A strange question to all in the forum :)

[EtuMalku]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

Being of the western left hand path I do not believe in any god other than my greater self/godself. What we as a whole work towards, is opening a clear line of communication between our lesser self and our greater self, emulating this greater self in time.

That said;
I believe I am in contact with my god.
The processes involved with connecting are very complex and many, it would be difficult to even begin to explain them here. Simply put, through various forms of spiritual alchemy and individuation we are able to experience our greater self and thus to know our godself.
Hearing voices and/or seeing religious/spiritual things has been explained neurologically. We are not interested in these objective trappings, rather we connect through thought and imagination (subjective universes).

 

[Vinayaka]

There's a question about whether false gods
turtle all the way down to a false or a real god.
But only the upper turtles interact with me.
(And they are untrustworthy.)

What isn't untrustworthy to some degree?

 

[Revoltingest]

What isn't untrustworthy to some degree?

They mislead me at times.
I’m just sport to them.

 

[BSM1]

No true god would turn down an offering of haggis.

Finally, a benchmark..

 

[sun rise]

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

I have two quite different answers to your questions.

The first occurred a few years ago when I was in India. I was on a bus when an apparent sadhu came and gazed at the bus. I had an almost overwhelming urge to run from the bus and throw myself at his feet. I take that experience as my inner self recognizing someone who had a clear experience of God or had realizing this divine nature.

The second is about inner experience rather than a duality that is outward experience. Sometimes especially in the past I use the language of poetry to try to capture the experience of the inner contact. Here's one example of what I have in mind focusing on the corvids and the spiritual meaning of those birds

My arms burst
my rib cage prison.

An explosion
of black wings -
flight heaven bound.

Ravens sing
oracles
of battles.

Crows call
the mystery
of dancing.

Black birds
are a chorus
of nature's
oneness.

The cage,
now empty,
collapses,
weeping.

Nature enfolds
the cage
in her arms.

Ripples of breath:
fresher air,
healing air,
sunlit air.

 

[LuisDantas]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

Any deity that I did not create myself?

No, I do not think that I ever was contacted by such an entity.

 

[savagewind]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

I think so, yes. When I was a Jehovah's Witness, I was having doubts about their conviction that they are God "spirit directed" and so I prayed for Bible witness that could help me understand that they were telling the truth. But what I seemed to be directed to is that my inclination was on board, but nothing for them so I prayed, "no! not me, them!" but I still came up with nothing. It was a memorable and very emotional discovery. I understand that I had read the whole Bible previously and so it might have been only me fooling myself, but I don't think I am ever that good. It was absolutely wonderful!

 

[savagewind]

Also, I never heard a voice. It was as though the pages of the bible had been marked and that scriptures were being made alive for me.

 

[loverofhumanity]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

I believe direct communication with God is impossible and only through consulting Holy Writings can we receive divine guidance. Just as we cannot sustain the sun directly descending to the earth so too I believe we cannot directly communicate with God. Only through the Suns rays can we receive light and warmth from the sun so too I believe only through God’s Suns of Truth, His Manifestations can we receive truth. Manifestations such as Moses, Buddha, Muhammad, Christ the Bab and Baha’u’llah.

So for instance if I wanted guidance on a particular subject I would consult the Holy Books of These Educators not believe what my imagination told me through some imagined direct communication with God because it might be my own error prone mind answering me which I mistake for God just because I prayed or meditated. The mind has the ability to make a person believe even their own imagination and then call it truth. Even in some societies they have such an attachment to what their own minds have concocted that they think it reality yet they say it comes from God.

So my contact with God is by consulting His Guudance He sent through His Educators. And the answers in the scriptures are quite clear.

 

[Baroodi]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

God talks to people indirectly via messengers and prophets but can send heralding messages or warning messages to humans as a sleep dream. Sleep vision of symbols that carry certain interpretations. like seeing keys or seeing yourself opening a door symbolizing success or bailing you of of a trouble. Dreams can be of various meaning in different cultures. Some of them are chaotic and these can not be interpreted and may be triggered by stress and fear. Clear dreams that can be described in details are the one that can be interpreted by experts in this field.

