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Recieved: 2000/11/19 21:47
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process #2
From: Druout

Dear List,

Thanks Wim, Wendy, Amanda!

Here I'll start with #1: "Definition" for the 5 stages. (See below for the 5
"stages" and 12 "characteristics.)

Stage 1:  The Initiating Event/Experience
1. Definition: The initial, originating Exceptional Experience (EE) is of
sufficient strength or potency to capture the individual's attention and
disrupt the status quo of everyday life activities. ...

Stage 2:  Search for Reconciliation
1. Definition: The EEer chooses to widen the search beyond conventional
authorities and seek novel, alternative, and even unconventional perspectives
that were previously considered irrational and even absurd before the
initiating EE. This phase is highlighted by active, sometimes frantic
exploration to discover novel ways of testing, examining, and coping with the
EE.

Stage 3:  Between Two Worlds
1. Definition: The intense search activity of the past stage(s) is muted or
put on hold as the metamorphosing EEer to EHEer takes time out to assimilate,
digest, and integrate findings into a new life view, sense of self, and
endeavors to get back to the tasks of everyday life. Observed as a
relatively-lengthy, sterile, dry, dormant period as the experiencer
subjectively vacillates between the old perspective and the new, unable to
totally embrace the new.

Stage 4:  In the Experiential Paradigm
1. Definition: The EHEer envisions and "knows" the world/Universe as one
great, interconnected whole of living consciousness where
artifically-constructed boundaries of reality are null in the "grand scheme
of things, essential truth." Depending on point of entry to this stage,
experiencers may be catapulted into it at any age with no prior EE/EHE
contextual anchors, discover it more or less spontaneously, and already have
some contextual EE/EHE anchors, or return into it as a "place" for gathering
inspiration, fresh insight, and guidance.

Stage 5:  A New Way of Being in the World
1. Definition: The EHE forges a personally-fulfilling, meaningful path that
reflects and sustains inner calling as well as outwardly contributes his or
her personal best to the world-at-large. Both (many, multidimensional)
worlds are integrated within and without, represented (i.e., "known") as one
world of an intricately-interconnected singularity where the EHEer mirrors,
reflects, aligns with the Universe. The EHEer is consciously aware that
individual choices (core actions, thoughts, emotions, desires, intents) have
the power to dynamically shape outcomes (the Universe), and he or she
endeavors to live through that knowledge responsively and responsibly.

Next to come "Examples"

Love, Hillary

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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.

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