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Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience?
#14461112 - 05/16/11 08:32 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hello Everyone,
This is my first post. I would like to introduce myself. I am a university student (graduate level) and I have an interest in religion, spirituality, meditation, and yoga.
My question is: have you ever had a distinctly spiritual, paranormal, mystical or magical experience?
I know that life itself is all of those things, but I mean a moment in which either something seemingly miraculous or impossible happened, or a moment in which you had an intense mystical experience that you would describe as spiritual, something like Satori, englightenment, or an epiphany.
I would love to hear your stories!
I will share one that falls in the category of seemingly impossible.
I was sitting in a friend's basement with some other friends. I was staring at a piece of yarn that was lieing on my friend's desk in front of me.
Suddenly, the yarn lifted up on one end and began to wave and wiggle in the air, completely erect. This went on for perhaps three seconds, then the yarn lay down again.
I was in shock. I spun around to see if anyone else had seen it. My other friend, Mike, was directly behind me. His face was white and his eyes were wide, staring at the yarn. "Did you see it?!" i asked... he just nodded. He had seen it too.
No idea what the dancing yarn means, and maybe it was some bizarre but totally natural fluke of static electricity. But at the time it seemed utterly surreal.
As for mystic experiences, what comes most to mind is some really bizarre, intense and strange lucid dreams I have had. But that is another story.
Please share your stories!
Thank you.
And thanks for having me on your forum
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14461435 - 05/16/11 10:53 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Welcome man. 
I've had a few which I like to call "peak" experiences. They are all so subjectively meaningful that I'm afraid the intensity may be lost in the translation.
One of such experience involved the first time I ever repeated mantra during meditation. My awareness shifted to my chest cavity and I felt the most intense bliss I've ever felt in my life. It lasted for a mere few seconds.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14461436 - 05/16/11 10:53 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Welcome, enjoy your stay 
I came to realize that spiritual experiences are always here, spirituality is everything that you do, it's just a matter of awareness that it's not spiritual. Strongest experiences that I've had had happened after and during periods of meditation, it's usually strong sense of peace and total awareness of present. I've also had few near out of body experiences, but they are much inferior to peace and total acceptance.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: HeartAndMind]
#14462239 - 05/16/11 01:59 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Qi Gong and Tai Qi instructor in the Central Coast of California for 13+ years.
Qi-Gong changed my life.
Meditation can bring many astounding experiences. Pretty much everything imaginable.
During an exercise we call pushing the silk a violet caduceus appeared in front of me alive and moving. Never seen anything like it before in my life, lasted maybe a few moments before I looked at my teacher who was looking at me very strange.
I asked him if he saw it. He shook his head and said what you saw was for you alone.
That is something kind of superficial and I think people would rather hear about something like this as opposed to the time, effort, practice, and hard work a true trans-formative practice brings.
Don't want to get too personal as such things really are for the mystic alone.
Shanti and welcome
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14465680 - 05/17/11 12:08 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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One of such experience involved the first time I ever repeated mantra during meditation. My awareness shifted to my chest cavity and I felt the most intense bliss I've ever felt in my life. It lasted for a mere few seconds.
I attend a guided meditation every week through my school, and we chant mantras. when you are with someone else or in a group with minimal sound therapy and chanting... it's tough to put to words but I know how you feel. keep repeating your truth, and if you are ready, only if you are ready, let yourself "peak". good luck, nameste
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: vata_s0ul]
#14474901 - 05/18/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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After spending some time doing energy body work I will say that I have an incredible experience almost every time I meditate, its pretty awesome, you guys should try it!
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Spiralout112]
#14474966 - 05/18/11 07:21 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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What's involved in your energy body work and meditation?
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14475765 - 05/18/11 09:58 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Indeed, Welcome to the forum ;D
I too have some incredible mystical experiences through my life so far, ones that have radically changed my perspective on Life. Most were very internal, but some where shared with friends- Mostly intense experiences of Telepathy- that actually lasted for conversations.. These were all during mushroom, or dxm trips. When i have telepathic moments while sober, they are very short lived, only a moment, and a shared connection through our eyes..
