What is an experience with God?
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Oneness. Connection with everything. The extremes of joyous emotion. Ultimate and unconditional acceptance... can be achieved through religion, drugs, meditation. Does not require the secret password "Jesus Christ" for access - is accessable to all human creations.
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An interesting question...  While I wouldn't agree that God "hates religion"... I have come to understand that religions are excercises in spirituality; it's easy to see how they can work well for individuals, also prudent to identify how poorly they have served humanity enmass.  \n\nAs to cultivating a relationship with God; I would offer two examples from my own experience.  The first is easy; I cultivate relationships with people & beings I encounter.  The second was more surprising to me; the less I actively sought God, the more inclined I was to experience God/Life/Love...  I've understood it this way.  In Seeking 'Him', I've attempted a definition which fell short of 'His' true being...  and, effectively, had my eyes closed to much of what 'He' is... becuase I was too busy looking for what I expected to find.  In moments where I've been decidedly not-looking to experience God, I've been more inclined (do to being "open") to experience 'Him'.
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some would say so\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_experience
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Curiosity and a desire to become GOD!
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I personally have had very few supernatural experiences, but one of the few was after I came through a particular long “spiritual wasteland experience” that had lasted two years.\n\nFor a few days, everywhere I looked outside, everything (clouds, hills, trees, etc.) was connected by long strands of glowing golden light – like the spiritual symbolism that everything is part of one fabric and interconnected, and I was looking at the fabric of reality itself, as God sees it.\n\nI did not try to force the vision, or “keep” it past its time, it faded within a few days, and I have never had it since.\n\nI know of two other religious experiences that happened to people I know – both are thinkers, one of them being healthily skeptical of such things. The first (now a pastor) had an unexpected encounter with a “possessed” person and cast a spirit out of him. The second was a missionary in Africa and supposedly was used by God to raise a child from the dead (!).\n\nBesides their analytical personalities, I give them both credit for another reason: Neither one really ever talks about what happened to them, unless you go to them and ask specifically, and even then they seem reluctant to discuss it. People tout how wonderful it is to be involved in miracles, but I think it's unsettling (as well as self-challenging) to actually be involved in such things.\n\nUsually someone who fabricates these things is involved in self-promotion, but these men are the opposite. So I give some weight to their words.
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worshipping or praying to God.
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I don't think God is real, I know God is real because I had what they now call a Near-Death Experience (N.D.E.) at the age of 12 in 1972 that convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt.  Since then, due to spiritual study and practice, I've had numerous Out-of-Body Experiences (O.B.E.s) in which I've actually been conscious of my spirit leaving my physical body.  I have a B.S. degree Magna Cum Laude, was a member of Outstanding College Students of America, a College-Bowl All Star (like "Jeopardy" except for college students), and was a professional journalist for many years.  Don't believe some of the misguided and egotistical scientists and college professors who believe and teach that this physical/material life is the proverbial "whole ball of wax," because to put it bluntly, "It ain't!"  God (The Divine, Source, etc.) does exist, and you are an immortal spiritual being having a temporary physical learning experience on the Earth.
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by realising the God within you
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What a good experience!\n\nDo you always communicate with the voice? or you see him?\nDo you already know the voice of Jesus? how many times did it happen (same kind of this experience)? You are blessed.\n\nGOD BLESSED US!
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to realise and have the presence of GOD within.Once when i was feeling very down, I just thought abt god.Though the feeling wasn't instant, i cud feel divine presence and my  prob was diminished.Tc and gd luck in life.
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what does it feel like to you?----- Inner and outer love\nWhat does it make you think about?-----Nothingness\nWhat consists a spiritual/religious experience to you?---- Meditation
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I would start with the origins of the universe ... if God created everything we see (and He did), then what is God like? What is our responibility to Him? What is His responsibility to us? Is it possible that we have offended God? If we have offended, what needs to happen to make it right? Has God communicated to His creation? How? Is it possible to know the absolute truth? What would God look like if He was in a Human body? How would God in human flesh treat people? What would he say? Why would a supreme God submit Himself to the ignomity of humanity? How would I relate to this God? What would this God require of me? Is there an afterlife? what is it like? \nJesus provides the answers to all these questions (and more).
