Connection Practice
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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 Procedures, and Connection Processing.
The 3Ps of Connection Practice
Key Figures
Syncretic Terms
Connection Practice > Applied Mysticism, Contemplative Practice, Mysticism, Spiritual Exercises, Technologies of the Sacred
Related LP Terms
Connection Practice > Boundary Visualization, Connection Experience Type, Connection Space, Connection Supplement, Connection Visualization, Creation Practice, Flow Control, LP Stages of Attainment, Lightning Path Connection Practice, Perfection, Repair Mode
Non-LP Related Terms
Notes
"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]
Related LP Content and Courses
- LP 135 - An Introduction to Wrong Thought - Coming Soon (to be notified, visit https://www.lightningpath.org)
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