Spiritually Transformative Experience
Peer support Group Meetings
Experiencer Meeting is every third Friday of the month from 6:30 - 8:30 PM
We ask for a $5.00 Heart donation.
The meeting is held at the RoseHeart Center
214 Highbridge St., Fayetteville, NY 13035
For directions go to TheRoseHeartCenter.com
All Experiencers are Welcome.
Purpose
(Information on this page supplied by ACISTE.org) The purpose of the support group is to provide a safe and confidential space for experiencers to share and discuss their experiences, the challenges and aftereffects, in order to facilitate integration.
We do not question the basis for the experience. If an experiencer is going through changes and would benefit from sharing them, he or she is welcome to attend. We accept an experiencer strictly by the person’s own identification with a spiritually transformative experience and the changes and challenges associated with that experience.
We are here – not to provide therapy - but to help each other process the experiences, their meaning and the challenges, not to analyze the validity of the experience.
Peer support groups consist of peers only. These means everyone participating, including the facilitator, is a person who has had a spiritually transformative experience as defined below.
Definition
An experience is spiritually transformative when it causes people to perceive themselves and the world profoundly differently: by expanding the individual’s identity, augmenting their sensitivities, and thereby altering their values, priorities and appreciation of the purpose of life. This may be triggered by surviving clinical death, or by otherwise sensing an enlarged reality.
What is a Spiritually Transformative Experience or STE?
There are many types and many names for experiences that can share common features and be catalysts for spiritual transformation: near-death experiences (NDEs), near-death-like experiences (NDLEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), visions, spiritual emergencies, awakenings, kundalini experiences, enlightenment, exceptional human experiences (EHEs), pre-birth memories, past-life experiences, nearing death awareness (NDAs), after-death communications (ADCs), empathic or shared near-death experiences, peak experiences, etc. STEs include or may be called transcendent, transpersonal, mystical, anomalous, religious, paranormal, parapsychological or ecstatic experiences.
These experiences can happen at any time, to anyone, under any circumstance. Some experiences are sought after through meditation, yoga, drugs, religious practices, dance, drumming, sensory deprivation or prayer. Other experiences can happen spontaneously without expectation, as with near-death situations.
Many such experiences involve being out of one’s body and/or and immersion into a different or more lucid reality. Features may include visions or communications with deceased loved ones, religious figures, God, the light, angels, beings of light, or other nonphysical beings. Many contain a profound feeling of peace, love, compassion or forgiveness. Many of these experiences contain messages, guidance, premonitions, or reviews of one’s life. Some experiences can be frightening or distressing. STEs can be catalysts for permanent and dramatic changes and positive transformations. Many also involve difficult challenges for the experiencer before of the experience into one’s life is complete.
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