One though that I think can be easily appreciated here, is when I went hitchhiking with my last GF. We were both into the mystical, and really opening up to the synchronicities at the time, and we decided on spur of the moment to take a journey. We went to Nelson (great place if you ever get the chance to visit, of high vibrations, the whole town is basically built on a giant crystal- in Canada, BC) Anyway the whole trip started out with doubts being enlightened, and such perfect synchronicity.. It's hard to convey.. But a main point is we were waiting about 1/2 hour outside of nelson on a mountain top, as it was snowing at like around midnight, and even the snowplow guy said if we were still waiting he'd come back around and grab us..(though he was going in the opposite direction)- we waited and waited, knowing there was a cabin we could go break into down the hill to spend the night if need be- but we had no fire, so it woulda been a rough night.. Anyway, last minute before we decide to go down, a car passes us and pulls over late, and we get in.
They said they dont usually pick up hitchhikers, but got a feeling.. They asked where we were going- Nelson- they lived in Nelson.. They asked if we had a place to stay, we said no, they said they have a big empty house we can stay in a spare room.. They were totally into the spiritual and mystical, farther along then me and my gf at the time.. It was so incredibly synchronistic.. But that's not even the really trippy part..
So, during our stay there of course the rest of it continued to be miraculous (I swear many of those people there are already telepathic.. @.@) But one of the nights we all hung out at their place, and they showed us Spoon bending. Specifically the girl, who was amazingly good at it.. (she had shandaliers made from bent spoons and forks)..
So she explained that she just asked the spoon/fork "Will you bend for me.." and then she'd try.. it didnt work for every spoon (they must have not wanted to bend for her) but she did 3 or 4 right before us.. Then after watching that the energy was really hyped, it's actually kind of foggy to remember it exactly O.o but my gf at the time then tried, and she found one, and bent it two full twists around.. Now this kinda bugged me, cause at the time I considered myself 'more spiritual' then her (oh now how I can see my fault at the time) and I couldnt get any to bend.. But I just took a breath and one started to bend for me.. It was like it turned to liquid, and I had to put no pressure, it was like it was bending on it's own, but my hands where stuck to it like a magnet.. It's difficult to describe.. But it blew my mind, and suddenly it stopped.. I could even recognize how my doubt, and disbeliefe made it stop at the time..
To this day I cant bend any other spoons or forks (and this was 4 years ago) ... so I really dunno what to make of it..
This girl there, she could also just make our legs go out (we would fall back onto a bed), by just touching two parts of our bodies (one under the armpit on the ribs, and one over the front of the chest)- I didnt exactly like the feeling of my legs giving out on me without my control.. I tried to resist, but simply couldnt, and we tried it a few times.. I really wish we coulda done it more :/
Anyway, it's as stereotypical miraculous, cant believe my eyes kinda experience.. Practical in a way (not including how impractical it is having bent spoons and forks everywhere)
Anyway, sorry that took so long, wanted to get across the profoundity of the whole trip..
That gf i was with had been to Nelson in the past as well, and met a monk on the mountain- This guy was elderly, and he could lift boulders the size of a recliner.. If you ever go there, find the Crystal Chakra path.. It's a path, where this monk apparently took all these boulders with different coloured crystals in correspondence to the colours of the chakras, and placed them along this big trail.. We never did get to walk the whole trail, we only chilled in the root chakra crystal rock pile.. :/ again.. need to go back there myself :o
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: FunkMasterShroom]
#14475842 - 05/18/11 10:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dude, awesome story.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14477421 - 05/19/11 08:36 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have had several experiences of precognition, inexplicate premonitions that turned out to be true.
Also out of body experiences, crazy lucid dreams, and many psychedelic trips that seemed very "spiritual".
Also an orgasm once where I completely lost my ego and sense of self and disolved into an "other place" of oceanic consciousness.
