Have you ever had a spiritual experience?

Question

What was it?

Answer 1

I have been athiest/agnostic (don't believe, but think I could be wrong) I still am. I don't believe in ghosts, psychics, etc. Here is my experience:
Two years ago my father died at home after a long illness. He was on hospice. At the same time, my young baby was on a feeding tube and I regularly recieved formula and enteral feeding supplies via UPS. The morning my Dad died, I drove to my mom's house to see his body before they took him away. On the way, there is a statue of Jesus on the corner of a 4 way stop. It is a beautiful winding country road. I felt really strange, I guess because my Dad was dead and the sun was just coming up and it was such a nice day out. I stopped at the statue and prayed in my car that whatever was happening that he not be afraid.

When I got home that day, there was a delivery from the medical supply company. Each box contained the usual order but one. The last box had what I thought was a heavy curtain or something. When I fully opened it, it turned out to be a monk's or priests vestement! It was slightly off-white and huge. The size was "58", my father was 58 when he died.

I called the medical supply company, but they said they supply no clothing at all.

A few days later I was driving aimlessly around feeling sad, when I saw the statue again and decided to see why it was there. I pulled into the property and found out that it is a retirement/nursing type home for monks and priests. Mostly old catholic school teachers.

I think that somehow, a robe that was mailed to them ended up in my daughter's supply box en route. The box did not appear damaged and had the usual label on it. I believe that a rational chain of events made this happen, but boy what a chain! Especially with his age sewn right in.

I still kept the robe. Maybe someday I will go to the priests and tell them my story, but not until I'm ready.

Answer 2

At the age of seventeen I came to myself after four or five hours with the memory have having experienced everything, everywhere, everywhen. After I became aware of a body, a mind, a very minimal identity, I walked out and was told I was late for dinner and asked where I had been. I told my mother I had been in my room. She was upset that I would lie to her, as she had been in my room several times since I had come home from school, and I had not been there.

I hadn't left my room since I had first started meditating/praying and lost track of "i".

The next couple of years were bliss, and filled with some wonderful experiences. The effects are still with me three decades later.

Immediately after, to be careful, though I knew what had happened to me, I was also wise enough to keep an open mind. I got a cat-scan (clear), went to psychologist (he sent me away after several meetings, feeling he couldn't help me in any way at present, and that if I had had a psychotic experince of any kind, it was a very odd one that had had nothing but apparently beneficial effects. He invited me to come back any time, if I felt the need).

There was no message, no mission. I wasn't left feeling superior (can't feel that way, see through it too easily).

I experienced "God" directly. I love everyone/thing, and always will.

I sound like a crazy man to most, so I just help those closest to me and that I meet at random, raise my daughter with what I learned (much of the information is still in here), and have a happy marraige that just gets happier and more loving with time (still stuns my wife that a relationship can do that).

No book, no group, not religious, no following.

I've read almost every religious and philosophical book I could find, trying to put into words what had happened to me. It's happened before, but living examples of it are unknown to me.

I'm not the messiah, a saint, a god, or whatever. I didn't even really "deserve" what happened to me. I stumbled onto the right conditions, and it happened.

Answer 3

I have had many, but will give this example...It was several years ago and I was going through a very rough time in my life....I was sleeping at a relatives one bedroom apartment and the only place to sleep was on the floor and I just could not get warm...I was shaking from nerves and the chilly...I prayed to God to help me calm down so I could go to sleep....and then it started at my feet all the way to my shoulders....just like someone was pulling a very warm blanket over me...I was bathed in warmth and comfort..and soon fell into a very peaceful sleep.....the memory of that experience has lasted from that day until this....sometimes I can still feel the warmth

Answer 4

I've had many. They happen every day for me... they are in all the little mundane "nothingness spaces" of my life. That's the most mysterious, spiritual aspect of all life's Mysteries. I have a spiritual experience everytime I tie my shoelaces, every time I think about paying the bills, every time I eat. It's a matter of attitude for me, choosing to experience my life events in a certain way.

Answer 5

Quite a few.
miracles, i seen a blood clot disappear before my eyes, not at some faith healing service but at home my mom prayed on my brothers leg and within 5 minutes it was gone shrunk from the size of a lemon to flat normal leg, just simply because my mom prayed in Jesus name.
the Doctors the next day confirmed it "was" a clot, and were very amazed at the healing.

Answer 6

I have experienced many, as experiencing comes in the way you approach life, the way you look at things and the way you feel, the way you open yourself to them.
Some sex has been a spiritual experience. Connecting to a spirit is also - no more funny than a christian saying they connect, feel or commune with their god.
A Disturbed concert was a serious spiritual experience for me.
You see, it's all in the way it moves YOUR spirit.

Answer 7

Spiritual experience is a very broad term...
I have experiences every day through my work :-)

Answer 8

yes, i had just read the book of mormon, and it one night that i was sitting in my room when i got a reassuring spirit in my heart , i don't know how to explain the feeling but it was just there. i also was telling my about my religion when i felt something, i had a small voice in my head say this is right. it felt so good

Answer 9

All thought is creative therefor all thought is spiritual.

Answer 10

Every time I have a thought!