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You never change things by fightning the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller

Welcome to the SpiritWiki

The Canonical Knowledge Core of the Avatar.GLOBAL Knowledge System

✨ What is the SpiritWiki?

The SpiritWiki is the central knowledge repository and ontological framework of the Avatar.GLOBAL Symbiotic Knowledge System (SPKS). It is an organized, empirically grounded, and conceptually integrated knowledge base designed to support Human Development and the Full Realization of Human Potential.

The SpiritWiki provides a clear, concise, and decolonized map of the human condition—a map that synthesizes modern science, sociology, psychology, and spiritual insight. It is not a casual spiritual directory or a passive encyclopedia. It is a living, evolving Knowledge Engine intended to empower individuals and communities to overcome fragmentation, ideological distortion, and systemic disconnection.

🌍 Why Does This Matter?

We live in a world marked by:

Toxic Socialization
Disconnected egos and fractured selves
Elite manipulation of everything
Colonial, patriarchal, and ideological contamination of scientific and spiritual truth and understanding.

The SpiritWiki exists to counter this. It provides:

A clear, empirical, and spiritually coherent system for understanding your own consciousness, your challenges, and your potential.
A framework that dismantles elite-driven distortion while supporting authentic human awakening, healing, and connection.
A practical guide to navigate your own journey toward alignment, connection, and full human realization.

This matters because the world cannot heal until we heal ourselves. And we cannot heal ourselves until we have access to clear, truthful, and uncorrupted knowledge about who and what we are. The SpiritWiki aims to deliver that knowledge.

🔍 Where to Begin — Suggested Entry Points

Depending on your orientation and interests, here are some key entry points you might explore:

For the Spiritually Curious

👉 Connection Experience - Discover how authentic mystical experiences are common, natural, and critical for human growth.

👉 The Water Glass Metaphor - A simple but powerful metaphor explaining how human consciousness works and how you can reconnect with your full Self.

For the Social Analyst or Academic

👉 Toxic Socialization - An empirically grounded explanation of how trauma, violence, and systemic dysfunction suppress human potential.

👉 Elite Religion vs. Authentic Spirituality - Understand how spiritual systems have been distorted to serve the interests of elites — and how to reclaim them.

👉Human Development - a rough overview of human development and a suggested theoretical framing (Human Development Framework)

👉 Healing Framework - Actionable guidance to begin your healing journey and reconnect with your full self.

For the System Builder or Revolutionary Thinker

👉 Human Development Framework - A clear, scientifically and spiritually integrated model of human potential and growth.

👉 Avatar.GLOBAL knowledge system - The blueprint for building a knowledge system capable of supporting healing, emancipation, reconnection.

🚀 Start Here

If you are new, you might begin with:

Each page will introduce you to a clear, decolonized, and empowering vision of what it means to be human.

As a final note, the SpiritWiki is an evolving resources still in the early stages of development. It's quality is uneven, but improving every day.

