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The term '''Connection Practice''' may refer to any technique, such as meditation, writing, etc., that helps one strengthen and purify [[Connection]].<ref>———. 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> The term may also refer to any structured, daily, connection practice.
The term '''Connection Practice''' refers to the regular and disciplined daily practice of [[Connection]]. Connection Practice consists of the [[3Ps of Connection Practice]], [[Connection Preparation]], [[Connection Procedure]]s, and [[Connection Processing]].  
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==The 3Ps of Connection Practice==
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==List of Connection Practices==
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"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."


Mystics often use language and metaphor in a special way, in an effort to trigger enlightenment in others.<ref>Organ, Troy. “The Language of Mysticism.” The Monist 47, no. 3 (1963): 417–33.</ref> [[Zen]], in particular, is a [[Connection Practice]], and a sophisticated one.
Mystics often use language and metaphor in a special way, in an effort to trigger enlightenment in others.<ref>Organ, Troy. “The Language of Mysticism.” The Monist 47, no. 3 (1963): 417–33.</ref>


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 [[Lightning Path]] provides several neurolinguistic tools (i.e. meditations, visualization, and mantras) [https://www.lightningpath.org/teachings/] that can be used at various stages in the process to facilitate greater connection. Find them in the "visualizations and affirmations" sections of the teachings page.
"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>
 
"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."<ref>Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Boston: Beacon Press, p. 158. </ref>


Intent is also feature of Christian conceptualization of [[Connection]]. Thus one "accepts Christ" or makes a decision to turn towards Christ. <ref>Hewitt, Glenn A. Regeneration and Morality: A Study of Charles Finney, Charles Hodge, John W. Nevin, and Horace Bushnell. New York: Carlson Publishing, 1991.</ref>
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Latest revision as of 15:06, 23 September 2024

The term Connection Practice refers to the regular and disciplined daily practice of Connection. Connection Practice consists of the 3Ps of Connection Practice, Connection Preparation, Connection Procedures, and Connection Processing.

The 3Ps of Connection Practice

3Ps of Connection Practice > Connection Preparation, Connection Procedure, Connection Processing, Filter Tuning

Key Figures

Connection Practice > A. L. Kitselman, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond

Syncretic Terms

Connection Practice > Applied Mysticism, Contemplative Practice, Mysticism, Spiritual Exercises, Technologies of the Sacred

Related LP Terms

Connection Practice > 3Ps of Connection Practice, Archetypal Revision, Boundary Visualization, Connection, Connection Coach, Connection Experience Type, Connection Practice, Connection Space, Connection Supplement, Connection Therapist, Connection Visualization, Creation Practice, Flow Control, LP Stages of Attainment, Lightning Path Connection Practice, Perfection

Non-LP Related Terms

Connection Practice > Dhikr, Fear, Lightning Path Curriculum, Shraddha, Spirituality

Key Figures

Connection Practice > A. L. Kitselman, Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond

Notes

A map of Connection Practice and related concepts
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."

Mystics often use language and metaphor in a special way, in an effort to trigger enlightenment in others.[1]

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."....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.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Organ, Troy. “The Language of Mysticism.” The Monist 47, no. 3 (1963): 417–33.
  2. ↑ Ken Wilber, Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists (New York: Shambhala, 2001)




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