Also once when In a jungle in Costa Rica i did a bungee jump type thing, and at the apex of my swing through the canopy I was overcome by a deep ecstatic trance where time slowed down. People around me said I was 'glowing'
Those are a few that come to mind.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14523318 - 05/27/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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My question is: have you ever had a distinctly spiritual, paranormal, mystical or magical experience?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Many of my experiences are archived here over the past dozen years.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
#14524177 - 05/27/11 11:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've experienced telepathy on LSD. A member of our trip group suddenly had an energy that alerted me to his "presence," an awareness to his being that I felt more strongly than the others -- who never picked up any of the signals or perceived anything out of the ordinary as did I. Throughout the experience, if I focused on him, I knew how exactly how he felt PRIOR to reacting to a conversation, question, or environmental stimulus. If he said one thing but genuinely meant something different, I could "hear" what he was really implying. I had to leave the group at one point because the "volume level" of the others' minds became too loud and noisy. I had difficulties separating their thoughts from my own.
Just last night I hung out with a guy who is exceptional at reading people, bordering on telepathy. The curious thing is he isn't really aware of it, or at least won't admit to it. To other people he typically comes across as very weird and eccentric. His replies within a conversation often seem to come from left field and appear abstract at first. As the conversation moves forward, you can see his words were foreshadowing and predicting the entire direction of the conversation -- or interpreting what a person "really meant" by divulging, for instance, that their grandmother made them a chocolate cake yesterday for their graduation celebration. The intent of communicating this has nothing to do with cake, with their grandmother, or with graduation: there are specific signals and purposes that are embedded in these condensed symbols, and some people are extraordinarily adept at reading between the lines at what energy is really being shared and for what reason.
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As for a spiritual experience, I've had a few. One that really sticks out happened completely spontaneously and while I was entirely sober. I woke up at dawn in a small hut in middle of the Himalayas. I climbed a ladder to go sit on the roof and watch the sunrise. Suddenly, out of nowhere, as I was just sitting and reflecting on the scenery and the general nature of my trip, I realized I had arrived. I was there. I am here. This is it. It was so simple and yet so breath-taking and profound: this is "my life story" and I am living it. Ecstatic, after some time I descended the ladder to retrieve my partner so she could witness the rooftop view and perhaps be catapulted into her own enlightened realization. At the top, she just looked at me sleepily and amused.
I've also had numerable synchronicities unfold, one after another, that were so obviously connected it was eerie.
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#14524375 - 05/28/11 12:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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....and here we are!
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14525307 - 05/28/11 07:55 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had a spiritual experience within me while I was coming down off of about 2.5g of dried cubensis (not sure which strain). I sat in the dark on a couch at a friends house, closed my eyes and explored the inner depths of my mind. I sat and tried to fathom the true capability of the human mind in which I could not. I then thought of mankind being created in god's image, which as many of you are hopefully aware of, isn't a physical image. Its a mental image. The human mind is definitly capable of incredible things but as I sat and thought about it, I realized that its nearly impossible to unlock that potential with our physical being holding us back (primarily the brain) which emitts signals and creates reactions that create doubt, disbelief, unhappiness etc. I do believe that there is an afterlife (not consisting of the cliche heaven and hell), therefore I also believe that all of humanity has souls which has been half assed proven so far. Not a soul per se but an entity that lifts off from a person after death. I believe that our "souls" are our individual minds in their purest form. Only when our soul is released from our body, do I believe that we can reach the true potential of our minds capability and I also believe that our purpose is in the after life not our life in the physical world that we all know; that we are all potential gods once our soul has escaped. I do not believe that this potential is by any means easy to reach even when our soul has abandoned our physical being, but I believe that the very few who do reach it become by definition a god and assist in the moderation and creation of other worlds within (or maybe outside of) our universe.
...Philosophy goes on and on with contradictions and many, many, different ideas. But you are all welcome to poke some holes in my logic as long as your theories aren't based on religion. Food for thought is always good.  Also I just threw this explanation together in like 10 minutes, so there might be holes in it anyways. I'm sure I can fill them :p
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14525480 - 05/28/11 09:19 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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...have you ever had a distinctly spiritual, paranormal, mystical or magical experience?
