Do you see any benefits to religious faith?

[Arkilogue]

Even if you want to say the "faith authoring experience" they describe was a psychotic break, or ergot poisoning or hallucination brought on by sensory deprivation....the same functional definition of "faith" holds as they used it.  The experience was not self generated, not produced out of one's own thoughts, it was an outside influence that persuaded them that something was so. And that something is usually described some kind of transcendental "God/heaven" experience that is way beyond one's normal everyday experience.

Typically the deity of the subject's religion or the religion most prominent in their lives.

Communication is easier received from familiar forms.

Who can withstand a formless God of light so bright it shines through one's body, a mind so omnipresent that it looks at you from both within yourself and from all around, and a voice that comes from everywhere at once?

God "hides" from us a reason. The universe is like a house and we, like light bulbs, are self contained and illuminated with a regular amount of current we can handle. We are shielded/hid from the natural occurrence of electricity which takes the form of a lighting bolt that no light bulb can withstand the full power of and remain intact.