Is the concept of "Higher Power" a supernatural myth?

Answer 1

No. It simply means something or someone greater than you. Most of us don't believe we are perfection, all powerful, all knowing etc.. I once went to visit a friend living in a lovely home on the beach. He yelled out that he was in the basement.
"What are you doing down there?", I asked.
"I'm up to my #@$ in my higher power!", he replied.
It's all in the way you look at it.

Answer 2

I wouldn't go so far to say a myth. There seems to me that a lot of ancient relics and books discovered from all religions support the fact of a higher source. (Dead Sea Scrolls, and things of that nature.) It would be impossible to take that and say "these men who kept records of Gods were all insane or delusional in some manner." Taken there are some which could be considered copycats or do not hold weight, but the concept is always of the same nature. (Always one God or Gods) Methinks that in the very beginning of man, they did pray to one god, but maybe as more growth of people, tribes, and groups, something went astray. Take Cain of the Bible for instance, he killed his brother yet did not die for the crime. Only marked. It could be POSSIBLY that he came up with a "God" or Idol in spite or rebellion. (Thus the beginning of Idol worship. It's just a theory. Don't get worked up.)

That's what I think.

Answer 3

Until evidence to the contrary is presented, yes.

Natural laws (such as gravity, electromagnetism, evolution, thermodynamics, optics, etc...) may have universal effects and application, but these are simply the 'rules of the game' as it were. They are not 'higher' in any sense. They are non-intelligent, purely computational.

Thus, the only remaining possibility would be that it was supernatural if it exists at all.

Answer 4

lolol i did not imagine that any one, atheist, non-atheist, or whoever, with 0.5 an oz. of mind of their head, did not already do not ignore that the idea of a few type of mysterious invisible superbeing is going back to the 365 days Dot. back to a miles off time at the same time as early guy became bewildered about why his momma were given stomped by using a passing dinasaur at the same time as she had fifteen cavekids to advance (ok, so no longer a dinasaur, another critter... a passing titanic!) Or why the early farmer who had worked so demanding to plant and have a tendency his vegetation, had all of them wiped out by using a drought. Why, why why? The elders of the community were regarded as a lot as by using the persons because, for the most section they were smarter. they must be that that they had lived longer. They were meant to have solutions to an excellent type of those questions, too, yet they did not. so that they had to invent a "sky-god" who DID understand each thing, yet he under no circumstances fairly defined why he made stuff ensue, and only needed each human being to have self belief him that he knew what he became doing and that in the right it may all exercising habitual for the finest. sure, all of us do not ignore that Christianity is in truth the "johnny-come-at present" between each of the various and multiple denominations of "god-ideals" that exist, or have ever existed going back by using into the misty distance of previous time.

Answer 5

it's all about your definition-

what is the energy we call Life? the force that spins the planet, the galaxies and makes your heart beat...makes seeds grow into plants but also makes things rot and decompose to be born again into new life. the Process of Life is a "Higher Power"

the question is- is it a collective of individual consciousnesses or the One (God) doing it? maybe it's both. couldn't it be that the One is made up of many- a complex system with infinate parts..

couldn't God be a Process rather than a "who"? it's all symantics

Answer 6

For a long time I thought that it was, then this happened to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 7

Depends what you think is a higher power. To me, our planet and nature are a higher power. They have been around before us and will be around after us.

Answer 8

That chair is my higher power! I heard that at AA!

Answer 9

Not to me!

It is supernatural fact!

Answer 10

most likely