Yes.
When I was still in school I had a tray of Azurescens in the fridge and I boiled some water and let 20 of them steep in black chai tea. As I was drinking visuals started as a 'golden' presence filled the room and then suddenly and frighteningly my word based reality slipped from my experience of it. There was a transition period of no longer than a minute or so where I thought I might panic in realizing that I no longer had any words to define my surroundings. It was a powerful fight or flight decision and I chose to sit down and scribble some things down.
A seemingly non-human dialog with what to me is still unknown opened up and this intelligence started addressing some of my interests in a more graphical way telepathically. I was able to write some of the concepts down and the message seemed to be that the psyche of the average person was in a sort of inside-out predicament. That that notion was mostly the cause of our many mental illnesses as modern people. The conversation ended with a blatant and obvious 'God is Good. Live it.'
Then, the awareness of just having had a sort of psychotic break filtered back into my experience and I was compelled to sit in the mirror chanting repeatedly, 'We're schizophrenics and we love it.'
It was a powerful experience... And, in not knowing what exactly had happen I would soon push for that experience again and find myself completely at the whim of some controlled delusion of awakening drama or what have you.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: FishOilTheKid]
#14526535 - 05/28/11 01:49 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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FishOilTheKid said: I was compelled to sit in the mirror chanting repeatedly, 'We're schizophrenics and we love it.'
I imagine you could have said "goldfish kibble bits and twisty tits" and achieved the same mantra or biofeedback loop.
Neither revelation, creative writing, tripping, pupil-gazing, nor conversing with the self indicates schizophrenia.
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#14529425 - 05/29/11 04:32 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Last year I accompanied my friend to a place where he was given a job to trim some old chestnut tree. It was at a medieval castle. I just spent the day checking out the place and enjoying the nice, sunny day. Later that day I went back home, had a couple of beers, which for some reason got me so drunk that I hardly remember anything... really odd, I don't even remember how I got back to my apartment. The next morning, when I woke up, I was feeling borderline ecstatic and suddenly all these memories of my childhood started popping up in my mind and somehow started connecting to each other. Everything began making sense on some level I never experienced before. It made me realize that all of my health issues were not due to genetics, habits or lifestyle, but due to events that left a mark during growing up. Next I began to clearly feel the locations in my internal organs that were sick and they started manifesting in my mind as material metaphores; a spear piercing my chest, a worm wrapped around my entrails, a rod bending my spine etc. and I could directly link each of the conditions to a moment in my past that caused it. I grabbed the imaginary spear and pulled it out with a thrust, it felt incredible! I poked a finger into my stomach and did a circular motion, wrapping an end of the imaginary worm around it, then pulled it out, smacked it against the floor and stomped on it. I never even for a split second asked myself; dude wtf are you doing? It all made perfect sense. With each of the things removed I felt undescribable relief where an orgasm can hardly compare. Up to this day I still feel just as healthy as I felt when I was a little kid, before anything bad happened... and it shows on the outside. Since I couldn't really explain what triggered all this, I did some research. Turns out the castle was build by knight templars on a cosmo-telluric energy spot reaching up to 500 000 on bovis scale. Numbers above 10,000 are in the "ethereal range", considered Places of power. -wiki I never thought anything about energetic points before, but ignoring it after this experience would have been ignorant. I wasn't taking any drugs or anything, the only other thing that could have something to do with it was sun gazing, which I practiced 2 months prior to the event.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: cbub]
#14529429 - 05/29/11 04:37 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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where's this castle at?
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: cbub]
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cbub said: Turns out the castle was build by knight templars on a cosmo-telluric energy spot reaching up to 500 000 on bovis scale. Numbers above 10,000 are in the "ethereal range", considered Places of power. -wiki
Cool story. I looked up bovis scale on wiki and was lead to dowsing, which reminded me of having tried this. You simply take a forked stick, hold it level to the ground and in specific spots the straight end bends downwards. This supposedly indicates wells or underground water flows, and according to more esoteric explanation, ley lines. I was blown away when the rod actually pulled downwards at specific spots. After all it was just a wooden stick!
