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Human Development Framework

Our vision is a world free of suffering, poverty, hierarchy, power, and control. It is one in which these are replaced by sustainable global abundance, human empowerment, expanded creativity, and applied compassion, all nurtured within a Harmonic Social Order or Good Society capable of providing equal share for all.

Our mission is to develop and implement new theoretical and pedagogical paradigms capable of shifting our thinking, raising our individual and collective consciousness, and moving us rapidly forward toward a future of harmony and prosperity.

LP teachings are informed by modern scientific insights (theory and research), traditional systems of knowledge (when appropriate), and the insights that come from consistent and persistent Connection Practice.

The Lightning Path Metaphor

A lightning bolt is a simple thing. It consists of a stepped ladder, and upward leader, a steamer, the return stroke or lightning bolt, and the strike point or lightning strike.

The Stepped Ladder is an invisible channel that descends from the cloud in a series of rapid steps. As the stepped ladder descends it ionizes the air around it and ahead of it. This facilitates the formation of an upward leader.

The Upward leader is a channel that initiates from a tall object like a building or a person standing. The leader consists of the main channel and a collection of small streamers that travel just ahead of the leader.

Streamers are branched discharges at the tip of an upward leader. These prepare the air ahead so that the leader can continue to grow upwards. When the upward leader connects with the stepped ladder, a lightning bolt forms and a lightning strike.

The Lightning Strike is the point of electrical discharged. Known as the strike point, it is the point where the full electrical force of the lightning bolt is discharged into the ground.