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Recieved: 2000/11/25 11:21
Subject: [K-list] The Exceptional Human Experience Process #6
From: Druout
On 2000/11/25 11:21, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
Dear List,
This will cover # 8: Potentiating activities and #9 Results of potentiation
(See below for the 5 "stages" and 12 "characteristics.)
Stage 1: The Initiating Event/Experience
#8: Potentiating activities: Reading authoritative texts, papers;
contacting and communicating with relevant mainstream scientific, religious,
counseling authorities; sharing EE fears and wonders with significant others;
meeting and discussing similar types of EEs with other experiencers;
recording EE and thoughts/feelings about it in a personal journal and/or
submitting an EE account to the EHE Network; developing new interests in TV
shows, documentaries, books, research papers, World Wide Web to gather
information about the EE itself.
#9 Results of Potentiation: The EEer opens to exploration and investigates
EE within the traditional, mainstream world view; gathers a wide variety of
facts about the EE itself.
Stage 2: Search for Reconciliation
#8: Potentiating activities: Exploring a wide variety of alternatives,
assimilating the best of what each has to offer; maintaining a balance of
expansion and discrimination in questioning practices, tools and
practitioners rather than taking them at surface value. Locating a mentor,
practitioner, network, or support group of fellow experiencers who recognize
the process and will provide an accepting environment without dogma.
#9 Results of Potentiation: A personal shift of life view that desires
knowledge over specific dogmas and the dawning realization that there may be
many roads to truth.
Stage 3: Between Two Worlds
#8 Potentiating activities: Accepting/valuing the experience for what it
was, what it meant, what it shared, where it led, and entertaining
possibilities for where it could lead. Feeling more comfortable with
ambiguity, paradoxes, uncertainty, and carrying this comfort level back into
everyday activities, even when experiencer has no firm answers. Embracing
any additional EEs and especially the meaningful insights they engender.
Thoughtfully and empathetically sharing experience(s) with others. Striving
to maintain a balance in life and life view.
#9 Results of Potentiation: Experiencer's shift of life view incorporates
the best of both worlds, and accepts, assimilitates, and integrates all life
experience into a coordinated, authentic collective representation of self.
Stage 4: In the Experiential Paradigm
#8 Potentiating activities: Recognizing, accepting, assimilating, and
integrating additional experiences into life view according to EHEer's inner
criteria for meaningfulness rather than tacit acceptance of consensual views;
recognizing other EHEers and mutuality of shared path; more easily shifting
personality preferences, vocabulary, actions, social interaction style as
circumstances warrant. Beginning to recognize and follow a "calling."
#9 Results of Potentiation: EHEer realizes that he or she has a unique
contribution to make, purpose to fulfill, is an integral, dynamic part of the
whole, the Universe. Additional EEs to EHEs intuited as signposts, becoming
compass-pointers of life.
Stage 5: A New Way of Being in the World
#8: Potentiating activities: Acknowledging new EEs and transmuting them
into EHEs by questiooning meaningfulness; going inside to resolve old issues
remaining, including long-term aftereffects of previous EHEs that may have
been "lost in the shuffle." Taking setbacks and doubts in stride and
understanding that these are opportunities to evolve further; learning new
skills, meeting new people and integrating these contributions into the
EHEer's way (personal calling) as perspective shifts and evolves.
Recognizing, respecting, and having compassion for our very humanness, holes
and wholes alike.
#9 Results of potentiation: The EHEer is living, being, fulfilling, and
doing a personal project of transcendence (i.e., has grounded inner calling
into life-worthy projects), and has the flexibility to shift means, methods,
and tools as needed to accomplish it.
Next to come #10 Challenges.
Love, Hillary
******************
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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