Theists, please describe how you experience your god

[brewer]

Us not being able to detect "dark matter" and "dark energy" is a very small example on why we can't detect God. He's too big, or too different for our eyes and minds to comprehend, the Quran has a verse about just that:

And how do you know this other than what someone else (the quran) has told you? What evidence do you have that exists outside of your/anyones mind? 

Superman exists because I've read books that tell me he does, but you won't be able to detect him. Do you believe that?

[Drich]

I have had a supernatural experience once, but don't feel comfortable sharing it with just anybody. Much less publicly on a forum lol.

That's fair enough. It's probably quite a personal matter.

The reason I started the thread was because it would be far more convincing if everyone had the same experience if there is only one god. But I don't expect this to be the case. My hypothesis is that most theists are actively training their brains to enable the kind of dream like states that normally occur during sleep to happen while they are awake. This is why prayer and meditation is a big part of many religions. If correct then we would expect people to have experiences which are taken consistent with their culture and their daily environment, such as the religious imagery they are immersed in and the accents they regularly hear.

well that's nuts.. look in the bible at all the different ways God contacted people.

Deams visions, burning bushes, pillars of smoke and fire, a talking dunkey as a child, as a warior priest, though old prophets, to a flaming toungue to the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts. Not to mention the bible sees us all differently. like different members of the body. why would God appear to a hand as a shoe? or to the ear as a glove? God's message will speak to us indivisually. for example what did doubting thomas need for establish and maintain His faith unto martyrdom? He needed to put his hand in the wound on Jesus' side and in his hands... I need to have the oppertunity to face Christ to spit in his eye/See that all this BS was real. We both Got what we needed. could you imagine poor thomas got what I got? cold you imagine the mix message? (you are not allowed to doubt God) when the oppsite is true. Granted Jesus said blessed are those who can live by faith alone, like the other apsoles, but for people like me people like thomas we need proof and that is EXACTLY what the Holy Spirit is for.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Ecstatic beauty mixed with a profound sense of oneness.

[The Grand Nudger]

Sounds like coke. 

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@Mathilda

I;ve been asking this question since I got here, to every person who swears to have had such an experience.  Left right or stereo?  Masculine or feminine voice.  Distended or embodied, etc etc etc.

[Mystic]

Despite them telling me to stay out of their world, I did leave my body out of my accord once EVEN while on medications and I forgot the skill I learned to do it now, and I experienced alternate type reality.....

For one, in their world, you can travel all directions up and down, and for another, it's made out of psyche energy....And this is a term I just made up, but what I mean by that, is wherever you go in the realm depending on the energy it feels different on the state of self.

And it was not me feeling asleep, because, when my parents asked me to not do this again when I told them about it and psychologist not to, I stopped and never tried again, and it was after an extreme thinking process of programming that I felt the skill downloaded to me, and I just pulled it off... like that, during midday, not sleepy at all when it happened.

I don't know if I want to visit and participate in those worlds or not, but, I may choose to do so in the future if I relearn the skill to do it.

As for God, I don't think words can do him justice.

[The Grand Nudger]

Now you're a word inventor, alternate reality traveler..... and a prophet to the kaffir?  Seek help. Real help.

[Mystic]

Now you're a word inventor, alternate reality traveler..... and a prophet to the kaffir?  Seek help.  Real help.

What are you on about? I told my Psychiatrist, he said it's nothing to do worry about.

[The Grand Nudger]

Seek....real...help.

[Mystic]

Seek....real...help.

I do seek help from God and people and accept all help, do you?

[The Grand Nudger]

You're clearly looking in the wrong place.  "God" isn;t helping you, and your psychiatrist needs to be reviewed.  Seek..........real...................................help.