If you were ever a theist...

[*Deidre*]

but even if I apply Occam's Razor to it, I believe it was spiritual as to what happened.

I know I'm kind of butting in, but this sentence fragment baffles me absolutely. Pretty much every other possible explanation for an event has less causes that the supernatural explanation. Supernatural fails Ockham's Razor every single time, simply because you are positing things from outside nature for the causes of natural events.

Now I can't give you specific examples because I don't know what changed your mind, but I can be quite certain that whatever you experienced, you haven't examined critically.

Understandable. lol I will say, with one of the experiences that happened after the initial one, there was a coworker who was present when it happened. He tried to explain it away, but he too was dumbfounded. It seemed real to me.

I'll say though, I'm grateful that I migrated away from religion for a few years, and identified as an atheist, because it helped me to think more critically, and not to say that cradle theists don't think critically, but when you have been taught since childhood to view life as 'this,' and to view God as 'this,' you have a hard time thinking for yourself, outside of those parameters. Being an atheist for a time helped me develop a more critical thinking nature. This doesn't mean that cradle theists are not capable of thinking critically or they are 'stupid,' etc...but it means that indoctrination can cause a person to be fearful to question.