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I feel no one can say better than this about God.\n\nWho is God?\nWho has been remembered as the Ocean of Love, the Intellect of the Wise, the Almighty Authority, the Comforter of Hearts, the Truth, The Living Being and the Blissful One?\nGod Says:\n I am the Ocean of Love; \nI show you the path of love. \nMy love remains unbroken and constant. \nI cannot forget even one of you. \nI have so much love for you,  \nand My love is unconditional and unlimited. \nI am the Beloved.You have been calling out to Me for a long time. \nWho Is God?\nWe are used to knowing things by seeing them, hearing them, tasting them, touching or smelling them. Most of us have grown up in a ‘seeing–is–believing’ and ‘hands on’ culture and we are used to perceiving things in that way. Because we can’t see, hear, taste, touch or smell God, the question arises – is God for real?\nOne can reach out to God with pure thoughts and be connected to Him. The soul experiences the response of pure feelings and spiritual strength. God is truth itself and thus can be recognized with the eye of truth.\nGod: The Supreme Soul\nLike us, God is also a soul. Unlike us, He is referred to as the Supreme Soul – the only soul who never takes a body (gross or subtle, human or angelic) of His own. He is beyond the effects of actions and is never subject to the dualities of birth and death, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Being beyond the limits of time of this physical world, He retains absolute knowledge of the universe and all its dimensions.\nWhere is God?\nGod lives, not everywhere but somewhere. A thought of God almost always takes the eyes upwards, as though one is perhaps expecting a face to miraculously appear from behind the clouds or to beam down from the moon. Thoughts are powerful. They link one soul to another. If they are properly channelled, thoughts can even go where only the soul can travel – beyond the moon and stars to a dimension of golden red light, the original home of all souls. Immersed in the experience of the warmth of this light, the soul feels as though it is truly at home at last, and with God.\nGod – The Spiritual Sun \nLike the physical sun, which gives light and life indiscriminately to all beings, God is the Spiritual Sun, giving light to all, whomever and wherever they may be. He serves altruistically, without any selfish motives, reminding each one of their innate qualities of love, peace and happiness. This is why He has been remembered in some countries and cultures by the name Shiva, The Benevolent One.\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.\nWhen you learn to tune your mind in meditation to the mind of God, then whatever the situation, you always have a source of help and strength to draw upon – an infinite reservoir of power and virtues that is only a thought away
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I never saw one but I felt one.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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It depends on your point of view.\nSometimes, some people feel that "God" is merely a device to keep us humanity in check, something that we have concocted to explain all the mysteries and unexplainable (in our current era. There might be an explanation much later.) stuff which happens in our lifetime.\nIt is plausible. People used to think flying was impossible, forget the flying machines. Air conditioning? How about all the laws of Physics that led to so many wonderful creations? They used to think that such things were unthinkable, magic, strange, impossible.\nBut never say IMPOSSIBLE, because we don't know what is and what isn't possible. \nJust a few centuries ago we all thought the Earth was flat.\n\nSome people, think and feel God is the God in our Scriptures. After all, they feel, the people of the past were much purer than the people today.\n\nSome people think that God is merely a presence in the world, an omni-present entity with powers of the unknown, and no apparent good or evil intentions, just there.\n\nIt's all up to what your heart tells you, and what you feel you can believe truthfully without deceiving yourself. Just be honest to yourself, that's all - you don't need people to justify, give a reason or judge you for what you believe in.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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It happens- I wondered away from God for 20 years, but God patiently waited for me to come back and I feel a closeness I never thought possible. To feel closer to God, try to incorporate your spirituality into your daily life- if you hold the elevator for someone, silently think to yourself I do this for you Lord, If you help a stranger or do any act of kindness, do the same thing. It will bring your focus back to God. Be Blessed, God loves you and will never abandon you. God will patiently wait for you. I know from experience.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is my part testimony. There is far too much to tell it all... it needs a book! \n\nMy first meeting with God was aged eight, I met Him inside a coma lasting months. I awoke, because the ambulance transferring me from one hospital to another, hit a bump in the road. I didn't want to be here, I just wanted to go back to the place I'd just left. \n\nA place, that was like no other place I've ever known before or since. Where love, and peace and joy, is so complete and pure, it affords us all the answers to all the questions, that you never knew you'd asked. It makes everything about us whole, and there is no feeling like it. Nothing in this life can ever match it. \n\nIt is the most non-judgemental love, forgiving and accepting, enveloping and safe, and without anybody telling me, I 'knew', I just 'knew', this was heaven, and I was in the arms of my Father, God. \n\nYet no one ever spoken in my home of God. Because, as I would learn much later, my dad was a serious atheist and mum was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, for marrying out. Religious believe, was a serious no go area in our home. \n\nI already had a happy disposition as a child, despite being bullied at home by older siblings. But, that first meeting with God (of many more since) would ensure, not only that I kept my optimistic and trusting nature, throughout many more varied and serious personal trials to come, it would afford me Faith... that would last forever. \n\nYou see, though the 'place' visually faded from my mind's eye, though the physical world intervened again and hurt me often, God allowed me to keep the 'vivid memory of the feelings' I had on the instant I awoke. In effect, He afforded me, the 'memory of the reality', which is, far more real to me, than anything in this sphere to this day. \n\nIt did and does, still afford me the personal knowledge and certainty of God's existence, of His love for me, of His constant protection, of an invisible shield, that stays around me forever. And I have never doubted since, though believe me, there is a power that tests me, to try and make me doubt, always trying to destroy my faith. But it never will. Though it never misses a trick. \n\nI am no one special. This shield is also yours to share. \n\nMy second experience of meeting God came through meeting Jesus, at age thirteen years. I was to discover exactly what the trilogy meant at a very young age. It was when I was asked by a friend to take her place teaching under fives at Sunday School one day, because she was away. \n\nI had never been to sunday School, let alone understood what the heck it meant. But I went in and did what she had said to do, read the nativity story to them from the bible, then let them draw a picture, then gave them stick on stars. \n\nBut I was troubled, I didn't think I was qualified to do what I was doing, I felt a burden of responsibilty for the children's hearts, what if I had done it wrong. \n\nI went home and pulled out the Bible that I'd never really read before (free school edition, supplied to all of us by the Gov back then) because, my Catholic Bible argued too much with C of E version when we had to do RE in class and read aloud. The teacher got fed up and was unable to answer my myriad questions about the differences. And, not least, I could not, would not, reconcile an angry old testament God, to the loving God I'd met. I was a rebel. \n\nSo, I stared at thirteen to read the story of the birth of Jesus, and I got caught inside His entire life, then through the whole of the New Testament, I couldn't put it down. \n\nIn between, when I had reached the crucifixion, I was on my knees in tears, wanting to be there, wanting to prevent it, angry, hurting, because this wonderful man had done such wonderful things and loved, even inhis dying, he forgave. \n\nAnd this man suited my heart, he felt as I felt about everyone,