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Tony]
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learned TM when i was fourteen and within the first week i had a vision of kundalini snake and of powerful shakti filling me like a baloon, then for a couple years i had a headache in the third eye area and felt like i was burning alive, it was very unpleasant, it finally went away, then for years after i felt so squeaky clean inside i felt like i burned all the cloudiness of world worn ignorance away restoring all things to a new potential, and then i got back into drugs and lost all that, though now again i am again starting over in sadhana and the kundalini is always there, she never left me even for a moment, only my mind at times was too numb to experience inner flow...
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: The Whale]
#14529776 - 05/29/11 08:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I know you're right.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Tony]
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cbub said: Turns out the castle was build by knight templars on a cosmo-telluric energy spot reaching up to 500 000 on bovis scale. Numbers above 10,000 are in the "ethereal range", considered Places of power. -wiki
Cool story. I looked up bovis scale on wiki and was lead to dowsing, which reminded me of having tried this. You simply take a forked stick, hold it level to the ground and in specific spots the straight end bends downwards. This supposedly indicates wells or underground water flows, and according to more esoteric explanation, ley lines. I was blown away when the rod actually pulled downwards at specific spots. After all it was just a wooden stick!

Not to derail this thread...but.
I use a different kind of dowsing frequently. I am an electrician, and sometimes have the need to find underground conduits. My Witching Rod is not like the one commonly described for use in finding water, but works on the same principle.
I use two pieces of copper wire bent into an L shape (I haven't tried any other metals for this because copper is so handy in my field). Just walking across a plot of ground, I can locate ANY pipe with an accuracy of +/- 6 inches (even empty pipes).
Don't ask me how it works, but it does. Most people freak the fuck out when I do it, implying that it's bogus....until I give them the rods and they try it themselves.
All are amazed at the strength with which the rods align.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Mycomyth]
#14530103 - 05/29/11 10:45 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's pretty awesome. I was incredulous at first but had to admit that I felt the pull and it wasn't coming from my own hands(the average psychologist won't agree with this), and I still don't know how it works. A good mind-fuck is an experience pointing toward the unknown, and therefore IMO a spiritual experience.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14534331 - 05/30/11 03:29 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Solomon Ash said: My question is: have you ever had a distinctly spiritual, paranormal, mystical or magical experience?
Yes. Becoming one with the Universe, communing with spirits, telepathically communicating with friends, and manifesting my intention among others. I reserve the option of being completely delusional, of course.
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Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience?
Truly, your only ever having a spiritual experience
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14541874 - 05/31/11 05:51 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Welcome to the forum  You chose the right one to start out in!
Psychiatrists have such wonderful ways of raining on your parade  They'd call what you saw with the yarn a "hallucination". Then you say the other saw it too. First the good man will tell you that you misinterpreted his nonverbal response. Then, he calls it "Folie A Deux" (shared delusion) and is rid of it.
No, I really believe both of you saw SOMETHING. The Universe works in mysterious ways and sometimes you need to see things that arent right in order to evolve spiritually. Then mother nature provides, and if another needs to see it to for it to stick, sure, no problem.
Treasure that experience. Only worry when you get a lotr of those things and eerie, sinister messages start emerging and your life comes apart.
Yes, it might have been a shared hallucination. Does it matter? I think not, not unless its all downhill from there.
I would only call it a spiritual experience if it happened proving a theme going opn at that time, like you saying "You cant change the laws of physics!" or "Sweet baby Jesus give me a sign that I should take the job offer!" or when you tried to levitate the string. What you had wasnt spiritual per se, but a "miraculous experience" or perhaps if you vibe that way, a "psychic phenomenon". Spiritual is what you make of it, but the event itself didnt underline a spiritual principle.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: deCypher]
#14549211 - 06/02/11 02:37 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Solomon Ash said: My question is: have you ever had a distinctly spiritual, paranormal, mystical or magical experience?
