Personal relationships with deities

[downbeatplumb]

Then how do you know they're not just thoughts? How do you know your thoughts are communication with a deity?

i just know the thoughts are not a product of my own mind , these thoughts sometimes i understand right away sometimes not but my own mind knows the difference i know the difference between my thoughts and thoughts that are not from me theyre very different than my own that im familiar with .

My wife is a spiritualist and she says exactly this about when the "spirits" contact her.
She is wrong it's just her, you are wrong as well.
But I suppose as long as your thoughts aren't telling you to kill all humans have your delusion, I could not care less.