have you ever had a religous/spiritual experience?

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Probably. Seemingly incredible coincidences happen - and not just sometimes, but all the time - we just don't normally pay attention to them.

Your post reminds me of an odd experience I had at 16. (To be clear, I'm not calling this a "spiritual" experience, simply an odd one!) Some time during the school day I got this odd feeling that I might die that day. I didn't feel certain that I'd die, but like there was a good chance of it - over 50%. It was a mix of excitement and nervousness, but not fear. I don't remember exactly when this feeling set in, but there wasn't any event that prompted it and there was nothing otherwise unusual about that day. I was physically healthy, not particularly depressed and had not taken any drugs, alcohol, etc. I did have a dentist appointment that afternoon, but it was just for a routine cleaning with my usual dentist, so nothing to be concerned about.

Anyway, the coincidence part... After school I had some time to waste before the dentist, so I went to a local library and was wandering around it aimlessly (still feeling this way) when I spotted a "Nursery Rhyme" book. I never heard those as a kid and was kind of curious why they were so famous, so I opened it on a random page and the very first rhyme I saw was about two children dying in a forest! (I believe it was "Babes In The Wood"). At the time that struck me as an amazing coincidence - I mean, what are the odds of such a topic in a book for little kids? (And it was the first rhyme I saw, not just one of many.)

I now know that old nursery rhymes did actually mention death a fair a bit, so perhaps the book I came across was some old, "unsanitised" edition. So it now seems a bit less amazing. And, obviously, I did not die that day. Perhaps my sub-consciousness was more afraid of that trip to the dentist than I was consciously aware of, I don't know. It's not a great explanation, because I've never felt that way before (nor since), but it's the most plausible one I can come up with.

A funny thing about what you just said; there was a B.O.T.A. program graduate (13 year program) who mentioned that angels, gods, and goddesses were intelligences that manifested in geometry. He suggested sort of scrying with thing things like the Cube of Metatron (ie. the thirteen circles arrange in a 1/6/6 cluster with the lines all connected), I tried and noted that naturally the way our eyes tend to adjust to looking at a white surface it tends to dance and as focus changes you start getting different shapes from the connections. I really just think that result is visual burn-in but in a way I think it gives a flavor from what can be obtained from things like sacred geometry or even forms in nature if one has trained their eyes to see into it (part me me also wants to think that scrying into tarot cards might work the same way but I have to stop short on that - ie. it seems more like it's the characters themselves or the objects and use that seem to trigger the focus rather than shapes and angles).

I would love to hear more of your experiences. i think i read somewhere that you became a monk for a year? if you wanted to talk some time about your experiences and your spiritual journey please feel free to pm me. I would love to hear your initial long post

It was in a period of psychosis, so doesn't count. I later came across a painting that expressed my feelings at the time so completely that it gave me the chills. I hope that artist went on to great things.

I think I'm having a spiritual experience now.

Perhaps...

I would love to hear it too.

Well..if you think you are..chances are..you are...

:)

it doesn't have to be 'fancy'' ya know?

NoW..at least...

i guess....

I've made a post in the meditation thread that partly explains my spiritual experiences and how they are available for all...
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5831129.html#5831129

i think some posted that these types of experiences helped them a lot when things were really difficult .. thats how i feel too

While doing the meditation i connect with spiritual and Feel Positive energy in me. Meditation is the best medium
for spiritual experience.

No I have not.

Once, after enjoying some really excellent sativa, I happened upon a full bag of M&Ms in the kitchen cupboard! I swear I heard angels sing!

I had an experience once I thought was spiritual.

I was in a hospital bed about 11:00 PM when, in meditation concentration, I visualized a gigantic eyeball (about 6-8 feet tall). It was staring forward while rushing forward through a starry firmament. I imagine wishful thinking created this.
As I watched it observing the path of it's future travel a thought occurred to me concerning a life changing episode of my early life when I was about 6 years old.
Simultaneously the eye seemed to turn and look backward, and pierce my past and revealed how and why this episode in my life had occurred.
Afterward it didn't seem spiritual at all. I'm convinced what I observed was my MIND just traveling through space-time as usual, and when directed was able to recall in detail my "incident" and the facts (unnoticed by a small boy) surrounding this event.
It was quite uplifting and the understanding of myself (at the time) helped to take a 60+ year burden from my shoulders.

I had precisely one OOBE sitting in the dentist's chair [OD'ed on NO2] where I went to someplace all-white, with no earthly concerns, for what seemed like about an hour, only to be slammed back into my body below with a shuddering THUD! which made the dentist think he hurt me. the actual time elapsed could not have been more than a few moments. and I've had many heaven dreams where I saw a few of my past lives.

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