Yes. Becoming one with the Universe, communing with spirits, telepathically communicating with friends, and manifesting my intention among others. I reserve the option of being completely delusional, of course. 
delusional as compared to what? is there some sort of "objective reality" you've come across that we don't know about?
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Envix]
#14553804 - 06/03/11 12:38 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow... What a thread! Some very beautiful experiences here, funkmastershrooms I really enjoyed reading yours and If I go to canada some day (possibly this summer with my family) I will travel to this place you have described. My first experience becoming aware of energy was after a shpongle show with the aid of mushrooms and lsd...I was outside and it just kinda started with this amazing girl. I felt like I was being lifted up out of my body, we swirled together and exchanged for a while. I was in awe. I felt energy rising in me and this rumbling and turning inside I never felt before, I have speculated it was kundalini stirring up. Others who were in touch came over and we also exchanged energy. Bringing eachother into bliss and basically orgasmic pleasure in the moment. I exhanged energy with another of there friend (guy) who synchronictically was named west....mines wes. We had a connection and mutual exchange between all of us going and west said lets heat it up or something and my friend lit his lighter and I didnt really think anything of it but in a few seconds my whole body got hot. West and the other girl then sat on the ground and put there backs together and through some means began to transform there physical appearence into something unimaginable. And this was when I was far past having visuals aside from the subtle energy I was now picking up on. Ever since then I have become sensitive to these vibrations and this energy. That was my awakening in a sense...I have felt pressure in my third eye for the months that have followed and weird bodily experiences as a result. I was returned to this peak state in another trip during a dance, I entered this completely blissful state and had a vision of shiva dancing. Much more too it than that but I understand my story is getting long. I have also had the telepathic experiences with friends ( we were both separated at a concert and I felt this strong building pressure to talk to him and he was feeling the same simultaneously, he heard my voice coming out through the music and finally when the connection climaxed and I called him I was reciving his call at the same time) and sitting in my car me and another friend heard the same fantastic ineffable symphony (like shpongle inside of a steel drum blasted by a jet plane) inside our collective mind. I went to a reiki meetup last week and that was pretty incredible aswell. This is a very spiritually inspiring thread, blessings to you all.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: weshroom]
#14553957 - 06/03/11 01:26 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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For me mushrooms really showed me the interconnectedness of things.. took a few trips to finally get there but wow.. I won't go into the minute details but.. combination of great friends, woods, stars lake, northern lights during the sunrise.. Ka-BooM! I was changed in a subtle way, so that it presented another option, ego death.. 5 years later, many hard lessons gained and my stubborn self is ready to accept that path..
The facts are in.. there is NO seperation.. the physical and metaphysical are intimately imbued.. Spiritureality haha daily reality is never absent of true spirituality.. and everyone, EVERYONE has experienced at least a brief moment of ENLIGHTENMENT. Why do you think adrenaline junkies can't get enough and keep searching for the next extreme to concur - because in that intense moment their minds are still and simply reacting - they are free! Many astronauts have change their lives seeing the earth hang in the fabric of space for the first time.. But that mindstate can be found anywhere we look - a sunset, mountains, a song, playing an instrument.. doing anything we love to do... We all seek a mind state readily available to us!
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14557916 - 06/03/11 10:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I awoke out of my body while dreaming, and saw a completely humanoid figure emitting an insanely bright pure white light from it's body beside my bed. Its like it was emmitting an extremely high vibration. I blacked out and didn't wake up until the morning. This was a few months back.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14943076 - 08/18/11 03:05 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sometimes when I'm truly still, I can feel like I'm part of the universe. I feel like i'm floating, like I'm part of the things stars are made up of. I feel like I'm part of space, infinite nothingness. yes, I am usually smoking marijuana when I feel this way and I'm sure a lot of extremely narrow minded people will think, well of course you feel this way, because your as high as a kite. Trust me,I've been smoking for 15 years. Yes, some buds are stronger than others and give you that weightless feeling but it's more than that. Marijuana quiets the part of my brain that constantly worries about responsibilities, bills, plans, family, work, etc. I can truly relax and let my mind be free. It's been my personal experience that unless I use drugs, I can't quiet my active mind down enough for me to get some serenity, some perspective. But I've also been 100% sober and see a sunset so captivating that I know I am part of something truly great. Something that can't be explained, can't be measured, can't be proven. I consider these moments the best of my life and when I feel the most whole.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: whereami51]
#14949715 - 08/19/11 09:34 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice to have you here whereami
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: weshroom]
#14956457 - 08/21/11 12:03 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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delusional as compared to what? is there some sort of "objective reality" you've come across that we don't know about? 
