Have you ever explored Buddhism?

[tjakey]

Are you channeling Confucius? Seriously, I've been going through something lately, and what you post here has been so timely for me.

People like Confucius, the Buddha and many others, are connected to their inner being, they experience what is beyond the mind body organism. We are all one, and when each one of us also comes from their inner being or higher consciousness, then we also talk like the Buddha, Confucius, or whoever. This is something that those who call themselves atheist cannot understand, they are too much in the mind, and that's where they stay.

"beyond the mind body organism..." you have no idea if what is experienced is beyond the mind body organism since you are interpreting a subjective experience of that organism. It is the same limitation faced by all mystical or religious claims of encountering "another". Dismissing atheists because we will likely point that out is a bit disingenuous on your part, since you also claim some knowledge of truth. The truth is you are having a subjective emotional / thought provoking experience and interpreting it in a way that makes you feel good about your place in the cosmos.

The experience need not be interpreted in a mystical way at all. It is just as true to say that it is an emotionally pleasant and quiet contemplation of things that are mysteries to us. Mysteries that have nothing to do with being mystical. Since the focus of the experience isn't self-centered in the normal Western social sense of it being "all about me" it comes as a stark contrast to what many, perhaps most, experience as a "normal" state of mind. For that reason alone seeking such an insight can be enlightening, informative, and even life altering. I certainly wouldn't disparage anyone who has learned to invoke it or who has incorporated it as deep into their worldview as possible. But it isn't something that is beyond the understanding of someone who realizes that the universe does not include "gods".

One of my favorite descriptions of Buddhists is "atheists who have a sense of theater". To talk up Buddhism and then dismiss the atheist as a person incapable of some deeper appreciation of the mysteries that surround our being, would seem to miss some of the basic teachings of Buddhist traditions, particularly the ones that dismiss entirely any claim of a god-creator who is wields ultimate power and is eternal.