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Transformation may also occur more gently, as a long term consequence of [[Connection Practice]]. As Parish notes, "With every step of your journey, you will be changed. As you look for answers, ideas, clarification, and validation, not only will you learn more about the places you visit, but you will gain greater awareness of yourself. From each stage in the process, from deciding where to go to what you will look for, you will gain greater self-understanding. It's an unavoidable result of your journey.<ref>Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 18-19 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.</ref> | Transformation may also occur more gently, as a long term consequence of [[Connection Practice]]. As Parish notes, "With every step of your journey, you will be changed. As you look for answers, ideas, clarification, and validation, not only will you learn more about the places you visit, but you will gain greater awareness of yourself. From each stage in the process, from deciding where to go to what you will look for, you will gain greater self-understanding. It's an unavoidable result of your journey.<ref>Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 18-19 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.</ref> | ||
Transformation may include dramatic cognitive shifts. As Grof notes, "In my experience, everyone who experientially reached these levels developed convincing insights into the utmost relevance of spiritual and religious dimensions in the universal scheme of things. Even the most hard-core materialists, positivistically-oriented scientists, skeptics and cynics, uncompromising atheists and antireligious crusaders such as the Marxist philosophers, became suddenly interested in spiritual search after they confronted these levels in themselves."<ref>Grof, Stanislav. “Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5, no. 1 (June 1973): 15–53. p.25.</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 16:49, 24 December 2022
Transformation is a sudden and relatively permanent change of perception and behaviour, caused by an individual's Connection Experience. When transformation occurs, an individual experiences significant "forward movement" towards a healthier Physical Unit, and stronger and more persistent Connection.
Syncretic Terms
Transformation > Quantum Change, The Shift, Transformational Change
Notes
Karl Hanes reports an individual who experiences a "sudden change in behaviour and perception" and a "new level of consciousness."[1]
Transformation may be the direct result of a dramatic, intense, but often short-lived, Connection Event. Transformation is driven by an Awakening or Initiation both of which may include personal insight, political insight, spiritual insight (nature of Self, relationship to God, etc.), and other "revelations" that lead to a significant shift in the way an individual sees, and exists in, the world.
Transformation may also occur more gently, as a long term consequence of Connection Practice. As Parish notes, "With every step of your journey, you will be changed. As you look for answers, ideas, clarification, and validation, not only will you learn more about the places you visit, but you will gain greater awareness of yourself. From each stage in the process, from deciding where to go to what you will look for, you will gain greater self-understanding. It's an unavoidable result of your journey.[2]
Transformation may include dramatic cognitive shifts. As Grof notes, "In my experience, everyone who experientially reached these levels developed convincing insights into the utmost relevance of spiritual and religious dimensions in the universal scheme of things. Even the most hard-core materialists, positivistically-oriented scientists, skeptics and cynics, uncompromising atheists and antireligious crusaders such as the Marxist philosophers, became suddenly interested in spiritual search after they confronted these levels in themselves."[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 33.
- ↑ Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 18-19 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Observations from LSD Research.” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5, no. 1 (June 1973): 15–53. p.25.
