close to a religious experience?
"Dark Side of the Moon" does it for me along with reading and sex
2007-03-16 03:58:53 · 23 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-16 04:02:50 · update #1
This scenario:
Taking a day off work when there's a day baseball game on, while blasting classic rock as loud as my surround sound system will go while drinking Maker's Mark.
2007-03-16 04:04:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I am an atheist and have never had a close to religous experience well because lets face it all religons are man made and a bunch of rubbish, but I do love Dark Side of The Moon because Pink Floyd kicks ***.
2007-03-16 04:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by Cristy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps, though I'm a step or so beyond mere athiesm.
And mostly only when asleep.
That space known as deep sleep.... when the waking world has gone and before the dreams arrive.... A complete void of non-existence that can only be acknowledged in retrospect for within it no experience can be....
.... It is the soft caress of the Nihil.... the one true peace.... where I and all else belongs.
2007-03-16 04:06:44 · answer #3 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gotta agree with you on the reading and sex but dark side of the moon just brings back bad memories. 8 hours uninterrupted sleep gotta be the best feeling ever does anyone get that much sleep?
2007-03-16 04:12:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Standing looking over something incredible in nature like Canyonlands or the Grand Canyon, or even something incredible made by humans like the great cathedrals of Europe.
Mountains and green-ness in general give me a religious experience.
Oh, and I almost forgot - Saturday morning.
2007-03-16 04:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is close to being a religious text for me. Astro- and particle physics fill me with awe. I enjoy sex and time with the people I care about but the experience is not exactly religious (or spiritual.)
2007-03-16 04:10:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I was tripping really hard on peyote one night and my fundamentalist Christian friend (who I'd enjoyed many a mind expanding drug experience with) tried to convert me, at a highly suggestable spiritual feeling state I suppose, it made sense,
It stuck for a few weeks before I finally came to my senses.
I didn't go for my weekly brainwashing sessions (church).
Besides that, when I am reading about astronomy and deep space, looking at pictures from NASA, and when I star gaze at night,
I get a very spiritual experience feeling part of an organic universal consciousness, an integral part of something very massive, that I am the eyes of the universe, as minute as I am. And feeling particularly fortunate I was granted the opportunity to witness it, as random and unlikely was my birth.
2007-03-16 04:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Did you ever see the movie "Altered States?" This guy is a "non-believer" but a seeker. The movie is probably 25 years old (Bill Hurt) but it is fascinating as he explores peyote, sensory deprivation, visions...it's wild. Me? I had a supernatural being of sorts walk through my house; had a visit from three Shadow People...but religious? I would have to say the supreme orgasm, too.
2007-03-16 04:08:24 · answer #8 · answered by smecky809042003 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Making and playing music does it for me
Oh, and sex
2007-03-16 04:13:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sex
18 plus inches of fresh virgin champagne powder, a clear sunny morning, and my skies.
2007-03-16 04:12:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