Connection Intensity
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Connection Intensity
Connection Intensity refers to the level of intensity of a given Connection Event, whether occurring "naturally" or induced via a Connection Practice or Connection Supplement
Connection Axis
Connection Axes > Connection Content, Connection Duration, Connection Intensity, Connection Outcome, Connection Quality
Notes
According to Lang and Thalbourne, "the intensity of mystical experiences forms a progression that starts with quite general experiences of happiness, followed by enlightenment by a higher power, and ultimately leading to union with the Absolute." [1]
"...the intensity can range from a few moments of rapture to several hours of shattering psychological experience." [2]
Powerful events "...it expands you, and if your body is not really healthy it can just blow your circuits out over and over and over again."[3]
Disconnected
Weak Déjà vu, Existential Terrors
Moderate
Powerful
Types of experience, from least to most intensive, Insights/intuitive glimmers, Peak Experience, Mystical Glimpse, Mystical Visions, Revelations, transcendent experiences, permanent unions.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Lange, Rense, and Michael A. Thalbourne. "The Rasch Scaling of Mystical Experiences: Construct Validity and Correlates of the Mystical Experience Scale (Mes)." The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 17 2 (2007): 130.
- ↑ Allman, Lorraine S., Olivia de la Rocha, David N. Elkins, and Robert S. Weathers. “Psychotherapists’ Attitudes toward Clients Reporting Mystical Experiences.” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 29, no. 4 (Win 1992): 565.
- ↑ Bender, Courtney. The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. p. 71.