciousness, or it couldn’t be trained in the first place. Simply because religious experience is apprehended in an “interior” fashion does not mean it is merely private knowledge, any more than the fact that mathematics and logic are seen inwardly, by the mind’s eye, makes them merely private fantasies without public import. Mathematical knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained mathematicians; just so, contemplative knowledge is public knowledge to all equally trained contemplatives. The preposterous claim that all religious experience is private and noncommunicable is stopped dead by, to give only one example, the transmission of Buddha’s enlightenment all the way down to the present-day Buddhist masters."<ref>Ken Wilber, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists'' (New York: Shambhala, 2001).</ref>

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Michael at 16:44, 27 February 2024

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