 

[Neuropteron]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

Many have had similar experience.
This is a warning that the Apostle Paul gave to the Galatians:
" Even if ...an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond what we declared to you, let him (the apparition) be accursed.(/gal 1:8)

 

[Windwalker]

I was only 6, and so could not have articulated this thought in my mind, but this is very close to how I experienced it. Physical reality became transparent, and infused with a kind of loving light-energy.

Yep. I was 18 when I first experienced this. It forever changed my life.

I distinctly remember thinking about what the nuns in my kindergarten had told me: that "God is the green in the grass, the warmth of the sun on my face, and the gentle breeze of a summers day".

That is beautiful, and very much captures it. I say that for the first time in my life I saw color. Green was really green. Blue was really blue. The vibrancy of the world was absolute loving radiance.
'

And that is exactly how my experience began, with the awareness of the divine within the physical world around me, on a warm summer day. But then the physical world began to fade into a sea of 'divine light'. It was still there, and I was still in it, but through it all shined this light/love/energy. I didn't know what to do, so I sang to it. And I was loved all the more for doing that, it seemed.

Wonderful. I love that. "I sang to it". Yes, what I would add for a description is that of an exchange of absolute Love, Light, and Joy. It's what the Hindus call Satchitananda, "being, consciousness, bliss".

I just had this thought to your saying you sang to it. This past fall, in such as state as we are describing, I was in the park on the top of a hill overlooking the city. I was practicing Tai Chi, and paused to lay on the grass taking the beauty of the world in. As I lay there, I leaned back to where my head was looking at the world upside down, and having fun playing with this, like I was five years old again, five decades later now, and the wind came blowing up on me as I lay there like this. It was exquisite. I just began laughing. It was wonderful. Just joy at Life and being Life in this body.

I'm of the view, that who we are, our true human nature is that innocence of being that child, you described. It's who we all are. We get so wrapped up in the world of our thoughts and ideas and worries and expectations of others, we lose sight of what we know when we were children, before all this other distraction denies this to ourselves.

 

[lukethethird]

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

No, not God, not Zeus, not Thor, not Vishnu, none of them, not so much as a 'how do you do.'

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

No, never. If there is a god, it doesn't appear at all interested in me.

 

[syo]

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

Yes. Two times. The first was a pagan God in a dream. No voice, just image of an old person.
The second time I was awake. An image of pagan God again, mocking me. Ouch!

 

[Spirit of Light]

Yes. Two times. The first was a pagan God in a dream. No voice, just image of an old person.
The second time I was awake. An image of pagan God again, mocking me. Ouch!

Question: What made you understand it was a pagan god?

 

[syo]

Question: What made you understand it was a pagan god?

Ah yes! The first God was the image of a very old person and in the dream i ''felt'' that's a God. And I took a looooooong stare.
The second God was a trickster. I prayed for the Gods to guide me and appeared in my head a vision of a trickster laughing, and I felt I was going wrong. Pagans were the gods because 99% of my prayers go to pagan gods. These happened years ago but I remember them. In paganism the gods show the way and I was lost. At that time with the trickster I was a failure.

 

[Jainarayan]

Not sure how i shoud phrase this question but it go something like this.
And i want to say that i do ask with utmost respect to you and your experience.

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

Nothing overt, I'd have to say it was more inspirational than anything else.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

I've been directly contacted twice. I didn't have a vision or hear a voice: I was just made intensely aware of what the god wanted (Asklepios) or had done (Hephaistos).

I've also had quite a few omens. For example, the first time I celebrated Heliogenna, the sky had been overcast all the morning. When I started singing the hymn, the clouds broke and the Sun shone on me. When I finished, they closed and the Sun didn't appear again. The odds against that being chance were over 200:1.

I also use divination to ask questions and seek advice.

 

[VoidCat]

Have you ever been contacted by what you consider to be a God I do not only speak about a Christian god here, If you in your view do feel it has been a God(or similar) who contacted you, my question is.

In what way did you get contacted ?
Did you hear a voice?
Did you see something or someone?

You know my answer to the question...I listen to the Spirit by listening to it talk through my conscience and moving me through intuition...But I have also see God in another way...(this is the part you didn't predict.)through a vision...But I don't want to talk about it so I won't.