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<blockquote class="definition">An '''Egoic Explosion''' is a temporary collapse of the [[Bodily Ego]] caused when an unprepared [[Bodily Ego]] endures a [[Connection Experience]] of an intensity, duration, quality, and content for which the individual is not prepared.<ref>Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/</ref>
 
<blockquote class="definition">An '''Egoic Explosion''' is a temporary or permanent collapse of the [[Bodily Ego]] caused when an unprepared [[Bodily Ego]] makes a strong [[Connection]] to [[Consciousness]].<ref>Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/</ref> Egoic explosions occur when an individual endures a [[Connection Experience]] of an intensity, duration, quality, or content for which they are not prepared. 
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==Nadir Experience Types==  
==Connection Pathologies==


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==Related Terms==  
==Syncretic Terms==  


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==Notes==
==Related Terms==  


Ego explosions occur when the "oxygen" of consciousness fills the "room" of the [[Physical Unit]] in a quality or quantity for which the [[Bodily Ego]] is not prepared.
'''Endogenous to the LP'''


When a [[Connection]] is made, the fire of Consciousness lights up the room.  If sparks from that fire contact the combustible detritus of toxic life experiences  (i.e. ideology, fear, misconception, guilt, and shame), an ego explosion can result. <ref>Sharp, Michael (2013). ''Ego Explosion.'' http://www.michaelsharp.org/ego-explosion/</ref>
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The ego explosion can be minor and leave you slightly frazzled, or it can be massive and leave your bodily ego totally destroyed (e.g. schizophrenia).
==Non-LP Related Terms==


Damage to the bodily ego arising from toxic life experiences increases the likelihood of experiencing ego explosion.
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Ego explosions may be traumatic and require professional spiritual assistance.
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==Further Reading==


Grof, S., & Grof, C. (1989). Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crises. New York: Putnam.
A well-known case of an individual who experienced profound childhood abuse demonstrates the outcomes of egoic collapse<ref> Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: NYRB Classics, 2000.</ref>


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An Egoic Explosion is a temporary collapse of the Bodily Ego caused when an unprepared Bodily Ego endures a Connection Experience of an intensity, duration, quality, and content for which the individual is not prepared.[1]

Connection Pathologies

Connection Pathology > Communication Error, Connection Psychosis, Constricted Connection, Ego Inflation, Egoic Collapse, Egoic Explosion, Flooding, Gurutitus, Majdhub, Spiritual Emergency

Syncretic Terms

Egoic Explosion > Nadir Experience, Schizophrenia

Related Terms

Endogenous to the LP

Egoic Explosion > Connection Pathology, Egoic Collapse

Non-LP Related Terms

Egoic Explosion >

Notes

A well-known case of an individual who experienced profound childhood abuse demonstrates the outcomes of egoic collapse[2]

Footnotes

  1. Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic, Gina. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017. https://press.lightningpath.org/product/the-lightning-path-book-three-connection/
  2. Schreber, Daniel Paul. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: NYRB Classics, 2000.