There's basically four possibilities:
1) They're delusional or insane
2) They're lying for political gain
3) They truly believe these experiences happened
4) They really did have these experiences
Unfortunately, with no way to evaluate these things objectively, no way to distinguish between 1-3 and 4, and overwhelming evidence that people have lied about and imagined all sorts of things as long as there have been people, all the smart money is not on the OP's side.
1) They're delusional or insane
2) They're lying for political gain
3) They truly believe these experiences happened
4) They really did have these experiences
Unfortunately, with no way to evaluate these things objectively, no way to distinguish between 1-3 and 4, and overwhelming evidence that people have lied about and imagined all sorts of things as long as there have been people, all the smart money is not on the OP's side.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
