The Family of Spirit
The phrase Family of Spirit is a term used to refer to those individuals who have experienced a powerful Connection Experience, have been transformed by this event, and who now see themselves, more or less, as part of a great big loving cosmic Family of Spirit. The feeling that you are a member of a big cosmic family is a Connection Outcome that sometimes occurs as a consequence of the Enhanced Connection that attends Connection Experience.
Examples
Enhanced Connection > Intramonadic Communication, Noesis, Past Life Memories, Realization of Immortality, Recollection, The Family of Spirit, Transcendence, Turn to the Left
Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcomess > 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
Notes
R.M. Bucke uses the phrase The Family to refer to people who have had a powerful Connection Experience and who have, as a result, become members of "a family sprung from, living among, but scarcely forming a part of ordinary humanity, whose members are spread abroad throughout the advanced races of mankind and throughout the last forty centuries of the world’s history.[1]
"A man (sic) man is identified as a member of this family by the fact that at a certain age he has passed through a new birth and risen to a higher spiritual plane. The reality of the new birth is demonstrated by the subjective light and other phenomena.[2]
It is important to note here, we are all part of the Family of Spirit. Most of us, as yet, have forgotten it and are, as a consequence of Toxic Socialization, too sick to realize it.
