Connection

• Connection
  • Physical Unit
  • Connection
  • Toxic Socialization
  • Disconnection
  • Healing
  • Authentic Spirituality
  • The Work
  • The System
• Connection Framework
  • Awakening
    • Water Glass Metaphor
  • Accountability
  • Atonement
  • Alignment
    • Alignment Rule Set
    • Steering Emotions
    • Creation Template
  • Activation
  • Ascension
• Connection Practice
• Connection Appliance
  • TOSAS
• Connection Supplement
• Connection Manual
• Connection Event
  • Connection Type
  • Connection Challenge
• Connection Outcome
• Connection Pathology
  • Double N Mysticism
  • Flooding
  • Egoic Bloating
  • Egoic Explosion
  • Egoic Deflation
  • Egoic Collapse

Connection occurs when your Bodily Ego unites, even if only briefly, with your own Spiritual Ego, or some other monadic location within the Fabric of Consciousness. Connection is the ostensible goal of Authentic Spirituality, and the explicit purpose of the Lightning Path.

Syncretic Terms

Connection > Altered State of Consciousness, Born Again, Descent of the Holy Spirit, Divine Marriage, Divine Union, Drawing Down the Moon, It, Lightning Strike, Mysticism, Salvation, Shamanic State of Consciousness, Starlight Vision, The Dreaming, Trance, Union

Related Terms

Connection > Connection Triggers, Fear, Grounding, Highest Self, Human Psyche, More-Than-Human, Mystic, Neurodecolonization, Numinosity, Perfect Contemplation

List of LP Connection Experience Types

Connection Experiences > Activation Experience, Aesthetic Experience, Birth Experience, Clearing Experience, Completion Experience, Death Experience, Deep Flow, Diminutive Experience, Dream Experience, Flow Experience, Forced Connection, Healing Experience, Nadir Experience, Peak Experience, Plateau Experience, Push Experience, Rebirth Experience, Restorative Experience, Union Experience, Unity Experience, Zenith Experience

LP Categorization

Process: Connection, Awakening, Activation, Ascension, Triumph of Spirit (i.e. union)

Foundation: Accountability, Atonement, Alignment

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

Syncretic Terms Connection Outcome

Connection Outcome > Favours, Fruits of the Spirit, Gifts of the Spirit, Siddhi

List of Connection Obstacles

Connection Obstacles > Egotism, Fear, Hypocrisy, Interference, Passion, Resentment, Three Poisons, Toxic Attachment, Undisciplined Mind, Wrong Action, Wrong Environment, Wrong Thought

List of Connection Practices

This is an intercultural list of connection practices. Research is included where available.

Connection Practice >

List of Connection Appliances

Connection Appliance > Archetype Cards, Archetype Deck, Bible, Drums, Guardian Boards, Quartz Crystals, Sacred Pipe, Sacred Stones, Spirit Lodge, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Triumph of Spirit Archetype Deck, Triumph of Spirit Archetype System

List of Connection Supplements

Connection Supplement > 5-MEO DMT, Ayahuasca, Cannabis, Chloroform, DMT, Datura, Haoma, Kaneh Bosm, Kava, Ketamine, Kykeon, LSD, MDMA, Maikua, Manna, Nitrous Oxide, Peyote, Psilocybin Mushroom, Santa Rosa, Soma, Tobacco, Yaqona

Notable People who Have Experienced Connection

Mystics > Agehananda Bharati, Alan Watts, Bernard of Clairvaux, Emanuel Swedenborg, Howard Thurman, Ibn al-'Arabi, Julian of Norwich, Maria Sabina, Martin Prechtel, Michael Harner, Oscar Ichazo, Romain Rolland, Shihäb al-Din al-Suhrawardi, Thomas Merton

Studying Connection

How to study connection?

Connection Account

Connection Tools

Connection Tool >

Notes

The Western Catholic church has worked hard to contain connection within cloistered monastic walls, but according to Lossky, mysticism and mystical experience, specifically union with God, has remained a more "in the open" goal of the Church, something even layman could achieve (p. 19).

Connection is important because, as William James says, they are the foundation from which religion emerges. As Bender notes, practitioners reassert and reinforce this basic "narrative," when they assert that is religious experience which drives them forward towards spiritual practice.

John W. Nevin felt that Christianity was "grounded in the living union of the believer with the person of Christ."

Connection is often (always?) initiated via an Intent to Connect of some sort.

Connection experiences are "pleasing in and of themselves, but they also have been said to eventuate in long term positive changes, such as increased creativity and insight; improved intellectual, emotional, perceptual, and physical functioning; a holistic perception of the world and the self; a sense of objective understanding and wisdom; a naturally arising moral and ethical sense; and an experience of inner peace and freedom"

St. Teresa of Avila, a medieval mystic Christian Nun, felt that everybody could have mystical experiences. Underhill notes everybody is capable of connection: "It is a natural human activity" requiring no special talent or ability. Contemplative Consciousness

Connection leads to expansion of Consciousness into the body, i.e., increased Consciousness Quotient.

The LP Connection Framework provides guidance on how to prepare for and facilitate stronger Connection.

Awakening and improvements in Acknowledgment, Atonement, Alignment, Activation, and Ascension facilitate stronger connection.

Connections may be characterized along five Connection Axes.

Connection may be facilitated with Connection Supplements (where legal in your area) and Connection Practices

The opposite of Connection is Disconnection. Connection Supplements enable controlled and metered reconnection.

Think of connection in internet terms. Like your computer/device connects to a website 'server, so your little self connects to your Self, Highest Self, or some other monadic location in [The Fabric of Consciousness]]. Make sure you have the right "web" address before you connect.

Connection is the ostensible and overt goal of Authentic Spirituality.

The ability to connect with Consciousness is a natural ability of the Physical Unit. It is facilitated via proper Development of the Physical Unit, or when the physical unit is damaged, via the use of Connection Supplements designed to overcome the psychological and emotional damage of Toxic Socialization. In this regard, Huxley notes that the ability to connect (what he calls mystical union) is "as all the evidence seems to show, a state which man [sic], as man [sic], has always had it in his power to realize..." (PP). Further Connection (what Huxley refers to as "direct awareness of the 'eternally complete consciousness,') is a "possibility occasionally actualized by some human beings at almost any stage of their own personal development, from childhood to old age, and at any period of the race’s history."

Proper development of the physical unit includes a socialization process, satisfies all Seven Essential Needs, and that teaches, encourages, and facilitates Right Action, Right Thought, and Right Environment.

Connection is thwarted by Wrong Thought, Wrong Action, and Wrong Environment, all of which lead to Disjuncture, Disconnection, and Disconnection Pathology.

Connection may be visually represented with the Water Glass Metaphor.

Further Reading

Sosteric, Mike. (RSGAS). The Rocket Scientists' Guide to Authentic Spirituality. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path.

Mike Sosteric Lightning Path Workbook One: The Basics. Lightning Path Press. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lp-workbooks-and-91290808

Lightning Path Workbook Two: Healing. Lightning Path Press. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lp-workbooks-and-91290808

Lightning Path Workbook Three: Connection. Lightning Path Press. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lp-workbooks-and-91290808

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