Why are people so afraid to talk about spiritual experiences? Everyone has them! They are glimpses of more!?

Question

Have you ever had an experience that you couldnt explain or were helped in an unexplainable way?

Answer 1

I have. Both good and bad experiences that, to this day, cannot be explained. (one I would have explained off as an overactive imagination if it weren't for the fact that I really bled).

One experience that comes to mind was when I was on vacation with my family one year. I'd say a prayer, asking the archangels to help me keep my temper when dealing with a cousin of mine. One of the nights, I woke up to see a white robed figure reading near my bed. That morning, I double checked the area to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me, but the figure had been clear as day, not some kind of trick of the moonlight.

A bad experience came when I was a child. This is not the aforementioned bleeding incident, but this set everything in motion. I had woken up from a horrible nightmare (and please note, that is not what caused what happened next). On my closet were strange shadows. Not from the trees, but very distict shadows that were not made by anything I had ever seen or saw again. One was a dragon sitting on the throne (crown and glowing red eyes) with two smaller dragons kneeling and offering gifts. They moved, standing and walking from the throne to the edge of my closet doors. The closet was at the foot of my bed, so I saw them clearly. They were watching me. I was wide awake by now, and they didn't go away. I finally ran to my parent's room in a panic. I never saw those shadows again, so I know it wasn't something outside. There was no light source that caused them (nothing but woods behind the house) and I still don't know what they were.

Sorry this took so long to post. Yahoo went down when I was typing it up.

Answer 2

Hard to interpret spiritual experiences when the only vehicle is our own consciousness which is totally subject to a complex structure of nerves and senses that are affected by glands and organs producing moods, sensations, images, feelings.
Personally I tend not to over rely on 'feelings' or 'experiences' when negotiating with the presense of God for example. Miracles though are self evident, especially the ones that defy all scientific explanation and these perhaps would better fit into the camp of 'spiritual experiences'.
One major exception to this not very dogmatic rule is the spiritual experience of being born again in Christ. This one defies all reasonable explanation as it brings into existence a relationship with God that is inexpressable AFTER it has happened, but which often was expressed as NOT POSSIBLE before it happened! People from all walks of life have this spiritual experience that transforms and translates a life from 'not knowing' to 'always knowing God' and it is truly a mystery. I speak as one who knows it to be true, yet it's very hard to PROVE.
Without this experience it is impossible to understand the sufferings of God in Christ for example.
I was delivered from drug addiction, over night. In the evening I was a speed and dope freak. In the morning a new man with a new life. That's just one of many 'experiences' that have convinced me of God's awesome power.

Answer 3

I think some people don't talk about them because they are too sacred to discuss. You know, kind of like how Mary just pondered things in her heart.

I have been helped, but I don't think there is any unexplainable things when you believe in a God of miracles.

Answer 4

I'm sorry, but I haven't had any spiritual experience - and if I did, I wouldn't assume that it proved god's existence. However, I do believe that there may be a 'spiritual' world.

Answer 5

Until I understood Jesus, yes.

Now that i know the truth, nothing is unexplainable to me.

Why did I 3 get neg responses?

I used to be confused, but my spirit that god gave me explains things to me.

Answer 6

one day i drank so many spirits i had a very bad experience

Answer 7

i guess my first ******* was like that! i couldn't explain how that was soooo good! heh, ya get! eh? eh? what do you mean you've never had one....erm....