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Recieved: 2000/11/22 09:50
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process #4
From: Druout

Dear List,

This will cover # 5: Cognitive dissonance

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

Stage 1: The Initiating Event/Experience
5: Cognitive dissonance: The EE resides outside of the individual's everyday
life view or belief struture; temporarily (typically from a few sdeconds to a
few hours, rarely more than a day) the EEer shifts his or her attentional
focus away from baseline/steady state of conscious awareness and the status
quo is disrupted.
 
Stage 2: Search for Reconciliation
5: Cognitive dissonance: The search itself moves beyond the previously
acceptable paradigmatic framework into new contexts/behaviors that can be
threatening, peculiar, bizarre, or exotic, in efforts to integrate EE into a
new, revised life view and to reset the status quo.

Stage 3: Between Two Worlds
5: Cognitive dissonance: Neither the old restrictive view of the world nor
the new one that loosely accommodates the experiencer and the experience(s)
is satisfactory, yet the experiencer feels that he or she must choose one or
the other and often switches between them.

Stage 4: In the Experiential Paradigm
5: Cognitive dissonance: The search that has brought the EHEer to a new
world pregnant with meaning, metaphor, discovery, and great vision is not
easily conveyed to those left behind in the old world. Initial spontaneous
entry (and often subsequent, early reiterations) is paradoxically both
shocking and desired.

Stage 5: A New Way of Being in the World
5: Cognitive dissonance: Experiential paradigm, transcendent awareness has
revealed an abundance of extensions, branches, worlds of potential and
possibility and inner self-awareness has deepened, strengthened and coalesced
the EHEer to the very core, yet the EHEer consciously senses (with composed,
calm urgency) that he or she must choose a path and get on the program of
life and living in the world-at-large.

Next to come #7 "Deptentiating activities:

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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