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 never had them.

Answer 2

Less than two hundred years ago, everything was explained and validated through the realm of the spiritual, whether that be a faith system or superstition, witchcraft, voodoo etc. It was acceptable to believe and nuture these values, indeed science was seen as an abhoration and the work of the devil, to dissolve our belief in a more spiritual and transcendental existence. Skip forward to 2006, the model of faith is science with the almighty microchip, holy DNA and heavenly Internet our new saviours. Faith, spiritualism, mysticism are ridiculed and people if told enough that something is hocus pocus, smoke and mirrors will believe it.
It is all about our perception of reality as it increases so does the possibility that we will see that we still don't have all the answers and a new model will have to be created, wouldn't it be amazing if a more holist model was constructed?

Answer 3

I don't know where this questioner got their information from that every one has spiritual experiences. I can quite categorically state that I for one have never had such an experience and will be very surprised if I ever do. I would suggest that the number of people who say they have had a spiritual experience are in the minority and this is why few people discuss them.

Answer 4

I once tried to pray at night but couldn't, because my father was snoring very loudly, so I forced myself to ask God to stop the snoring so that I could pray. I added that it didn't matter if it started up again as soon as I stopped praying. There and then it stopped. I began to pray. At that time, my prayers could have been of any length of time, from 5 minutes to perhaps 30 minutes. That nigh I prayed for about 15 minutes. As soon as I laid my head onl the pillow, the snoring began again. My father had a way of snoring: he would start off quietly, build through a loud crescendo, wake himself up with the noise, turn over and start again. The only variation with this was the occasional plateau where the noise level would be stable for a few minutes and then start going up again. When he started again, it was with the same volume, pitch and power as when he went quiet fifteen minutes earlier. To this day, I don't know whether God actually stopped the snoring, made me temporarily deaf, stopped time for me or if he did it in some other way.
I also asked for a wife and got one. The request was genuine, but it was also to remind me how god can grant any request and that we should persist where no answer is immediately forthcoming. I worried that if God did grant the request, she would be fine for me spiritually but in no other way. I needn't have worried. She is the best wife I could ever have hoped for in so many ways - big and small.
I have many other experiences which I would like to tell, but I could honestly go on for a very long time. thankyou for giving me this opportunity to say these things.

Answer 5

I have had many of them over the years....one in particular I will always cherish...I was living alone in an old house in the country with my two young sons....we had just moved there and they were on the porch playing. I was checking on them every few minutes as I cleaned and unpacked.

During one of these checks, I saw they were eating berries off of a bush near the porch...which, much to my horror, the berries were poisonous on! I did not know where the Ipecac was...to make them throw up...because we were still in boxes...I put up a Mother's prayer as I flew out to the porch and tried to make them throw up by putting my finger down their throat...explaining that I was trying to help them to throw up the berries...

I could not make any progress, and I knew that what I was doing was frightening to them...so we just stopped and prayed together that the poison would harmlessly pass through their systems....and they went on playing...and I sat on the porch and watched. I felt guilty that I had left them alone for even a minute in a strange place where they could have been hurt...and I continued praying until I began to feel peace.

Nothing happened...they were not sick or affected at all...and I checked later with someone who knew about plants to make sure I was right about the berries...they usually do cause violent illness and can cause death when ingested in larger quantities.

Those boys are 37 and 36 years old today.

Answer 6

i have many experiences
i have seen and studied the paranormal
ghosts , spirit , polterguist etc
and yes many times things are explainable but not always in a way we percieve as normal

spirit telling people things that they have to get validated from family members
children remember lives that they would have no waying of knowing and finding out that such places and people existed

usually people are afraid of it because it goes agianst their beliefs ... and if they admitted to it , they would have to reconsider what they believe to be true , so they will deny it happens or put it down to the work of the devil

Answer 7

Why would you claim 'spiritual' and give up searching for a real, natural explanation? Sounds pretty ignorant to me.

Answer 8

People who are vulnerable, susceptible or at a low point seem to have 'spiritual experiences'. Happy and well-balanced people don't. 'Everyone has them!" is not true.

Answer 9

Texas Heaven you have given me (us) a quick glimpse what must be any-ones existence. To me, this is the metaphorical premise of the poem, no longer the questions consistent with se (cept final one), although your reason must be to steer us to the final stanza >>>>definite, definite, definite ...and finally the final of it. I knew this replaced into prime some the place and your close, a unmarried sentence >> "Did ya cuss God _______ this is quite introspective piece to declare the least, and one which i'm grateful of His grace, regardless of if my answer is regrettably: definite _______________________________________...

Answer 10

yes when i went through a very serious life threatening operation many years ago. there are others but this was one that affected my entire life. truthfully I wish I had not survived but guess mine is not to wonder why.

Answer 11

spiritual experiences only happens after one has taken morphine