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'''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]].   
'''Transformation''' is a [[Connection Outcome]]. 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]]. Transformation is a result of the various [[Connection Enhancements]] that occurs during [[Connection Experiences]].   
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Karl Hanes reports an individual who experiences a "sudden change in behaviour and perception" and a "new level of consciousness."<ref>Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 33.</ref>
Karl Hanes reports an individual who experiences a "sudden change in behaviour and perception" and a "new level of consciousness."<ref>Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 33.</ref>


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.  
Transformations may be facilitated by [[Connection Experience]].  
 
Transformation is driven by various enhancements that derive from [[Connection Experience]].  


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>
[[Grof, Stanislav|Stanislav Grof]] related a powerful transformative experience had when he ingested LST for the first time as a subject in LSD trials. <ref>Grof, Stanislav. ''When the Impossible Happens.'' Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.</ref> In this experience he confronted his unconscious psyche, downloaded a shit ton of information, and finally experienced an expansion of consciousness to cosmic levels.<ref>Grof, Stanislav. ''When the Impossible Happens.'' Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.</ref> The experience completely transformed his thinking and set him off on a decades long research program investigating the power of psychedelic substances to heal and transform human consciousness.


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Latest revision as of 05:08, 26 December 2022

Transformation is a Connection Outcome. 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. Transformation is a result of the various Connection Enhancements that occurs during Connection Experiences.

Syncretic Terms

Transformation > Quantum Change, The Shift, Transformational Change

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcomes > 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

Karl Hanes reports an individual who experiences a "sudden change in behaviour and perception" and a "new level of consciousness."[1]

Transformations may be facilitated by Connection Experience.

Transformation is driven by various enhancements that derive from Connection Experience.

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]

Stanislav Grof related a powerful transformative experience had when he ingested LST for the first time as a subject in LSD trials. [3] In this experience he confronted his unconscious psyche, downloaded a shit ton of information, and finally experienced an expansion of consciousness to cosmic levels.[4] The experience completely transformed his thinking and set him off on a decades long research program investigating the power of psychedelic substances to heal and transform human consciousness.

Footnotes

  1. Hanes, Karl. “Unusual Phenomena Associated With a Transcendent Human Experience: A Case Study.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 44, no. 1 (2012): 33.
  2. Parish, Bobbi. Create Your Personal Sacred Text: Develop and Celebrate Your Spiritual Life. Harmony, 1999. p. 18-19 https://amzn.to/2I4zRi7.
  3. Grof, Stanislav. When the Impossible Happens. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.
  4. Grof, Stanislav. When the Impossible Happens. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2006.