Initially, the thing was premised on the startling experiences I had. Since I was trained as a scholar. You can read a bit about my experiences here in my article "Connection 100—An Auto-Ethnography of My (Mystical) Connection Experiences" The experiences were transformative. I recognized the fact immediately that if enough people could be induced to have these experiences, we could easily transform, even save, the planet.

Upon inception, the goal of Lightning Path was to create a "fast path" towards what I came to call Connection Experience but others would refer to as mystical or peak experience.  Since then, the goal of the LP has evolved not just solely as a path towards better connection, but towards a Human Development Framework. As defined in the SpiritWiki,  a Human Development Framework (HDF) is a framework devoted to understanding the human species, supporting Human Development and actuating full Human Potential. The goal of such a framework is to help create what Abraham Maslow called Eupsychia, or the Good Society.

I've done a lot of writing over the years on this. It has been a challenge not only because the scope of this thing is huge, but also because it requires a new theoretical language, new frameworks, and new ways of understanding that are not only carefully integrated, logical, consistent, and complete, but free of (we might say emancipated from) status quo understandings. That’s a big challenge, particularly when you also have to make this accessible to all.

I’m not going to claim to have accomplished this. Really, any successful move in this direction is a collective effort more than a one-person show. I am confident in saying, however, that I have built a solid theoretical foundation upon which we can build and empirical and practical structure. Right now things are a bit scattered. My goal on these forums is to start piecing it together into a coherent framework from which we can develop, ground, and spread the new paradigm.