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-Sometime in the year 2003, I had a series of powerful "mystical" experiences, what I now call [[Connection Experiences]], that, from a phenomenological, theological, psychological, and sociological perspective, completely blew me away. As so many others have recounted, the experiences are powerful beyond mortal belief. It was totally unexpected, and, I have to say, initially  unwelcome. Although raised a Catholic, I had observed the hypocrisy and violence at an early age and rejected it. Even though I fiddled around with alternative systems throughout adolescence (Eckankar, Buddhism, Zen, etc.), I eventually entered university where I gradually accepted the dogmatic truths--God was a stupid idea, and human spirituality was, at best, a remnant of a more primitive time, and at worst, a delusion, oedipal regression.<ref>Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961. https://amzn.to/2STCpQT.</ref><ref>
+<blockquote>You never change things by fightning the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.<br>Buckminster Fuller</blockquote>
-———. The Future of an Illusion. New York: Anchor Books, 1964. https://amzn.to/2EZqqgZ.</ref> Like so many of my colleagues, I neither wanted, needed, expected, or accepted anything religious to happen. But then, "it" happened. I had a powerful [[Connection Experience]], and then I had more.
-At that time the initial experiences occurred, I had three choices. '''One''', I could pretend they didn't exist and that I didn't have them. '''Two''', could attribute the experiences to psychosis. '''Three''', I could embrace them and try and figure out was going on. Since there was a certain amount of emotional, psychological, and spiritual disease in the first connection event, pretending it hadn't happened and continuing on with my career was an attractive option. On the other hand, the experiences where literally mind-blowing, providing, as William James said,<ref>
+= Welcome to the SpiritWiki =
-William James notes "The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. "I've heard that said all my life," we exclaim, "but I never realized its full meaning until now. James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2SQZ7Jv </ref>  deep insight and opening up entirely new realms of thought, conception, and experience to me. Clearly, clearly, clearly, there was more to it than self-delusion or some kind of psychosis.
+'''The Canonical Knowledge Core of the Avatar.GLOBAL Knowledge System'''
-Ultimately, as you will gather as you browse through this online textbook of human spirituality and connection, I didn't attribute the experiences to psychosis, nor did I try to pretend them away. I just couldn't. Instead, probably as a direct result of my doctoral level university training, I chose to investigate, explore, and try and figure out was going on. I began a research project, in other words, to try and sort the thing out. This online resource is one of the ongoing distillations and presentations of this decades-long project phenomenological, sociological, psychological, emotional, and dare I say, spiritual research project.
+== ✨ What is the SpiritWiki? ==
+The '''SpiritWiki''' is the central knowledge repository and ontological framework of the '''[[Symbiotic Knowledge System|Avatar.GLOBAL Symbiotic Knowledge System]]''' (SPKS). It is an organized, empirically grounded, and conceptually integrated knowledge base designed to support [[Human Development]] and the [[Full Realization]] '''of''' [[Human Potential]]'''.'''
-At this time, this online resource is very much still in development. New concepts and ideas are being added, definitions and discussions are being refined, and new research, resources, and backing citations are being added all the time. The reader should bear this in mind. There are many rough sections, many sections that consist of little more than notes and ideas, and many areas that need supporting research and discussion. The resource is progressing however, and it is, with moderate haste, becoming a useful distillation. In the week's ahead I'll begin to add "points of entry" where an interested student of human spirituality can find their way in.
+The SpiritWiki provides a '''clear, concise, and decolonized map of the human condition'''—a map that synthesizes modern science, sociology, psychology, and spiritual insight. It is not a casual spiritual directory or a passive encyclopedia. It is a living, evolving '''Knowledge Engine''' intended to empower individuals and communities to overcome fragmentation, ideological distortion, and systemic disconnection.
-Finally, note, the SpiritWiki is an online theoretical/scholarly work in progress. At this time, all entries should be considered draft and subject to revision.
+== 🌍 Why Does This Matter? ==
+We live in a world marked by:
-Contact the author at spiritwiki [ @ ] lightningpath.org
+* [[Toxic Socialization]]
+* Disconnected egos and fractured selves
+* Elite manipulation of everything
+* Colonial, patriarchal, and ideological contamination of scientific and spiritual truth and understanding.
-==Supporting this Work==
+The SpiritWiki exists to counter this. It provides:
-If you want to support this work, purchase and read the books recommended in the footnotes, if they are of interested to you. Books in the footnotes and [[references]] section are linked to an Amazon Associates ID, and your purchase through this website helps pay for servers and necessary technical supports.
+* A '''clear, empirical, and spiritually coherent system''' for understanding your own consciousness, your challenges, and your potential.
+* A framework that '''dismantles elite-driven distortion''' while supporting authentic human awakening, healing, and connection.
+* A practical guide to navigate your own journey toward '''alignment, connection, and full human realization'''.
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+This matters because '''the world cannot heal until we heal ourselves.''' And we cannot heal ourselves until we have access to clear, truthful, and uncorrupted knowledge about who and what we are. The SpiritWiki aims to deliver that knowledge.
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+== 🔍 Where to Begin — Suggested Entry Points ==
+Depending on your orientation and interests, here are some key entry points you might explore:
+=== For the Spiritually Curious ===
+👉 [[Connection Experience]] -  Discover how authentic mystical experiences are common, natural, and critical for human growth.
+👉 The [[Water Glass Metaphor]] -  A simple but powerful metaphor explaining how human consciousness works and how you can reconnect with your full Self.
+=== For the Social Analyst or Academic ===
+👉 '''[[Toxic Socialization]] -'''  An empirically grounded explanation of how trauma, violence, and systemic dysfunction suppress human potential.
+👉 [[Elite Religion]] '''vs.''' [[Authentic Spirituality]] '''-'''  Understand how spiritual systems have been distorted to serve the interests of elites — and how to reclaim them.
+👉[[Human Development]] - a rough overview of human development and a suggested theoretical framing ([[Human Development Framework]])
+👉 [[Healing Framework]] '''-'''  Actionable guidance to begin your healing journey and reconnect with your full self.
+=== For the System Builder or Revolutionary Thinker ===
+👉 [[Human Development Framework]] '''-'''  A clear, scientifically and spiritually integrated model of human potential and growth.
+👉 Avatar.GLOBAL knowledge system - The blueprint for building a knowledge system capable of supporting healing, emancipation, reconnection.
+== 🚀 Start Here ==
+If you are new, you might begin with:
+* [[Connection]]
+* [[The Path]]
+Each page will introduce you to a clear, decolonized, and empowering vision of what it means to be human.
+As a final note, the SpiritWiki is an evolving resources still in the early stages of development. It's quality is uneven, but improving every day.
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