Muslims call it Lailatul Qadr or Night of power
Christian mystics call it the Dark Night of the Soul
Pentecostals call it the Baptism of the Holy Ghost
Catholics call it Holy Communion/Holy Eucharist
Buddhists call it Enlightenment
Hindus call it Moksha
Atheists call it Inspiration
It is one and the same experience produced in the brain of persons but shaped by the religion or noreligious culture in which they were brought up. It is no evidence for the existence of the divine; only evidence that your brain is working in a different mode.
2006-10-20 09:14:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The experience is the same; the paths to get there may be different. Although we're talking semantics, 'inspiration' and 'holy communion/eucharist' wouldn't be the spiritual experience that's akin to enlightenment and neither would the 'dark night of the sould' be -- the latter may precede the experience but it is not THE experience. The experience itself occurs in varying degrees, with at least the realization that the ego-self is illusory and that one is literally the One thing in the universe. Our egos contend that it's all in the realm of the brain (given that this is one of the defenses our 'mind', when attached to the notion of self, uses to keep the self/individuality). Experiencers contend that the realization is that, although the experience is partially recorded in the brain, the experiencer itself as well as the 'experience' is literally not of the brain (it wouldn't be, if Reality is such that individuality and bodies and brains are essentially unreal). Of course, anything we say about it is mumbo jumbo until we actually experience it.
2006-10-20 09:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in spiritualism we call it spirit inspired
and is often accompanied by detailed information on someone who has passed on that the person recieving the information would have no prior knowledge of
quite clever for something produced by the brain eh ?
2006-10-20 16:50:33 · answer #2 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or, to use Christian terminology, that's the movement of the Holy Spirit.
2006-10-20 17:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by lovehound6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or it is evidence that there is something, but we're all too busy putting labels on it to realize we're all getting the same thing.
2006-10-20 16:48:44 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