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Recieved: 2000/11/21 09:39
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process #3
From: Druout

Dear List,

This will cover # 2 Examples and #3 Search focus

 (See below for the 5 "stages" and 12 "characteristics.)

Stage 1: The Initiating Event/Experience
2. Examples: (Psychical) precognitive dream, telepathy, out-of-body
experience; (Mystical) ecstatic bliss, cosmic consciousness, conversion:
(Death-related) near-death experience, haunting, past life recall;
(Encounter) UFO, ancestor, shrine/power place; (Enhanced) in the sports zone,
nostalgia, déjà vu.

3. Search focus: Meaning of the EE

Stage 2: Search for Reconciliation

2 Examples: Exploring such alternative ideologies as perennial philosophy,
mystery schools, new age, theosophy, Zen, Tao, nature-based religions
(paganism); exploring such alternative health practices as acupuncture,
regression therapy, massage therapy, homeopathy, chiropractic,
meditation/breath work; learning such divination tools as I Ching, astrology,
tarot, and runes; seeking out such alternative authorities as gurus, mystics,
psychics, and channelers.

3. Search focus: Meaning of EE in a new context

Stage 3: Between Two Worlds
2. Examples: Outsider, outlander, stranger in a strange land; walking a fine
border/line, crossing the river, caught between two worlds, locked in irons
(feeling stuck), on the edge of the shore/cliff ready to leap; existential
dark night of the soul, return to the underworld (inner world), return to
alchemists' hermetic vessel for mixing, blending, and refining.

3. Search focus: Meaning of experiencer-self

Stage 4: In the Experiential Paradigm
2. Examples: EHEers "know" that they have "awakened," "leaped into the void,"
"crossed the river," "returned home." Life view encompasses "double vision"
where either/or dilemmas may be resolved with both/and hybrid considerations,
often spurring fresh catalytic insights and transmuting them to EHEs.
Observations may include transcendental ecstasy, inspired creativity,
frequent number and/or intensity of serendipity, patterns of synchronicity,
"good-luck," insights, discoveries, inventions.

3. Search focus: Meaning of higher self.

Stage 5: A New Way of Being in the World
2. Examples: The EHEer brings transcendental knowledge, "inner/outer"
calling, unique gifts "back to earth;" returns from Home to home; "as above
so below," "the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm," "after the return
before the return," "I am another yourself;" "chop wood, carry water;"
selecting an explicate order out of seemingly-implicate chaos; the organizing
principle, Self/Universe is both perfectly hole and whole.

3. Search focus: Meaning of the universal self.

Next to come, #5 "Cognitive dissonance" ( having already done # 4 questions
asked.)
Hope this isn't too confusing.

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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