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Is it related to feeling your grandfather's presence, when he was about to die. I have heard 2 of my friends saying they experienced this.

• dahart 8y ago
  Yes, that would be a way of describing it. I don’t know what I felt, and I can’t say there weren’t physical signs and just a rush of emotion being mistaken as something spiritual, but it seemed to happen out of the blue and my brother who was there later asked me tentatively if something weird had happened to me too. In my dogmatic past I’ve mentally dismissed other people’s stories like this as improbable or exaggerated or superstitious. But it was unmistakably strong and I’ve lost my surety.
  • reitanqild 8y ago
    I've probably not had that exact same experience but I've certainly had other experiences. As someone who likes science and have an analytic approach I guess I would probably have ended up as an atheist if it wasn't for a number of events that would be really hard to fit into an atheist worldview. Furthermore I've also come to realize that this position has been really good and useful for me, -and the rest of the world. It has helped me go from an angry boy from a poor family to a reasonable man who's not only able to feed my family but also actually able to help others. So, for what I know free will and God might be an illusion (I don't think that), but in that case I'd say it's a really useful illusion.