Personal Revelation

[Jimmy]

Don’t you just love having a revelation? Being awakened to hidden truths? It is one of the most exciting events in one’s life imo. Feel free to share your experience or debate why you think personal revelations are imaginary shams.

 

[The Hammer]

Odd term that I wouldn't use to describe my religious experiences.

 

[Jimmy]

Odd term that I wouldn't use to describe my religious experiences.

People have revelations all the time.

 

[The Hammer]

People have revelations all the time.

Depends on what you're referring to:


" Definitions from Oxford Languages ·
noun

1.
a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way.
"revelations about his personal life"

2.
the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world. "

1 or 2. I'd say the first is particularly common. Whereas the latter, not so much and not a term I use.

 

[InChrist]

Don’t you just love having a revelation? Being awakened to hidden truths? It is one of the most exciting events in one’s life imo. Feel free to share your experience or debate why you think personal revelations are imaginary shams.

Depends on what you mean by personal revelation?

 

[Jimmy]

Depends on what you mean by personal revelation?

To be awakened to hidden truths.

 

[Jimmy]

Depends on what you're referring to:


" Definitions from Oxford Languages ·
noun

1.
a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way.
"revelations about his personal life"

2.
the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence or the world. "

1 or 2. I'd say the first is particularly common. Whereas the latter, not so much and not a term I use.

number two

 

[The Hammer]

Well, I think it’s obvious from my context that it’s number two

I assumed the first.

Considering this.

People have revelations all the time.

As what you are describing is so-so common. I think about 1/3 of the population has had some sort of mystical/supernatural experience according to studies done. I read this in a neuroscientist author's book a few years back.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Don’t you just love having a revelation? Being awakened to hidden truths? It is one of the most exciting events in one’s life imo. Feel free to share your experience or debate why you think personal revelations are imaginary shams.

I have never had one. But I have no opinion on them one way or another as long as they stay personal and are not used for a we and general claim about morality and the world as such.

 

[dybmh]

Don’t you just love having a revelation? Being awakened to hidden truths? It is one of the most exciting events in one’s life imo. Feel free to share your experience or debate why you think personal revelations are imaginary shams.

Epiphany is the word I use for what you're describing.

 

[Jimmy]

I have never had one. But I have no opinion on them one way or another as long as they stay personal and are not used for a we and general claim about morality and the world as such.

I agree

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

As what you are describing is so-so common. I think about 1/3 of the population has had some sort of mystical/supernatural experience according to studies done. I read this in a neuroscientist author's book a few years back.

Yes, I believe this is fairly common based on my experience as a spirit medium and seasoned paranormal investigator. In my years of experience, skeptics often experienced a "revelation" that the paranormal is real, either during or shortly after their inability to explain and debunk their one-on-one encounter with an earthbound human spirit. I also believe this to be true, based on the various statistics I've seen regarding the increasing popularity of believing in the paranormal (ghosts, hauntings, crytids, and UFOs) over the past few years. I listed some of these statistics in a previous post, which is linked below.

Real or not?

I tend to believe that someone can be 'closed-minded' about subjects like 'spirits'. I believe that too. I think it's because most people, whether religious or otherwise, learn from a young age not to believe in spirits. Many parents teach their children that spirits aren't real and are only...

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[Jayhawker Soule]

Don’t you just love having a revelation?

What, precisely, is to be debated?

 

[Balthazzar]

Don’t you just love having a revelation? Being awakened to hidden truths? It is one of the most exciting events in one’s life imo. Feel free to share your experience or debate why you think personal revelations are imaginary shams.

I agree ... Living in ignorance until awakened to a truth has a way of being an eye opener. Ahh, the effect of a personal revelation can be rewarding, but I think the pendulum has a swing in the other direction often enough to acknowledge, also. I'm thinking an Adam and Eve type of revelation has some merit to that affect.

 

[InChrist]

To be awakened to hidden truths.

Can you give an example? Do you mean something entirely new that no one else knows? Or do you mean, for instance, you are reading a passage in the scriptures you’ve read before, but suddenly you understand the truth of it like you never did before?

 

[Jimmy]

Can you give an example? Do you mean something entirely new that no one else knows? Or do you mean, for instance, you are reading a passage in the scriptures you’ve read before, but suddenly you understand the truth of it like you never did before?

Something that you or everyone else don’t know.

 

[LuisDantas]

I don't think I like the term "revelation". It does not fit anything that I had or would like to associate in my spiritual life.

There are flashes of understanding, moments of decision, of acceptance, even of acquisition of particles of wisdom. Those are indeed valuable.

But we must deal with them with sobriety and responsibility. Self-delusion is dangerous, and also a very real thing.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

There are some in paganism who speak of UPG...Unverified Personal Gnosis...probably what you would call a personal revelation...something that the individual experiences and understands, but has no external verification or validity, UNTIL there is some external evidence to support it. Then it may become Verified Personal Gnosis...

 

[Jimmy]

I don't think I like the term "revelation". It does not fit anything that I had or would like to associate in my spiritual life.

There are flashes of understanding, moments of decision, of acceptance, even of acquisition of particles of wisdom. Those are indeed valuable.

But we must deal with them with sobriety and responsibility. Self-delusion is dangerous, and also a very real thing.

I agree sadly

 

[LuisDantas]

Indeed sadly

What is sad?