What religious experiences have you had?

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As for the most vivid and highest experiences, I am not allowed to state them. I've talked about dreams before only on these forums and how they lead me to experience things good in life and achieve things. I will keep it at that, because, I will definitely be deemed a liar by most if I tell you what I experienced and for good reasons. Saying such things while not proving it is a way to attention that is irrational.

But if the world has it's arrivals of Imam Mahdi (a) and Jesus (a) (and others), then maybe I can share if I'm not dead by then.

 

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I will just say one thing and it will suffice for the intelligent. The dark spell on Quran cannot be defeated alone nor just by hadiths but requires help and trigger of awakening from someone who knows what to say to unlock and break the spell that all our scholars do not. Yes Quran unlocks Quran, but not just it alone, someone needs to make it click and know to say what to that exact person, knowing fully well how that person they are saying to is subdued by dark magic and in what way.

I now know my mission. It's just about acting on what I know.

 

[Psalm23]

This year I saluted my pastor and pastoral team in the name of my Lord Jesus. I got baptized again in April.

 

[Psalm23]

One time I experienced uncontrollable movement of my arm. I smashed a cup into pieces and hurt my hand hitting it on the table. Before this I did what I would consider sorcery with my hand and arm. I believe that I had yielded my right arm to evil and had suffered because of this. Later on I asked God for forgiveness and repented of the wrong I did. I don't have any more uncontrollable movements and I have full control over the use of my body.

 

[mangalavara]

Beyond my last post, I remembered one unforgettable incident. One night I dreamt that Meher Baba's sister, Mani, sped by me with great joy saying "I go to God". The next day I found out that she had been sick, something I did not know, and had passed at about the time when she appeared to me.

Wow! Thanks for sharing that. It makes me wonder if other individuals had the same or a similar experience.

 

[InvestigateTruth]

Could be as simple as finding a cross shape on a pebble or as vivid as talking to god through a burning bush. What happened?

I have seen number 19 either on the clock or anywhere, many times, at the moment, I was thinking about God, and Faith matters.
Number 19 is a symbol of God.

1 = first
9 = last

God is the First and the Last

 

[InvestigateTruth]

I will just say one thing and it will suffice for the intelligent. The dark spell on Quran cannot be defeated alone nor just by hadiths but requires help and trigger of awakening from someone who knows what to say to unlock and break the spell that all our scholars do not. Yes Quran unlocks Quran, but not just it alone, someone needs to make it click and know to say what to that exact person, knowing fully well how that person they are saying to is subdued by dark magic and in what way.

I now know my mission. It's just about acting on what I know.

While dreams can be meaningful, but very often, they are reflection of our thoughts during the day, or the week.
Many times, when I thought about something a lot during the week, I had a dream about it.
A dream is not necessarily inspirational or revelation.

Quran is the first and foremost guidance for Muslims to rely on. Then Authentic Hadithes, as long as one can know which ones are authentic or not, by comparing with the Qur'anic concepts.

 

[RestlessSoul]

The day I realised that I no longer wanted to drink. Not that I could resist the temptation, or live without drink, but rather that the obsession that had been with me for nearly 30 years was completely gone. This complete turnaround in outlook and attitude was no more my doing, than the changing of the seasons is my doing. It was a gift, and where there is a gift there has to be a giver.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I don't really make a distinction between "religious experiences" and "non-religious experiences". My life is a series of experiences, all of them interconnected, and the line that might divide "religious experiences" from "non-religious experiences" has become increasingly obscured.

Perhaps the first spontaneous mystical experience that I remember which I've written about a few times here on the forum might be along the lines of what you're looking for...

I used to work on weekends and during the summer with my step-father, who was a plastering contractor in Chicago. We lived about 60 or so miles northwest of the city in a little town called Woodstock, so the commute took around an hour and a half with the morning stop at the material yard.​

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One morning, I was staring out the window of the truck at the buildings, the traffic, the people, the El (the elevated/subway train system that runs through the city) when out of nowhere I felt a sense of familiarity and intimacy with all of it...everything...as familiar as my living room or the back of my hand...like it was a part of me. I don't recall, even at the time, how long this lasted...probably just a few seconds...but the gravity of the experience made an impression on me that I would never forget, even though for years I wrote it off as some sort of an anomaly.​

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It wasn't until many years passed that I was talking to someone about the experience, and they suggested that it might be what they referred to as a spontaneous mystical experience. It was at that time which began to investigate, research, talk, contemplate, and meditate on the experience. I learned more about it, and it was able to find validation in Hindu scripture that verified with me that it was not just an anomaly. It pointed to what I am in my true nature.​

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What Makes You Think…

The writers of the Bible knew anything about God? I’ve heard from several people who feel they know God. They will say with certainty what God is like. The problem of course is that what they claim is not consistent with each other. I understand people feeling they have personnel knowledge...

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[PureX]

Could be as simple as finding a cross shape on a pebble or as vivid as talking to god through a burning bush. What happened?

It's too complicated to go into, but I had a direct experience of God as a child of 5 or 6. It was not religious and did not involve conversation but was otherwise quite amazing and inexplicable.

 

[Yerda]

I'm a very boring atheist but I've had a few realisations in my life that have changed me and my outlook. They feel a bit religious.

Love. Knowing love and reflecting on how it transforms us if we allow it. I haven't been perfect or always had an easy time with life. I was a bit angry and at odds with the world for quite a while. Peace came through love. Being open to it, being guided by it, being willing to give it killed the fears holding me back and turned the anger and hate into acceptance and warmth. Sounds corny, but it is true.

Connectedness. I can't really go into the details of how I came to experience of the connectedness of the world because I would have to violate the forum rules. But I can now "see" it and "feel" it to some extent. I'm still a selfish and neurotic ape but I'm not entirely convinced that you and I are separate. I'm not convinced that the thing experienced is separate from the thing experiencing. Like drops in the ocean, as the common analogy goes. Things are an illusion in some sense. There is nothing in particular.

Consciousness. I never used to think about this at all. Now I find it so hard to shake the feeling that it is the mystery at the centre of everything that I think of it every day. I talk to people who just completely hand wave away the absolute absurdity that is experience, subjective perspectives, being a possibility in the first instance. It blows me away that it doesn't blow them away. And I used to think like that but my perspective has changed so much I can't relate at all. I can't remember what it was like or how it can be possible not be profoundly puzzled by consciousness.

The weird thing is, I'm a bit suspicious that these realisations are the same realisation.

 

[Tomef]

Could be as simple as finding a cross shape on a pebble or as vivid as talking to god through a burning bush. What happened?

Having the perfect cup of coffee in a pretty nondescript café in Italy was something like a religious experience. Walking through a big gate (I can’t remember the name it had) in the foothills of the Himalaya to see a mountain so big it looked like it had been painted on the sky. The effect of a couple of books I read. Realising that prayer is just talking to another part of your self.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Another experience comes to mind, which was seeing a few ancient Egyptian sites in person for the first time and touring them. The most salient feeling was overwhelming awe and a deep sense of connection, knowing that a vast number of people throughout millennia, including many of my ancestors, stepped through those places and touched them just as I did.

Seeing the Temple of Hatshepsut from a distance for the first time gave me literal goosebumps, and I paused for a few minutes just to absorb the surroundings and take everything in the first time I saw that, the Great Hypostyle Hall, and the front of the Temple of Horus in Edfu:

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I don't believe in ethnic pride or anything of the sort, but I think there's something to be said for the power of ancestral connection to something or somewhere so ancient.