Spiritual experiences?

[Angrboda]

Spiritual experiences exist. It's the interpretation of what those experiences mean and the tendency to import a form of realism onto them which is questionable.


There's plenty of evidence from psychology that people have experiential states they label spiritual. Whether that indicates the existence of the spiritual is another matter.

(I'm reminded of Ramachandran's oft misreported "God center," the God helmet [of which there is some controversy], and the hyperreliosity of some epileptic seizures; these experiences certainly exist. Whether they mean anything, aside from what they can tell us about the human brain, is the question.)

[Kirbmarc]

I'm very interested in religious experiences, mostly because I never had one myself. The problem with religious experiences is that they can be triggered by many different causes, and it's hard to figure out what actually happened.

It could be great if we could record the activity of the brain of a person having a religious experience, but as religious experiences are very rare this is unlikely to happen.

[downbeatplumb]

the "thrills" I used to love paled in comparison to the thrill of loving Jesus.

I wrote about how Jesus satisfies more than other pursuits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1taFr17QU

[mr.atheist]

Nope
Spiritual experience is all in ones minds and psychology.