Thread: Spiritual Experience, have you had one?

So I want to get off the topic of bashing for a while and go to something we can all (theists and atheists alike) talk about.

Sam Harris is an advocate of spiritual experiences which may or may not be connected to religion.

I was hoping everyone who frequents the R/S forum could share a spiritual experience they've had.

I've had two, both when I was 22 and starting to hone my LDing skill. They were both lucid dreams with such clarity and power that I felt so much at peace that I would describe it as pure nirvana. Neither lasted long, these blasts of bliss seemed to make my brain wake up faster, but both left a permanent imprint on me.

My brother had recently went to Museum of Natural History in Washington DC and followed the whole trace of our evolutionary past and described it as a spiritual experience.

So what spiritual experiences have you guys had? And theists are more than welcome to share their religious spiritual experiences as well without fear of being insulted or debated with; this is meant for all of us to share, not to debate.

The closest thing to a spiritual experence is when i hear french spoken and i get this weird feeling its like a high i dont know how to describe it. But its an amazing feeling and i only get it when i hear french and everything clicks and it all makes sense. Its amazing.... I dont expect you to understand. but the significace of it is French is my
first language and i dont speak it no more so whenever that happens its deeply moving for me.

I don't know if I like the term "spiritual," but I guess the English language is a bit limited.

I'd say whenever I have the chance to lay on the ground and look at the stars and just try to take in the universe. That's pretty incredible-feeling.

Well I had a blatantly spiritual experience; an LD in which I was trying to find and speak with a personification of my subconscious when I lost control of the dream, floated spiraling into the sky and was greeted by a man who claimed to be god. Honestly though, I don't really give that experience much significance compared to my every day examination of the world around me. I perceive any rigorous investigation into the inner workings of what I perceive as real as intensely spiritual. I would compare this to your brother's spiritual experience with the evolution of human kind.

I don't know if I like the term "spiritual," but I guess the English language is a bit limited.

If you think the english language is a bit limited...then the other languages are extremely limited. English has the biggest vocabulary of any language in the world because its so flexible about absorbing new words.Almost every word has an synonym because of the German and French influences.

I think English around 465 hundred thousand words or so...

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

If you think the english language is a bit limited...then the other languages are extremely limited. English has the biggest vocabulary of any language in the world because its so flexible about absorbing new words.Almost every word has an synonym because of the German and French influences.

I think English around 465 hundred thousand words or so...

Good point.

I should have said "language", not "English language."