For non-theists . . . ever have a life changing expirience?

Answer 1

Yes. I read the following:

Pragmatics of Human Communication by Paul Watzlawick.
Buddhism without Belief by Stephen Batchelor.
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends by Michael White.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

PLUS, I fell in love with the man of my dreams, and until he died, he loved me, too. (Two life changing events, one uplifting, the other sad.)

Answer 2

I fell off a horse once, never got back on. Did that but it's not the worst.
Back when I use to drink I felt brave enough to drive home one night. It was a 15 mile drive and about a mile away from home I evidently fell asleep, passed out or however you want to rationalize it. I woke up going off the road, over corrected and shot across the other lane into a yard and hit a tree head on. When I regained consciousness I had hit my head on the windshield, my mouth was bleeding from hitting the steering wheel and I had no idea what happened. I got out of the car and walked the rest of the way home, once I got there I couldn't even remember where the car was. Long story short, I didn't get into legal trouble over this and never drank and drove again, about two months later I gave up drinking for good and haven't been back. I realized how lucky I was to be alive. I'm positive I would have been found dead laying on the hood that night had I not been smart enough to put my seat belt on before I left the bar. It still amazes me that as drunk as I was I still did that. Something like that can make you regroup and evaluate your life and see how fragile it is. Every time I go by that tree it reminds me of it.

Answer 3

Yes. I've answered this question or similiar a couple of times before. I'd like to repost it since you ask.

My only direct experience with a 'supernatural being' was in the form of sharing a moment of psychospiritual ecstacy caused by extreme pain and sensory overloading (intentionally caused, look up the word 'ecstacy', it doesn't necessarily just mean 'extreme joy') with Fenrir Wolf of nordic mythology in his aspect as Pack Alpha tending a deeply wounded omega (me). The experience was an eternity of hell in one sharp instant for me because of the truths I experienced... but it was the most spiritually significant event in my life, and made me feel whole in ways NOTHING ever did or has since, even with knowing that it was nothing more than an abnormal reaction in my brain brought on by endorphin overload and sensory overload.

Imagine being in the presence of the IDEAL. Not a divinity, but the very icon of the true core of your being, as if the truth of who you were was right there in front of you -- and you get, even if only for a moment... to be it.

When I came back to myself... which was literally a physical fight in and of itself, when I got to a safe place, I let loose a howl that has haunted me to this very day because even if I resolve the issues causing the pain I heard in that howl, I will still know it is possible for a person to HURT that much. Every way that Christians try to depict Hell absolutely PALES compared to the pain I heard in that howl.

I don't care if you believe it's the influence of the supernatural world, an unusual firing pattern of the neurons in the brain, or something between... it changes you forever.

Answer 4

Yes, but nothing I feel like posting here as they were very personal. But I would never change a thing as these experiences have made me the person I am today.

Answer 5

Yes, both bad and good. But too personal to post here.

Answer 6

Yes, I use to eat a lot and I was fat . Now I only eat 2 kind of food.

Answer 7

Absolutely!!!
More than once.