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Recieved: 2000/11/24 10:04
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process #5
From: Druout

Dear List,

This will cover # 6: Depotentiating activities and #7 Results of
depotentiation

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

Stage 1: The Initiating Event/Experience
#6: Depotentiating activities: Exercising one or several forms of defense
mechanisms: denial repression, rationalization, projection, and so on, in
which the experience and its inherent conflict may be consciously ignored,
mitigated, explained or laughed away. Rigid compartmentalizing of life and
activities in an effort to revert to pre-experience order and status quo;
choices viewed as either/or, reality as black or white. Other experiencers
and their experiences may be ridiculed with vehemence.

#7 Results of Depotentiation: The EEer shuts down to experience.

Stage 2: Search for Reconciliation
#6: Depotentiating activities: Locking immediately into the first ideology,
method, or practice that accepts EEer and EE; preoccupation/addiction to
tools, ritualistic practices and/or idolizing their practitioners (e.g., guru
worship, abuse of psychic hotlines).

#7 Results of depotentiation: Wider search is discontinued and the EEer
locks and/or converts into a new, narrow framework with its practitioners.
Locus of authority shifts, but the search and answers continue to reside
outside of self.
 
Stage 3: Between Two Worlds
#6: Depotentiating activities: Minimizing previous EE(s) and prior search
activity, including any insights, discoveries, meaning, and short-term
aftereffects achieved about self and alternative realities; categorizing own
EE(s) and quest as aberration of "real" life; re-classifying and lumping all
experiencers together and their views, methods, and tools as total garbage;
returning to the everyday world and its activities with a vengeance and zeal
to make up for perceived lost time. Adopting the slogan "ignorance is bliss"
and/or one of several escape/avoidance behaviors in efforts to ward off/shift
focus away from EE(s) and spontaneous glimpses of the experiential paradigm.

#7 Results of depotentiation: Experiencer and the search are side-railed for
months, years, or even a lifetime. Long-term cognitive dissonance festers,
and chronic unease, use of defense mechanisms, and inertia take their toll on
body, mind, and spirit.

Stage 4: In the Experiential Paradigm
#6 Depotentiating activities: Reluctance to explore further levels of
awareness and/or entertain/select new lifestyle, pursuits, and professional
options that seem to further widen the gap between EHEer and those "left
behind." Clinging to old-world emotional attachments while body, mind, and
soul have crossed into the new world. Endeavoring to awaken (significant)
others before their time.

#7 Results of depotentiation: The EHEer locks into a routine that allows for
larger world view, but does not investigate options further, nor endeavor to
increase overall awareness; remains emotionally attached to specific people,
values, and/or things; experiences aftereffects of deep sadness and loss.

Stage 5: A New Way of Being in the World
#6: Depotentiating activities: Reluctance to recognize that even a
seemingly connected and purposeful life can still carry doubts, fears,
frustrations, and that these also can be signposts that leave EE/EHE
aftereffects yet unresolved, and that serve as compass-pointers for the
process; requiring perfection of self and others; getting caught up in
formalizing, controlling "the goal" rather than recalling that the process
leads naturally to "the goal."

#7 Results of depotentiation: The EHEer may temporarily encounter setbacks,
indecision by reverting to old outworn, yet familiar defenses; personal
demands for perfection or desiring to will or control outcomes stalls (sense
of) fulfillment; potential contributions do not take form, are not "brought
back to earth," new EEs are not recognized or transmuted; long-term
aftereffects of one or more previous EHEs remain dormant.

Next to come #8: "Potentiating activities: and #9 Results of potentiation

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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