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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?

January 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm

(January 20, 2015 at 1:04 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: I don't think anybody has mentioned meditation yet. A year ago I was trying very hard to learn to meditate, so I would sit and stare at a candle for an hour every day. A couple of times it began to get very interesting, blissful, and disturbing all at the same time. I need to meditate regularly, but it is harder for me than most people. It takes me about an hour instead of 20 minutes, and that is exhausting.

Here are some guided meditations if that helps. http://secularbuddhism.org/category/guided-meditations/

I used to mediation but I stopped because I didn't agree with the assumptions being made by buddhists about the nature of the self and the assumptions mediation is based. All that and I have ADHD. Tongue

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