The Lie of the True Christian™

[Angrboda]

It's hard to describe such experiences with words... so here I go trying to describe them with words. The best I can drudge up is a sort of tingly oneness with the All. Not sure that helps. These are purely first-person experiences, I'm not sure they can really be encapsulated in words so well, You feel them, you don't really convey them. To try and convey them sort of does those experiences a disservice. It's kind of like trying to explain what love is: you'll just sound kind of stupid an/or woo-woo trying to communicate the feeling of it.

Love, perhaps, provides the common touchstone, and why god/God is analogized to it. I would suggest it is the feeling of love, after the passion has faded and gone. I no longer seek peace. Time enough for that later on. The religious practices I engage in, to my mind, serve both as throttle and brake, in one; that is why I have chosen them as my own.