Does religious belief have any impact on ones sensory perception? Or does rain smell the same no matter what?

Answer 1

Ahhh.
I am going to say yes and even a definite yes although it would take me forever and a day to explain why.
Yes to the idea it does smell different.
I am typing a response...
I will try to make it brief....

OK the key word is perception. What are brain perceives that is. Our noses don't smell but rather they are receptors for stimuli that our brain then reads the message and perceives the stimuli.
Anything (like another person already said) can alter perception. But going a bit further I will state that the sense of smell is more closely linked to memory than any other sense.

A couple of examples for me would be cologne/perfume.
My mother wore Odyssey perfume and to make a long story short whenever I smell that perfume anywhere else I am sickened.
The scent of Stetson Cologne however makes me weak in the knees, for reasons I again won't get into. ;)

So religious beliefs lead to religious experiences. If someone experienced something they consider "divine" lets say when it is raining, they may perceive the rain as smelling "sweet". "Smell that sweet rain" they might say. All the while another person who is standing right beside them thinks it smells like acid.

Answer 2

I think the reverse is true:

Sensory perception impacts religious belief. The senses, and the world they allow one to experience, are more attuned in certain individuals to see a mystical reference in nature. I have often felt my lack in this regard; where others, especially in my own family, see the divine, I see no more than nature, at best.

God is something limited to our potential to perceive such divine presence; perhaps the idea of God is no more than sensory perception on a supra-normal threshhold.

Answer 3

There are a number of instances where atheists became theists and vice versa. I don't recall any of them mentioning a difference in sensory perception or how rain smelled.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Faith is knowledge. The reason people think it is something else is because they are superficial and live on the sandbank of themselves. And if they ever pause to peer into the deep crystal water around them they rarely penetrate beyond the dancing illusion of the sunlight on the surface.

You use faith all the time. It is your faith in the world that gets you through each busy day. But the trouble with worldly faith is that it is subject to error and the Mars element. Real faith is knowledge of yourself.

'Have faith,' the preachers cry. You might as well cry 'Be hungry' to someone with a full stomach, or 'Be happy' to those whose hearts are heavy with sorrow.

Have faith?

'But I do not have faith,' a man may say to himself, as his puzzled child asks 'What is it? How do I do it?'

No one can explain faith except to say 'Trust me,' or quote the Bible; though if the truth were being lived, the words would not be quoted.

The fact is you cannot tell anyone to have faith. You may say you do not have faith in God, Jesus Christ, or any other deity; but that is only rejection of the concepts that have been presented to you. Not to have faith means that the concepts of other minds are unacceptable. And so they should be. You cannot learn truth; you have to discover it in experience. Your non-faith or agnosticism is only the rejection of canned ideas.

The only test of what you know or believe is what you live by acting on. Anything else is imagination.

There is no truth for the man-machine in a code that says 'You shall not kill. You shall not cheat. You shall not lie' - beautiful as that might sound. A moral faith is a static thing in a world of ever-moving desires. It is a denial of the fact of man's life.

There is a permanent unchanging honesty, but you cannot know it until you rise above the man-machine that does not live what it professes to believe.

A businessman loses everything in a financial crash, begins again, working fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, and in three years rebuilds his business. Will-power? No. Desire-power. His desire to be a success or to possess money and power was stronger than his desire to be a good family man or husband or anything else.

Man's development from a machine into a conscious man depends upon his discovering and understanding the principles of will-power and love. Understanding of will-power leads to understanding the principal of love.

Will is the power that overcomes desire. Will-power is equilibrium, the absence of desire or reaction. Anything that is equalised is in balance, at rest.

The moment is God's will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious. Sometimes you will find yourself facing the Mars element, which is always from your point of view the apparent conflict of two moments, but what appears as disharmony to you is not disharmony in life. The disharmony is in the robot mind's desire to control life to suit its individual interests - an impossibility; but you keep trying.

The man-machine, like every machine, is itself a centre with a capacity for only limited response. No matter how big or complex you make a machine, or how much information you pour into a computer, it remains a centre of limited response

Answer 6

no...it is not religious belief that impacts ones sensory perception, it is the activie appreciation that makes one more open to such....

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Answer 7

Loaded question.(s) What you, and I, and others believe and/or perceive are as different and graduated as colours in the rainbow....provided belief allows you to see them!

Answer 8

perceptions can be altered at any given time given any variable.

Answer 9

Give up smoking, you will smell better.

Answer 10

i think that it does have something to do with the appriciation of life.