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Originally Posted by Thor
I think you speak of the Transcendant experience, something Sam Harris believes is an experience we can grow to understand more through science but that it has been experienced by believers and non believers alike.
But again, because an experience is real to you; and its probably real anyhow, doesn't prove anything other than you are capable of such experiences.
The neat thing is Sam Harris works at UC Berkley researching neuroscience and is trying to get at the heart of spiritualism without religion, meditation and these experiences that humans have all around the world.
I think religion hijacked this and claimed it as its own and in the next 100yrs as we begin to understand our brains better we'll discover that its an experience that can be reached through various means such as meditation.
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Yeah, from what I know it doesn't matter if you believe or not, or if you are a so called sinner or not although I have to approach it with a quiet mind.
This is not always so simple to do.
I can't prove any of it as it's a personal experience, but I do relate to others who have this experience.
As you say religion has tried to high jack it for their own benefit but as they use it for selfish purposes, they drift away from the experience.