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Recieved: 2000/11/17 15:32
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process
From: Druout

Dear List,

A friend of mine just published a very interesting article in the
International Journal of Parapsychology (Vol 11, No 1, 69-111). Although one
has to wade through a bit of professional jargon, it's well worth it. :))

As I see it, the general idea is that it is important to accept our
experiences as positive forces, and incorporate them into our lives, rather
than to try to deny them or treat them as symptoms of illness (as, alas, do
so many in the medical community.)

It starts with an outline of 5 developmental stages worked out by Rhea White
of the EHE Network:

1. The initiating event/experience
2. Search for reconciliation
3. Between two worlds
4. In the experiential paradigm
5. A new way of being in the world.

Suzanne V. Brown has taken these stages further, saying that "within each of
the stages there are qualitative sets of attributive characteristics that
could be used to distinguish (more or less) one stage from the others."

So each stage is divided into 12 sets of characteristics, ultimately forming
a matrix of 60 cells.

1. Definition
2. Examples
3. Search focus
4. Questions asked
5. Cognitive dissonance
6. Depotentiating activities
7. Results of depotentiation
8. Potentiating activities
9. Results of potentiation
10. Challenges
11. Critical juncture
12. Crossroads to next stage.

To give an example of how this works, the "Questions asked" (#4) for various
stages are as follows:

Stage 1: The Initiating Event/Experience
4. Questions Asked: What just happened? How can I explain this? Am I crazy?
Possessed? losing touch with reality? Who can help me understand?

Stage 2: Search for Reconciliation
4. Questions Asked: How and where do I find truth? Who else has had my
experience? What other avenues are there which can explain what happened to
me? Am I (my experience) unique or special? Am I just another weirdo?

Stage 3: Between Two Worlds
4. Questions Asked: Which world is real? Where do I fit in? How do my
experience and what I have learned about it sustain and fortify me? What was
that experience all about anyway in the grand scheme of things (life,
reality)?

Stage 4: In the Experiential Paradigm
4. Questions Asked: Where do I go from here? Who else envisions the world
as I do? How will I recognize them? What are our possibilities and
extensions? How do we manifest them and share them with others? How do I get
back to "that place?"

Stage 5: A New Way of Being in the World
4. Questions Asked: How do I best align myself/my purpose/my calling with
Universe? How can I best serve given my collection of unique
talents/abilities/gifts? How can I contribute to overall evolution of
consciousness, including my own?

**********

The article is a real eye/mind opener! 

The other sections are equally interesting. If people are interested in
hearing more, I'll type up the other sections. Let me know! :))

Love, Hillary

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