(March 31, 2012 at 10:16 pm)Blanca Wrote: When I was super religious I had some pretty intense "religious" experiences. I struggle explaining some of them because they were not banal and they changed my life for the better. Some of those experiences led me away from religion, but not necessarily away from god. I don't really want to get into the specifics here but was just wondering, has anyone else de-coverted but struggled with unexplainable powerful experiences from their religious days?
Yes. It's very easy to reconcile: It's called psychological evaluation. You can even diagnose yourself with the proper amount of knowledge on the topic [like two or three years of study or so, or advanced studies in high school elective classes can also give you a rudimentary understanding].
The only question is, are you going to be intelligent enough to understand how easy it is to pick apart and simplify your experiences and how to reconcile coincidence, or are you going to cling desperately to the mere possibility that you're "special" because of these experiences, and therefore never let the logical explanations really mean anything to you?
If the former: Get an evaluation. Takes an hour, maybe $50 or so, and it'll bring you peace of mind and closure on the entire topic, thus allowing you to truly move on past religion.
If the latter: You're a tool.
