Clearing Experience
A Clearing Experience is a special type of Connection Experience that leads to an abrupt and dramatic "clearing" of an emotional, intellectual, psychological, or spiritual blockage(s).[1] A clearing experience typically results immediately in improved insight, understanding, health, well-being, and connection.
Connection Experience Types
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
Clearing Experience > Breakthrough Experience
Notes
Like the Connection Experience of which they are a subset, clearing experiences may be positive (a beautiful Zenith Experience) or negative (Nadir Experience).
Martin Bidney [2] recounts the Clearning Experience of Dostoevsky whereby he was released of all hatred and anger.
William White recounts the clearing experience of Mary Mann, the "first women to recover successfully within Alcoholics Anonymous..."
Marty Mann (1904–1980) was undergoing treatment for alcoholism when an incident occurred that enraged her. While in this state, her eyes fell upon an opened prepublication copy of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, where she saw the words “We cannot live with anger.” The next thing Mann recalls is being on her knees crying and praying. She arose knowing she was a different person, that she was “totally and completely free.” She became the first women to recover successfully within Alcoholics Anonymous, and, in 1944, founded the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism. Mann became a central figure in the modern alcoholism movement and one of America’s most successful public-health reformers. [3]
White uses the term Breakthrough Experience in the context of his discussion of Transformational Change to describe the clearing experience. "There is a perception of truth, a reconciliation of conflicting ideas and emotions, and a new sense of order and beauty so complete as to form a passage from one identity to another." [4]
Indigenous shamans often tell of facing animals and monsters trying to attack them in their visionary experiences.[5] Similarily, John Rave's, founder of the Winnebego Peyote Cult, first experience was one of being pursued by "horrible creatures...springing from all directions."[6] He cleared these fears and moved onto healing and connection when he came to see himself as connected to his grandfather, and that his grandfather was there to help. [7]
Clearing is accomplished when the individual makes a decision to trust that the visionary process will not harm them.
Footnotes
- ↑ Sosteric, Mike & Ratkovic,l Gina. 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/.
- ↑ Bidney, Martin. “Epiphany in Autobiography: The Quantum Changes of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 471–80.
- ↑ White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 463.
- ↑ White, William L. “Transformational Change: A Historical Review.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 60, no. 5 (May 2004): 463.
- ↑ Harner, Michael. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2013.
- ↑ Radin, Paul. “A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago: A Study of Borrowing.” Edited by G. Stanley Hall. Journal of Religious Experience 7, no. 1 (1914): 1–22. p. 8
- ↑ Radin, Paul. “A Sketch of the Peyote Cult of the Winnebago: A Study of Borrowing.” Edited by G. Stanley Hall. Journal of Religious Experience 7, no. 1 (1914): 1–22.
Note, if you look up this quote, notices how Radin inserts his own interpretation (i.e. "the medicine") into the direct quote, thus subtly changing the meaning of the words provided by Rave. Instead of a channel/connection to a Spirit Guide, as indicated by Rave, Radin reduces the effect to a biochemical process. https://archive.org/details/journalofreligio07worcuoft/page/8/mode/2up