heehee
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: FunkMasterShroom]
#14956812 - 08/21/11 01:35 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've had a handful of spiritual experiences--they've effected me deeply, and are largely responsible for the person I am today.
I started life as a skeptic, essentially an atheist, but I never went so far as to claim it--happy remaining in agnosticism. For reasons I won't get into here, I decided to go travel around India upon graduating high school.
After travelling through India for about as month, my eyes had been opened to a whole new culture, and I began to get hints of something beyond my understanding--an energy that permeated everything. It culminated in a night out in the jungles of Goa--a violent thunderstorm the first half, clear skies the second--that left me feeling like I had just been cleansed (a spiritual experience for another post ).
My next stop was Benares, the city of Shiva, also the city where I got violently ill. I mean, really sick. I was unable to keep down anything, I would puke up even medicine or water immediately. This went on for two and a half day, and despite the fact that I ate and drank nothing, I still managed to have diarrhea continually. Suffice it to say, I was in a bad state. I remember looking at myself and being able to see my entire skeleton outline, I had lost so much water weight. I also had an incredible high fever the entire time too. I was delirious with it, talking and singing with myself for hours, and have literal hallucinations for hours at a time. No sleep the entire time.
At first, I had just wished I had never gone to India. I wished I was somewhere where my mom could just take care of everything, like when I was sick as a kid. After a couple days of this though, I literally wished I was dead, that it would just finish. In frustration, I cried out for Shiva to help me, stop this. I don't know why I choose Shiva, probably being in the city and other reasons had it on my mind, but that is the name I choose to call out for help to. Literally within minutes, I fell asleep. I woke up the next day, and was able to drink water and keep down my medicine. Things only improved from there.
I didn't know what to think, immediately after. I did not know if it was coincidence or not, but I couldn't forget what happened. On my subsequent travels, I had several more experiences that cemented Shiva as a moving force in my life, and looking back now I see that moment, in that tiny hotel room, at my weakest point experienced, as my turning point--where I began to truly realize this power that is in everything, and is everything.
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#14968588 - 08/23/11 10:47 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here's my most powerful experience, it was a turning point in my life, although I didn't realize it at the time.
Ancient Knowledge
-------------------- "We are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings going through a temporary human experience."
My level 5 trip report ...After this it became clear to me that, behind the thin veil of the Human ego, all Reality, and this whole life, is a never ending mystical experience. The Universe is but a cosmic being exploring itself, learning about itself and enjoying its own existence through all creatures, and all things, in an infinite dance of Life, and like a fractal tendril you are a minute part of it, and you are All of it...
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: thelegend0210]
#14969384 - 08/24/11 03:11 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have a lot of OBE's, have since I was a child... both purposely and non... apparently that's considered pretty paranormal 
then there's all the experiences while tripping... but I was on drugs so they don't count
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Re: Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience? [Re: Chronic7]
#14970838 - 08/24/11 12:40 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Have you ever had a truly spiritual experience?
Truly, your only ever having a spiritual experience
it's true, life is the ultimate spiritual experience. It used to be my peak experiences blew my mind and I was left wondering at how amazing they were. Now it'll just be normal moments all the time and the only thing that blows my mind is how natural it feels to reside as the self in all situations. And how spun I must have been for like the 7 years before I started turning back towards my heart .
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