Connection
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- Connection
- Connection Framework
- Connection Practice
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- Connection Manual
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- Connection Outcome
- Connection Pathology
Connection
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.[1] 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
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
Syncretic Terms Connection Outcome
List of Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcomes > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Moksha, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union
Connection Cocoons
LP Categorization
Process: Connection, Awakening, Activation, Ascension, Triumph of Spirit (i.e. union)
Foundation: Accountability, Atonement, Alignment
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.
Notable People who Have Experienced Connection
R. C. Zaehner,[2]. Z. notes that his experiences was triggered by his third reading of Arthur Rimbaud's Ô saisons, ô châteaux' from Une Saison en Enfer ("A Season in Hell").
Studying Connection
How to study connection?
Connection Tools
Notes
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. [3]
Connection is often (always?) initiated via and 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" [4]
St. Teresa of Avila, a medieval mystic Christian Nun, felt that everybody could have mystical experiences. [5] Underhill notes everybody is capable of connection: "It is a natural human activity" requiring no special talent or ability.[6] 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 Unt. 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, Huxly 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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Footnotes
- ↑ Sosteric. “Mysticism, Consciousness, Death.” Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research 7, no. 11 (2016): 1099–1118. https://www.academia.edu/30527026/
- ↑ "I have myself experienced...this and the joy experienced as a result of this uncontrollable and inexplicable expansion of the personality is not to be brushed aside as mere illusion. On the contrary: beside it the ordinary world of sense experience seems pathetically unreal....It is perhaps not without relevance to mention that at the time of this unsolicited experience, apart from a profound dislike of conventional Christianity, I had no religious beliefs of any kind..."Zaehner. Mysticism Sacred and Profane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. p. xiii. https://amzn.to/2LcdkCl.
- ↑ Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- ↑ Havens, R. A. “Approaching Cosmic Consciousnes via Hypnosis.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 22, no. 1 (1982): 105–16.
- ↑ St. Teresa of Avila. Interior Castle. Kindle. New York: Dover Publications, 2007. https://amzn.to/2GpC7NG.
- ↑ Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.